A Follow Up On Mission Food

We had a wonderful service in revival last night. Hallelujah! We purposely turned off the picture during the altar service so that people would have privacy to respond in the altar. We left the audio rolling.

A Follow Up On Mission Food

Two weeks ago today was our 50th night of online revival. For the previous few weeks, people participating in revival by watching or listening had been asking how they could help us financially while we were restricted from our normal work of preaching revivals in churches. Several individuals and churches have helped us and we certainly appreciate it. But I thought it would be a neat thing to direct help to some needs we knew about on foreign mission fields or to inspire people to look around and find others in need of help.

This is the way I described the effort that week on Mile Markers.

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.

You can read the whole post and have access to the direct contact information for the missionaries on that first post.

We have no way of knowing how much was sent directly to the mission efforts. I hope it was a bunch. We do know the amount sent to us coupled with our offering was $2160. This was divided to each of the mission efforts in the specific amounts that were given through Boggs Family Ministries, but each one received at least $400.

We distributed those funds that very week to the three missionaries with addresses in the USA. Getting the money to Nigeria was a little more tricky. Mailing money and wiring money there through conventional means has never been reliable due to fraud and negligence. Bro. Shobanke had told me of a way to wire it directly to a special account at his bank. I was very hesitant to try it, but it worked.

We paid the transfer fees out of our own funds and they received the money safe and sound. We sent the money for food and money we had set aside for the school and it all arrived! Hallelujah!

Bro. Shobanke sent people that were allowed to leave their homes to different parts of the city to purchase beans, rice, onions and other food. The prices have skyrocketed and the food is very expensive. Others from the USA had sent money and they purchased $1500 worth of food.

They packaged all of the food in the main church in Abeokuta and on a certain day last week they distributed food to 300 people within their churches. When Bro. Shobanke called me that day with the news, he was so happy. That put a big smile on my face and a big praise on my lips!

He had someone send me a few pictures and they make me smile with tears running down my face! He has more pictures and videos that he will try to have sent to me later.

Thank you for joining us for a few minutes today. May God bless you all.

Davy

What's Up, Weekend? 5/25/20

The activity meter definitely was trending upward for us this weekend. It almost made us long for the last several weekends when all we had to do was mow grass, work in the barn, spray weed killer on the gravel, watch preaching on Sunday AND have three or four online services.

Hey, but we must get cranking at some point, right? Friday was laundry day and final bus preparation day for Kelly Jo. I spent the day getting ready to ride too. That included emptying the holding tanks, cranking the bus, getting it turned around and hooking up the Green Machine late in the day. I also checked all the bus tires and added air if needed. The bus tires are big job any day, but the mud made it much more fun.

We also took a while Friday morning to pick up flowers and spend some time at the cemetery. I wrote about that Saturday.

We wanted to be on the road by 8:00 Saturday morning and we were rolling at 7:50. Yay!

Before we left I took a picture of my lonely Bible Stand in Odie's living room.

It is great to have Odie back on the bus.

Romney, West Virginia is not really that far from home. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of mountains in between. It is only 287 miles as a crowbar flies, IF you could through a crowbar that far. You would have to throw the crowbar way up high to get it over the mountains.

No one has built a big bridge over the mountains yet, so we went north to Columbus, Ohio then west on I-70, south on I-79, east on I-68 and then the fun drive on cow trails to Romney. It was not that simple though. Just as we were exiting the interstate a 1/4" air line broke beneath my seat and KJo had to lay down on the floor, find the break and squeeze off the air line while I drove.

While she was finding the deafening air leak and I was trying to keep from stepping on her, we exited the interstate into immediate construction. The road divided to the left and to the right and I chose the wrong side of the division in the two lane road. Our next turn was only about 200 feet down the way on the other division choice. Oops.

Then I had to navigate through city streets and residential streets to a turn that would correct my route. However the simple turn led under a railroad trestle that I could not go through. I saw that beforehand and kept turning on little roads until I could find my way back to the interstate.

Once on the interstate I went back one exit and went south until I could find a wide spot to pull off and put vice-grips on the broken air line. All this time, Kjo was laying on the floor, with her hand in a bind, keeping the air line pinched so that the bus did not lose pressure and lock up the breaks in the middle of the road.

I told you we were having fun.

After all of then confusion, the route we were on was our back up route to Romney and an hour or so later we were pulling in. We had driven 401 miles in about 8 hours. Pastor Bob Jeffreys and his wife and son met us at the church when we arrived and it was wonderful to see their smiling faces and to enjoy their virtual hugs!

They helped us get parked, hooked up and load in our equipment. Then we enjoyed a great evening of fellowship with them including a few minutes of Sound Check Church online. I embedded that video in yesterday's post.

Before I get into Sunday, Odie had a few pictures from Friday and Saturday.

We rested good overnight and enjoyed two great services with our new friends in Romney, West Virginia. We already knew the Pastor and his wife and Sis. Tonya in the church, but all the rest were friends we had not met yet. We are looking forward to the rest of the week here at Safe Haven Tabernacle.

These are the services from yesterday.

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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us. 

Davy

View Out The Front Window 5/24/20

After way too many weeks in limbo, our view has changed! This is our view out the front window at Safe Haven Tabernacle in Romney, Virginia.

We turned the camera on for about 27 minutes last night as we were finishing soundcheck. This is a little Sound Check Church.

We are excited to begin revival this morning for Pastor Bob Jeff Jeffries and his congregation. Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Ali Elizabeth Boggs 33 Years Ago Today.

Where has the time gone? How does it fly so quickly?

33 years ago today, in the evening, our second daughter, Ali Elizabeth was born. Kelly Jo had spent most of six weeks in the hospital trying to prevent Ali from being born, but on May 23rd she could not be stopped any longer. We were blessed to hold her and love on her for a few hours and receive her love in return. In the early hours of the next day, as we were holding her, she slipped into eternity.

There are times, that I let my mind wander. What would Ali look like? What would her singing voice sound like? Would she sing the high part that we are always wishing for? What about her personality? Would she shine in a crowd or shy away? Would she be a "Daddy's girl" like Odie was? I can imagine her loving Odie so much and almost idolizing her Mom. Would she be a piano player like Kelly Jo?

My imagination would go on and on IF I would let it and soon the hurt would start pounding away at my heart. The questions are fun for a moment, but they are better off in small doses. It is better to stick with the things that I know.

I was holding Ali when her undeveloped lungs could sustain her no longer. I carried Ali in her little coffin to the grave myself. I let her down in the ground with my own hands and when the small service was over, I shoveled in the dirt myself. I know where her little body is, but I also know our Ali is in Heaven. For some reason, we are still here below. We can not bring her back to us, but we can go to her by the grace of God.

We are usually many miles from Ohio on Ali's birthday, but this year is different. KJo and I ordered some flowers, picked them up Friday morning and went to the cemetery for a while.

Ali was one of the first graves in this section, but it has many graves 33 years later. Some of them are family. I have two Uncles, two grandparents and a great Uncle buried within a few feet of Ali. My cousin Debbie and her husband Sonny mulched around the graves and they have everything looking so nice!

So we leave the flowers, walk away and I do not look back. One day, I will see her again and I will be amazed at how beautiful she is. That is why I look forward and not behind!

On this Memorial Day weekend, you may decorate the grave of a loved one and you may reminisce a little and she a tear or two. May God bless you, my dear friend! This is one of the very hard things in life.

Thank you for reading today.

Davy

Revival In Pictures Waynesville, OH 9.0

This week of revival has flown by like crazy. Yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Saturday. How does that happen? Was I asleep? I see we had church every night, I hope I sang and preached acceptably even though I snoozed through it!  

We have one more night of revival here this week and then we plan to drive to West Virginia for revival. The windows and doors are locked, the cameras are on, the alarm is set the rottweilers are already roaming the ranch and the alligators are swimming in the moat. I started to feed the alligators this morning, but I decided the hunger pains will keep them alert.

Today we are planning to do the work of the evangelist, crank the bus, load up some equipment, get the bus in position to roll and maybe even hook up the car to the bus. We hope to point east early tomorrow.

Today is Revival In Pictures so let us get to it.

The Kite Family and Friends- Shenandoah, Virginia

 

Theresa Osborn- Waynesville, Ohio 

Pastor EJ Lamb was listening while taking a walk!

Anna Beth from Louisiana was enjoying revival Thursday night.

Monday night 

Tuesday night 

Wednesday night 

I last mowed the grass last Wednesday. It had rained most all day of most every day since then. It is a delicate dance to find a window long enough for the ground to dry out so I do not destroy the yard with the tires of the mower. There was a short window without rain Thursday morning and I threw caution to the wind and got it mowed. 

It was not dry enough. I actually ran through some puddles in low places. The rain came back before I could even get the mower cleaned up.

You already know we had Mexican food a few times, right?

Thursday night 

Here is the video from last night's service, Mixing Faith and Fire.

That wraps up Revival In Pictures. Thank you for dropping by for a few minutes.

Davy

Traveling The World One Page At A Time

I appreciate my Dad and Mom putting great love for reading deep inside me when I was a small boy. I have traveled the world one page at a time.

When I was about six years old my parents bought a 1973 set of World Book Encyclopedias. It was a big deal in our house. I remember very clearly what Dad told me about the encyclopedias. He said, "Davy, if you read every word of these books, you will be a very smart man." I do not know if I read every word on every page, but I discovered an amazing world by spending many, many hours reading the encyclopedia.

Dad and I used to lay in the living room floor with a volume of the encyclopedias open pouring over maps or facts about amazing places. In the years since, I would be home and we would be talking about something and Dad would grab the encyclopedia and find out what it said about the subject or look at the map.

I know this for sure. I did look at every page in every volume and I looked at many of the pages multiple times. I can not tell you how much enjoyment I found in those books. Reading opened the world to me. I left home in 1985 and I was not the smartest young man in the world. However, I was a whole lot smarter than I would have been without those books.

Those books are still on the shelves at Dad and Moms.

Now we have more information at our fingertips in our phones than 1000 set of encyclopedias. I do not even know if they still sell them. (I just checked, Amazon has The World Book 2019 set for $800.) Do families buy them? I hope so and I hope kids still read them.

I never bought a new set, but I bought a set of Funk and Wagnall Encyclopedias at a thrift store for like $12.50 in the early 90s. They were old, but I traveled the world for many, many hours using those books as my transportation. I gave them away when we hit the road in 2003, but now I have another set of my own.

Steve and Karen bought a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica about 1990 ish and they gave them to me a few months ago. They have been sitting on the floor of my study, but now they are back on a bookcase and I enjoyed a few pages in one yesterday.

The World Book Encyclopedias were designed to be read and understood by young people or men and women of all educational levels. These may a bit more difficult to navigate, but by the time I read every page, I should be a pretty smart man.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Vintage View Vednesday NOT!

We had to skip Vintage View Vednesday last week because I could not get a group of pictures to load. I usually load 30-40 pictures as a time with no problem, but it would not do it at all last week. Google did a forced update of the Blogger dashboard last week and that seems to be the problem. I have had no problem loading four or five pictures from my phone in the days since then, so yesterday I tried loading the pictures I had planned for last week in bunches of four, but they still would not load.

I tried a different set of pictures, four at a time and they would not load. Ugh! Then I thought to check the size of the pictures and that may be the problem. I have loaded thousands of pictures of the same size I was trying to load last week, but now that size must be too big. Smaller pictures, like the quality I send from my phone load just fine.

If I can not load pictures over a certain size, it is going to severely limit the Vintage pictures I can put up. We will have to see how that plays out over the next few weeks and months.

This is the point where you are supposed to start seeing pictures, but even small pictures will not load in small batches. Ouch! Until I get to the bottom of this, we may be at the end of Vintage View Vednesday as we have known it. I will work more and ask more questions and see if I can come up with answers. Thank you for your patience.

We do have the video link from revival service last night. Maybe I can get that to work.

Thank you for dropping by for a while today. I hope you have a great day.

Davy

A Rainy Day

It feels like we have turned a corner as we prepare to pull out and leave for revival once again. We are only going for one revival plus a single service, but the same preparation goes into it like we are going to stay gone for weeks. Kelly worked diligently for hours getting the bus ready to ride inside. She says she has a bunch more to do, but it looks great already.

I worked a bit on a rainy day project that I have had in my back pocket the whole time we have been home. The panel in the barn has needed some attention and I determined I would use a morning working on it when I could not work outside.

It rained all day and all my other rainy day projects were completed so yesterday was the day. I needed to add a circuit into the panel and several others needed to be straightened up or combined with other circuits. At some point, a previous owner or tenant used machines in this barn that needed separate breakers for each machine. In five years, I have learned how I need things configured and I have been making the necessary changes. The work in the panel was the finishing of that.

Once that was finished I went to my study to prepare for preaching last night and the rest of the week. I am a slow learner and it takes me more time than average to be prepared. One of my greatest fears is not being prepared.

Monday afternoon, my brother Steve supplied me with another rainy day project. He gave me some nice shelving units for my study. Since it is supposed to rain most of the week, I should have pictures of the finished project soon.

Last night we kicked off our ninth week of revival and I think it was a great service. I felt the touch of the Lord and I was greatly encouraged. I tried to preach on The Promise of Revival and I hope to stick close to that theme all week long.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today. May God bless you with a great day.

Davy