Travel And Thursday of Minister's Conference Conference at Christ Ambassadors Holiness Church

This is our first report from Nigeria covering our arrival day and our first full day with our friends.

Our flight arrived about 30 minutes early, but it we did not get off the plane for nearly an hour. We were near the back of the plane with a few hundred new best friends in front of us.

They have built a new terminal at the airport in Lagos and what we saw of it was very nice. We may be able to explore it the day we leave.

They parked our plane at the old terminal and bussed us to the new terminal. We waited through customs and immigration in the new space and then dove in head first into baggage claim. The new customs area and baggage claim are much better.

Our luggage was definitely the last luggage off the plane. We arrived in Atlanta Tuesday nearly four hours before departure and our luggage must have been the first on the plane. We were a full hour in baggage claim.

Inflation is horrible in Nigeria. I will tell you more about it later but i have one example for you. The luggage carts used to be 300 Naira. Now they are 1650 Naira. Still cheap for us but horrible for them. In other years one American dollar was 250-400 Naira. Now, it is one dollar to 800 Naira. 

Two hours after we landed we were safely in the hands of our welcoming committee. Hallelujah!

Two hours later, they deposited us in our hotel. Hallelujah again.

In previous years, our flight to Nigeria arrived in the evening. That put us way past dark getting to Abeokuta. This year we landed at 9:30 AM and we were at the hotel by 2:00 PM. We like this much better. We slept about three hours and then spent the evening getting unpacked and prepared for Thursday.

I slept decently but KJo barely slept at all. Not sleeping is normal for us with the travel and time change so we are thankful for any sleep at all. I pray we sleep good but it usually takes us several days to adapt.

We had a wonderful day Thursday, so we should be tired enough to sleep. We had the first session of the Minister's Conference Thursday morning. By 5:00 AM Eastern US time, I was preaching.

It was so good to see Bro. Shobanke again!

The first session of the Minister's Conference was great. Most years I preach two sessions each morning. Thursday I preach once for one hour and twenty minutes with the interpreter. The altar service was amazing.

We had lunch in the church office. Sis. Rebecca, Bro. Shobanke's  daughter prepared the meal.

We rested an hour or so in the afternoon and we left for church about 4:30. We were preaching for Pastor Samson at The Glorious Life Pentecostal Church International in Abeokuta. We have known Pastor Samson for several years, but this was out first time preaching for him. 

It was a wonderful evening of fellowship and enjoying the Spirit of the Lord.

This is Sis. Ruth (Another of Bro. Shobanke's daughter) and her husband Bro. Samuel. They went with us to church at Bro. Samson's Thursday night.

Thank you for joining us today. Please share these Nigeria posts with friends and neighbors. It took quite a while to get the pictures emailed and loaded. I hope I can keep it up.

Davy

Posting Plan The Next Two Weeks

Real time update: KJo and I made it to Nigeria Wednesday. Our plane landed early at 3:35 AM Eastern Time which was 9:35 in Nigeria. It took us about two hours to exit the plane and work our way through customs, immigration and baggage claim. Two hours after that, our friends were depositing us in the hotel.

This is our posting plan for the next two weeks.

I am writing this while still in the States. By the time you read this, we should be preaching the first services of the Minister's Conference in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, West Africa. I am supposed to preach three times on Thursday and seven times in our first 72 hours in Abeokuta.

That pretty much sets the course for the whole trip and we are fine with that. We might as well stay busy while we are there. In a few days, we will be home and I will be wishing I was back in Nigeria.

I have no idea if I will have time to post each day or any internet to post at all. Some years we have passable internet, some years we have none at all. It may be that I can not post. If that is the case, then Odie will take over as much as she can.

IF I do have internet, then I may post more than once a day. When you read each day for the next two weeks, check to see if there have been previous posts that day. The posts could show up at any time because Nigeria time is six hours ahead of Eastern Time in the USA.

Thank you for checking in and thank you for praying for us. We need and desire God's help.

Davy

A Word For Wednesday The #1 Reason For Revival

The #1 Reason For Revival

So glad you joined us today. It is time again for A Word For Wednesday. A few moments 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.

There is one main reason we are spending our lives trying to be and instrument of revival across America and that is that souls might be saved!

Paul said of Jesus, This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. I Timothy 1:15

Christ came with one great aim and that is to save sinners. That is our one great aim in life!

In September, Milton was saved under the Blue and White Gospel Tent in Richton, Mississippi. Pastor Scott Morris baptized Bro. Milton recently and I have a video of it for you.

If you would like to argue the technique or formula for baptism, please move on! This is neither the time nor the place. This is how we do it, but today we are celebrating the salvation of an 80 year old man during revival! Wow! It is a beautiful thing!

I appreciate Bro. Milton and Pastor Scott Morris allowing me to post the video of the baptism. Sis. Felicia Cochran provided the video and I appreciate her permission to post it.

Thank you for stopping by.

Davy

Ready To Fly!

This is our second post today. Our regular post is HERE. 

Our plane in Atlanta is getting ready to go!

Pray the Lord will protect us, strengthen us and empower us!

Davy

Just The Way We Like It!

Friday was a longish travel day for us. We drove 336 miles from Paducah, Kentucky to Vonore, Tennessee. 

336 miles. For many years, 800 to 1000 miles each day was normal for us and we scheduled accordingly. That is no longer the case.

Two or three years after buying the bus, we started shooting for 550 mile days as our normal "long" day. We kept that pace pretty much until Covid. We have been trying to drive no more than 350 miles a day the last three years unless it is an emergency.

In the last six weeks, we have been able to do much better than that and we love it just like that!💕💕💕

The 336 mile day was our longest mileage day since October 9 when we drove 342 on our way toward Oklahoma. We stopped for the night in Missouri.

Our next travel day was 113 miles.

Then 143 miles.

37 miles.

19 miles.

19 miles.

212 miles.

169 miles.

108 miles.

179 miles.

109 miles.

172 miles.

And finally 68 miles.

That is nearly seven weeks with only one 200 mile day, only three more days over 150 miles and one three week period with less than 80 miles total! That is amazing and we love it just like that. 

Plus, the BoggsMobile went from October 9 to November 13 between fuel stops! Yay!

We will ruin this soon by traveling over 6000 miles in less than 24 hours. Thankfully, the bus is not going.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

The Weekend Dispatch

This was our last weekend before leaving for Nigeria. It was time to finish our trip to Vonore, Tennessee in order for the bus to be in the right position and to put us closer to the airport.

We had planned to spend Saturday driving between Paducah, Kentucky and Vonore, but we changed it to Friday for good reason. Odie discovered that the University of Tennessee was playing a football game against a Nashville team. That was going to create a horrible traffic situation on I-40.

We have driven in that Saturday football traffic in Tennessee before and that is not something we want to repeat. We intended to avoid 100,000 rabid football fans if we could and we did that by driving Friday during the day.

It was a long drive, but it was made much easier with less traffic. We stopped for fuel near the end and pulled into Jeff's at 4:15 Friday afternoon.

Saturday was spent working on final preparations for Nigeria and Sunday we preached for Pastor Herman Woods at Beechfork Holiness Church about an hour and twenty minutes from us. We had a wonderful service with friends followed by a super great meal and fellowship.

Wow! What a wonderful day it was with friends. We have been preaching at Beechfork since 1987 we love these folks so much.

Thank you all for reading today.

Davy