#33 Weekend Woundup and Weview

These weekend posts are growing to epic lengths. I guess I could leave the pictures out, but who wants that? We must have pictures, right?

Thursday we made our way to Lowell, Vermont. This is the BoggsMobile and the Green Machine in a rest area near Bradford, Vermont. We saw something interesting there and I plan to post about that at a later date.

We pulled into the church at Lowell and filled up with fresh water before we parked next to the tent.

Most of the work was already completed and there remained only a few light tasks to do.

This was the tent Thursday night.

Friday afternoo, Bro. and Sis. DiZazzo cooked a great meal on the grill and we ate at the tent with them. Afterward he let me take Odie for a trail ride. I was going to take KJ for a ride as well but it was time to prepare for church. It rained most of Saturday so the joy riding was over.

Friday night we had a good crowd and a good service. Praise God for helping people. He is good to us.

Saturday morning Steve and Karen came to the tent to pick us up. We visited Jay Peak Resort where we stayed the last time we were in Vermont. We intended to ride the tram as we did with all the DiZazzo's and Sis. Esther in 2014.

We did, in fact, ride the tram but it did not look like it did in 2014 in the picture above. Nor did the view from the top look like this.

No, that is from 2014 as well. This year it was raining and the top of the mountain looked like this.

Since it is foggy, I will tell you what is going on in the picture. Steve is taking a picture of a group of hikers. They did not ride the tram. They hiked 2-3 miles up the side of the mountain. They were hiking with and in honor of a man that had his hip replaced one year ago that day. We were there as he topped out the trail. It was pretty amazing and a joy to applaud him.

Here is the view from the tram in 2014.

The fog and rain may have hampered the view but it did not hinder the fun at all.

We had a nice lunch and a great visit with Steve and Karen before going back to the tent to prepare for service. We had another great night.

Kelly Jo and Sis. Becky DiZazzo

Sunday we only had one service under the tent at 10:00. The tent was full and the full house responded very well to the singing and the preaching. It was a very good morning to have church too. The weather could not have been much better than it was.

After our great service Sunday morning the church folks prepared a super great meal. We enjoyed it all very much.

Pastor David DiZazzo and Davy

After the meal the equipment all started coming down. I appreciate Pastor DiZazzo and all of his folks making us feel so welcome. We had a great time and the folks really went out of their way to let us know they appreciated our efforts. May God bless you all for your kindness and hospitality.

In the afternoon we cranked up the BoggsMobile and pointed it and the Green Machine south toward New York. We had a very smooth drive and the traffic was mostly light. We had a little slow down for construction in Springfield, Massachusetts but other than that it was wide open sailing. We drove about 258 miles in four hours and forty minutes. That is not bad at all considering all of the mountains in Vermont.

We arrived in Manchester, Connecticut in time for church Sunday night. They start at 7:00 on Sunday night so that helped a lot. This was our first visit to Full Gospel Interdenominational Church and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We sang, worshiped, sang some more and even preached a little. It was a great night with new friends. 

Bro. and Sis. Kalinsky and all of their folks treated us like royalty. I appreciate the response to our ministry when most of them had never met us or even heard of us. It was a good night.

That pretty much wraps up our weekend. I hope you had a good one too.

Davy

View Out The Front Window August 14, 2016

Check out our posts from the last week at the links below. 

Odie's Saturday Post

A Call To Prayer

A Summary of City Reach Dayton

Monday and Tuesday In Maine

The Providence of God

Weekend Woundup and Weview

This is the view out the front window at the church in Arundel, Maine.

This is the view out the front door.

This is our view right now out the front window in Lowell, Vermont.

This is the view out the front door.

We are wrapping up the tent revival in beautiful Lowell, Vermont this morning with a 10:00 AM service. We had a very sweet service last night and we are looking forward to another today. After service and lunch, we plan to mosey south toward our next destination.

I hope you have a great Sunday.

Davy

God Is Not Surprised

Hello from beautiful Vermont. I (Odie) have had a fabulous week. It has been great to see some of my awesome family and friends and to make several new friends along the way. 

We had a great first service last night under the tent in Lowell, Vermont. We only have three service here so we want to make the very best of each one of them. I believe that tonight and tomorrow morning are going to be good.

I love that we have been able to see the Atlantic Ocean this week. The majesty of the ocean makes me extremely happy.  I feel blessed to have traveled from coast to coast already this year. 

The Maine coast 

 

 

Wednesday morning I received a disturbing phone call that my Uncle Danny Morgan was at the Emergency Room in Ohio. We did not know what the problem was and it scared all of our family! Praise the Lord he is doing well now. We are very thankful that the Lord touched him.

Uncle Danny's wife Jeanna, has been going through her own health scare lately. Doctors said she had a tumor in her heart. There was no question, it was a tumor. The last several weeks she has been going to doctor appointments and expected to be going through surgery to remove the tumor. 

 

She went for some final tests this week and the Dr. told them there is absolutely NOT a tumor in her heart! The tumor is gone without surgery. Praise God! Thank you to the many people that prayed for Aunt Jeanna!  I know it was extremely scary for Uncle Danny, Aunt Jeanna, and all the family.

Wednesday I kept thinking of an older song Nothing Takes You By Surprise  by Brian Free and Assurance. The randomness of life takes us by surprise daily but God knew all about it before any of it happened. He is in control of everything. 

Then I remembered this nugget of truth given to us by our dear friend Tammy Ferguson. 

 

Whatever happens in life, NOTHING surprises God.  He will bring us through. 

Thanks for taking time to visit us on the today. I will close with a quote I received via text from my friend Kelli Bufford.

"While it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there's A God who hasn't surrendered his authority" AW Tozer

Odie

A Call to Corporate Prayer

We made it to lovely Lowell, Vermont Thursday afternoon and we are now parked next to the tent. 



Pastor David DiZazzo, his family and some of the church folks were here working when we arrived. It was so good to see them again and to be blessed to visit with them.

We do have a little phone service here this year and a little internet service too. That is a great improvement over our first visit two years ago in 2014. It is amazing how the little things in life can make us happy.

We are looking forward to three great nights of tent revival this weekend. We begin tonight and the last service will be Sunday morning. I know that many of you are a "little" out of the area but we would love to have you join us for revival.
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A friend forwarded a letter to me yesterday from Pastor Ryan Ralston and I think it merits passing on to you. We are in perilous times and only God can grant us great victories in the midst of all this. God is our help and prayer is our way to God.

I asked Pastor Ralston's permission to share his letter with our millions of readers and he graciously granted it. Please take seriously his admonition to prayer. Pray for our nation. Pray for our leaders. Pray for our churches. Pray for our outreaches. Pray for the ministry.

God bless you and thanks for reading.

Davy

From Pastor Ryan Ralston:

Dear Preachers,

I have never written a letter with more urgency or a greater compelling of the Spirit of the Lord.  I know you are busy in the work of the Lord and I appreciate your family, calling, ministry, and anointing.  Last week, I was scheduled to preach the morning services at a camp meeting with Bro. Shad Mcdonald slated as the evening preacher.  I had planned to preach the first morning on prayer from the passage in James 5:16-18 on the thought, “Why Doesn’t God Answer My Prayers?”  Yet, while I was preaching at Broxton camp meeting the week before God dramatically changed my direction.  Ironically, Bro Shad preached from James 5:16-18 on Monday night of the meeting with a message “A Miracle in the Meantime.”  While he was preaching I realized it was God that was speaking to me through the message and not that I needed to be speaking to someone else about the text. 

During the message, God put a strong burden on my heart for the ministry.  If somehow possible, it is in my heart to call us together for a national prayer meeting somewhere to spend time together and pray one for another, to hear from God, and strengthen the ministry.  Thank God for our preacher’s conferences but I feel we need a move of God right now to unify our brethren.  Can you imagine a couple hundred preachers together in unity of voice and purpose? 

Here is my heart…based on James 5:16-18, I will be calling my church to prayer on August 16-18 from 7:00 pm to Midnight for our preachers, churches, nation, and so much more.  I am believing relationships can be restored, divisions can be healed, ministries can receive greater anointing, churches will see a harvest of souls, and our nation will seek after God’s approval again.  I feel intimidated to even send this letter but we need God to help us now! 

Until He Comes,

Bro. Ryan

Summary of City Reach Dayton

This post is a summary of City Reach Dayton. I am so thankful that we had a great time in Dayton, Ohio. God moved in the lives of people in each and every service. It was a wonderful meeting and especially wonderful in our home area and working with our home church.

Each night God was drawing men and women from the community and we had no less than three in the altar every service and some nights much more than three. That makes every dollar spent, every ounce of strength expended and every prayer prayed worth it all.

I want to recognize each church and each individual that carried some of the City Reach Dayton load, including churches that were not directly co-hosting the meeting. Several folks went the extra mile to help and encourage and it was all needed and appreciated. We are indebted to every one of you.

I want to especially recognize my home church Dryden Rd. Pentecostal Church. They went way beyond the call of duty to support City Reach Dayton physically, financially and in many other tangible ways. I appreciate our Pastor Bennie Sutherland and our Associate Pastor Gary Lee for helping push City Reach Dayton so much.

As I have mentioned in other City Reach summaries, I love hearing from the local Pastors after City Reach. Their input is critical to us and I lean on their advice and leadership in going forward.

From Pastor Tim Blevins
First Pentecostal Church of Murlin Heights, Dayton Ohio

Thanks so much for your labor and burden for City Reach Dayton. Although I was not able to attend every night, several folks did and were quick to fill me on the success of each service, especially the response during the altar service.  On the nights that I did attend, I was impressed with how well the services were ran.  Each service was pointed and focused to the needs of the neighborhood visitors.  The songs, testimonies, and sermons were all aligned to reach the lost and help the hurting souls in the community.  Thank you!

Prior to this year's City Reach Dayton, most of our church members had not been involved with a tent revival.  The first time my 6-year old daughter saw a tent she asked if a circus was in town.  This was the only reference she had of a large white tent.  But now, our point of reference has changed and we can better explain old-fashioned tent revivals.

Even before the tent revival started, several church members were willing to get involved by passing out flyers and helping to setup the tent.  Although none of us had any experience doing so, the Boggs family knew exactly what they were doing and made it fun and easy for us to follow instructions.  Others were able to attend the special revival services and were pleasantly surprised at the response from the community.  This response was a welcome sight and went a long way to encourage us to continue working for the Lord by reaching the lost.  May God continue to bless your ministry as you reach other cities across this country!

Tim Blevins

First Pentecostal Church of Murlin Heights
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Here are some of the links to posts about City Reach Dayton. I hope you enjoy reading and viewing the pictures.

Davy

City Reach Dayton 1
City Reach Dayton 2
City Reach Dayton 3
City Reach Dayton 4
City Reach Dayton 5
City Reach Dayton 6
City Reach Dayton 7