The Weekend Dispatch 5/27/24

We welcome you to the recap of our recent weekend. we enjoyed wonderful services yesterday on Sunday. The Lord‘s blessings on Sunday are always a great reward for making it through the challenges of the week.

First, I have a couple pictures to share that did not find a place in earlier Mile Markers this week.

From there we take up on Thursday morning. Kelly Jo had worked diligently to prepare us to be gone a few weeks. Thursday about 9:00 AM we pointed the jeep south and rolled our wheels.

The weather was great for driving, the traffic was good all the way to Nashville. Traffic there was not as bad as it could be but we did lose quite a bit of time anyway. We rested decent that night in a good hotel. 

Friday morning we started with rain and drove in the rain 2-3 hours. Eventually we broke through the rain and finally into beautiful sunshine. It was a great way to end our day. We spent another decent night in a hotel. 

Friday morning Kelly did a big grocery run at Sam’s and Walmart to keep us stocked up on foods that I can eat the next couple of weeks. Then we finished the drive to White Plains Holiness Assembly about 1:00 PM.

Sis. Tanya Boler unlocked the evangelist quarters for us and we moved in. KJo drove every single mile of the trip and then I did most of the resting from the trip.😜

We had wonderful services on Sunday and enjoyed every moment of it. We snapped a few pictures Sunday morning and Sunday night.

The Lord visited us during the prayer line Sunday night and I am anticipating great things in response to his touch. We are off to a good start at White Plains. 

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Our View Out The Window 5/26/24

Please pray for Missionary David Lloyd and his family and State Representative Ben Baker and his family and the Montis family in Haiti. Davy and Natalie Loyd were killed two nights ago along with a faithful Haitian man in the Lloyd’s mission work Jude Montis. 

We can only imagine the pain and heartache these families are experiencing right now. We know that the Lord is our only comfort we are asking him to comfort our friends, brothers and sisters. 

Our View Out The Window 

Memorial Day 2024

Hey Friends,

 

This is Odie reporting from my Ohio beach cottage. I hope you are doing well. Thanks for stopping by to visit with me on this busy holiday weekend.

When I think of Memorial Day, this song repeats in my head. I had to share it with you today. Please listen to More Than A Name On A Wall at least once.

I want to remember the reason we have a holiday to celebrate this weekend. It is a time we remember our loved ones who have finished their lives ahead of us. 

Dad shared about our recent visit to the local cemetery on Thursday. In this post about my sweet sister, you can see why we visit Miami Cemetery every May.

Our family and friends may be gone from this life, but definitely not forgotten. Heaven grows sweeter every day! I look forward to reuniting and meeting many friends and family members soon.

Memorial Day was set aside to honor our soldiers who gave their all for America. I honor those special souls who sacrificed all for the freedoms I hold dear today!

Twenty years ago, we visited Washington, D.C., and saw several monuments in our Nation's capital. It was a week that this American history lover will never forget.

Our visit to Arlington National Cemetary left a permanent impression on my mind and heart. I can not describe the feeling of watching the guard at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We watched the changing of the guard a few times. It was a special moment; I am so glad I witnessed it in person.

That visit to D.C. deepened my sincere appreciation for the sacrifice and dedication of many great people. We all benefit from the gift of countless men and women. It hurts me to think about the pain and suffering of the soldiers and their families. 

Their names are more than names on a wall or plaque. They were real people who gave their lives for our country. Thank you. feels very hollow, but I mean the words with all my heart! I remember them extra this weekend!

See you next time.

Odie

Prayer And More For Friends

KJo and I are on a mission. A mission rooted in friendship. 

Bro. Ricky Boler from White Plains Holiness  Assembly near Sebastopol, Mississippi was told recently that he has cancer. They want him to have a major surgery sooner rather than later. 

He has the responsibility of his family, his business and the church. Adding in cancer surgery is more than he can juggle right now.

I can only imagine the emotional weight and turmoil.

He asked me to consider coming to the church the next three Sundays and the two Wednesdays in between to lift part of the load. I told him we would pray. 

I went to my study to pray about it and decided to send a text to a few of my mentors and closest friends and ask their opinion. I wrote the text, read my own words and answered my own question. 

It is if the Lord spoke to me and said, You do not need the leading of the Lord to be a friend. That was all it took and we have been working this week on getting things ready to go.

I had weekends scheduled and I needed to make arrangements with those pastors to move those dates to the future. They all understood and were gracious to me. I do appreciate that very much. 

I had committed to myself that I would not travel that far this summer and physically it is probably not the best thing for me. So we are traveling as gently as possible and praying. 

We traveled Thursday, we will travel today and perhaps even finish up this evening. If I can be wise, I will finish it up on Saturday.

Please pray for Bro. Ricky Boler, Sis. Tanya, the rest of his family and the church. Also pray for us that we would be filled with strength and anointing for the task ahead. 

Once we arrive and get through the first Sunday, we should be able to rest up some next week if all goes well.

Thank you for reading and thank you for praying. 

Davy

37 Years!

Today, May 23, 2024 our Ali Elizabeth would have celebrated her 37th birthday. In some ways it seems like 100 years and another ways it feels like last week. 

37 years ago today, in the evening, our second daughter, Ali Elizabeth Boggs 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 was born.

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.

My mother, Martha Boggs arranged the flowers for Ali’s gravestone. They are beautiful. 

Yesterday while the sun was shining we visited the Miami cemetery in Corwin, Ohio and admired the beautiful work that my cousin Debbie Northern and her husband Sonny completed. They cleaned the gravestones of our family, mulched and no telling what else. Everything looked fabulous.

We sat a while admiring the beautiful day. We cried a bit, laughed a little, contemplated the past and what might have been. At some point, we wiped our tears and held each other close as we walked back to the green machine and returned to the only life we know. Someday we will know life as our love ones know it and we will be eternally joyful. 

We plan to be gone on memorial day so it was nice to visit the cemetery Wednesday. We drove through areas where literally hundreds of our relatives are buried. The people who care for the cemetery have it looking clean and gorgeous.

 

Thank you for joining us today. 

Davy

A Word For Wednesday, He Was Talking To Us!

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you 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. 

When Jesus said, go ye therefore into all the world 

He Was Talking To Us! 

I have said this for years and I stand by it 

Every church that is not doing something purposeful to win souls is not doing much 

But Dr. Charles Edward Maddry said,

The church that is not interested and actively at work in sending the gospel story to other people has no right to exist. 

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen. 

Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 

8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

Go, ye therefore! 

Go ye therefore and teach all nations 

Go teach and baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost shall come upon you 

You shall be witnesses unto me All over the world 

He Was Talking To Us!

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy

Home Again

It is nice to be home again. 

Kelly and I arrived home from Indiana right on time. Odie had been to eat with my parents and Steve, Karen and JoJo. They arrived at Odie's just after us so we were able to see them all for a little while. It was super to see some of our family. 

Do you care to venture a guess where they had been to eat?

Any ideas? Do you need another hint?

Yup, you got it. The best salsa drinking place that I have ever been to, Acapulco in Lebanon, Ohio. 

It was wonderful to see mom and dad, Steve and Karen and it was really good to see JoJo too. If you do not know, she is Steve and Karen’s oldest granddaughter and she pretty much captured everybody’s heart from the very beginning. We love having her around.

It was also very nice to see Odie again. I told her that no one at either church in Indiana had even ask about her, but of course, that is not true. Everyone at Evansville and Mt. Vernon missed her being with us and we missed Odie being with us too. 

We have been gone preaching three weekends in a row. We had planned not to travel and not to even preach this weekend, but attend our home church and enjoy our pastor’s preaching. 

However, we are in the midst of a change of plans in order to adapt to a health emergency that is going on in the life of a friend in another state. 

Our plan should be more clear in the next couple days and I will give you the details and have you praying for our friend, his family and his church. 

Tomorrow I have a new Word For Wednesday ready to go at 6 AM Eastern time. I hope you will enjoy it and share with others.

Thank you for praying for us. We appreciate all of you. 

Davy

Coming Wednesday!