Another Andrea Odie

 Hey Friends,

This is Odie, coming to you from Kentucky. We are enjoying time with family this weekend at Carter Caves State Park. Today, it is time for the annual Boggs reunion. I am confident this will be a fun filled couple of days. It is always fun to catch up with our Boggs cousins!

We will soon bring you a full report on the Boggs reunion 2024. Here is an excellent video of pictures and memories from 2021. Dad compiled this back then. I liked looking back on this video a few days ago.

Another  Andrea Odie

Now, for the main topic of this post. Most of my regular readers know that I am Andrea Boggs, but better known as Odie to most people. I love my name, Andrea.

I am proud of my birth name, which Dad chose for me before my birth. I am named after a cousin. When I reached adulthood, I had to use it daily for business. Also, a few family members and select friends call me Andrea.

I do have my own namesake. My best friend named her second daughter Andrea after me. We have jokingly called her little Odie. Andrea Blakenship is now a beautiful teenager.

Here is the backstory to my name nickname. Odie has been my identity since around 2 years of age. Dad also tagged me with this name. As a toddler, crawling was my method of navigating. My long brown hair was mainly in a doggie ear style, and I crawled better with my tongue hanging out of my mouth. Dad thought I resembled the cartoon dog Odie.

The name has stuck with me all these years. I like having a unique name that makes me easily recognizable, so I have chosen to keep that my primary name. Most people do not even need to hear the Boggs part of my name because I am just Odie.

When I meet somebody new, they often want to know the history of my name. I have a few funny stories about people trying to figure out my name! Sometimes, I overhear conversations about my name, which makes me laugh.

Something happened a while back that I have been wanting to write about. I was on the phone with a business, doing something for our family. The kind lady taking my info asked if she could ask me a question. I agreed and this was her response. Is  Andrea your  real name and Odie a nickname? I said yes, and gave my explanation.

The lady then told me she has a niece named Andrea, who goes by Odie. She thought her nickname was also connected to the dog. I really could not believe my ears! Are there really two Andreas who go by Odie?

I was so surprised! I wanted to ask if she was my aunt. LOL? She was in an area where I have lots of family! She did tell me the niece lived in a different state than me. 

I asked her to have her family look me up online. It would be neat to connect with the other Andrea Odie! I have not heard from anyone yet. If you are reading this post and are aware of this other person, please leave a comment!

Well, I will quit my rambling! Thanks for reading as I conveyed my conversation. It is just more proof that you never know what you will learn in one day.

Odie

Continued Fervent Prayer Requested- Sis. Tammy Harris

I received quite a response from you all letting me know you were praying for Sis Tammy Harris in response to the Mile Marker yesterday. Thank you for that. You all are great.

Pastor Alan Harris and Sis Tammy Harris in late February 2024 at Odie’s house. 

As I mentioned yesterday, Sis Tammy Harris had a horrible car accident on Tuesday afternoon. It was about 48 hours later, Thursday, when we left the hospital in Evansville Indiana and started for home. We were in the room with her along with brother Alan Harris right before we left.

The Lord met us sweetly as we quoted scripture, prayed and sang. Sister Tammy looked at us with her eyes open, nodding slightly but repeatedly as we talked with her, showing definite signs of understanding and communicating. She also was squeezing my hand.

They are mostly keeping her sedated and she is on a ventilator and it looks like a couple dozen machines, so we were very thrilled to see a few minutes of awareness and consciousness. Feeling the presence of the Lord with brother Alan and sister Tammy made it a little easier for us to go home. We hope to go back soon. 

The doctors have fixed many bones and worked on her extensively internally, and there is much, much more to do internally and with broken bones. The doctors are very adamant in warning the family and all of us that she is by no means out of the woods yet. 

Please, please, please add Bro Alan, Sis Tammy, their church in Central City Kentucky and their families to your prayer list. These are wonderful people and some of our dearest friends. Thank you for praying.

By God’s grace we still plan to have revival service tonight live from Odie‘s house at around 8 PM eastern time. I hope you can join us. Thank you for reading today.

Davy

Jeff and Sheri Easter June 2024

Hey Friends

This is Odie checking from the beach cottage. Thanks for stopping by to visit with me. 

Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad

First things first, today is my parent's anniversary! I want to wish Mom and Dad a Happy Anniversary!

Congrats on making it to number 39! I love you both so much! I pray this is your best year yet!

Jeff and Sheri Easter June 2024

Today, I am here to tell you about some fun from the first Friday of June. Jeff and Sheri Easter were scheduled to be in Hillsboro, Ohio.

I heard about this concert in March and quickly told my friends, the Stansells. They are big fans of Jeff and Sheri Easter’s music, too, and they immediately planned to attend the concert. 

The Stansells invited me to tag along with them if my schedule allowed. I was able to work my trip to visit my family in Hillsboro into that week. I met up with my dear friends for dinner and the concert and then rode back to Waynesville with them. It worked out great for me! 

Dinner consisted of another trip to Ponderosa! Yes, the Hillsboro Ponderosa is good enough to have twice in one week. Yet, I failed again to snap any food pictures!

After dinner, we headed to the Hillsboro Church of the Nazarene. We wanted to get there early enough to get a good seat. This was the second concert that the Stansells and I had attended at this church.

The doors opened at 5 p.m. We paid the admission fee and made our way into the sanctuary. We found great seats and settled in to wait for the 6 p.m. start time.

Here is a picture of me, Jeff Easter, Stephanie and Timmy Stansell.

 

This is Timmy and me, ready for the concert to start.

The setup. Before the concert, a Gaither Jeff and Sheri Easter video was playing. It was neat to look back on some of their older material that I had not heard in a long time!

Me, Stephanie, Timmy and Rick. These are my awesome cousin friends, and it is always fun spending time with them!

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Jeff and Sheri Easter.

The amazingly talented Sheri Easter.

Jack Carter now plays drums and sings background vocals. Fun fact: Jack's parents met when they worked for Jeff and Sheri years ago.

I enjoy Jeff's singing. He is one of the most underrated singers in southern gospel.

Sheri was singing from the heart that night. It was special!

The whole gang.

Jeff 

Sheri read us an excerpt from one of her devotionals.

This year, Tanner Duckworth is a new addition to the Jeff and Sheri Easter full time lineup.

Here is another fun tidbit of info for you. Jeff and Sheri celebrated 39 years of marriage this month. They were married several days before my Mom and Dad in June 1985.

Tanner is a guitar-picking machine. You can look him up on YouTube to hear some of his incredible picking.

Timmy, Me and Stephanie were able to grab a quick picture with both Jeff and Sheri Easter.

Soon, it was time for the night to end. I was so glad to be in attendance at this wonderful concert. It was a fantastic night of music, singing and fellowship with friends.

Thanks to the Nazarene Church for hosting the evening! Thank you to Jeff and Sheri Easter, Tanner Duckworth and Jack Carter for the awesome music and singing! We thoroughly enjoyed being in service with you! 

I want to thank the Stansells for allowing me to tag along with them! It was fun making more memories with my dear cousin friends! I love you all so much! 

That wraps up this concert recap. See you next time.

Odie

The Weekend Dispatch 6/24/24

This weekend was wonderful with family, friends and church. First Kelly’s mom dad came for an afternoon visit and we enjoyed it tremendously.

The rest of the afternoon was spent in final preparation for our first live revival service of our Summer Revival Series. There was a lot of work going into getting ready, but we enjoyed it very much.

We received this picture from my niece Deidre. She captured my brother holding Chloe Jean while she is watching the revival service. That made me smile broadly. 

Saturday we received a welcome visit fro our old friend David Riddell. David and I go back 42 years this summer. We spent a bunch of years in close proximity with David and it was so nice to see him. 

David has faced some serious health challenges recently. The Lord has helped Him but he has a ways to go. Please pray for David. 

I mentioned we were considering going to a local church that night and David jumped on board. KJo and I met David and his mother at church and enjoyed seeing people we had not seen in years. 

Pastor Danny Lamb and his church have been faithful to pray for us this year and regularly encourage us. We had been looking for an opportunity to visit them and say thank you. It was a wonderful night. 

Sunday we were up and at it early and drove about an hour to West Harrison, Indiana to preach for our dear friend Pastor Wade Hicks and the West Harrison Pentecostal church. We had a lovely service and a great response during the preaching. 

I was very tired after church, but I consented to go watch them eat at a Mexican place in town. I determined to eat just a very few bites of some soft refried beans, cheese sauce and chorizo. Unfortunately, I got choked up really bad. 

That sent me backward with public eating, but really, I knew better with the way I was feeling. When I am dragging, I need to control my ambition and slow down. I reckon it is a learning process for me. 

Odie got some great pictures at church for you.

Thank you very much for stopping in today. We have A Word for Wednesday planned for you and also a live revival service Friday night at 8 PM Eastern.

Davy

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