Dedication of the New Osara Rd. Branch Church

Thank you for praying about our rest Friday night. We did not sleep all night but we did pretty good. I slept about four hours, was mostly awake for a couple of hours then I slept about four more hours. 

Kelly Jo slept about the same except her waking hours in the middle of the night lasted a little longer. We both felt much better Saturday morning. 

Our last four hours were our best hours of sleep since our bodies thought it was 12:00-4:00 AM. Man. I was sleeping hard when the alarm went off. 

Bro. Shobanke came to the motel a little after 10:00 this morning and we visited some before we left. The dedication service was scheduled for 12:00 and we arrived in plenty of time. 

It was a beautiful service. We has a full day of fellowship, church,laughing, crying, rejoicing and eating. Kelly Jo and I feel so blessed and honored to be here for the dedication. 

It was an all day event and we are now back at the hotel winding down again. Tomorrow is a special day at Bro. Shobanke's church. It is "Holy Ghost Sunday" so we will have one extended service. It should be pretty exciting. 

Here are some pictures of our Saturday. It has been a wonderful day. 

Davy

There were several pastors, evangelist, elders and their families in attendance. It was great to see our friends. 

It is always great to see Bro. Adelani and his family. 

We had lollipops for the children. That was a lot of fun. 

All the ministers received pens. 

This is the lot right behind the new church. The church lot has been redeemed from the bush. 

We stopped by Chicken Republic on the way back. 

Some of the ladies at the hotel. 

We Made It

We made it to Nigeria safe and sound. WiFi is iffy and Google is contrary. I do not even know if this will post. Pictures are refusing but I will keep trying. 

The church dedication is tomorrow so it is going to be a big day. As of right now we have been up over 31 hours but we have had bad trouble adjusting on past trips. Please pray we can rest.  

God bless. 

Davy

This is Bro. Clement Okah from Bro. Shobanke's church. He works in immigration at the airport and guides us right through the proper lines and channels. He is a blessing. 

Travel Day - Toward Nigeria, West Africa

This Morning's Post

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We have had a very good day of travel so far. The flight from Pensacola to Atlanta was only about 40 minutes and was mostly smooth. 

We are now sitting at our gate in Atlanta waiting for our overnight flight. In a few blinks of an eye we will be in Nigeria by God's grace. 

Here are a few pictures and we bid you farewell. God bless. 

Davy

Atlanta

On deplane! Every seat is sold!

Time to Go to Nigeria!

This is departure day! In less than 24 hours Kelly Jo and I should be in Nigeria with Bro. Shobanke and his precious people. We never look forward to the long flight but we are anxious to see every one again. Bro. Shobanke called this morning to hear my voice and I told him that soon I would see him face to face.

We "should" be on the ground in Lagos by Friday at 8:30 AM central time. I put that in parentheses because our flight was delayed in Atlanta over 4 hours last time and then we waited over 2 hours for our luggage in what felt like a sauna once we arrived in Lagos. That made for a very, very long day and night and day and into night again. Although we did get a good free meal in Atlanta and two small travel vouchers from Delta out of the deal. lol

As I have said before this is supposed to be a quick trip for us. Normally we are preaching Gospel crusades and a minister's conference while we are there and we usually stay several days. This trip we are dedicating the new branch church at Osara Rd, then preaching Sunday at Bro. Shobanke's main church, visiting the school on Monday and then heading home. I am sure it will feel like a whirlwind trip because of the short duration but we will be much less busy than normal.

Please pray for us while we are gone to Nigeria. Pray that we will be effective in the Ministry that God has called us to do. Pray that souls will be won to God and that saints will be encouraged. Pray that God will overshadow us all as we dedicate the new church. Pray for our safety and our health as well. Pray for Odie in Mississippi and pray that all goes as planned on our bus here in Florida. Thank you so much for holding us up in prayer.

If I have WiFi in Abeokuta and IF Google will allow me to access my email while I am there, I will update the blog with pictures and information as it happens. If not then Odie will be blogging in our absence and I will bring you up to date next week. Rest assured we will be taking lots of pictures.

I am sure I will be posting a few pictures before we leave Atlanta tonight.

God bless you all.

Davy

Counting Hours Now

Are you tired of eating cold pizza because the delivery driver can not find your house?

Maybe you should try making your house number a little more visible from the street.

Yep, I think that should do the trick!

Is that hilarious or what? That really is their house number. It matches the numbers on the porch post.

We are counting down the hours to departure time. We leave Pensacola in the afternoon tomorrow and then take the overnight flight out of Atlanta. We always try to plan a couple of days of down time before international trips but it never seems to work. We are normally floundering around at the last minute feeling like we are forgetting 47 important things.

This time it worked. Although last week and up until Monday morning was a total sprint, all of that work enabled us to relax yesterday (Tuesday) and today. I feel more emotionally and spiritually ready for this trip than I have in times past. Of course the fact that I am only scheduled to preach a few times instead of 10 times is probably helping with that.

Monday evening we met Bro. and Sis. Deane and Bro. Howard and Sis. Glenda for supper at Cheddar's.

We had a wonderful meal and fabulous fellowship. It capped off a great day. We appreciate the invitation and Bro. Howard and Sis. Glenda buying our meal.

I also appreciate Odie taking a little time to blog last night. I was under the weather pretty badly yesterday afternoon and evening. I woke up feeling better this morning, praise God. I think it might have been the malaria medicine that we began taking a few days ago. Any way, I think I will live.

You will probably hear from me once or twice Thursday and then Odie will probably take over the blog while we are gone. I will post from Nigeria if I can. It all depends on if dependable WiFi can be found.

God bless you all.

Davy

Odie Reporting From Mississippi

My home this week is Mississippi. Thanks to the Morris family for accepting as part of their family. I am having a wonderful time visiting with friends!!!  We have a full week ahead of us. I will be checking in along the way. I will probably be blogging while my parents are gone to Nigeria. 

Today I  met sweet Madison Hunnell. She is just a few days old. Congrats to Marlee and Cody and big brother Brody. Maddie is beautiful!!!

Tonight we celebrated "Mr. Anonymous" birthday!! Happy birthday Mr. Anonymous!!!  

Odie