Surprise Visit To Hillsboro

Hey Friends,

This is Odie checking in today. I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving holiday! I had a great time spending time with my family. 

I am always thankful for the times I spend holidays with family. Next week I will share my Thanksgiving celebrations in pictures with you.

Today I am posting more about my night last Wednesday. I told you a little about the night in the Weekend Dispatch here. My Mom's brother Danny Morgan Jr pastors at House of Deliverance in Hillsboro, Ohio. God recently blessed them with a different building.

The church has in been in one location for several years. The location served them well, but they had been running out of room for a while. They have been located on a hill, which makes having church in the winter extremely difficult.

We have been praying with them to find a new location. A few different places have not worked out for them. God had a different and better plan for them!

Back in the summer, they were contacted by a church that had closed. The old church gave the building to my Uncle's church. It was an amazing miracle! 

We praised God along with them for answering the prayers. This new location is right in town. Best of all, there are not any hills involved!

My Uncle and the House of Deliverance have worked tirelessly to remodel the new location. They have transformed the building. Honestly, it does not look like the same place! I am incredibly excited for them!

That brings us to last Wednesday night. House of Deliverance was ready to begin having church in their new location. They chose to start it off with their annual Thanksgiving Candlelight Communion Service.

I knew they were having the first serve that night. I wanted to be with them for the special service. I also wanted to surprise some of my family. It did not seem possible for me to pull off the surprise.

My Mamaw called me that morning saying they wanted to go to the service too. We made plans to make the hour trip from Waynesville to Hillsboro that afternoon.

Hillsboro just happens to still have a very good Ponderosa. My Papaw Eugene suggested we leave early enough to get dinner there before church. I was all for that Idea.

I called Gran and Papaw and let them know our plans to come to service. They decided to join us for dinner too. It was wonderful to enjoy a delicious meal with all of my grandparents!

Here are a couple pictures of our meal.

We arrived at the church early enough to surprise and visit with some of my other family members. It was good to see them again. I should have been videoing to capture some of the responses.  

Jackson's was the cutest. He spotted me coming into the sanctuary. He then said, "There is Odie!" It made my day that he was happy to see me!

Morgan saw me and said, "Well, hello there."

I was happiest to pull a surprise off on Courtney. It was good that I only had known for a little while. She did not even get suspicious of my plan. 

The candlelight service was so sweet and beautiful.

I was happy to see my cousin Kayla Jo again. I love my cousins so much!

Kayla took most of the pictures below to show you the church.

This is a picture of my Gran and me.

 

Here is happy Miss Karleigh Jo. She is used to seeing me on the phone. It took a minute to realize that I was real. 

 Jackson was ready for his weekly Taco Bell fix. He loves tacos!

Bro. Fred Moore is a wonderful man. Bro, Fred, thanks for being a friend to my family. It was great to see you again!

It is always great to see Hunter! I am so proud of him. He is in the home stretch of getting his teaching degree.

I had to get a picture with both of my grandmothers. Words can not describe how extraordinary these two ladies are. I am thankful to get to have them in my life.

My aunt Kim is amazing! I wish all of you could know her too.

This is my cousin Wade. He will be 18 next Friday. How in the world did that happen? I was 18 when he was born.

I had a wonderful time surprising my family last week. It was great to be in service with them. Thanks for joining me today.

Odie

Happy Thanksgiving and National Caregivers Month

 Hey Friends,

Happy Thanksgiving! I am blessed beyond measure. I have more blessings than I can list here today. I am thankful for our fabulous blog readers!

Here are just a few that are on my list today.

1. My salvation

2. My family

3. My Friends

November is also National Caregivers Month. Caregivers everywhere are superheroes! All of them deserve much more praise and gratitude than they ever receive!

Thank you to anyone that has ever been a caregiver! Most of the time, you live in the shadows. I am thankful for your sacrifice and appreciate your work. You have helped make someone's day better. May God bless you!

My parents have been model caregivers my entire life. It was not a job they expected while waiting to be parents. God had a different plan than my Mom and Dad ever imagined. 

37 years now, they have devoted their time and strength to giving me the best life possible. They have never once complained or made me feel like I was a burden.

I know their job is not easy, and it comes with its hardships!

The care, love and support I have always had from my parents have allowed me to be where I am today!

I can not adequately say thank you enough or show my deep appreciation for my Mom and Dad! I want them and the entire world to know that I'm grateful! Mom and Dad, thank you for your selfless love and sacrifice! I love you from the bottom of my heart! Today on this Thanksgiving Day, I want to say thank you to my personal superheroes! May God bless all of you!

Many of my family and friends also help me have a fabulous life! I greatly appreciate you looking out for me! Thanks for reading. I will see you here tomorrow.

Odie

A Word For Wednesday-The Providence of God and 50 Amps

It is time again for A Word For Wednesday. This morning, I am posting A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

I have mentioned in this space many other times, that I am very thankful my Dad taught me to work. He absolutely loves to work and he tried his best to instill that love for work in me. I did not love it then, but I am extremely thankful for it now. 

Dad was an electrician in factories most of his working life. He also wired houses and took care of a man's rent houses and did a lot of maintenance for two small factories near our home. He took me and my brother Steve with him on these and other side jobs from the time we were very small.

He also raised two 100 acre gardens (Not really 100 acres at all) and always had something going in the yard, the garden, the house or the barn. It seemed to me that we were always working.

I would rather have stayed in bed. I would rather have not been in those cold factories in the winter. I would rather not crawl in a narrow crawl space. I would have rather been fishing or swimming in the summer.

As I said, I did not love it then, but I am extremely thankful for it now. 

I can not tell you how many times I could not get something done as an adult. I could not do it. I did not have the knowledge. I did not have the strength. But I did it anyway, because Dad instilled that in me!

I am not only thankful that Dad taught me to work, but I am thankful he taught me about his work, electrical. I had no idea how much I was picking up through the years. 

I say that I got it through osmosis.😁

Dad was busy and working too fast to explain everything he was doing, but I watched him for years, handing him tools, screws, wire nuts, breakers, conduit and wire. The knowledge and technic oozed into me without me knowing it.

After KJo and I married I worked for an electrical contractor for three months before I was hired on at GM. I was not running jobs by any means, but I could do anything I was asked to do.

To my surprise, I knew the hot wire, the neutral wire and the ground wire. I could strip wire, use wire nuts, wire switches, receptacles and lights. I was blown away when I figured out how to wire a three way switch.

Most of my three months with that contractor were spent on a commercial job pulling wire through conduit, wiring up lights, receptacles and switches. I was pleasantly surprised that I could do it. The lead man showed me how they wanted it done and I did it.

A few years later I was helping a church on a remodel project and they needed a subpanel installed about 50' from the main panel. I asked my Dad a few code questions and then I did it. I could hardly believe that I wired up the whole panel and all the circuits running from the new panel.

In the years that followed, I wired whole houses, wired for remodeled houses and changed a lot of fuses boxes to breaker boxes all over Dayton. All of this was possible because my Dad took me to work and took me to work and took me to work when I really did not want to go at all.

Now, let me bring in the providence of God. 

Could God have been working in those cold factories and houses in the winter? Could God have been working in those hot jobs in the summer when I would have rather been swimming?

I absolutely believe God was working!

The knowledge and skills that I learned "by accident" when I was a child and teenager have proved to be absolutely invaluable in our last twenty years on the road.

I have no idea how in the world I would be an evangelist with a truck and trailer or bus IF I did not know what I know about electrical work. It would be mighty inconvenient, that is for sure!

I can not tell you how many times I have wired temporarily into panels all over this country so we could have 50 amps for a week of revival. In our previous RVs, having 50 amps was a luxury. With the BoggsMobile, having 50 amps is a necessity!

This is a 50 amp box with a pigtail that I have wired temporarily into churches for 20 years. I keep all the breakers I might need and wire in easy-peazy because of the providence of God!

I lost count years ago of how many 50 amp plugs I have permanently installed on the side of churches in America. The number is in the dozens. 

I have also made sure that hundreds of 50 amp plugs were correctly wired and averted a lot of trouble because of the knowledge God imparted to me through my Dad by osmosis!😍

There are a lot of things that I do not know about electrical work. I would be lost in most commercial work and all industrial work, but I am thanking God today for providentially using my Dad and all those jobs that I did not want to be on, to give me the basic knowledge to survive and even thrive.

Thank you, Dad! Thank you, God!

Thank you for joining us today. Can you look around your life and see things God providentially used to help you that you did not enjoy at the time?

Davy

Weekend Dispatch 11/22/22

Hey Friends,

This is Odie reporting in from Ohio. Did you see the post and video from my Dad yesterday? Check it out here. There is more awesome footage from the BoggsMobile's dashcam!

Today I will give you a recap of my weekend. It was packed full of activities.

First, we are rewinding to Wednesday night. Back in August, Dad told you here about a new church building my Uncle's church was working on. Well, they have worked countless hours this summer and fall. 

Last Wednesday night was their annual Thanksgiving Candlelight Communion service. It was also the first service in the new location. I was so excited for my Uncle Danny and his church family at House of Deliverance!

It is amazing the changes that they have made to the building. We have been able to watch the progress through pictures and videos. I was anxious to get home to see the building in person.

My Mamaw and Papaw, Eugene and Martha Boggs made it possible for me to attend this special service with my family. We were thrilled to be there and celebrate this momentous occasion!

This new location is an answer to many prayers! I will share more about this special night in another post.

Friday night was a huge day for two of my sweet friends. Nathan Roberts and Emily Burris are now married! Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Robert!

The wedding was beautiful! I can not wait to share more pictures from the wedding later.

Sunday morning, it was time for church! Bro. Bennie taught and preached incredibly! I encourage you to listen on Mixlr here,

Moriah Jones is home from school for Thanksgiving. I was thrilled to see her!

I was shocked to see my precious friend Kari Noe. That was a wonderful surprise to see her and her Mamaw!

This is Kari's Mamaw, Sis. Mary. She is also a dear friend to our family.

My handsome buddy, Kiran. We had to get a selfie. He lost his tooth at the wedding on Friday night.

Sunday afternoon turned into a party. Several members of the Burris family were still in town after the wedding. Gunner Burris and I introduced them to Alcapulco.

My friends at Alcapulco made it a wonderful experience. The food was superb. The service was spot on! They took excellent care of our party of 20 plus people. We had a great meal and fellowship!

Everybody seemed well pleased with their food. That is a success when you have so many people to please. This is me with the Burris Clan. Bro. Mike, Sis. Sharon Whitley and Hadley were also there with us. They were taking the picture for me.

Then about 17 people came home with me to see my house! I was thrilled to show them my Beach Cottage Miracle! More to come on that visit later this week.

Due to a viewing at Dryden Road on Sunday night, we did not have church. I went to church next to my house at Dodds. Here are a couple pictures from that service.

That wraps up another weekend in 2022. Thanks for stopping by to visit with me.

Odie

Dashcam View While Driving The Big Thompson River Canyon, Boggs Family Ministries

Please pardon the glare and reflection in much of the video. We were driving right into the sun at times.

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Dashcam video from our 1995 Prevost XL while driving east on HWY 34 from Estes Park toward I-25 and Loveland, Colorado in July 2022.

We first drove this same route in 2010 and fell in love. The multiple signs that say "Climb to higher ground in case of flooding" intrigued us. Later that week, we discovered the tragic story of a devastating flood in 1976 that took the lives of 144 and destroyed or damaged almost every structure in the Canyon.

Three years after we drove through Big Thompson River Canyon, it flooded again. The 2013 flood was horrible, but the lessons learned and the improvement in forecasting and response saved many lives. According to what I read, there were only 2 deaths in the canyon itself and 10 in the whole area.

This video is lengthy, but I am posting it as it was taken. It is not running at a faster speed at the request of lots of viewers.

I hope you enjoy. Please share this video.

Davy

Sunday Morning Sanity 11/20/22

Sunday Morning Sanity

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. - AW Tozer

This is a Sunday post from vacation so no view out the window of the BoggsMobile. Thank you for stopping in.

Davy

Beach Christmas Cottage 2022

Hey Friends,

This is Odie checking in for a Saturday post. I hope you have had a wonderful week. I am doing good. It has been a cold few days.

The cold weather makes me excited to show you my Christmas decor for 2022. Decorating my home for Christmas was high on my list of priorities when I arrived home.

Yes, I am all for decorating before Thanksgiving. I actually like to do it in October if I am home. This year I put my stuff out on November 9-10.

This is what the inside of the Beach Cottage looks like for Christmas 2022. Can you believe this is my fifth Christmas in my Beach Cottage? There are not any major changes from year to year. I do like to change things up here and there.

The stockings hung on my lamp are always one of the first things I set out. 

Thanks to my cousin, Baby Lauren, for helping me do the main tree this year! She has a great eye for decorating. We had a fun evening together. It was wonderful to have some time with her! 

 

Time for a tree selfie.

This finished product

My office setup this year.

The master bedroom tree is full of ornaments that have been gifted to me, ornaments and keychains I pick up when I travel.

I also included a couple pictures from our first snow of the season.

It was beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Christmas 2022 is in full swing here. I need to start wrapping presents soon.

Thanks for stopping by to visit with me today. I hope that I helped you get in the Christmas spirit!

Odie