What's Up Weekend? 5/18/20

We have enjoyed another wonderful weekend of working around the ranch and lots of great church. We are praising God for His grace and help. He is good to us and we enjoy the privilege of living in His world.

The first picture I have to represent our weekend is Odie practicing a song before church Saturday night.

We worked on a little project in the barn this week and finished it Saturday. First I cleared out an area near one wall and mounted my first 2x12. I had a bunch of boards left from forming the concrete on the porches of the house and all the wood I used came from that.

I ordered flanges and two foot sections of threaded black pipe and after much trial and error, we assembled a system that seems to be holding the two hundred tent revival chairs.

I like to keep the scaffolding assembled and I rolled it in front of the chairs and stored the chop saw and table saw under it at least temporarily.

I think I mentioned that I built a couple more bookcases from scrap lumber for my upstairs study. This is one of them and I have it sitting next to my chair with a few books within reach.

This bookcase is on the other side of my chair. The books at the top and my beloved Pulpit Commentary. When I was pastoring in Kansas, I kept these 53 volumes close and enjoyed reading them for pleasure.

The bookcase in the above picture is one of five that I purchased on an online auction after we bought this property. Four of the five cases were about seven feet tall and they were all stained blond. They had spent their lives in the library at Princeton High School near Cincinnati. I bought them all for a very cheap price and Dad picked them up for me. We later cut them down to fit on the short wall and sanded them and stained them dark.  

I took this picture below on Sunday morning as I was settling in for several hours of listening to preaching. 

I started with Pastor Bennie Sutherland teaching Sunday School on Jonah. I think he preached us all under conviction. In fact, they had an altar service after the Sunday School lesson! I joined the altar in my study. 

Then I listened to Pastor Tim Webb, Pastor Scott Morris, Pastor Philip Hoskins, Pastor Kenny Morris, Pastor EJ Lamb, Pastor Jared Burris, Pastor Andy Stringfellow and I caught a little part of several more services. It was a good Sunday! Including my break for lunch and KJo coming up to check on me, I had 9 hours of church in my study yesterday!

Odie had a few pictures from the weekend.

We finished the day with Sunday Night Singalong.

That wraps up the weekend. Thank you for stopping in.

Davy

Our View Out The Front Window

Our view should be changing by next Sunday, but this is it for now.

This was the view during revival last night.

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Here is a bit of Sunday Morning Sanity.

I would try skinny jeans but I do not think I could pull it off.

Thank you for dropping in to sit a spell.

Davy

The Little Couch

Hey Friends,

This is Odie checking in today. How are you? I am glad that I can still visit here and we can all be safe! I miss seeing my friends. 

One of the perks of blogging is the collecting of memories. I enjoy scrolling through the archives and remembering the past. We have been posting here since 2009. The memories that we have collected are numerous. I also have a ton of life highlights that happened before blogging. I want to write about some of those memories and save them forever.

The Little Couch

Today's post goes way back to 1989. We were living in Franklin, Ohio at this time. I remember going to Toys-R-Us with my Dad. It was so fun to look at all the neat toys. I definitely did not need another toy, but my birthday was approaching. I remember looking at all the playhouses, I thought I needed.

Then I spotted a little couch. It was so cool! We did not purchase it, but that couch was forever stamped in my brain. Dad remembered it too. He drove our little blue Sprint car to the Dayton Toys-R-Us. and bought the popular couch. It was my fourth birthday gift from my parents.

Here is another, not so great, memory from that day. Dad was leaving the store and he was in a car wreck. I think someone else hit my Dad's car. Thank God that Dad was not injured!

My fourth birthday party was an awesome day! My grandparent, aunts and uncles came over to help us celebrate I wish I had pictures to share from that day. I know Mamaw had video footage.

During my party, Dad carried me into our living room and I was told to keep my eyes closed. Dad then sat me on my couch. I was elated to have my very own couch. It would be my favorite place to sit for years.

I wish I had a picture available to show you. My little couch was part of my life for years! Not only was it a comfortable place to sit, but it also folded out to a bed. I slept many nights on that thing.

In my playing, I used the couch as a church pew, a doctor's bed and many more things. I would fold it a certain way to make it into my car. I traveled lots of imaginary miles and visited several places. I would sit up on the back of the couch and wave and pretend to be in a parade. I wanted to be the Saurkraut Festival Queen!

I kept my precious couch until Mom convinced me that I no longer needed it. The couch went to live with my cousins. I was happy that I could visit it occasionally.

The little couch was not important in the grand scheme of life, but it brought me much joy. It played an important role in my childhood and imagination. I had no idea how much I would bond with the couch when I found it in the store. It is now a highlight in my life! Recently I realized the colors of my childhood couch would have matched my adult furniture. I had no idea, at four, that I was planning ahead.

Mom and Dad, thank you for my birthday gift when I was four! I do not remember if I ever thanked you. I know you probably sacrificed to have the money to buy it. Thanks for putting up with my couch and moving it a lot of times for me.

Thanks for reading my childhood memory! Do you have a favorite item from your childhood? I would love to read your memories in the comments.

God Bless,

Odie

What's Up Weekend? 5/15/20

Since it is Friday, it is time for Revival in Pictures. First, here is last night's service.

Revival In Pictures

This has been an eventful week. We have had revival each night and we have been social butterflies two days. Of course, that is social butterflies with social distance in between. We also worked in the barn, hauled off fence debris and mowed the yard. 

When we began this revival on March 23 it was completely dark when we started our first service at 8:00 PM. 53 nights later I took these pictures after service last night a few minutes past 9:00 PM.

The Lamb family has been resting AND watching revival. We love these pictures!

Jackson Daniels- Hillsboro, Ohio watching Uncle Davy preach. 

Jason and Brooklyn Eason watching service in Knoxville, Tennessee 

Revival Pics from Odie

 

Mom and Dad came over for lunch one day. It was too cold to sit on the driveway so we ate in Odie's garage.

I mentioned last week that I had trouble with the lawnmower the last time I mowed. Dad helped me get that straightened out while he was here and it did fine Wednesday when I mowed! Thank you, Dad!

Evidently, this mower needs voltage for the steering to work, for the blades to stay on and to keep the motor running. The battery was not being charged so everything was shutting down. Dad suggested a blown fuse and I knew where the fuse block was located. The first fuse I pulled was good, but dad noticed that one blade was going on top of the slot it goes in rather than inside.

We inserted the fuse correctly and the battery was charging like it is supposed to. Yay!

Bro. JR and Sis. Teresa Alexander came over for lunch Wednesday. It was great to see them and great to visit with them.

That wraps up the week of revival. Hopefully, by Monday I will have pictures of one of the little projects in the barn. Thank you for joining us today, friends.

Davy

The Wheels Will Roll Again

Thank you for joining us last night for online revival. If you did not get a chance to stop by, you can always view the services later. We would appreciate if you would subscribe to our YouTube channel while you are there and share a video or two as well.

The Wheels Will Roll Again

The wheels will roll again by God's grace! Last night was night number 52 of our online revival and we have been home 54 days. We have not been in the same state for 54 days in many years! Of course, most of you have been dealing with some of the same things and most folks are ready to go somewhere. We are ready to roll the wheels of the BoggsMobile and roll them for a while!

We have been asking God for direction on when to go back on the road and preach revivals and we have been formulating a plan for a couple of weeks. We were supposed to be in Tennessee and Kentucky in April and Virginia for most of May. We hated to miss all those churches and we miss our friends desperately.

We have revival scheduled in Romney, West Virginia beginning Sunday, May 24. Pastor Bob Jeffreys and his congregation have begun having services again with careful measures and we feel very comfortable going there for revival. It is about a 400 mile trip through the mountains so the drive should scratch our itch pretty good. We will probably leave home on Saturday morning May 23.

The following Sunday we will sing and preach the 5th Sunday service for Pastor David Webb and the Hodgenville Pentecostal Church in Hodgenville, Kentucky. That evening or Monday we will complete the circle and go back to the Lazy OD Ranch. That will give us about a 10 day circle and will probably satisfy us for a bit.

The next week we have committed to helping my brother on a project and then we are looking at heading out for a bigger and longer circle by the end of June. Some meetings have had to cancel because of restrictions still in place and others are undecided at this time. We have placed it all in God's hands and we will do whatever is best at the time. We have been very careful to keep our distance from people for nearly 8 weeks now and we do not intend to throw that away when walking into a revival somewhere. We want to remain careful.

Thank you for praying for us concerning all of this. We know that some of you have been seriously interceding for us and we can not tell you how much we appreciate it. We actually are not nervous about any of it and we feel nice and calm. We are praising God for that. We are content to go and we are content not to go. To be in that place is an answer to prayer.

We would love to have you join us in revival at 8:00 PM each evening. Thank you for stopping by here today.

Davy

Davy Olamiposi Jesudunsin Bamidele

You can view the revival service from last night below.

Normally today would be Vintage View Vednesday, but I am having technical issues with Blogger. Last week they forced a new dashboard configuration on me and I have been learning it the last several days. Loading pictures on a blog post is not as simple as before, but it was still easy until yesterday. It goes through all the motions, uses data to load the pictures, yet the post remains blank. I tried it several times yesterday and several more times last night. Ugh!

I admit defeat in this battle, but the war is not over. I will wade into it later and see what can be done. I loaded the pictures below earlier in the day and they loaded fine. I hope you enjoy this replacement post that was originally slated for Thursday.

Davy Olamiposi Jesudunsin Bamidele

Today I introduce to you the newest grandchild of my dear friend, Rev E. Ade Shobanke. He was born in Ogun State, Nigeria on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, to Bro. Samuel and Sis. Ruth Bamidele. He was Christened early Tuesday, May 12 in a small home ceremony because of the coronavirus lockdown. They gave him the name of Davy Olamiposi Jesudunsin Bamidele. 

Is that a beautiful bouncing baby boy or not?

We are delighted to hear the news of this baby boy and I am honored, thrilled and humbled for him to bear my name in his life. That is amazing and I am grinning from ear to ear. 

May God bless Davy, Olamiposi, Jesudunsin, Bamidele with the humble and sweet spirit of his Mother, the smile and kindness of his Father and the anointing and hunger for God of his Grandfather, Bro. Shobanke! He will grow to be quite a man if he has all of those attributes.

We pray that he has strength and good health all through his life. May he have favor with God and favor with men. May he grow in grace and love and faith.

We also pray that we are blessed to meet him in person soon and to see him at many points in his life for many years to come. Right at this moment, it looks impossible to ever go to Nigeria again, but we are believing God that it will not always be this way. I want to see all of my friends and embrace them and worship with them and I want to see my little namesake!

Here are a few more pictures.

Thank you for stopping in for a few minutes today.

Davy

Feeding People

Last night was the 50th night of our online revival and we enjoyed the service very much.

Since it was our 50th night, we decided to try something special. We decided to try and help some people that are physically hungry in four different parts of the world.

I sure this same story could be told from all over the world, but there have been four specific areas that have been on my heart, where the coronavirus lockdown is causing people to struggle to have enough to eat. The common economic model in the world is people living from day to day. They work, earn a little money and purchase food for their families. That is impossible to do if you have to stay home. They do not have a week's worth of food stockpiled and it is impossible for them to do that.

Bro. Larry Landress has been sending money regularly to his people in southern Mexico that need food desperately. Most of the churches are in mountainous areas and they have to travel to buy food staples. They are forbidden to travel, but one of Bro. Larry's men has been purchasing the food and distributing it the best he can. There is a great need there. They do not have a Wal-mart or Kroger's down the road.

My dear friend, Bro. Shobanke in Nigeria has been locked down for nearly five weeks. He has received some help and he has shared it with his pastors and his church people. There are many of them going hungry and there is a great need there as well. My heart breaks for my people in Nigeria.

Bro. and Sis. Petit are in the Philippines and have been locked down for nearly two months. Their Pastors and the congregations are struggling to eat as well. The Petit's are trying to help as much as they can, but more money would be a great help.

Bro. Alan Sumner is in Honduras trying to keep the family ministry there afloat during Martial Law. He is feeding the church folks and planning to feed at least 300 more families too. He has a great work to do and he is doing his best to do it.

I ask the viewers and listeners last night to help these mission efforts OR find someone nearby that needs help and help them. There may be someone right on your street that needs food or diapers for their baby. You may not have abundance, but if we wait for abundance to give, we may be waiting a long time.

I thought some of you might want to get in on the giving. I am copying the information below that I posted on YouTube and Mixlr. There is no pressure to give at all, but if you do, you will be helping folks that need it. I assure you that 100% of the money will go to the intended need.

-Help Bro. Larry Landress feed saints in Mexico

Make check payable to Holiness In Mexico, Food in the memo

Send to: Holiness In Mexico P.O. 717

Pauls Valley, OK 73075

-Help Bro. Shobanke feed saints in Nigeria, West Africa

Make checks payable to Boggs Family Ministries, Africa in the memo

Send to: Boggs Family Ministries P.O. Box 28 Waynesville, OH 45068

Make checks payable to Rev. Michael Petit, Philippine Food in the memo

-Help Bro. and Sis. Petit feed saints in The Philippines Send to: Michael Petit C/O Monica Manning 117 Wallace Dr.

Monroeville, PA 15146

-Help Bro. Alan Sumner and the Sumner family feed the saints and others in Honduras

Make checks payable to Christ Cares World Ministries Food in the memo

Send to:
Christ Cares World Ministries P.O. Box 307 Dewey, OK 74029

If you would rather give electronically to these mission endeavors, you can give through our PayPal and 100% of your gift will go where you intend for it to go.

Our PayPal is davykellyandodie@gmail.com (Please take note of the spelling)

Thank you for reading today. May God bless you, friends. See you tonight.

Davy

What's Up Weekend?

We had a wonderful weekend. We had revival service every night and very good days. It was cool and Sunday it was windy and rainy too, but at least it was not snowing like it was in some places in New England.

I already told you about Friday and the next day was a work day in the barn and yard. Saturday morning was cold, cold cold! We warmed ourselves by working. Steve and Karen were here by 8:00 and we had a dump trailer full of leftover construction debris within an hour. I hooked the truck to the trailer and we all took it to the dump for this type of debris in Xenia. I did not get one picture of all of that!

However,  I did get a couple pictures of our second load. This time the trailer is filled with the fence posts and boards from the fence that was taken down. I plan to take this load to Xenia Monday. I also captured a couple of pictures from lunch.  

And a few pictures of other meals over the weekend.

I spent the Sunday up in my study attending church. I listened to Pastor Gary Lee, Evangelist Jerry Pascarella, Pastor EJ Lamb, Pastor Carter Conlon (From last week), Pastor Tim Dilena, Pastor Scott Morris, Pastor Alan Harris, Pastor Kenny Morris and Pastor Jared Burris. Wow! I heard some great preaching!

Odie cooked supper for Mother's Day and invited us up in the afternoon. It was a great meal and we appreciate Odie thinking of her Mother and preparing the meal.

Pictures from Odie over the weekend.

Sunday night we had revival service at 8:00 PM. It was Sunday Night Singalong and we had a wonderful service. 

That wraps up the weekend. Thank you for reading today.

Davy

Happy Mother's Day

Night #48 Understanding What The Will of The Lord Is

Happy Mother's Day

May God bless all the Mothers today. I hope you have a lovely day.

I want to give special acknowledgment to my Mother, Martha Boggs and to KJo's Mother, Betty Morgan. You are both very special ladies and we love you both very much. You both have been so kind and loving to us for all these many years and cherish every year we have you with us. May God bless you with health and strength and happiness.

Mom, being raised in your home, under your Christian example was a tremendous advantage to me. The prayers you prayed over Steve, me, Theresa and Tommy have certainly been answered time and time again. IF I miss Heaven I will walk over your prayers to do it. Thank you for being the best Mother to me that you could be!

The Mother of my children is the love of my life and the hardest working evangelists wife in the USA. I love you Kelly Jo and I am constantly amazed that all you do. You are a fantastic Mother and incredible wife.

Thank you for dropping by for a few minutes on Sunday. I hope you have a super great day.

Davy

Back To Winter

We are going back to winter. It went into the upper 20's overnight and has not risen to 30 degrees yet. We must be stuck in a time warp right at the edge of winter. It seems we start to pull away into spring and then we boomerang back into winter. I suppose this may be normal for southern Ohio and I may be used to being somewhere else this time of year. I think I like it somewhere else.

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Yesterday was cool AND rainy and I tried to stay inside at much as possible. I started the day with a few hours in my study and then I spent a few hours cleaning and reorganizing a few spaces in the barn. Today, with the help of Steve and Karen, we plan on removing a bunch of construction debris leftover from building the house. We disposed of as much as we could during the process, but we have lots of drywall scraps and siding scraps and other small pieces of debris. Some of it is inside the barn and some of it is outside the barn. We hope to load it up in a dump trailer and haul it away today.

Thank you for joining us this past week for revival online. Tomorrow night (Sunday) we will have Singalong and then we will have the 50th night of revival on Monday. After that is still up in the air. I am perfectly willing to continue revival a while longer, but  I would like to have some direction from the Lord. I have been speaking to some men I trust and taking in their thoughts. Hopefully, I will have a decision by Monday.

Last night we had a wonderful service. You can see it here.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy