ATL and the Indy Grand Prix

Ryan and my weekends usually consist of some activities, church, seeing friends, so on, but it almost always includes some rest and relaxation.  This weekend was a little different.  Saturday we headed to Clarkston, GA with a group from our church's college ministry.  Clarkston is right outside of Atlanta and since the 1996 Olympics over one million refugees have immigrated from countries all around the world from Atlanta.  Most of these individuals come from places where you likely have never heard the gospel, like Iraq, Bhutan, Thailand, Sudan and many others.  Most of the refugees are in Clarkston for around 2 years so there are about 40 missionaries living among these people trying to share the gospel with them.  We were able to hangout with 2 of these workers from Global Frontier Missions.  We came for a one day exposure into what Clarkston is like and how we can possible lead short term teams to serve there.  Here is there website: http://www.globalfrontiermissions.org/atlanta.html.  It was a very interesting experience.  These people are so close to Christians and churches but most have them still have never heard a clear gospel presentation.  Praise God that I have heard and responded to his gospel.  It was so clear to me on Saturday that his grace alone has saved me!

So we got home Saturday and were pretty exhausted, but we had free tickets to the Indy Grand Prix for Sunday that we just could not pass up!  So Sunday morning we got up and headed to Leeds and the Barber Motorsports Park to watch the main races, Star Mazda, Indy Lights, and the Indy Grand Prix.

 

Here was our view of the track.

The green "Go Daddy" car, AKA Danika Patrick.

A shot of the cars on the final turn during a "double-file" restart

We are not about to go buy t-shirts and put numbers on our cars, but Ryan and I both really enjoyed the race.  It was quite an experience!