YouTube Revival Announcement

We have a Revival announcement today. Beginning Friday night and running a total of three Friday nights, we are going to post revival videos on our YouTube channel.

These are NOT current revival services but services from the Gospel Crusade in December at Christ Ambassadors Holiness Church in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Please take note of this. These services are from December.

This was the final revival for us in 2023. The crusade ran on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights outdoors at the church.

I had already edited these videos before Christmas hoping to post them at sometime in January. Now is the time. 

The first night I am preaching to people who are hurting, the second night I am preaching directly to those who need to be saved and the third night I am preaching to those who need a miracle.

I am preaching with an interpreter and that will be included in the video. I hope that you enjoy the videos. We had an awesome time those three nights in Nigeria.

I think that you will see how much I love and enjoy preaching to the Nigerian people. They are sitting on the edge of their seats, pulling the preaching out of me and I love every moment of it.

I added some bloopers from Odie at the end of Friday's video. She was recording an introduction for me this week and we laughed so hard I thought I was going to pop the feeding tube out of my stomach. I posted the bloopers video this morning separately. Let us know what you think.

Thank you for joining us today and I hope you will join us Friday night at 8:00 Eastern/7:00 Central time.

Thank you.

Davy

Swallow And Praise! Davy Update 1/14

Hey Friends, 

This is Odie reporting for this Sunday's post. Yesterday was a two post kind of day. Check both of them out here and here if you missed seeing them. 

They are both worth reading! The morning post was about our precious friend Dorcas in Nigeria. The second one was a Saturday Evening Post. It was an encouraging update from my mother about Dad. We praise God for each movement of forward progress in Dad's recovery.

I was getting ready for church this morning when I received a YouTube notification on my phone. Dad posted a video from the hospital. I immediately opened the video! This is what my eyes and heart saw!

I had a little church right here in my bedroom! He's An On Time God, even on a frigid January day!

Then I had to share the good news with you! Please keep praying for a  complete miracle! God is at work. I know the family of God has been going to war on our behalf! We are so thankful for the grace of God in the last 16 days!

Odie

A Little Good News And A Lot Of Praise!

Hey Friends,

This is Odie checking in for a quick minute. This is the second blog post for Saturday. Pleases Click here to read the first post about my dear Nigerian sister Dorcas.

Now, I have a rare treat for the second post of the day. Mom sent me an update on Dad to share. We rarely get to read a post from the mouth of the Kelly Jo Boggs! Take it away, Mom!😇

We have good news that we would like to share with you. You have been praying with us that Davy would regain the function of swallowing. He has had no food or drink in over two weeks now. He has been nourishing from a feeding tube in his stomach for about 10 days, but trust me that is not the same.

He has had speech therapy several times, probably 15 sessions. The therapists have been working diligently to help him retrain his muscles and regain swallowing. It has been slow going, and frankly, discouraging at times. The therapists have been very encouraging and we praise God for each one of them.

Although he is not having a functional swallow,  He has been getting down a drop of water every now and then during therapy. Friday, he was given a barium swallow test. They give you barium to swallow while they x-ray you from the side.
It took him several tries, but he did get a little barium down. Then the therapist put some barium in some applesauce, and he eventually got two small bites of that down. That’s good news, but even better news,  none of it went into his airway. Even when he cannot get it all down in a swallow, it is not going to the wrong place.

The therapist says that shows that he’s getting some mechanics right. We just need to keep training those muscles until they get it.   
 He may be days away, he may be months away, but at least he is on the way. Although he cannot drink, and he cannot eat, he is encouraged. 

Thank you for holding us up in prayer. God will do miracles in response to sincere fervent prayer. We look forward to giving you more good news in the future.

Kelly Jo

Sad, Sad News From Nigeria

We received sad, sad news from Nigeria on Friday. The news is heartbreaking, yet it leaves me with a small smile.

We heard that our beloved friend, Sister Dorcas, passed away recently in Abeokuta. Sister Dorcas had been our steadfast and faithful friend for over fourteen years. We have looked forward to seeing her on every trip since that time.

We saw her beautiful smiling face and visited with her on our recent visit.

This is the last picture we have of her taken on Dec 9th.

We were so thrilled to see her again but we were saddened on that last night to depart. If we had only known that would be the last time we would see her here on earth, we would have held on tighter, and I promise you she would have held on tight to us. I am not sure we have been loved any stronger.

We met Sister Dorcas at a gospel crusade at Christ Ambassadors  Holiness Church in 2009. We first spotted her as she was dragging herself to the altar across many dozens of feet in the grass and dirt. I met her on my knees in the dirt as well.

Two nights, she pulled herself to the altar seeking to be saved, and the second night, she was gloriously saved. We came to find out later she was a backslider from the church and had become handicapped in the course of her life. Odie was with us that year and we were instantly bound to this young lady who lived a hard life in an environment that was not tailored to her.

Even after she was saved life was very difficult. I have told her story in pulpits all over America and others came to love her and desire to help her as we did. Her life became a blessing to many other people.

We loved her because we were there when she got saved. We loved her because if our daughter had been born in the same circumstances her life would have been much different than it has been. We loved her because she deeply loved us.

This sad news has kept us near tears for hours. Yet, the fact that she is now in heaven with no more pain, no more heartache, no more handicap allows me to, even in my grief,  to smile a little bit because she is home. As much as the devil may hate it, he can never take that away from her and the comfort away from us. 

So I give honor to you, Sister Dorcas. You have made it. Keep a place for us. We are on the way.

Davy

Nigeria Road Pictures

While in Nigeria, we seem to spend our fair share of time riding in a car. Each day and sometimes twice each day we are taken back and forth to church. We always snap some pictures from the back seat and the pictures seem to be popular on Mile Markers.

With that in mind, here are the pictures we took on the road while in Nigeria 2023. Most of these are from the city of Abeokuta except for two or three on the road from Lagos to Abeokuta.

I hope you enjoy them. Thank you for dropping by today.

Davy

Zoom it in. Four people on the motorcycle taxi.