The Weekend Dispatch 9/9/24

Friday we had lunch once more with Steve and Karen. It was wonderful to see them. Hopefully, we will see them again before leaving the area. Saturday we unhooked everything, pulled the bus in position and hooked up the Jeep. It was only 63 miles to our destination and less than 90 minutes.

We are at Camp Meeting out in the woods at St. Thomas with Pastor Eddie Stringfellow but we are parked a few miles away at Sims Chapel Holiness Church. Pastor Willie Long Jr. invited me to park here when we were at this meeting last year and we took him up on the offer for this week. 

We parked at Cedar Creek Church last year and we love to park there. But this saves us at least 45 minutes each round trip and that adds up quickly. 

Saturday evening we loaded some sound equipment in the Jeep so it would be ready Sunday afternoon.

Sunday we attended Sunday School at Sims Chapel, ate a quick lunch and then took a limited amount of sound equipment to the tabernacle and hooked into their system Sunday afternoon. We also had a great visit with Bro and Sis Stringfellow.

Bro. Kenny Morris is the night speaker this week and we are singing but I was scheduled to preach Sunday night. It was wonderful to be preaching outdoors again. I did not realize how ready I was for it. I love preaching under a tent and the outdoor camp meeting tabernacle is about as close as I can get!

For some reason, last night's pictures posted in reverse order. Use your imagination.😇

Thank you for dropping by.

Davy

An Important Mile Marker Along The Road!

I think it is understood by most of our readers that we love to celebrate milestones as we pass them. The celebration does not often include cake and ice cream but we like to put a check by the Mile Marker and acknowledge how far we have traveled down the road.

This year we have passed a few special ones but missed acknowledging them because the current times were pretty intense. Today, we want to add a big checkmark by one of them.

We have no cake and ice cream today but it is special to us.

The end of April marked 22 years and 4 months of evangelism for us on this current round of fulltime evangelism. That seems pretty random until I give you this fact. In the early 90s, we worked 2 years and 8 months in fulltime evangelism. Add these two numbers together and it adds up to 25 years of fulltime evangelism.

I preached my first sermon 41 years ago last month and I preached a bunch of revivals while I was also working public jobs, but making our way for 25 years solely as evangelists is a big Mile Marker for us. Some great families have traveled many more years preaching revivals than us but we are thankful for what the Lord has done for us.

We are incredibly thankful for every Pastor who has invited us and every church that has received us. We feel privileged to be permitted by God's people to try to be instruments of revival in their churches, communities and lives. It is an honor that we do not take lightly.

Our churches in the USA and in other parts of the world have opened their arms to us and treated us like family members they love to see pull in the driveway. Thank you, dear friends.

Kelly Jo and I have had a good number of very serious conversations about our lives and our future over the last 8 months and we are in complete agreement. We would gladly do all of this again. We have no complaints and no regrets. 

I have wept each time as KJo has said to me. "We have lived a wonderful life as we have traveled and preached. We have enjoyed amazing experiences and been a lot of places. IF it ever becomes clear that we can not continue to do it the same as before, we know we have done our best while we were able."

That puts it into perspective for me. Wow! What a ride! Thank you for joining us today. We hope to be singing and preaching at a church near you soon.

Davy

We Made It!

We made it! The BoggsMobile carried all of us 773 miles to Thomasville,  Alabama. It is wonderful to be here!

Resting a few minutes at a Love's in Indiana.

We took a detour the first day but it was necessary and totally worth it. Rather than going straight south, we went southwest to Evansville, Indiana to visit for a few hours with Bro Allen and Sis Tammy Harris at the hospital. Sis Tammy is still in need of a series of miracles to live and Bro Allen is depending on the Lord each day.

Thank you for helping us pray for our dear friends. I am thankful we can depend on the family of God when we face difficulties in life. Praise God!

Pulling out of a campground on Tuesday.

Over the next three days we covered the rest of the miles including two days driving and one day resting in one spot. Traffic was not bad with only three problem areas and only one of those was bad. We had the expected slow traffic in Nashville and Birmingham, but the worst was totally unexpected.

South of Evansville, I-69 turns westward and Pennyrile Parkway continues south but you make the transition via ramp. There was an accident on the on-ramp and the traffic on this bridge never moved.

We moved about two tenths of a mile in 30 minutes but we realized we only inched forward as people in front of us gave up and went the other way. Once we realized the traffic on the bridge was not moving and we had the opportunity to follow I-69 toward the west, we jumped on.

It took us another 33 minutes to take the next exit and double back to Pennyrile Parkway. The traffic we detoured around was still at a standstill. We drove 29 miles to get around and lost an hour total but the miles were totally worth it.

That made the second day an hour longer than it should have been so we decided to rest the next day. I walked in place on the bus a few times that rest day but I did not even go outside.

I am happy to report that driving the bus is going well and the shorter days seem to be working. I am tired from the cumulative effect of the multiple days, but hopefully, I will bounce back by Sunday.

We hope tp rest until Sunday and visit with family a few days. Here are a few pictures from Thursday afternoon and evening.

Thank you for dropping in.

Davy

We Are On An Important Mission Today

Stop the presses! Stop the presses! 

The Mile Marker that was ready for today will have to wait. It is being preempted by this post of super great news!

KJo and I are on our way to get the BoggsMobile in Tennessee! Yay!!!

Mr. Jeff Rowe text me yesterday afternoon to let me know it would be ready. By mid-morning we hope to be in Vonore, Tennessee settling up and getting ready to roll north. 

The great news is that Jeff seems to have the long standing generator issue resolved. We have been on pins and needles about the generator for longer than I care to remember and I hope this settles it for years to come. 

They were working on a few other items as well and we are excited to see it all. We are ready to board the bus once again. 

We will take a couple days to get home because we are trying to shorten our bus travel days to make traveling more feasible for me. Plus there are a few things that may keep us in Tennessee most of today. 

It will also give us an opportunity to run the generator and put it through the paces and see the results for ourselves. The generator is so important in our mode of travel and we are thrilled to have it back online. 

We will have pictures of the BoggsMobile as soon as possible. Thank you for reading today. 

Davy

The Weekend Dispatch

Wow! What a fun weekend this has been. I have always been pretty honest about the fact that I would much rather preach revivals then one night services. I always feel inadequate to really help people in one night, although I know the Lord is able to do that. I love revivals with each night building on the last. 

But preaching two or three services over the weekend gives me a wonderful taste of weeklong revivals. I enjoyed last weekend at Corwin and I enjoyed this weekend in Danville Kentucky with our friends from Old Path Holiness Church. I appreciate Pastor Chris McKinney inviting us and the warm welcome that his people extended to us.

He invited us to preach fellowship meeting Saturday night and then the regular service on Sunday. Each service was unique and we felt blessed to be in the presence of the Lord. Even though I feel pretty worn after a few services, I am anxious to get back to preaching revivals.

We missed Bro David and Sis Karen Noe, but maybe we will see them again soon. Bro David is doing better physically and is hoping to be released from the hospital soon. We did get to be in service with Bro John and Sis Ann Gabbard and we loved that very much. We snapped a picture of them.

It is about 160 miles from home to Danville and we made the trip down and back just fine. We had a little bit of traffic in Cincinnati but we were able to avoid it. It was a wonderful weekend.

I hope you enjoy the pictures and I appreciate you stopping by today. 

Davy