Raisins & More Raisins!

It was September the very first time we came to California in 1992. The raisins caught our attention on that first trip. As I mentioned in a previous post our first revival here was in Raisin City. It is called Raisin City for a very good reason. There are fields of grapes for miles and miles and miles around. It is absolutely amazing. It is beautiful to see the fields go on for miles. At this time of year they begin harvesting the grapes to be made into raisins. Have you every wondered why the world's favorite brand of raisins is called Sun-Maid?

Well, here is the reason....

They pick the grapes and then lay them on brown paper right out in the field to dry for several days...

Oodles and oodles of grapes laying out in the sun to dry as far as the eye can see in every direction. They are literally made by the Sun. Then they wrap the brown paper around the raisins and make bundles and leave them in the field for a certain period of days before taking them to the plant for processing. There are fields right now that have the bundles but we weren't able to get a good picture.

Isn't that amazing? I don't know how they keep the birds and bugs from eating all the profits or how they sell them so cheap when it is so labor intensive. I do know one thing, every time we drive by a field it flings a craving for Sun-Maid Raisins all over me! Good thing they are cheap.

We fed Odie too many raisins one day when she was two years old and she won't touch them. That's ok...it leaves more for me and Kelly Jo!

Davy

Announcing Live Recording 10/15/10

Saturday we went to Riverdale to meet with Bro. Chuck Spencer and Bro. Dale Spencer to have our first practice with them. Last night (Monday) we went back for our second practice. What are we practicing for? We are practicing for our Live Recording that is scheduled to take place October 15, 2010. That's right, we are stepping off into the deep end and attempting to record a live project for the first time. The folks at Riverdale have recorded several live projects including many from their choir, the Davis family and the Millikin family as well. They are experienced in this sort of thing. However this will be brand new territory for us.

Through the years we have had many requests for a live project but we could not imagine doing it. When Bro. Chuck Spencer mentioned last year about us recording live at their church we told him we could never do it but he told us we should try so here we are. We are very excited and very nervous about the whole process but we are committed to working hard to do the very best we can. Practices with Bro. Chuck and Bro. Dale have went very well so we are feeling better about it. They are super talented musicians so that helps Kelly Jo very much. And Yes, Kelly Jo will be playing the piano on this recording. I know that will make some of you happy because many of you have why she hasn't played on all of our recordings.

The current song list includes three songs we have recorded previously, several songs we have been singing the last year or so and a few more. It will all be taking place on Friday October 15th at Riverdale Assembly in Riverdale, California. Everyone is invited to attend and we would love to pack the church out and "have church" that night. Some of our friends are making plans to fly out and we would love for you to do the same. Let us know if you are even thinking about coming and we will give you information about the nearest airports and hotels.

Please pray for all three of us between now and then that all of the necessary pieces will fall into place. Please pray for our health and the strength of our voices. Seriously pray because we need to be in tip top shape that night. I know that God can help us and we depending on His strength.

Later, we plan to post information on how to pre-order the live CD at a discounted rate. That will help us with many of the upfront costs of recording and producing the project. God bless you all and thanks for praying for us.

Davy

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Weekend

We had a fun filled weekend with several stops and visits with lots of friends and of course some good food.

We will start with Friday. After finishing revival at Riverdale Christian Academy we went to lunch at Tahoe Joe's with Pastor Charles Spencer and his wife and Pastor Doug Spencer and his wife. The food was great (Forgot to take pictures) and the fellowship was too.

We hurried home and Kelly Jo and I went to Raisin City for revival that night. Bro. Doug Cornett was in revival with Pastor Denver Wood and his folks there. Raisin City is the first church I ever preached in on our first visit to California in 1992.

We capped the night off at InNOut and it hit the spot as usual. The first two pictures are from there on Friday night.

We spent the day on Sunday with our friends at Gospel Defenders in Merced. Pastor Johnny Hilton and his folks rolled out the red carpet for us as usual. We praise God for his help and the good response in the altar Sunday night.

Sunday afternoon Bro. Milton Teaney and his wife treated us to Pizza Villa in Merced and it was terrific. We were all so hungry that we forgot pictures again but we did snap a picture of one lonely piece of pizza. Bro Milton also gave Kelly Jo a gift to add to her collection of creepy, crawly and slimy things. She has already had lots of fun.

After church Sunday night Bro. David and Sis. Peggy Hilton had us over for a beautiful meal. I say beautiful because the way she presents everything, it is almost too pretty to eat. But since I have experienced her cooking I jumped right in because I know it tastes even better than it looks. Wow! I was not disappointed.

That pretty much wraps up our weekend except for Saturday. I will save Saturday for my next post.

Have a good day.
Davy

School Revival

School revival went very well at Riverdale Christian Academy this week. The students responded in the altars each day and several were touched by the Spirit of the Lord. I am always thrilled to preach in schools and this week was no exception. When Bro. Chuck Spencer called I jumped at the chance to go. I love to see God work in the lives of young folks who are hungry and He sure did the last few days.

We will try to have a post up tomorrow detailing the events of this weekend.
God bless you all.

Davy

Revival Continues

Revival continues at Souls Harbor in Fresno. We are having great services and great fellowship with our brothers and sisters. God certainly is good and we are so thankful to experience His blessings in revival. We are scheduled to close Wednesday. We will let you know the outcome.

Davy

Monterey, California

Today (Saturday) we rode over to the coast with Pastor Anthony, Sis. Rose, Bro. Tito and Sis. Robin. We spent most of the time on the wharf in Monterey enjoying good food, beautiful sunshine and lots of laughs! Here we are enjoying our first meal of the day on the way over in Los Banos at Denny's.

We ate, walked around, ate, laughed, ate, took a boat ride, ate, drove down by the ocean, ate and generally had a tremendous time.

Here's a picture of Sis. Rose during our second meal. She is eating a wonderful Italian dish. It was so good!

We took a 30 minute ride on a boat to see the Sea Lions, Sea Otters and thousands of Jellyfish. As we walked down to the boat they really cautioned us to watch our heads on the low beam before boarding the boat. Kelly Jo looked every where for the low beam but she never did find it!

Here's the glass bottom boat we sailed on...

Next we found great seafood restaurant right there on the wharf for our third meal of the day. Love that fresh seafood!

Then we drove the 17 mile road that leads through the Pebble Beach Community. It was a gorgeous drive with plenty of ocean views and nice big gated houses.

We headed back to Fresno but not without out another stop in Los Banos at Carl's Jr for our last meal of the day. Well, that is if you don't count the ice cream cones from Dairy Queen right before we arrived back home! I forgot to take pictures of those two so you will have to take my word for it... lol

It was a great day with the Munoz clan! Hope you had a great Saturday as well. God Bless you all.

Davy