Another Circle Behind Us

We are already in the second day of our next trip, but I need to recap our last circle. We were gone four weeks exactly, September 8 to October 6 and drove the bus 1761 miles. This is our approximate route.

We preached three revivals and attend two camp meetings and two single services in churches. The stops included in Thomasville, Alabama, under our tent in Richton, Mississippi, Moss Point, Mississippi, Tanner Williams, Alabama, Semmes, Alabama and Bond, Kentucky.

We also did the special singing at Pastor Stringfellow's camp meeting in Alabama and attended three days of Bond camp meeting and preached one morning.

This circle was intended to last until December, but we had a schedule change in Texas and I made a course correction. That correction included taking the tent trailer to Ohio. 

In planning the trip to Ohio, I realized we would be going through Kentucky during Bond camp meeting. That worked great for us and we were thrilled to be there.

It also gave me a chance to schedule a stop at East Tennessee Luxury Coach to repair a small bus problem. I will try to tell you more about that later.

Now we have begun what would have been the second half of the bigger circle. We will be in seven meetings in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri before taking the bus back to Tennessee and flying to Africa for a short mission trip.

Big wheels keep on turning. Thank you for following along.

Davy

The Weekend Dispatch 4/24/2023

Our weekend was wild and wooly and full of activity and brought a separated couple back together. Read on for exciting details from The Weekend Dispatch!

Friday brought me and the BoggsMobile closer to Central City, Kentucky and early Saturday morning found me finishing the trip. Bro. James Coon and Pastor Alan Harris met me at the church and rolled our sound equipment inside the church. 

When that was finished, I parked the bus, hooked up the electricity, and visited with Bro. Alan a few minutes. Just before noon, he loaned me one of his cars and I drove about 40 minutes to spend a few hours with the Isaacs while they were prepping to sing at the Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro.

I enjoyed seeing them very much and look forward to seeing them for a full day and night in June! I could not stay for the concert because I had work to do of my own.

I began getting ready to set up our sound Saturday night when in walked KJo from Ohio. I neglected to take any pictures since my hands were busy hugging. It is so good to have her back on the bus where she belongs.

Kelly Jo had taken Odie home to attend the wedding of Odie's cousin Kayla Jo. Odie will have more pictures.

This is KJo with her great nephew, Mom, Dad, and sister.

KJo with her Mom and all of her Mom's living sisters.

Sunday was a great day of revival for us with Pastor Alan Harris and the Trinity Pentecostal Church near Central City. We love these folks and we love being here with them each year. I have a few pictures from Central City below, but first I have a few from Odie's Sunday at Dryden Rd.

Sunday in Central City.

Hopefully, we will be here in revival through Friday each night at 7:00. I know that God is going to visit us!

Thank you for visiting Mile Markers. See you tomorrow by God's grace.

Davy

The Weekend Dispatch 3/13/23

Another weekend has come and gone and we have stories to tell and pictures to show you. Are you ready for The Weekend Dispatch? Here we go!

First, we survived time leaping forward again this year. We are traveling into Eastern Time Zone next Saturday so we will leap forward again. In the past, we have traveled into Eastern Time on the same day the time was set to change. That means we lost two hours on Sunday morning. That is Bad scheduling.

The fun began bright and early Friday morning in Semmes, Alabama on the grounds of the Allentown Fellowship Meeting. The meeting was still going on, but we were leaving in order to give us a little extra time to travel and be prepared for revival in Elba.

It took us about 90 minutes to disconnect from utilities, crank the bus, put up all the leveling boards, empty the holding tanks, hook up the Jeep and hit the road. Honestly, by the time we pulled out of the parking lot, I was wanting/needing a nap.

Our first several miles went slowly as we worked our way around from the west side of Mobile to the north side and I-65. After a shade over 90 miles and an hour and forty-five minutes, I pulled the bus into the northbound rest area near Evergreen, Alabama.

I stretched out for nearly and hour before easing into the driver's seat once again. I have been struggling with sciatica pain for the last few weeks and laying down on my left side is the only surefire way to get the pain to ease. Bro. (Uncle) Larry Smith from Ellisville called it the Psychotic nerve and that is pretty accurate because it has been driving me crazy.

Soon after our stop at the rest area, we exited the interstate onto Hwy 84. We carefully followed 84 to Elba and then took Hwy 87 north a few miles to Grace Fellowship Holiness Church.

About 10 miles short of Elba, we heard a loud noise that sounded like an Air Conditioner Shroud coming loose. I was able to pull over and investigate and confirm our suspicion. The #1 (Front) AC cover was hanging on by one screw. It looked like it might be salvageable, but it was too dangerous to get on the roof with the BoggsMobile right on the edge of the lane.

We decided to drive slowly to a safe place to pull over and that ended up taking 30 minutes. We pulled into a gas station and KJo scrambled up top and put the cover in place and taped the corners.

New readers may wonder why Kelly is on the roof instead of me. The reasoning is completely scientific. I can lift KJo up through the escape hatch, she can not lift me. I am sure Einstein had a theory for that.

A few minutes later we were pulling into the church and getting parked.

Saturday afternoon, we loaded in sound equipment, set up and did a sound check. We moved slowly and deliberately with lots of sit down breaks, but we finished the job.

We are so glad to be back with Pastor Jon Isaacs, Sis. Heidi and their wonderful people in Elba. We have had some great services in the past and we know the Lord is helping them and us this week. The revival began with two great services yesterday and we are anticipating even better things this week.

Odie captured some great pictures Sunday.

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy