Weekend in Ohio

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Well, we are slowly getting adjusted to the eastern time zone and rested from our trip. We actually felt pretty good until Wednesday evening. From then until about Saturday it felt like my head was full of sand. We were sleeping all night and even napping during the day and I guess we finally caught up. Saturday we were as good as new!

I hope you are enjoying the updates from Nigeria. We have several more to post before the story is even partially told. Leave a comment and let us know what you think.

Saturday evening we took my brother Steve and his wife Karen and their daughter Deidre out for our annual Christmas dinner. Steve and his family take care of collecting and forwarding our mail to us They have done it faithfully for 10 years now. This annual meal is our way of saying "thank you" for all that they do.

Their boys were busy and Odie was hunting so my parents went with us. We had a great time as always and the food was super. We went to J.R. Alexanders as we usually do and we enjoyed it as much as ever. They are know for their prime rib and it was fantastic.

Mom said she was eating light tonight...

Sunday morning we sang and preached at Dodds. We are parked in their parking lot for Christmas so all we had to do was walk around the parking lot. It was great to be with them. God blessed us with a good altar service. The Dodds church and Pastor Rex Lloyd are so kind to us and we appreciate it very much.

After church we went to eat with a bunch of my family at Acapulco. Now that is good eating. The fellowship was pretty good too. We do not get to spend much time with our families so it is always great to slow down enough to visit with them.

Sunday night we sang and preached for Pastor Kevin Lloyd at Murlin Heights in North Dayton. We love those folks and always have a good time with them. We had another really good altar service there too. It is always a blessing to see folks seeking God and watching God touch their lives.

It has been a great weekend.

Davy

Nigeria Update #5 - Monday 12/3/12

Update #5

We were not able to post from Nigeria as we had planned. This is an update that I wrote while there. Please scroll down for additional updates or see a list of Recent Posts to the left. 

There will be a second update today about noon. It is a update from our weekend.

11:50 AM

We are not adjusting to the time change easily but that seems to be normal for us. I guess sleeping through that first night was due to exhaustion.

Tonight we were so tired from very little sleep the night before but we only slept about three hours. After that it was no use to try but we tried anyway.

No complaints. I could be home sleeping like a baby and missing out on these great meetings.

The reason I am not sleeping could be that I have some kid left in me. I was 17 the first time I traveled overseas on a Holy Land Tour with Kash Amburgy and my Uncle Joe and Aunt Lily Isaacs.

I think it was an 11 day tour. We went to Greece, Jordan, Israel and Egypt. I slept very little the whole trip. There were other young people on the trip and we stayed up most of the night every night.

The days were packed full with tours and amazing sites. At night we sat in the lobby on our floor and talked about all the things we had seen.

I was so excited that I could not sleep. When we boarded the plane in Egypt I slept all the way to where we changed planes in Athens. When we left Athens I laid down across four seats in the center section and slept 9 1/2 hours to New York.

Perhaps I still have a lot of kid in me and I am just too excited to sleep on this trip! That may be the case but my 45 year old body is having a hard time keeping up.

10:25 PM

Tonight was another wonderful service at the Gospel Crusade. Several responded to the altar call for salvation. It was awesome and so exciting.

Bro. Shobanke's workers are praying in the altars and taking down information of those that are praying for salvation. They intend to disciple the new converts and build that new branch church. Their zeal and determination is wonderful.

Each night there have been three uniformed policemen sitting close by with AK-47s across their laps. It is always comforting to know they are near.

We have been speaking to the officers each night and Bro. Lockwood had a good visit with them before church tonight. They enjoyed looking at the pictures of his hunting trips and talking about guns.

As we were about to leave tonight one of them approached me. He said, "My name is Julius. I could not come forward because I am in uniform but I want you to know that I dedicated my life to God tonight."

Praise God! I ask him if I was allowed to pray for him and he said I could. I prayed for him right then and tried to encourage him in his new relationship with Christ.

Hallelujah! He was just one of several tonight but I was so thankful he prayed and thankful he told me.

Thank you to all those who prayed for service #5. God bless you for your help. God saved souls in answer to your prayer.

We have one more Crusade service tomorrow night (Tuesday) and then we plan to start the Minister's Conference on Thursday morning.

We are enjoying the blessings of God.

Davy

This is Julius in the picture below. He is the policeman that was saved.