First Night of Tent Revival

We had a great service this morning at the Tunnel Hill Church and a wonderful first night under the tent tonight. The crowd was great tonight including several folks from Africa. There is a Sister that attends the church that is originally from Nigeria and she brought several colleagues from her work.

Some of them are from Lagos and Abeokuta and Ibadan, which are all areas we have visited repeatedly. It was awesome to have them in the service with us. Praise God for His help tonight. We had a young lady saved and a young man filled with the Holy Ghost.

It is late so I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story. Thank you for praying for us.

Davy

The Tent Is Up In Springville, Indiana

The tent is up in Springville, Indiana. Thank God for a good safe day. It was a lot of fun working with the men from Tunnel Hill church again. It was so hot and humid when we put the tent up last year on this same weekend. It was in the 40's or maybe lower 50's when we started this morning. That is much better.

The men started arriving early and had most of the stakes in the ground by 8:00 this morning. Bro. Lakes had rented a hammer drill with a long bit so we pre-drilled the holes for the stakes. An old school used to set on this lot and there were some foundation type rocks under the gravel. There were two places we could not get through but we moved those stakes out a little and they went right in.

Because of the gravel we put down the sheets of plastic that we bought last year. It makes setting up the tent a little tricky but it saves the tent from possibly tearing on the gravel.

It was not long before the tent was up and everything was in place. Thanks to a great crew that knew exactly what to do!

I had not tightened it in the picture above but it is good and tight in the pictures below.

Bro. and Sis. Lakes treated our family to lunch from the local store. I had another pork tenderloin sandwich and some fried mushrooms. 

They live within about 100 yards from where we are parked and we are headed to their house now to eat supper. I told you this was going to be a great week! I hope you all have a great Sunday. Thank you for praying for our family.

Davy

We Have Landed In Springville, Indiana

We rested good last night in the WalMart parking lot after a hard day Thursday. I let the girls rest a while this morning while I took care of some of my work. The rest of the trip to Springville, Indiana went smoothly. (With the exception of navigating the BoggsMobile and the trailer through Beford. Kelly Jo is definitely prayed through now!) We arrived at the tent site about 12:30.

Last year we held tent revival for the Tunnel Hill church in Owensburg. Pastor Dallas Lakes could not secure the same place this year so we are having tent revival in Springville just west of Bedford. We are setting up  next to this old gymnasium that belongs to the city of Springville. It is across the street from a park and there a plenty of houses within shouting distance.

We plan to set the tent up on the other side of the trailer. There is a man spreading gravel with an orange tractor in the picture. That is where the tent should be.

Bro. and Sis. Lakes are excited about tent revival and we are too. Their folks have been praying and witnessing and we are expecting great big things from God. We had a great time with them last year and there is no telling what God might do this week.

We parked the bus and then Bro. Dallas moved the trailer into position with his truck. After we determined the exact placement of the tent I wired the bus into electric and came inside for a while. After a bite of late breakfast/early supper, Kelly Jo and I will go out and mark the stake line for the tent. When all the help arrives at 8:00 tomorrow morning we should be ready to drive stakes.

It is a little cool today but the weather guessers are calling for a pretty good week. It is amazing how much rain we have had during every tent revival this spring. In 2011 we had a light sprinkle of rain during one service and that was all. I think we had service about 50 nights that year. Last year we had a little more rain during services but this year has been rainy. Well, rain or shine God is still in control.

We have almost zero phone service in this location. We probably will not be able to talk or text unless we happen to be in Bedford. We do have a little bit of internet but only a little. We "should" be able to blog but it remains to be seen whether or not we can post pictures.

If the pictures will post I will try to put up a picture of the pork tenderloin sandwich from the country store down the road. This is going to be a good week!



Davy