A Morning At The Mall

Tuesday I did something that I rarely ever do. I actually walked inside a shopping mall. It was incredibly difficult but I managed to do it somehow.

My iPhone 5 battery has been pretty bad for many months and it really took a nose dive in December. It was so bad that it could go from 100% to dying on one short phone call. I basically had to keep it plugged up if I wanted to make a phone call. Checking and sending a few text would drop the battery from 100% to 60%. It was really getting ridiculous.

As we were driving toward Houston last week I told Kelly Jo to find an Apple store on the south side of Houston toward Seeny and make an appointment for me to get the battery replaced. She made the appointment for 10:00 AM Tuesday. I did not even think about the Apple store being inside the mall.

It was about 45 minutes to the mall from Sweeny and I arrived about 9:15. I watched the mall walkers for a while and then I noticed about 50 people were waiting in front of the door to the Apple store. Wow! Talk about good people watching. What a varied crowd it was too. It would have been a good place for a tent revival.

As the door opened the crowd surged forward but about five of us remained seated in the mall area. I was thinking they might call for those that had appointments and sure enough they did. It was kind of funny. All five of us that were still sitting down had appointments and we were called to the front of the surging line. That worked out good. I was glad KJ called ahead.

After Kelly Jo made the appointment last week we found out that some iPhone 5 models had a free replacement on the battery because of a bad batch of batteries two years ago. Thankfully mine fell into that lot. I am not surprised because this battery has been faulty from the beginning.

My iPhone has a small ding on one corner and they said there was about a 50% chance the screen would not go back in and if it did it might break. They really wanted me to just go ahead an buy a new phone but I did not need a new phone I needed a battery.

They tried it and sure enough it worked. 45 minutes after they started, I was walking out the door, no charge. It will take a day or so to see how it works but so far so good.

A morning at the mall without getting robbed or spending a fortune. That is a pretty good morning.

I spent some time later in the day working on a bus project that I will tell you about later. It was not near as much fun.

Revival is going good at Sweeny. God is helping and blessing each night and we are very thankful. Thank you for praying for us.

Davy

Boggs Family Ministries Inc

Smile.Amazon.com and Boggs Family Ministries, Inc.

Do you order stuff from Amazon? I know that many of you do. It is a fast convenient way to order and receive almost anything and the products are sometimes less expensive than you can find them elsewhere too.

Since we are a moving target we use Amazon Prime in order to receive the items we purchased in two days and before we move to the next church. It super frustrating to order something and have it arrive two days after we leave. With Amazon Prime we rarely have to worry about that.

Now there is a way to order from Amazon and benefit Boggs Family Ministries too. Amazon has a program called Amazon Smile that donates a portion of the price to a charity of your choice. You pay nothing extra they just donate a small portion of the existing price. 

Rather than going to amazon.com as you normally would, go to smile.amazon.com and choose Boggs Family Ministries as your designated charity. You will be given an opportunity to search for a charity and you can search Boggs, Boggs Family or Boggs Family Ministries and Boggs Family Ministries Inc, Waynesville, Ohio will come up in the list. Then select it.

Caution: There is also a Bogg Ministries in Miamisburg, Ohio but that is not us.

Once you designate Boggs Family Ministries,  0.5%  of your smile.amazon.com purchases will be donated to Boggs Family Ministries. You will be ordering from the same companies, receiving the same prices and the same service but you will be helping support Boggs Family Ministries. 0.5% is not much on a single purchase but if a bunch of people choose Boggs Family Ministries for their designated charity and then do their normal Amazon purchases through smile.amazon.com, 0.5% would certainly add up after a while.

Afterward if you continue to shop through your regular Amazon link then the ministry will not receive the 0.5%. You must change your Amazon link and do your shopping through smile.amazon.com in order for it to work correctly.

If you do not mind, please spread the word to others.

Thank you,

Davy, Kelly and Odie

Boggs Family Ministries, Inc. 501c3

Boggs Family Ministries Inc

A Super Weekend In Texas

We had a great Sunday at Full Gospel Lighthouse in Sweeny, Texas with Pastor Larry Lamb and all of his fine folks. It was a great start to revival. Both services God met with us in the altar and we sure are thankful for that. We are here for five more nights and we are expecting some great things.

We left Kilgore Thursday in the rain.

We drove about 190 miles to the Flying J in Orange and preached at the House of Prayer near Mauriceville, Texas.

Friday morning we woke up to more rain. I did get to visit with Pastor Mark Compton a little more before we left. My suit coat and Bible were both left behind Thursday night so Friday morning I drove the 9 miles back to the church to get them. I did get to see the new church in the daylight and has some more great fellowship so no harm done.

We drove about 90 minutes in hard driving rain and stopped at an RV Park on the east side of Houston. The girls were able to go up a couple of exits for some retail therapy in the afternoon while I did as much of nothing as I could squeeze in to just a few hours.

We rested as much as we could Saturday morning before driving on to Sweeny. It was cloudy and windy but we had a very little rain at the beginning of the drive and then dry the rest of the way. We have driven is rain so much lately that no rain was a welcome relief. I think this part of Texas was relieved as well. Although they needed rain some parts had received over 3 inches in 48 hours.

We had a hankering for a buffet so Kelly Jo found a Golden Corral about 1.5 miles from the interstate once we were south of Houston. She scoped out the parking on Google maps and it looked like we might be able to squeeze in their lot. It was too crowded to get in but her back up plan worked fine. We parked not too far away and thankfully we did not have to paddle or wade through the swamp.

After the late lunch we only had about 90 minutes or less to drive to Sweeny, Texas. Once we arrived at the church, Kelly Jo backed the BoggsMobile into place and we hit the ground running.

After we carried in and set up the sound equipment I washed 2500 miles of road grime off the BoggsMobile before the sun went down. I do not know if the bus felt any better but getting the bus cleaned up sure made me feel better.

We had prayer meeting Saturday night and then began revival Sunday morning.

Kelly Jo with Sis. Jo Lamb the pastor's wife.

Pastor Larry Lamb and Davy

We had a young man praying Sunday night. His mother attends the church. Please pray that God will continue to touch and help him and others.

I am sure that we will have more pictures from revival before we leave here. I hope you had a great weekend.

Davy