Chillin' In West Plains, Missouri

What a difference a few hours makes. This is Saturday evening.

This is Sunday morning...

Here are a few more pictures from the weekend.

Sunday morning after I had swept some of the snow away so I could walk around the bus.

Here are a few pictures from Sunday evening.

The wind is blowing over 20 mph and it is still moving the snow around quite a bit. We are at 15 degrees right now and headed down to minus 1 overnight according to the latest forecast from the weather guessers. I just happen to believe them this time!

It is way too cold and nasty to ask folks to get out and come to church so no services today at Junction Hill or any other church in the area for that matter. It is just to dangerous to get out. The high Monday is forecast for 9 degrees. So far nothing has frozen on the BoggsMobile and we are thankful for that.

We are having a great time with the Galiher's even if we have not been able to have church. We love being around them any time so we are just "chillin" the time away. There are worse places to be stuck than with super friends, warm surroundings and lots of food!

Stay warm.

Davy

Travel Day - Claremore, OK - West Plains, MO

Before we get to the travel update Odie has a few more pictures from our week at Claremore, Oklahoma.

Yes, we will.

We ate Mexican food at Los Cabos Thursday night with the Henegars and Millikins. It was so good. I ordered the chicken fajitas and Kelly Jo ordered the vegetable fajitas and we mixed them. Wow! What a combination. We really enjoyed the fellowship as much as the food.

Then we ate Mexican again Friday for lunch with the Millikins. We love the salsa at Los Aztecas in Claremore. It is not quite as good as the salsa at Acapulco in Lebanon, Ohio but it is still very good in our opinion.

We hated to leave Bro. Jimmy and Sis. Shauna and their precious family but Friday was the day we had to do it. We enjoyed one last meal with them and we were plotting when our paths will cross again. We will be right back in this area for a few weeks soon so hopefully we will be blessed to spend some more time with our dear friends. Continue to pray for the Millikins and the Westside Holiness Church.

We had planned to leave Saturday but there was a possibility of bad weather Saturday so we decided to get out while the getting was good. After lunch I warmed up the engine coolant, cranked the BoggsMobile, hooked up the Green Machine and hit the road about 2:00. We drove about 280 miles and we were pulling into Junction Hill Pentecostal Church by about 6:40.

It was a nice sunny day to travel but it was very, very windy. It bounced us around pretty much the whole trip. Even with both hands on the wheel the wind was jerking us around quite a bit. I would rather drive in wind than snow or ice though.

By coming to West Plains I think we jumped out the ice box and into the FREEZER. The forecast here this next week is not for summer weather at all. Snow Saturday night, snow Sunday, low temperature of -3 Sunday night, high of 10 Monday and the list goes on. Summer is officially over.

We are excited to be back with Pastor Dwain Galiher and the great folks at Junction Hill. We have been here several times through the years and we are always blessed in the services. We are looking forward to seeing what the Lord will do in this revival. It would be nice to start the year with about a dozen people getting saved!

God bless you all for reading. I hope you have a great weekend.

Davy

Another Day In Oklahoma

New Year

2013 In Review

I have had a lot of comments in times past in reference to our year in review posts. I think I skipped it in 2012 but I did get around to it for 2013. I have linked to that post above. I hope you enjoy the maps and summary of our travels.

The New Year is officially off and running and winter has set in with a vengeance. These pictures at Westside in Claremore were taken Monday when it was about 35 degrees and sunny. 

Tuesday was in the 50's with sun and wind. Wednesday was in the 50's as well but started dropping fast. This morning (Thursday) it was 11 and felt like 3! That is way too cold for me. We also have a little dusting of snow but at least the sun is shining.

I have some semi critical bus projects going on but the cold has brought a stop to all of that. We will just tough it out until it gets warm enough to survive outside. The best place to be right now is under the flannel sheets with the heat on high. Did I mention that it is cold?

We had a good service last night here at Westside Holiness Church in Claremore. Pastor Darrell Meadow and his folks have been so very good to us through the years. We always enjoy being here visiting with friends and feeling the presence of the Lord. Last night the worship service was great. I know that God was near us. The preaching was not everything I wanted it to be but I tried my best. I am trusting God to give the increase.

We have been receiving New Year's greetings from across the country the last 36 hours. Bro. Shobanke just called me from Nigeria to pray for me as we begin 2014. His prayer was for more grace and more anointing. I say a hearty AMEN to that. I do desire more grace and more anointing. I am going to believe God to gratn that request. May God bless each of our friends around the world and may He bring us face to face with as many of you as possible this year.

Until next time...

Davy

First Day of 2014

2013 In Review

I hope 2014 is off to a good start for you. We have had a great day so far and we are expecting a good service at Westside Holiness Church tonight. It would be wonderful to be wrapped up in the Spirit of the Lord the very first night of the year.

Bro. Marty Millikin's funeral was beautiful yesterday. The singing and the music was outstanding just like Bro. Marty loved singing and music to be. Bro. Jimmy had several of Bro. Marty's family and friends singing and playing songs that Bro. Marty loved to hear. It really was touching all the way through the service.

Bro. Joey Hight, Bro. Jimmy Millikin and Pastor Darrell Meadow were all tremendous in the things they had to say. God used each of them in a special way to minister to the family and friends that had gathered. Bro. Marty lived with such character and Godliness that nobody had to struggle for good things to say. The whole day was a fitting tribute to a very good man that we will all miss very much.

There were hundreds of people that came from all over the country for Bro. Marty's visitation and funeral. There were people from California and people from Maine and there were many from all points in between. Every one of them was a testimony to the impact the Millikin family has had on churches and individuals all over America. I was thrilled to see them all come together to celebrate such a life.

Last night and today we have been visiting with the Millikin's and their family and friends. It has been a joy to meet folks that Bro. Jimmy and Bro. Marty have been telling us about for years. We have really enjoyed meeting some of the folks from Maine. They certainly love the Millikin family. 

We plan to stay here in Claremore until Friday or Saturday helping any way we can and then we will mosey toward our next revival near West Plains, Missouri. After that revival we will be right back in this general area for a few weeks by God's grace.

Pastor Meadow asked me to be prepared to preach tonight so please pray that God will speak through me in this service. Every service is very important but this one seems especially so. Thank you.

God bless you every one.

Davy

2013 - Our 11th Year in the Rear View Mirror.

The end of 2013 marks our 11th consecutive year on the road, 13 1/2 total years of evangelism and 17 1/2 years of full time ministry. We drove the BoggsMobile 12,515 miles. We preached in at least 20 states and two foreign countries in 2013 and were blessed to see many people find Christ as their Lord.

We have had some great revivals, tent revivals and super great trips to Nigeria, West Africa and to Chiapas, Mexico. We have experienced God working in our physical bodies, our finances and in our spiritual man. He has blessed us with little and he has blessed us with abundance. God has answered some of our prayers with amazing attention to our detailed requests and He has answered some prayers with little resemblance to what we asked at all. Thank God for EVERY answered prayer in 2013

In 2013 we have wept and danced with joy and moaned and sorrowed in sadness. We have had extremely high times and we have had extremely low times. We have soared over adversity and been brought low by events that should have been trivial. We have laughed and cried. But through it all God is still God and He is still in control.

As a family we are kind of glad to bid 2013 goodbye and embrace whatever God has in store for us in 2014. Praise God for His constant care and faithfulness.

Below is a summary of our travels this year with maps to go along with it. Hopefully you can zoom in or zoom out on the maps for a better look.

Davy

Our first trip of the year started in Neosho, Missouri and finished in Ohio as May was ending. It included meetings in Neosho, MO, Broken Arrow, OK, Blair, OK, Wichita, KS, Corwin, OH, Waynesboro MS, Ellisville, MS, Conehatta, MS, Wilmer, AL, Semmes, AL, Moss Point, MS, Mobile, AL, tent revivals in Citronelle, AL and Milry, AL, another meeting in Tuscaloosa, AL, recording in Nashville and then home for my Dad's surgery.

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We left in May for tent revival in Bristol, VA and Springville, IN, revivals in Wartburg, TN and Lebanon, OH, tent revival in Washington, IL, attended Kid's Krusade in Ft. Totten, ND and a tent revival in Dunseith, ND that was canceled after we were there. We spent time set aside for tent revival ministering to whoever we could in Devil's Lake, ND before going on to Omaha, NE and revival in Wichita, KS. We dropped the bus in Claremore, OK and drove to Dayton OH for Indoor Fellowship meeting the third week of August.

In June Kelly Jo and I also flew to Florida and drove all the way to Key West and in July we all flew to California for revival in Atwater, CA and services in Fresno, Avenal and Riverdale, CA.

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After Fellowship meeting at Dryden Rd. We drove back to the bus for revival in Claremore, OK. Then we had Tabernacle meeting in Blanchard, OK and tent revivals in Neosho, MO and Richton, MO. Then we went west for revivals in Livingston, TX, Sweeney, TX and Pine Prairie, LA. We also had the BoggsMobile in the shop for most of three days in Houston, TX area.

Our next stop was Cantonement, FL for more bus work and preaching then Kelly Jo and I flew from Pensecola for a quick mission trip to Nigeria, West Africa. After Africa we went to revivals in Haines City, FL, Glencoe, Al, and fellowship meeting in Hokes Bluff, AL. We left the BoggsMobile in Alabama and drove the Green Machine to Claremore, Oklahoma to spend a few days with the Millikin family.

After returning to the bus we had revival in Hazard, KY, special services in London, KY and then home. After a mission trip to Mexico a revival in Waynesville and a few days to celebrate Christmas we loaded up in the BoggsMobile and drove back to Claremore where we finished out the year with the Millikin family and the Westside Holiness Church.

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Travel Day and Home Stuff

Sunday was supposed to be much colder than the beautiful Saturday we had and it definitely lived up to the forecast very well. It was bone chilling cold from the very first time I stepped out of the bus. There is no sense in human beings living in climates this cold! Whew!

Even though the wind blew us to fro we made it to Claremore about 8:45 PM. We stopped for diesel in Joplin and church in Miami and then drove on to Claremore after service. It was a great day even with all of the cold.

We had a wonderful time Sunday night in Miami with the whole Stephens clan. Pastor Mike Stephens has thrown the door open to us and we always enjoy being in service with them. They were kicking off revival tonight and it was good to be a part of it. We have zero pictures between the three of us to prove we were there at all. Maybe we dreamed it.

We do have some pictures from our week at home. We always take my brother Steve and his family to dinner at Christmas time to reward them for taking care of my mail. We enjoyed a great meal and fellowship at J. Alexander's in Dayton. Here are a few pictures from that night.

My Dad and I spent one day last week on a road trip. We went down to Grayson, Kentucky to visit some family. We had a great day together and with some of our cousins.

This is Dad's first cousin George Boggs with his wife Diana.

Lowell, George and Dad. Lowel and George are brothers.

Dad and his younger Uncle James Mays

We have a few pictures from our home church at Dryden Rd.

Of course we had a few meals at Acapulco the few days we were home.

We were also happy to drop in for a few minutes on the 25th anniversary celebration for some old friends. Eric and Charlene have been our friends since we were all kids. That was our last evening home.

Monday evening is the visitation for Bro. Marty Millikin at the Claremore church. Please continue to pray for the Millikin family.

Davy