Wednesday Night City Reach

I have fretted and prayed all week about the service Wednesday night and God came through in a mighty way. It was a service of healing and restoration and we are praising God for all of His help. We are believing the next two nights will be powerful services and will be the best of the whole meeting.

Thank you very much for praying for City Reach. We are hearing from folks all over that are bombarding Heaven with faith to believe that God will save, heal and deliver. I can not begin to explain how encouraging it is to hear those reports. We can feel the effects of your prayers as God moves among His people. Hallelujah! The altar service tonight was awesome! Praise God!

We are not only enjoying God's help and favor in the Phoenix area but we are also making progress on locations for other cities in the last few days. I appreciate the Pastors and others that are working so diligently to pull everything together for City Reach in their respective towns. The last thing that most Pastors need is another responsibility so I appreciate their dedication.

 One Pastor told me, " I am not complaining because I love it, but you have no idea how much work is involved in preparing all of this." After I remained silent a few moments he said with a chuckle, "Well, I guess you do know how much work is involved!" Yeah, I know a little bit about it and I am glad to have some one share the load.

No one said tent revivals and City Reach would be easy but as I often tell my family, "If all of this was easy, then anyone could do it!" I am very thankful that my Dad and Mom taught me how to work and would not let me quit when I wanted to quit so much. Those lessons were hard to swallow then but they have served me well throughout life. They definitely serve me well now!

That is all for today. Thanks again for praying and thank you very much for reading.

Davy

BoggsMobile Generator Radiator Project

Looking back over my posts the last few weeks, I realized that I had not finished a BoggsMobile story I started back in January. Once I had the problem repaired I wanted to make sure it was "good and fixed" before I told the story on the blog. I think I am ready now.

I am always learning something new about the BoggsMobile and most of the time it is something I probably could have lived the rest of my life without knowing...unless I am going to own and operate a bus.

Way down in this post back in January I wrote that the radiator for the generator was low on coolant. As I watched it the next few weeks I could see the radiator was leaking. I could never discover the source of the leak other than to know it was coming from somewhere on the radiator.

I was really hoping I could put the repair off a while but the generator is critical when we are traveling AND when we are parked next to the tent without electrical power. I knew I needed to get to the bottom of this sooner rather than later. I already knew the task was beyond my pay grade. I had changed the belt and hoses on the generator and radiator last summer and I decided then that removing the radiator would be a bad job.

Unfortunately, I was right! Sometimes I hate being right!

I took the plunge while we were in Sweeny, Texas because the weather was bearable and Pastor Larry Lamb said there was a good radiator shop in the next town. If you have not noticed, it is hard to find a good radiator repair guy nowadays.

I was hoping the old radiator could be repaired but just in case, I called Martin Generator and found the number and price for a new one. Wow! A new one had to ship from overseas and it was about $900 plus  US shipping! Ouch! For my future reference in case I ever need it the radiator is Yanmar radiator part #171460-44500.

First, I had to get the old one out. In the picture below the generator is in a hush box to the left of Kelly and the generator is mounted on the wall to the right of Kelly. There is not much room in there and I could not reach the two bolts in the back.

I removed the coolant, the hoses and the two bolts I could get to and Kelly Jo loosened the two bolts in the back. Once it was loose I used all the geometry I could remember from tenth grade and squeezed the radiator through a space too small for it. It had to be angled just right but I got it out!

While it was out, there was a lot of cleaning to do. Most of this area had not seen the light of day for over 21 years.

When I took it to the shop the expert radiator guy suggested removing the filler neck from the top of the radiator since it was not reachable anyway. He said, "That is a leak just waiting to happen."

He removed that first and then went to chasing the leak. He search and searched and tested and tested and could find no leak at all.

He told me there was no way for him to be absolutely certain but he was 99% sure there was no leak in the radiator and the leak had probably been in the unusable filler neck that he had capped off in the beginning.

There was only one way to find out and that was to reverse geometry and re-install the radiator.

That is what I did. Kelly Jo helped me with the bolts in the back.

I filled it up and turned it on. It took me a few hours of running to get it full of coolant but it has been running great and cool ever since. I wanted to run it quite a bit before declaring victory. I have probably ran it 40-50 hours since then with no issues and no leaks at all that I can see.

I told you that I am learning more about the BoggsMobile than I ever wanted to know! I appreciate A-1 Radiator Shop in Brazoria, Texas for all of their expertise, guidance and help! I could not have done it without them.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Schedule Updates April 19th

One of the very difficult things for me to prepare for this year during City Reach was and is the constant state of uncertainty in our schedule. I like a plan. I like a definite plan. I like a definite plan at least one year ahead. Tent revivals in cities when we are dealing with so many variables makes my neat little plans nearly impossible. That is challenging for me.

My girls and some of my friends seem to think God is using all this to teach me to mellow out and I have a sneaking suspicion they could be correct. I am doing my best to lean on Him and follow Him as best I can. I really want to be in the right place, at the right time, speaking the right word to the right person!

Here is a plus side to this. Because of the built in flexibility I must have for City Reach, we have time to continue with City Reach Phoenix area. We are excited to have a few extra nights of tent revival here. As I mentioned yesterday, we had fewer visitors Sunday night but we had a great service. We are anticipating a great move of God Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with more first time visitors receiving the help of God.

Also next week we will be singing and preaching at Bethel Christian Assembly for Pastor Johnson George and his folks. I preached there on Sunday morning the 10th and everything fell into place to preach a few services next week. We are able to do that because of the "forced" flexibility of City Reach as well. They are excited and we are excited.

They rent space from a church so they are somewhat limited on when they can schedule special services since they understandably need to work around the other church's schedule. So we will have revival Thursday, Friday and both services Sunday, April 28, 29 and May 1. We are really looking forward to it.

We may have service in a park near Arizona State University on Saturday April 30 as well. There are 4000 students from India at ASU and Bro. George and his church are trying all they can do to minister to them. We are hoping for a great harvest.

When we finish there, we will make our way to Atwater, California to preach tent revival for Amazing Grace and Pastor Jared Burris. We always have a move of God in Atwater and we are definitely looking forward to taking that move outdoors in that city of nearly 30,000 people. I believe God is really going to help us there May 8-15, Sunday through Sunday.

On May 16th we will move toward Ft. Worth, Texas just as fast as out little wheels can carry us. We are busy with last minute preparations for City Reach Ft. Worth to be held May 22-29. Pastor J.J. Stevens has the final permission for the tent site and he is working on any permitting now. Praise God for all of His help.

We have also been working the last several days on City Reach in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dayton, Washington D.C., New York, Nashville and beyond. While I am waiting on phone calls, emails and text messages, God is teaching me to trust in Him. I may be making some progress. I hope so!

Thanks for reading.