We will be traveling toward Claremore, Oklahoma by God's grace today so I will leave you with pictures from Owensburg. I hope you are not weary with tent revival pictures and reports.
Davy
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Tent Revival In Pictures - Owensburg, Indiana
We have had another wonderful Tent Revival the last 11 days and we are praising God for His blessings. Pastor Dallas Lakes and the Tunnel Hill church have a burden for their community and Owensburg felt and heard the effect of that burden. God has promised to meet with us in these meetings and He has done it again.
We will be traveling toward Claremore, Oklahoma by God's grace today so I will leave you with pictures from Owensburg. I hope you are not weary with tent revival pictures and reports.
Davy
We will be traveling toward Claremore, Oklahoma by God's grace today so I will leave you with pictures from Owensburg. I hope you are not weary with tent revival pictures and reports.
Davy
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Not Everything Goes Well - Same Song, 2nd Verse
I have been posting the last several days from my phone because we have no other access to the Internet here. Yesterday phone service was extremely slow and Blogger would not open. Other things opened after a long wait so Blogger could have been having a problem too.
Tent Revival is still going extremely well. The crowds have been good and the altar services are great every night. I have ended up empty handed the last few nights reaching for the lost but the message is going out and that is what I am here to do.
The church is responding well and folks are getting help from the Lord when they come for special prayer. We have one more service tonight and then we plan to take everything down, pack it up and head to Oklahoma.
Although the Lord is blessing and we are enjoying His presence Not Everything Goes Well as I wrote the other day.
I discovered yesterday that our house batteries need to be replaced as soon as possible. We knew shortly after buying the BoggsMobile they would need to be replaced but we have kept putting it off.
You may remember I replaced the starting batteries at the end of December but these are an entirely different set of batteries.
We have saved toward the expense of this but each time we have spent it on something else important like tires, our live CD, missions, and most recently our little green machine.
Since we never park on battery power alone, we thought we could put this off indefinitely. However, I found out recently that if one of these batteries goes completely bad it could damage one or both of our inverters and those are Really expensive.
I removed the panels yesterday to look at the batteries and at least two of them are swollen. That moved this project from the back burner in a hurry. Since they are over four years past due it is time to bite the bullet.
The house battery bank has eight 4D AGM batteries and the best brand runs about $500 each plus shipping. An acquaintance offered the same brand at $451 each with reduced shipping. That is a kind and generous offer but still very steep for us.
I have a friend who has a friend who has a battery business and he has offered his brand at nearly $150 less per battery. He can't offer the same warranty but he stands behind his product and is a good man.
I am very thankful he is willing to offer such a good price but it is still a big hit for us right now.
It could not come at a worse time...
Or could it?
You can go back to the 1st verse and chorus for my definitive answer.
God is faithful. God is working when we can not see Him. And God owes me no explanations!
Davy
Tent Revival is still going extremely well. The crowds have been good and the altar services are great every night. I have ended up empty handed the last few nights reaching for the lost but the message is going out and that is what I am here to do.
The church is responding well and folks are getting help from the Lord when they come for special prayer. We have one more service tonight and then we plan to take everything down, pack it up and head to Oklahoma.
Although the Lord is blessing and we are enjoying His presence Not Everything Goes Well as I wrote the other day.
I discovered yesterday that our house batteries need to be replaced as soon as possible. We knew shortly after buying the BoggsMobile they would need to be replaced but we have kept putting it off.
You may remember I replaced the starting batteries at the end of December but these are an entirely different set of batteries.
We have saved toward the expense of this but each time we have spent it on something else important like tires, our live CD, missions, and most recently our little green machine.
Since we never park on battery power alone, we thought we could put this off indefinitely. However, I found out recently that if one of these batteries goes completely bad it could damage one or both of our inverters and those are Really expensive.
I removed the panels yesterday to look at the batteries and at least two of them are swollen. That moved this project from the back burner in a hurry. Since they are over four years past due it is time to bite the bullet.
The house battery bank has eight 4D AGM batteries and the best brand runs about $500 each plus shipping. An acquaintance offered the same brand at $451 each with reduced shipping. That is a kind and generous offer but still very steep for us.
I have a friend who has a friend who has a battery business and he has offered his brand at nearly $150 less per battery. He can't offer the same warranty but he stands behind his product and is a good man.
I am very thankful he is willing to offer such a good price but it is still a big hit for us right now.
It could not come at a worse time...
Or could it?
You can go back to the 1st verse and chorus for my definitive answer.
God is faithful. God is working when we can not see Him. And God owes me no explanations!
Davy
Monday, June 4, 2012
Special Visitors
We have been blessed with many visitors in the Owensburg tent revival. We have had visitors from members of local churches, Pastors, Missionaries and most importantly visitors from the community of Owensburg itself.
The visitors from the community are obviously the most important since we came here to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Pastor Lakes and the Tunnel Hill church have went to considerable expense of their time, talent and treasure for that purpose.
They desire, as I desire, to take the message we know and love outside the walls of the church. I concluded long ago that the people were not coming to our churches therefore I was called to take church to them.
Bro. Lakes phrased it almost as I did. He told the Tunnel Hill church, "It is obvious Owensburg is not coming to us so let's go to them."
This Pastor and this church have made a supreme effort to do just that. Every single person in this community that I have interacted with and invited to tent revival has already received an invitation from somebody in the church. That is awesome!
So Owensburg, Indiana is hearing the Gospel, the local church is being used and blessed of God, faith is being strengthened, lives are being touched and we are having a ball in the process. Does it get any better than that?
Well, yes it does. When special friends drive for hours to be with us and join in the fun it is like icing on the cake. Or better yet, like real butter on a piece of Pecan pie warmed in the microwave! Whew! That is good!
The special visitors that made our day were Renae Coffman and her oldest daughter Jacqueline. When they heard we were staying past Friday they drove over Saturday morning and spent the afternoon with us and attended tent revival that night.
Renae is our Pastor's daughter and she has been our special friend for many years. She and Jacqueline brought a little extra sunshine in an already good week. It was a great blessing to see them.
Thank you, Renae and Jacqueline for going out of your way to come see us. We love you much!
Sunday morning we had church inside and conviction followed us right in. It was wonderful to feel God reaching for men and women.
We also had another great service under the tent last night. Please keep praying for this meeting.
Davy
The visitors from the community are obviously the most important since we came here to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Pastor Lakes and the Tunnel Hill church have went to considerable expense of their time, talent and treasure for that purpose.
They desire, as I desire, to take the message we know and love outside the walls of the church. I concluded long ago that the people were not coming to our churches therefore I was called to take church to them.
Bro. Lakes phrased it almost as I did. He told the Tunnel Hill church, "It is obvious Owensburg is not coming to us so let's go to them."
This Pastor and this church have made a supreme effort to do just that. Every single person in this community that I have interacted with and invited to tent revival has already received an invitation from somebody in the church. That is awesome!
So Owensburg, Indiana is hearing the Gospel, the local church is being used and blessed of God, faith is being strengthened, lives are being touched and we are having a ball in the process. Does it get any better than that?
Well, yes it does. When special friends drive for hours to be with us and join in the fun it is like icing on the cake. Or better yet, like real butter on a piece of Pecan pie warmed in the microwave! Whew! That is good!
The special visitors that made our day were Renae Coffman and her oldest daughter Jacqueline. When they heard we were staying past Friday they drove over Saturday morning and spent the afternoon with us and attended tent revival that night.
Renae is our Pastor's daughter and she has been our special friend for many years. She and Jacqueline brought a little extra sunshine in an already good week. It was a great blessing to see them.
Thank you, Renae and Jacqueline for going out of your way to come see us. We love you much!
Sunday morning we had church inside and conviction followed us right in. It was wonderful to feel God reaching for men and women.
We also had another great service under the tent last night. Please keep praying for this meeting.
Davy
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Details of Schedule Change This Week
Often on Sunday morning I post a Travel Day blog describing our Saturday on the road. Today is quite a bit different.
We had planned to take down the tent in Owensburg, Indiana after service Friday night and leave early Saturday and drive to Wichita, Kansas to begin revival today for Pastor John DiZazzo and Bethany Revival Center. But it seems to us that God had different plans.
During the service Friday night Pastor Lakes and I both felt a stirring to continue the tent revival here in Owensburg. I nearly shrugged it off because rescheduling or canceling revivals on very short notice is not something I am comfortable doing.
I realize how much effort many churches put into having revival and I do not take that lightly. Plus we love going to Bethany and always have tremendous services there. I knew they were ready for revival and I was ready to go.
However I could not shake the feeling that this tent revival needed to continue. All of this back and forth was going on in my mind as we were having a great break through in the altar service.
Now, let me insert something here. I have learned that I can not decide about continuing a revival based on whether or not we are having a good or bad service. That will not work for me at all. I love having a super service on the last night! I would hate to close every revival with a bad service.
You see what I mean? So that will not work. I have to have some clear direction from the Lord and that is what Bro. Lakes and I both felt like we had Friday night.
Bro. Lakes called the owner of the property to see if we could leave the tent up a few more days. The property owner was fine with it.
I called Bro. DiZazzo to see if he would allow me to reschedule at the last minute. He was kind and gracious as always and gave me the permission I needed to stay.
Bro. DiZazzo and his folks understand the value of the sovereign move of God in lives and a community. They were very encouraging to me in this situation and I am indebted to them for that.
So last night we were under the tent again and God met with us in a special way. My Pastor, Bro. Bennie Sutherland, taught me that often you know more about the quality of a decision after you make it than before.
Last night's service under the tent was proof of that. All my self doubt about staying here melted away as God touched lives in the altar. Praise God!
We will have church in the church this morning and then we plan to be back under the tent tonight through Wednesday night. We are looking forward to see what God is going to do in Owensburg, Indiana.
Please continue to pray for us.
Davy
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. I Timothy 1:15
We had planned to take down the tent in Owensburg, Indiana after service Friday night and leave early Saturday and drive to Wichita, Kansas to begin revival today for Pastor John DiZazzo and Bethany Revival Center. But it seems to us that God had different plans.
During the service Friday night Pastor Lakes and I both felt a stirring to continue the tent revival here in Owensburg. I nearly shrugged it off because rescheduling or canceling revivals on very short notice is not something I am comfortable doing.
I realize how much effort many churches put into having revival and I do not take that lightly. Plus we love going to Bethany and always have tremendous services there. I knew they were ready for revival and I was ready to go.
However I could not shake the feeling that this tent revival needed to continue. All of this back and forth was going on in my mind as we were having a great break through in the altar service.
Now, let me insert something here. I have learned that I can not decide about continuing a revival based on whether or not we are having a good or bad service. That will not work for me at all. I love having a super service on the last night! I would hate to close every revival with a bad service.
You see what I mean? So that will not work. I have to have some clear direction from the Lord and that is what Bro. Lakes and I both felt like we had Friday night.
Bro. Lakes called the owner of the property to see if we could leave the tent up a few more days. The property owner was fine with it.
I called Bro. DiZazzo to see if he would allow me to reschedule at the last minute. He was kind and gracious as always and gave me the permission I needed to stay.
Bro. DiZazzo and his folks understand the value of the sovereign move of God in lives and a community. They were very encouraging to me in this situation and I am indebted to them for that.
So last night we were under the tent again and God met with us in a special way. My Pastor, Bro. Bennie Sutherland, taught me that often you know more about the quality of a decision after you make it than before.
Last night's service under the tent was proof of that. All my self doubt about staying here melted away as God touched lives in the altar. Praise God!
We will have church in the church this morning and then we plan to be back under the tent tonight through Wednesday night. We are looking forward to see what God is going to do in Owensburg, Indiana.
Please continue to pray for us.
Davy
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. I Timothy 1:15
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Schedule Change
We were supposed to be on our way to Kansas for our next revival but we are still having church under the tent in Owensburg, Indiana.
I'll post more details later. Thank you for your prayers.
Davy
I'll post more details later. Thank you for your prayers.
Davy
Friday, June 1, 2012
And It Rained Not!
By Thursday afternoon the forecast was looking pretty bad for having church under the tent. The chance for rain at church time was forecast at 70%.
I sent a text to several friends asking them to pray and in a few minutes the forecast was changed. It went from 70% to 100% chance of thunderstorms at church time and all during church!
Pastor Lakes and I had decided the night before that if it was raining at 6:00 we would move the service to the church. I went to the tent about 1:00 and began to pray.
At 4:39 the heavens opened right on time and boy howdy did it rain! The rain was coming down and the radar was showing rain coming in for hours.
I was still under the tent when the rain stopped at 5:43 and the sky cleared. We set up for church and the Lord touched and moved in a special way in the altar service. It was awesome and God made it possible by stopping the rain.
There is no doubt in my mind that God moved the rain. The forecast after church still was calling for 80% chance of rain and it was raining around us but no rain at the tent. Praise God!
Thanks for praying.
Davy
I sent a text to several friends asking them to pray and in a few minutes the forecast was changed. It went from 70% to 100% chance of thunderstorms at church time and all during church!
Pastor Lakes and I had decided the night before that if it was raining at 6:00 we would move the service to the church. I went to the tent about 1:00 and began to pray.
At 4:39 the heavens opened right on time and boy howdy did it rain! The rain was coming down and the radar was showing rain coming in for hours.
I was still under the tent when the rain stopped at 5:43 and the sky cleared. We set up for church and the Lord touched and moved in a special way in the altar service. It was awesome and God made it possible by stopping the rain.
There is no doubt in my mind that God moved the rain. The forecast after church still was calling for 80% chance of rain and it was raining around us but no rain at the tent. Praise God!
Thanks for praying.
Davy
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