Totally Moved Out of the Warehouse

As of 3:46 p.m. this afternoon (Friday), I am totally out of the warehouse in Tampa with 1 hour and 14 minutes to spare.  The Lord has been good giving me warehouse space absolutely free for two years.  I am now based in Lakeland and gave out five computers yesterday going to the Bahamas, and received a phone call requesting 50 computers to go to the Dominican Republic. 

 

It is going to be impossible to send out containers working out of my garage and a storage room.  I really need warehouse space with a dock.  So continue to pray.  But at least the two week process of moving out is over.  Glory!  Thanks to everyone who helped. 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Storage room after Valdosta trip

This is a picture of the storage room after unloading the things from Valdosta today.

 

 

The computers we picked up yesterday have been stacked on the right side of the storage room.

 

 

Here is Vance's truck after a blowout on the way home from Valdosta.  When the tire blew out, a piece of it flew up and broke his fender and side marker light.

 

 

 

God is good.  We made it home safely and are still going strong.  Thanks for your prayers.

 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Storage room

Today was a good day.  Kim Wilson with God's Share Program, Inc. came to the warehouse and picked up all the little girl's panties (all size 4) to give to missionaries in Zambia and Africa.  She and her husband returned for a second load and took boxes and boxes of little girls and little boys socks.   

 

 

 

 

Yesterday Vance and I moved all the computers into my garage.  Today, we began taking monitors to a storage room in Lakeland.  It is going to be a long process, but at least we have started.  There are a lot of missionaries coming to the warehouse next week to begin carting off everything left. 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Lost my warehouse space

The owner of the warehouse told us some time back that Starbucks had been trying to rent our part of the warehouse for about six months.  But he told us that they must have refrigerated warehousing and it would take too much money to turn a normal warehouse into a refrigerated warehouse.  But Starbucks is determined and has been upping their offer time and time again.  They finally came up with an offer the owner of the warehouse could not refuse.  But the warehouse must be totally ready in 60 days.  So we have been given ten days to get all of our stuff out of the warehouse.

 

I have no idea where I am going to put everything. I have phoned all the missionaries who may be interesting in coming to the warehouse and getting things this week.  That will help.   I think I will rent a storage room or two in Lakeland and put all the monitors in it ($100.00 a month per storage room).   I think I can get all the computers (CPU) into my garage.   

 

The ideal plan would be to purchase a 40 foot container ($1,000) or even two.  However, a person must have a place to put a container and my neighborhood will not let me put one in my yard.

 

Vance and I are scheduled to go to Valdosta on Thursday to pick up another 200 computers.  I still plan to do that because I hate to loose my sources for computers.

 

Pray for us that God would open another place for us.

 

I will keep you posted. 

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Video about Culture Shock

Fernanda Vielma from Venezuela sent me this video about culture shock.  It is worth watching.  It lasts about 5 minutes.  After watching it, pray, Here am I Lord, Send Me.

 

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=db57c47adfbbefebf9dc

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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Long Island, Bahamas

Pastor James Fox of Long Island, Bahamas has been on the waiting list for computers for a long time.  I sent word to him that I finally had his order ready.  He jumped on the next plane, flew over, rented a Budget Truck, we loaded it, and the last of saw of him, he was on his way to the Lakeland Revival and then on to Fort Lauderdale to put the computers on a ship for the Bahamas.  He had a husband and wife team, the Red's, traveling with him.  They work with Maritime Ministries on Long Island.

 

He has several projects he will be doing with the computers including giving some to a high school on Long Island that has 500 students and only 3 computers for the students to use.  But the project I thought was the most creative is that he is going to take 6 or 8 computers and put them in a school bus and make a mobile learning center.  The school bus has a generator, so he will travel from place to place using the mobile learning center as an evangelism tool.  Isn't that creative!  Pastor Fox, my hat is off to you.  It was a delight for Investing in Futures, Inc. to give you 50 computer systems today.  Glory!

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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1000 marbles

1000 Marbles

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work.  Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other.  What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net.  Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business.  He was telling whomever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles." I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say

"Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much.  Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet.  It's too bad you missed your daughter's "dance recital " he continued. "Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic.  The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.

"Now then,  I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the number of  Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the important part.

It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays." "I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy.  So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had.  I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear."

"Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.

There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight."

"Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time."

"It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band.  This is a 75 Year old Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!"
                          
You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.

Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast." "What brought this on?" she asked with a smile. "Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. And hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles.

A friend sent this to me, so I to you, my friend.

And so, as one smart bear once said..."If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh.

 

Dr. Rodney White

Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807

www.investinginfutures.org

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