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

Tent Revival Update and Travel Day

I have a lot to write this evening but I will start with a few more pictures from tent revival. Scroll down through the pictures for the rest of story.

We had some great services under the tent in Bristol that last two weeks. Some were seeking salvation, some were healed and many were blessed. I thank God for helping and blessing. Thank you for praying for the revival. As I have written many times on this blog, I can not do this on my own. Thank you for taking part.

It was a great privilege and honor to work with Pastor David Horton and his wife Sis. Brenda. We have admired this family for years and now that we have been able to spend some time with them we love them even more. God has certainly sent them to Bristol and is using them to win souls to Christ. We are committed to praying for this family and their new church.

It was great to be with Bro. and Sis. Switzer as well. They are super people too. I think they like Odie's new scooter as much as I do!

In yesterday's post I wrote about how beautiful it was in the morning and about the threat of rain in the afternoon and evening. Well by 2:30 or so it was not looking good at all. We decided to take down the tent while we had a little time before the storm and have church inside Wednesday night.

Bro. and Sis. Horton, Kelly Jo and Bro. Switzer and I started in as quickly as we could. The trailer had to be emptied of instruments and sound equipment and then the we lowered the lift and started folding and loading chairs. Before the chairs were all loaded others begin to arrive and soon the cords and lights were down and we were ready to bring down the tent.

By that time the storm was bearing down on us pretty bad with lots of thunder and lightning. We retreated inside the church and waited for that wave to pass. During the next lull in the storm we got the tent down, folded, bagged and everything loaded in the trailer. Just about that time the bottom dropped out of the sky and it rained cats and dogs.

Every one worked so hard and I appreciate it so very much. The folks came on short notice and jumped right in and did the job that needed to be done. We were racing against the storm and thanks to all their hard work, we won.

The sun came out for a few minutes about 7:30 and it looked like we had pulled the tent down prematurely but the storms came back with a vengeance and I was glad the tent was stowed in the trailer. We could not have taken it down after church Wednesday night because of the weather.

We had service inside and did we ever have church. God blessed from beginning to end. It was a great end to revival. Praise God for a tremendous revival!

Bro. Nathan Saltz from the church brought his truck and hooked it up to the trailer about 6:30 this morning.   (Thank you very much, Bro. Nathan!) He moved it away the building and just as we were preparing to pull the trailer out of the parking lot it started raining again. 

I was a little leery of putting 14,000 lbs of strain on a 10,000 lb hitch going out the drive and up the steep and wet hill. I could not stand the thought of that trailer coming lose and barreling into the Hwy a few hundred yards below. Bro. Nathan was a little leery of going down the other steep and wet hill without any brakes on the trailer. (His truck does not have a brake controller) He could not stand the thought of that heavy trailer pushing his truck down the hill into the Hwy.

There was no doubt that his truck had the power to pull it but since we both had reservations about it we decided to pray about it. After prayer we decided to err on the side of caution. We unhooked his truck and called a tow truck to do the job. I had to wait quite a while but 18 minutes after the truck came the trailer was safely down the hill in a parking lot.

I hooked the BoggsMobile to the trailer, loaded the Green Machine in the trailer and 400 hundred miles later we are in a WalMart parking lot in Indiana. It was a long, long, long day and I am off to bed. Tomorrow should be short and easy... We will see.

God bless you all.

Davy