Revival In Pictures Romney, West Virginia

Our first visit to Safe Haven in Romney, West Virginia was in late May 2020. It was our first week of "in person" revival after nine weeks of shutdown and was the tenth and final week of our pandemic inspired online revival. We saved all ten weeks in a playlist on our YouTube Channel. 

You can get to all ten weeks of online revival services HERE.

This link will lead you to the 2020 West Virginia services only.

I remember how glad we were to finally gather with the saints of God and have revival again. Wow! It was so good. Twenty-Two months later we are still in a world filled with uncertainty and it felt wonderful to pull onto the parking lot and begin revival in Romney, West Virginia again.

Pastor Bob Jeffreys, his wife, family and church folks have been so very kind to us this week. They have responded amazingly in the altar services each night and I have gone back to the bus rejoicing after every service. It is awesome to see hungry people receive from the Lord.

We have had a wonderful time all week long with these precious people. It has been a joy to preach and then watch them respond and behold the Lord working in their lives. Hallelujah!

Odie captured a bunch of pictures for you so please enjoy the Revival In Pictures. Thank you for stopping in.

Davy

I appreciate Bro. Joel Jeffreys helping us wash the BoggsMobile Wednesday. It needed to be washed something fierce!

A Scheduling Note

Here we are on the last day of March, 2022. Wow! How is that possible? It is possible one day at a time.😊

Our next revival is very close to where we are at this moment in Romney, West Virginia. Pastor Jed Metzler heard of us from Pastor Bob Jeffreys here at Safe Haven Tabernacle. Pastor Metzler asked last year if we could swing by for a few nights while in the area and we were glad to schedule it.

By God's grace, we will be singing and preaching at Kirby Assembly all weekend beginning Friday night. We are happy to meet the people and try to be an instrument of revival.

Pastor Jeffrey has made us completely welcome to remain parked in Romney for this weekend of revival, but regular readers know that we love to park on the church property when we can. We have not moved yet, but we intend to move the BoggsMobile tomorrow UNLESS I change my mind.

The quickest route between churches by car is about 18 miles and nearly 30 minutes. We drove it in the Jeep Monday morning and quickly realized the car route was not possible in the bus. That is OK. That is why we checked it out.

We considered the road going to the church from the other direction and it will work fine. It will be about 15 miles further, but 33 miles between revivals is fine by us.😍

We will probably need to run the generator at night to provide heat, but we should not have to run it all the time. It will be worth it to be close by and not have to drive back and forth to every service.

KJo and I noticed that cell phone signal is very limited in Kirby. I will try to have Odie's Saturday post and a Sunday post ready to go up, but Monday's Weekend Dispatch May not be possible. If we are missing Morning or if Monday's post is different, hold on, we should be back Tuesday.

Thank you, dear friends, for reading and thank you for praying for us.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday One Year Ago

 It is time for A Word For Wednesday. A Few minutes ago, I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

You will find the text for this episode on Mile Markers last Thursday.

One Year Ago!

Thank you for spending time with us today. May God bless you!

Davy

Generating Again

I mentioned recently that we were unable to use the generator on our jump from South Georgia to Virginia. That remark generated questions, pun intended.😍 Today, we have answers.

A couple of weeks ago, our generator shut itself down. We were traveling and did not have time to look for the problem, so we kicked it to the future. The future arrived two weeks ago in Colquitt, Georgia.

Our Martin generator with a Yanmar engine will shut itself down for low oil pressure, high coolant temperature and if the bus fuel tank is below 1/4. We had plenty of diesel, I checked the oil and then zeroed in on the coolant.

After making sure the coolant level was good, I removed the guard at the end of the motor to see if the belt was broken. It was broken and I breathed a sigh of relief. That is an easier fix than changing the water pump or thermostat.

The motor sits in the hush box sideways, so the pulley end of the engine is on the right. It is not easy for me to reach the adjustment pulley, but it can be done. I have to learn how every time, but I eventually got it.

I can push the bracket holding the pulley with a long pry bar or crowbar and tighten the bolt at the top with a wrench. Keeping pressure on the bracket, I then tighten the bottom bolt with a socket and ratchet. It is a stretch and longer arms would be helpful. Less belly would probably help too.

After installing the belt, I discovered I had a little bit of coolant in the floor of the hush box so that started me looking for leaks.

First, I found this rubber cap leaking on the expansion tank and replaced the rubber cap.

Then I noticed the expansion tank itself was leaking a very small amount.

I ordered the expansion tank and a few other things from Martin Diesel in Defiance, Ohio. The parts were waiting on me in Staunton, Virginia so last week I tackled the expansion tank.

Our generator was manufactured in Defiance in early 1995 and they are incredibly great to work with. They answer every question with patience and they have the original specifications for my generator in their records. Awesome!

The new expansion tank is twenty times better built than the original, although it is a bit longer. You can see the length difference in the picture below.

I had to shift it to the right and change the orientation of the clamps, but I was able to install it. I had drained quite a bit of coolant getting the original out, so I added coolant, cranked it up and away it went.

Notice the new expansion tank has a viewport to see the level of the coolant. That is a welcome change because when I remove the cap, I can not get my head in there to check the coolant level.

I did all of that Monday. Tuesday morning I rechecked all my bolts and hose clamps and made sure the belt was tight. I reinstalled the belt guard, cranked the generator and ran it 75 minutes.

KJo watched the gauge inside while I monitored for leaks outside. I am happy to report that all seems well in the generator world again. Praise God!

Friday morning I started the bus and leaned it toward the passenger side. The floor of the hush box had oil and coolant in it, so I wanted to clean it as much as possible. I removed all the mess a few paper towels at a time. It would be nice if the pan had a drain plug.

We ran the generator for four hours during our trip to West Virginia Saturday to make sure all was well. It was perfect.

It is so nice to have our generator back in working order. That gives us super great options when traveling and parking. We still have some voltage fluctuations, but that will take an expert in the future.

Thank you for joining us today.

Davy