Travel Day to Ellisville, Mississippi

Prayer Request

Please pray for my Mother today as she faces the funeral of her beloved sister this morning at 11:00. I know that God is strengthening and helping her and the rest of my Aunt Hulda's family. Aunt Hulda was well loved and the huge crowd at the visitation last night was only one testimony of that. Today and the coming days will be difficult but we trust God to speak peace in the midst of the storm.

Ellisville, Mississippi

God knows we needed strength last night and he gave it in the service at Ellisville First Assembly. The presence of God is exactly what I need in a time like this. I need to be under the spout where the glory of God comes out and during the altar service God put me right there. Praise God for his power and his presence!

Of course, being in church with Mama Joan last night was a big help to us as well!



Travel

We spent the night Tuesday at Flying J in McCalla, Alabama. We have stayed there a few times before and there is never any place to park in their RV spaces in the front. They usually have bob-tailed semis parked where the RVs go so we park in the back with the trucks. 

The RV spots were open Tuesday evening when we arrived but the trucks were parked all around them so into the back we went. When I am pulling the Green Machine I can not back up so we need a spot we can pull into. Thankfully there was one right in the front and we took it.

We had the same two trucks next to us all night long so we heard nothing but their engines running. Some times the trucks moving in and out can keep us awake but the diesel engines purring at an idle rock us right to sleep.

Since it was not very hot the bus stayed cool from the engine driven AC for quite a while after we shut down. We did turn on the generator for about two hours before going to bed but the temp was going down to 58 over night so we were able to sleep without it. It was a nice night.

I was awake at 4:00 Central but I let the girls rest a while before pulling out about 7:00. It was only about 190 miles from McCalla to Ellisville with no major cities to go through so it was a pretty easy drive.

We rolled into Ellisville and parked at First Assembly about 10:00. Associate Pastor Andy Stringfellow was there to meet me and help me get parked and soon we were on our way to meet Pastor Kenny and Sis. Joan Morris and a good crowd of dear friends for lunch.

We expected the Lord to help us at First Assembly Wednesday night and he did. The preacher could have done better but the folks responded to the preaching good anyway. I was blessed to be a part of it. We have had some wonderful times here through the years and these people are very precious to us. God has certainly brought some great friends into our life and these are some of the dearest. Thank God for them.

We thought about making the short drive to Richton after church last night but KJ is a little under the weather so we just spent the night here in Ellisville. We will make the trip to Richton this morning by God's grace. We should be in place for the Minister's Restoration meeting beginning tonight. We are really looking forward to that.

I will leave you with a few pictures from last night.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Pastor Kenny Morris and Davy

There were still several visiting quite a while after church. I should have preached longer!

Travel Day-Ohio to Alabama

Pa and Ma brought Odie to the Ranch just as we were hooking the Green Machine to the BoggsMobile Tuesday morning. It was very hard to leave them behind this time but when it is time to go there is only one thing that can be done. So after hugs all around and prayer, we hit the road about 9:45 AM.

My Dad and Mom are so precious. They do so much behind the scenes to help keep us on the road and to take care of the Lazy OD Ranch most of the year while we are gone. Thank you both from the bottom of our hearts. We love you.

Even with all of the construction I-65 in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama we were able to move right along most of the day. The speed limit was lowered in the construction zones but it only slowed to a crawl in few places. The temperatures were in the 70's most of the day so that made it a great day to travel too.

We made such good time that we could have pulled into Ellisville, Mississippi by 9:00 PM central time. That would have been a shade over 12 hours driving time but I know my limits and I am trying to learn to respect them. I drove 9 hours and 524 miles and that is enough. If I press on through and finish the day at 700+ miles I know that I will pay dearly for it the next several days.

I have nearly 400 miles to drive on Saturday and then nearly 300 miles to drive on Monday after a weekend full of services. With all that in mind I shut down a little early yesterday and I will finish the drive to Ellisville this morning by God's grace.

We are really looking forward to being with Pastor Kenny Morris and all of his folks for service tonight. We dearly love being with Bro. Kenny, Sis. Joan and our other friends in Ellisville. Tonight is going to be a special treat for us.

Another special treat will be getting to be at Minister's Restoration at First Assembly in Richton, Mississippi Thursday and Friday. We are really looking forward to being with Pastor Scott Morris and all the preachers that will be in attendance. It is going to be awesome.

Well, time to roll in a little bit. Thanks for reading.

Davy

Last Day At Home For A While

We spent Monday trying to wrap things up in Ohio. We will be gone a few months this time so there were several things that needed to be done. The tent trailer needed a new license sticker, I had quite a bit of business to take care of, I needed to buy several things from Lowe's and Rural King for City Reach and the barn had a seemingly never ending list of projects to complete. Thankfully I was able to make headway on most of the things and the rest can wait until another day.

We did make time for a couple trips to Acapulco. We ate and early lunch with the Millikins, the McCoys from Castle Rock, Colorado and the Lambs (Sis. Tara McCoy's parents)



It was great to see our friends again. The McCoys are headed back to Colorado right now so it was nice to catch them before they left. We hate to leave the Millikins but it is great to know we should see them in Wichita City Reach very soon.

We also had a late supper with my parents and my brother Steve. I tried something new last night. I ordered the Acapulco Taco Salad. It was very, very good but I left the wonderful gigantic taco shell on the plate as bad as I hated too.

I was mapping out my route to Mississippi and noticed that the interstate looks like a giant construction zone all the way down. This could be a really fun trip!

We are planning to leave this morning and drive as far as we can. I would imagine we will stop in Alabama some where after driving about 500 miles or so. We are supposed to preach Wednesday night service for Pastor Kenny Morris and in Ellisville and then we will be at the Minister's Restoration Thursday and Friday in Richton. We are really looking forward to it.

Thanks for reading.

Davy