View Out The Front Window 8/20/2017

Here are the links from our posts this last week.

Odie's Saturday Post

Helping Bro. Shobanke Rebuild

This Week So Far

Metamora Old Gospel Celebration

Rebuilding A Church In Nigeria

Weekend Woundup and Weview #34

This was our view out the front window early in the week at Hodgenville, Kentucky.

This was our view out the door.

This was our view when we pulled into Dodds Church next to the Lazy OD Ranch very late Tuesday night.

Today we have Homecoming service at Dodds at 1:00 PM. We would love to have you join us.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Golden Celebration Day

Hey friends, this is Odie reporting in today from Ohio. I am posting pretty early for me because we have a big day on tap.

I hope you have had a fabulous week! This week has been fantastic for our family. We  enjoyed attending and singing in two excellent revival services in Hodgenville, Kentucky and the last three nights at Dodds Pentecostal Church. 

Dodds Church is extremely close to home. In fact the church shares a property line with the Lazy OD Ranch.😀 The Lord blessed us with three powerful services so far. It is a blessing to us to see God encouraging Pastor Kelly Rogers and our dear friends and family here.

We are looking forward to  Homecoming service at Dodds tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 PM. You are cordially invited to join us if you are in the area. There is still time to plan on attending. There will be a dinner afterward and you will not want to miss that.

Golden Celebration Day

Today is a special day that we have set aside to celebrate two incredible people and their 50 year marriage. My Papaw and Gran, Danny and Betty Morgan said "I do" in 1967. We are beginning the celebration a little early today!

October 14th 1967

50 years of marriage takes determination, commitment and hard work. It is definitely something worth celebrating. I have been around for way over half of their marriage and I have never seen their love waver. By God's grace they have kept traveling the road together. 

I love my Gran and Papaw so much!  I am proud to be their Granddaughter. I was the first grandchild when I made my grand entrance on their 18th anniversary. (Dad says it was the first and last time I was ever early) It is a tremendous blessing to have grandparents that still love each other today.  God has brought them a long way in the last 50 years. 

I am looking forward to what God has in store for them in the days ahead. I am excited that our family and friends will gather today to commemorate this Golden Milestone that is rarely achieved in today's word. 

So here is a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Gran and Papaw! We all love you very much!

Summer 2016

I will close for now. Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Hope you come back very soon. 

Odie

Helping Bro. Shobanke Rebuild

I wrote on Tuesday that Bro. Shobanke is going to have to rebuild one of his branch churches in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. 

They had to tear it down because it was about to fall down and hurt someone and possibly destroy their school building. It was a tough thing to do but had to be done.

I have had a few folks ask how they can contribute. That is a good question. It is notoriously hard to get money safely wired to Nigeria. It has been done by people I know but it is risky. I also know people that have wired money through reputable companies and it was never delivered. 

Some of them eventually got their money back and some did not. I refuse to take that chance at this point.

After the second person asked me about contributing, I remembered that a good friend of mine will be leaving soon for Nigeria. I contacted him yesterday and he is willing to deliver whatever offering we can gather for Bro. Shobanke. I must mail him a check on Tuesday August 22nd in order for him to receive it in time to process it and take it with him.

Today is Friday. If you want to help with the expense of rebuilding the church that was torn down, there are two ways to do it. 

1. You can put a check in the mail to Boggs Family Ministries (Address below) and then let us know how much is on the way. 

2. Or you can give through the Donate button on this website.

Whether you send a check or Donate through the website, please let us know it is for the "Nigerian Church". I assure you that 100% of the money will go specifically for that purpose. We will keep none of it and my friend that delivers it will keep none of the money.

Also, Bro. Shobanke is always very diligent about accounting for every penny we give him for a project. I assure you that he will make sure that the money is spent properly for the church rebuild.

Please do not feel pressured to give, that is not my intention to at all. Many of you have commitments that are pressing and more opportunities to give than you can fulfill. Help if you need to, want to and can do it. Whatever you do, please pray for Bro. Shobanke, his Pastors and his people.

May God bless you. Thank you for reading today.

Davy

Boggs Family Ministries

P.O. Box 28

Waynesville, Ohio 45068

This Week So Far

We worked on the house Monday with Kelly Jo's Dad and left Monday about 2:45 PM to go to Hodgenville, Kentucky. Their Homecoming revival is in progress this week and we were planning to be there Monday and Tuesday nights. We were hoping to miss the traffic in Cincinnati but we still lost about 35 minutes going through.

Cincinnati traffic has always been iffy. There are two major north/south interstates going through miles of city and right through downtown before converging to cross the Ohio River on the same bridge. The bridge has been needing major repair for years. This year they are redoing the bridge AND doing major construction on BOTH interstates.

Whose idea was that? I wonder if they still have a job?😉😉

We made it to HPC with barely enough time to get parked, hooked up, cleaned up and walk into church. The services were outstanding and the fellowship was priceless. We enjoyed being with Pastor Webb and all of the great folks at HPC. Bro. David Brimm and Bro. John Gabbard preached great oo.

We pulled out Tuesday night after church about 10:30. We had a smooth ride home with no traffic problems at all. We parked in the Dodds church parking lot about 1:45 and I was sleeping about 45 minutes later.

We parked at the church so it would be easier to load our sound equipment into the church Wednesday. I was at the house working when Dad came to let us in the church. KJ pulled the bus closer and the three of us carried and rolled in the equipment.

By the time we had the BoggsMobile parked in the barn, KJ's Dad was already painting in the house. He continued priming cabinets and we jumped in sanding, removing drawer fronts and hinges and labeling doors for the right cabinets.

Odie is sanding and Papaw Danny the great paint master is teaching!

Work was winding down about 3:00 so I went to the church to set up the sound equipment while KJ, Danny and Odie were finishing. Kelly Jo helped me with sound check and then it was time to get prepared for church.

Speaking of church, we had a great first night of revival. Praise God for His help. We are looking forward to two more great nights and a wonderful Homecoming service on Sunday. We will have lots of pictures of the revival later.

Thank you for dropping in to sit a spell.

Davy

Metamora Old Gospel Celebration - August 26, 2017

We traveled Monday evening and Tuesday after church. We arrived at the barn a few minutes ago. We will work on the house Wednesday and begin revival tonight at Dodds. Tomorrow I will have pictures and more from the last two nights.

Metamora Old Gospel Celebration - August 26, 2017

Bro. Jerry Rader is now pastoring the Haytown Hill Church near Matamora, Indiana and he called me recently about us taking part in a community outreach day in Metamora. I thought it over for about two seconds.

What is not to love? Metamora is a cool town, the church is trying to reach unchurched people and we could work it so that we were available.

Count us in!

Pastor Rader and his folks had to organize the event rather quickly but it has come together nicely. They are going to have food, activities for the children, food, singing, food and I will throw in some outreach preaching. You can never know how many folks will respond to an event like this but it should be a great day.

Here are some of the particulars taken from the flyer for the event.

Metamora Old Gospel Celebration

Saturday August 26th

2pm-8pm

Old Metamora School Yard

Metamora, Indiana

Sponsored by Haytown Hill Pentecostal Church of God

Pastor Jerry Rader

Featuring Ministry by the Boggs Family

Serving Food from 2pm-5pm

Pulled Pork, Hotdogs, Hamburgers, Chips, Drinks and Desserts

Bring your own lawn chairs

Yep, that sounds like a great day!

August 26th is the day after Dryden Rd. Fellowship Meeting ends. We will take the bus over to Metamora as early as possible and set up all of our City Reach sound equipment. We will try to do sound check at noon and have everything on our end ready to go in plenty of time.

There will be others singing and playing music while the food is being served and we will sing some during that time as well. Then we will ease into an outreach service and we will sing and go fishing for the precious souls of men.

Please consider coming to Metamora, Indiana that day and spending the day with us. I love that Pastor Rader and the Haytown Hill church are trying to reach their community and I would love to give them a big hand of support.

We will also stay over and sing and preach Sunday morning at Haytown Hill Church. That should make for a full and fun weekend.

Thank you for reading today.

Davy

Re-building A Church In Nigeria

We received an email from Bro. Shobanke a few days ago with disturbing news. One of his branch churches in Abeokuta had to be torn down recently because it was about to fall down. The church that had to be demolished is the church where the GoodNews Christian School is located.

Our first visit to this branch church was in 2009 and we have been back many times.

We visited the church and school last November and I noticed the walls were leaning out. There had been a church collapse a few days before in Nigeria with dozens of people killed so I was paying special attention to the buildings. I made a mental note and mentioned the building would need to be repaired or replaced soon.

I was concerned about the church folks, the school children and even the school buildings a few feet away. A sudden collapse would have had tragic results. Bro. Shobanke told me on the phone yesterday that the church was in such bad condition that it had to be taken down by machine quickly. Thank God it did not come down with people in it!

I believe the building was about 40'  x 80'. They are hoping to rebuild it about 30' x 50'. That will give them a little bit more room on their property to build more classroom space and 30' X 50' would be big enough for the current congregation in the church. This is a huge unexpected expense and they will need a miracle to do it.

We know that God works miracles and we fully expect it to be rebuilt soon. They are currently having services in one of the classrooms of the school. Please pray for my friends in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Davy