A Little Food Talk In Sterlington

We are having a great time in Sterlington, Louisiana this week. The crowds and services have been good and the people here are extremely kind and thoughtful. We are having a tremendous time. 

I often say during revival, we are enjoying this revival one meal at a time. That is definitely true again this week!

Pastor Tracy Boyd knows we like Mexican food so we are on a Mexican food tour this week. We have been to Fiesta Linda twice, El Paso and Avocado's so far. We will go to another one today and then either on to yet another or swing back for a repeat. I must say we are enjoying it a big bunch.

This is a picture of the street tacos at Fiesta Linda.

Here are the lunch chicken Fajitas at El Paso.

Here is a cheese Enchilada and Tamale from El Paso.

Below is a picture of the lunch chicken Fajitas at Avocado's

I may give you a full report later, but Fiesta Linda definitely wins in the chips and salsa category so far. It will be hard to beat that, but we are willing to try and try again. Do not ever give up! As Odie often says, "I would give up chocolate, but my Daddy taught me to never be a quitter!"

As some of you know, I try not to eat anything after church most nights. Sometimes I do eat after church on Sunday, but I try to hold a tight line on myself other nights. Now, this is not "Churchy" at all, because most everything we do revolves around food.

I understand that completely. For many, many, many years I ate my biggest meal after church at night. I loved every greasy and cheesy bite of each and every meal! I am not trying to change the world on this, I am just trying to do better myself.

We still go to restaurants and the Pastor's house after church and fellowship around the food. My girls eat, everyone else eats, but I try hard not to eat. It is something I need to do.

Most people understand, but I have disappointed a few cooks along the way, especially when they know how much I have loved their late night food in the past. The teasing is all in good fun and people are starting to get used to my new "odd" habits.

Pastor Tracy Boyd decided he was going to try to hang with me and not eat after church during the revival. We all doubted him the moment he declared it. Bro. Tracy has even surprised himself! He has not eaten after church for three nights in a row!

If he keeps this up, he will be a lean mean preaching machine by the time he and I preach Elco camp meeting the first week of July! Maybe we will redo this picture then!

Thank you for dropping by today.

Davy

Vintage View Vednesday Desert Cove November 2003/May 2004

This week marks one year since we began posting Vintage View Vednesday. Our first Vintage View Vednesday post was January 10, 2018 and had pictures of a visit to the Grand Canyon in 2003.

We have posted a bunch of pictures from our archives in that one year period. Many of them were posted between 2005 and 2009 on our old website that now points here to Mile Markers, but some of the pictures have never been posted. Are you enjoying the pictures?

I hope you like them. We have plenty more to post.

The pictures today come from our second revival at Desert Cove Assembly in El Mirage, Arizona in November 2003. After our visit to the Grand Canyon, we went on to preach revival for Pastor Billy Mills at Desert Cove. 

I also have a few pictures from another visit in late May of 2004. I preached their school graduation and then a revival. It looks like we ended up with mostly graduation pictures.

We had preached revival there in the fall of 2002 while we were still pastoring in Wichita, but 2003 was our first visit as an evangelist. We have had some wonderful times in El Mirage over the years and made many, many life long friends.

We love these folks and we love the pictures bringing to mind memories of fun times with our dear friends.

Here are the pictures. Let me know what you think about seeing these old friends and about Vintage View Vednesday posts in general. Thank you for tuning in today.

Davy

May 2004

2018 In One Post

Last week I wrote some thoughts about our last 16 years on the road. It is our happy privilege to be doing what we are doing. Thank you for the kind comments, emails and texts. Today I am giving an overview of 2018 in particular.

We started 2018 worshiping with our home church at Dryden Rd. in Dayton, Ohio. It was great to be at New Year's Eve service. We love being home to attend and participate and receive from that annual revival. Although the winter storm that weekend was not all that fun.

We began the year with no electricity. By the time we arrived at the barn at 2:00 AM New Year's Day the power had been off 6 hours. When the electric returned at 4:00 AM it was 41 degrees INSIDE the bus, proving we were definitely too far north. I am not the smartest boy my mama raised, but I am smart enough to know to go south!

They say "You can't fix stupid" but I do not even know who "they" are. I know where warm is located and a few days later we pointed the BoggsMobile south, mashed the throttle and let it eat. Several hundred miles south and two days later, it was finally warm enough to breathe! Never let it be said that a goose is smarter than me!

The first quarter of the year took us to revivals in Pine Prairie, Lousiana, Moss Point, Mississippi, Foley, Alabama, Mauriceville, Texas, Sweeny, Texas, Livingston, Texas, Ellisville, Mississippi, Dothan, Alabama and Douglas, Georgia. We had to cancel one revival because of a flu outbreak in the church and another because we wanted to attend Bro. Bill Houston's funeral.

Bro. Bill's funeral was a joyous occasion, but it is also one of the saddest things we have ever faced. Bro. Bill was a mentor to me in the faith and in evangelism. I witnessed first hand the passion he put into preaching and living for God. I experienced the way he approached revivals and the serious way he took his responsibilities concerning revivals. I will never be the man he was for God, but I will be a better man than I ever would have been without him in my life.

Bro. Bill was also a Dad to Kelly Jo and a Papaw to Odie. He was not blood kin, but he and Sis. Darien took us into their hearts over 30 years ago. Odie was his #1 granddaughter. People all over the USA still believe that Kelly Jo is his daughter and Bro. Bill never discouraged that.

The holiness people lost a great man when Bro. Bill went to heaven and we lost a dear friend and mentor. We are still daily praying for Sis. Darien. Without a doubt, she feels his loss more than anyone.

The second quarter of the year began at Wartburg, Tennessee and then on to attend PFYC and revivals in Millbrook, Alabama, Bristol, Virginia, Bristow, Virginia, Stanardsville, Virginia, Elkton, Virginia, Attended Bristow Camp meeting, Amber, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Wichita, Kansas. We also had a couple weeks of working on the house interspersed in there.

The third quarter of the year began in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a drive back home, one service in Seattle and then vacation. After vacation, we preached revival in Lebanon, Ohio, Homecoming at Dodds and prepared for the open house and dedication of the house built for Odie. Next was Dryden Rd. Fellowship Meeting, London, Kentucky, Central City, Kentucky, West Plains, Missouri, McKenzie, Alabama, Richton, Mississippi and a short stop at Ellisville, Mississippi.

The final quarter of the year brought us to Wautauga, Texas, Gainesville, Texas, Oklahoma City, Lawton, Oklahoma City, Broken Arrow and Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Then we rushed home, dropped Odie off at the Lazy OD Ranch, prepared the bus for a visit to East Tennessee. From Knoxville Kelly Jo and I flew to Nigeria for a super great trip!

The services in Nigeria were awesome and the fellowship was superb. We were ready to get back to the states at the end of the trip, but I am way past ready to be back in Nigeria again. I sincerely love Bro. Shobanke and all of our friends there. God has knit us together with his love.

After returning from Nigeria we checked on the bus and spent a few days resting before returning home. We had a harrowing ride home, but we made it. We enjoyed services at home church and several other churches in December and wound up the year in West Harrison, Indiana.

We closed the year worshiping and opened 2019 with our hands raised and our voices lifted up in praise to God. I do not know what the year holds, but that is a pretty good way to begin.

Fun Facts
During 2018 we drove the bus nearly 17,000 miles, purchased $8220 and 2730 gallons of diesel for an average of $3.01 per gallon. The computer says I averaged nearly 8 MPG and that is pretty good considering how much we pulled the tent trailer. 

The rest of the diesel is used idling and running the generator. We do not spare the generator. It was built to run and the worst thing you can do for it is not run it at all. When we need it, we crank it up and let it run.

We also ran the Green Machine a bunch of ministry miles and a bunch more personal miles. I do not have those figures yet. We buy a boatload of gas for it during the year, but at 30+ MPG, it goes a bit further.

That is 2018 in one post. Thank you for reading today.

Davy