History In the Making - Pentecostal Fire Youth Confernece

Monday's Post

If I told you that you could go back in time and visit the Azuza Street revival and meet William J. Seymore, Bonnie Bray and Frank Bartelman and experience what we have so fondly read about and yearned to see.

Would you want to?

If I told you that we could travel back the the 1850s to Cane Ridge, KY and listen to ministers preach from stumps and see thousands falling on their face before God and weeping their way through to old time religion.

Would you be willing take time to drive there to see it first hand?

If I told you we had the opportunity to go to Renfro Valley and see hundreds of Holiness people pack into the theater and hear Ernest Brock sing with that smooth voice Rock of Ages and hear Bro Claude Ely and Bro Jonnie Carter tag team preach.

Would you change your busy schedule and go?

History of the Holiness people Is Happening right before your very eyes April 4-5, 2014 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

•Largest gathering of independent holiness people that we have known in America

•It has the potential to set the trends in the lives of this next generation

•The Preachers that preach take 12 months of prayer and fasting before they deliver what thus sayeth the Word of God

•$100,000 per year is used to create an atmosphere to see people saved, sanctified, Filled with the Holy Ghost and called into the ministry.

•It is estimated that 60 percent of all mainline independent holiness churches have at least one representative there.

Contrary to popular belief … this will not go on forever. THIS IS HOLINESS CHURCH HISTORY IN THE MAKING! 

 GREATNESS IS NOT MISSED…TILL GREATNESS IS GONE!

There are 365 days a year to work.

There are 365 days a year to be busy.

There is always something else asking for your money.

Some say they can't afford to go. Maybe You can't afford not to go. 

Take Two days to experience the power of God and History in the making.

You can't go back and experience the past. But you can experience something the old timers went to their grave trying to accomplish.

I'm asking you to be part of one of the greatest things the Holiness movement has ever had.

PFYC

April 4-5   (Pre Conference Opportunity on April 3)

This was written anonymously but I obviously endorse it.

Davy

A Full and Blessed Weekend

Odie's Interesting Saturday Post

First, a few more pictures from Forts Lake. Sis. Ruthie "Angel" Cauley laid out a spread on Friday.

Wow! The Shrimp Gumbo was amazing!

Just one picture from the last service.

Friday night was a great close to revival. God touched folks again and I am so thankful He did. I feel like He spoke life to people in the service. I can feel it all over again while I am writing this. Praise God for His help.

We left a few minutes before 11:00 Friday night and drove about 245 miles before stopping to rest a few hours. It was a beautiful night to drive until the fog rolled in as we were going through Pensacola, Florida. I had to slow down quite a bit for over 100 miles. By the time I stopped I was as tense as I could be. We parked in a rest area about 40 miles east of Tallahassee. It felt good to lay down for a few hours.

Saturday morning we drove to Tifton, Georgia to meet an Aqua Hot service technician named Lloyd De Gerald. He is from Arkansas but was in Georgia this week for a huge RV rally. He stayed over an extra day so he could look at the ongoing problem with our Aqua Hot system. I discussed the problem at the end of Thursday's post.

After looking things over Mr. De Gerald confirmed the conclusion that I had arrived at myself. I was hoping for better news but the Aqua Hot system has a leak in the boiler that is not repairable. It must be replaced. There are two options for replacement.

The first option is to buy a re-manufactured unit and then send mine in to be re-manufactured for somebody else. The second is to buy a new unit. Both options are expensive but the first option is the least expensive. I hope to be able to milk it along for a while but a replacement is in the near future.

After leaving Tifton we were just over an hour from Douglas, Georgia. We arrived here Saturday afternoon and parked the BoggsMobile and hooked up.

The church was having a wild game supper for the men and I slipped in for a little squirrel, rabbit, coon, quail, deer, wild hog and probably a few things  I have forgotten. It was excellent.

Sunday we started revival. This is our first time in revival with Pastor Marshall Adcock at First Assembly in Douglas. We had good response in the altars both services. We are only here for three more nights but we are excited about what God is going to do between now and Wednesday.

Davy and Pastor Marshall Adcock

Kelly Jo and Sis. Adcock

Youth Pastor John Williams and Sis. Bridget

It was great to have dear friends visit us Sunday night. The Walker's and the Ruis family came for service and it was wonderful to have them. We have known these folks for 25 years and we love spending time with them when we can. Thank you all for coming.

That was our weekend. It was full and blessed. I hope you had a great weekend too.

Davy

The Garfield Trail

Note From Odie:

Hey friends, I hope you have had a superb week. Revival this week was outstanding every service!!  I can not begin to tell all the things God did this week for the people at Forts Lake Assembly of God! It was truly amazing to watch Him move and answer prayers. As always we had a grand time with Pastor Tim Cauley and family. We are sad to leave them and move on to Georgia. 

It has been a few years since I shared the story behind my nickname Odie. Yes, Odie comes from Garfield the comic strip, Garfield's dog friend is named Odie. When I was around 2 years old I crawled through the house like a dog. I always had my tongue hanging out of my mouth. A lot of the time my brown hair was fixed in doggie ears. So dad tagged me as looking like Odie. 26 years later it has stuck around. I like my name because it is unique. Everyone knows who Odie is.  Whenever I am called Andrea people are like who???.

This week I was reading a blog post on Bekah's Bits it perked my interest and sent me on a virtual tour. Rebekah and her husband Ryan live in Marion, Indiana. They have set out to tour the 90 something counties in their state.  Each tour they find something special to that particular county. This past Saturday they toured their own Grant County. It happens to be the birth place of cartoonist Jim Davis. The creator of Garfield and my name sake Odie. 

Grant County offers the Garfield Trail of statues through out the county. I would like to visit the statues sometime and get a picture of Garfield and "Odie". After seeing Bekah's cool pics on her blog  I began searching for more info and found this.

Here is some information on Jim Davis from his website. 

Cartoonist, Author, Producer, Director, President, Founder, Screenwriter, Playwright, Environmentalist, Philanthropist — all these titles can be used to describe Jim Davis, best-known as the creator of GARFIELD.

Jim Davis, 1947

Jim Davis was born July 28, 1945 in Marion, Indiana, and raised on a small farm with his parents, James and Betty Davis, and his younger brother, Dave (Doc). Like most farms, the barnyard had its share of stray cats; about 25 at one time, by Jim's estimation. As a child, he suffered serious bouts with asthma and was often bedridden. Forced inside, away from regular farm chores, he whiled away the hours drawing pictures.

Gnorm Gnat

In college, he studied art and business before going to work for TUMBLEWEEDS creator, Tom Ryan. There, he learned the skills and discipline necessary to become a syndicated cartoonist and began his own strip, GNORM GNAT. When he tried to sell the strip to a newspaper syndicate he was told, "It's funny, but bugs? Who can relate to a bug?" After five years of GNORM, Davis crushed the bug strip idea and tried a new tact, studying the comics pages closely. He noticed there were a lot of successful strips about dogs, but none about cats! Combining his wry wit with the art skills he had honed since childhood, GARFIELD, a fat, lazy, lasagna loving, cynical cat was born. Davis says Garfield is a composite of all the cats he remembered from his childhood, rolled into one feisty orange fur ball. Garfield was named after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis.

Garfield first appeared in June 19, 1978

The strip debuted on June 19, 1978 in 41 U.S. newspapers. Several months after the launch, the Chicago Sun-Times cancelled GARFIELD. Over 1300 angry readers demanded that GARFIELD be reinstated. It was, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today, GARFIELD is read in over 2400 newspapers by 200 million people. Guinness World Records™, named GARFIELD “The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World.” Davis’s peers at the National Cartoonist Society honored him with Best Humor Strip (1981 and 1985), the Elzie Segar Award (1990), and the coveted Reuben Award (1990), the top award presented to a cartoonist by NCS members.

Garfield quickly became a sensation in the licensing world, too, inspiring Davis to form his own company to take care of Garfield business concerns. Paws, Inc., founded in 1981, manages the worldwide rights for the famous fat cat, and Davis serves as President.

Jim has won four Emmy Awards

Garfield’s fame spilled over to television and Davis penned eleven primetime specials for CBS-TV. He received ten Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program. Movies were next, and Twentieth Century Fox turned out Garfield: The Movie (‘04), and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (‘06). Davis also wrote the original screenplays and executive produced three animated features for DVD: Garfield Gets Real (‘07), Garfield’s Fun Fest (‘08), and Garfield’s Pet Force (‘09). Also in 2009. “The Garfield Show” made its debut on Cartoon Network. Today, the CGI animated cartoon is in its fourth season and is seen in 131 countries, including China, where CCTV broadcasts the show daily.

Davis’s philanthropy has been directed at educational and environmental projects. He founded The Professor Garfield Foundation in cooperation with Ball State University, to support children’s literacy. A free educational web site www.professorgarfield.org is the cornerstone of the Foundation’s work to date. Davis spearheaded reforestation, prairie and wetlands restorations, and built the world’s first all natural wastewater plant for commercial use. He was awarded the National Arbor Day Foundation’s Good Steward and Special Projects Award, and the Indiana Wildlife Federations’ Conservationist of the Year Award.

Davis spends his leisure time golfing, gardening, fishing, and enjoying his wife, children, and grandchildren. In a nod to Garfield’s friends in the comic strip, Davis also keeps one cat, Nermal, and a dog, Pooky.

Here are some pictures of the different statues I found on Google. 

This one is currently gone for repair. Apparently he has been hugged too tight and was needing attention. 

In my searching I read some of Garfield's funny antics. So I will leave you with a few laughs.  Have a great weekend!

Odie

My birthday comic October 14th 1985

My 3rd birthday October 14th 1988