Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Working and Washing

We just finished our second night of tent revival in Waynesville and we are enjoying the blessings of God under the Blue and White Gospel Tent. Bro. Jimmy Millikin was an instrument in the hand of God tonight and God used him to speak to us in a powerful way. We had folks that have never been inside of the participating churches in the altar seeking God and THAT is what we are trying to accomplish. Praise God for HIS help.

We have had fellowship and help from several churches in these first two nights and we sure do appreciate it. God has been helping and we expect that to build each night. If you are any where near here, please come and be with us. We plan to have church rain or shine and if the weather is too bad we are going to move inside the church. It would be great if you could come and bring somebody with you that needs to meet God. He is available!

I mentioned a few days ago that we hit the ground running when we arrived home Thursday about 2:00 PM and we have not slowed down since. There were bunches of things that needed to be done and somebody had to do it! We had planned this week for tent revival AND barn roofing so we knew it would be very busy. We have enjoyed every moment of it.

The first thing we did Thursday afternoon was remove the tent trailer from the barn with Dad's truck.


While we had it hooked up we moved it into position for tent set up and revival.


After tending to a few other things we went with Dad and Mom to Acapulco for a nice little late lunch snack! The Fajitas and the salsa might have been the best I have ever had!




Believe it or not, I have not been back to Acapulco since Thursday. It has been too busy but I plan to fix that soon!

Before we could get back to the Lazy OD Ranch we received word that Bro. Mitch Boggs and Bro. Jason Fellers had arrived with their families. They had actually been there on Monday night/Tuesday morning to order material for the roof and now they were back after quick little vacation. They were expecting the material to be delivered Friday so they came back Thursday evening.

Bro. Mitch had rented a lift for the job and it is as handy as a pocket on a shirt. First they used it to move our new chairs from the barn to the trailer.



Then they used it to remove a huge clump of trees that were growing in a huge conglomeration by an old hand dug well on the property. Dad and I were discussing earlier how we were going to remove all that mess and in just a few minutes it was gone! Like I said, as handy as a pocket on a shirt.









When that was finished they raised the lift in the air and took some pictures of the barn with the old roof.


By late evening it was time to take our friends to their first visit to Frisch's!




Friday was a big day!



Bro. Mitch and Bro. Jason along with Larado and Bailey Boggs started on the barn roof. I will have a whole post about that later.



Sometime after noon Bro. Jimmy Millikin pulled in. It sure was great to see Bro. Jimmy, Sis. Shauna and their children. We are so glad to have them with us in tent revival.




My brother Tommy came on purpose Friday to work on whatever needed to be done. I was planning to wash the tent so we almost literally dove in head first. It was a huge job and Tommy worked very hard for several hours to get it clean. Thanks, Tommy! I really appreciate it.









We enjoyed a great evening with the Boggs and the Fellers working and having fellowship. The weather was perfect, the company was perfect and the work was satisfying. Praise God for friends and His favor.

Saturday was more of the same work. The Boggs and the Fellers finished up on the barn and a whole crew of folks came to help us set up the tent. I will have more on all of that later.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Monday, May 25, 2015

Great Sunday And First Night of Tent Revival

There is no way to write up a review of our weekend and fit it all in one post so I will bite off little pieces of it and present them as concisely as I can. Today I will give you a brief run down of Sunday and later in the week I will tell you about setting up the tent, roofing the barn and several other things that went on over the last few days.

Sunday began beautifully as the sun came over the tent.


Pastor Kelly Rogers had asked me to be prepared to preach Sunday morning at Dodds. I was planning to attend there anyway since I like to stay close to the tent when it is in the air so I was very glad to accept his kind invitation. Bro. Rogers really has a burden to reach this community with the message of the Gospel and I am thankful to be working with him and others this week.

The Sunday morning service was very, very good. It seemed God came down so close to us. It has been a while since I have wept so much while I preached. The folks responded good in the altar and I was very thankful.























Sunday evening we set up the sound system a little earlier than we will the rest of the week. I like to get it up earlier on the first night to give me time to deal with any problems that might crop up. All was smooth so in a little while we were ready to roll.


We had a great crowd for the first night especially with all of the graduations going on yesterday. The people began to worship and the Lord honored His Word and worked among us. I expect that will build night by night by God's grace.












It is a great privilege to have the Millikin's with us this week and it is also an honor and a privilege to have Bro. Michael Alexander playing the bass for us. Bro. Michael is great on the bass and really shares our passion for souls and our vision of tent revival. We are blessed to have him.










The Mitch Boggs Jr. family and the Jason Fellers family had never been to Cassano's so we headed that way with them and the Millikin's after service. I am not eating pizza yet but it sure looked good and smelled good. They all assured me that it was as good as it looked!


Bro. and Sis. Millikin


Bro. and Sis. Boggs


Bro. and Sis. Fellers


Before we left for Cassano's some of the men went back up on the lift and took a few pictures of the tent barn just as the sun was going down. I think the pictures are incredible. They planning to go back up in the daylight today.




That should bring you up to date on Sunday. Tomorrow and Wednesday I will try to post pictures and information about some of the other exciting things that have happened the last few days.

I hope you had a great weekend. Thanks for reading.

Davy