God Is Helping Dorcas!

Wonderful Great News!

I mentioned last week that I had heard from Pastor Shobanke in Nigeria. He told me then that he had news concerning Dorcas and that he would email me to explain. To say we have been greatly anticipating his email would be a slight understatement. The promised email arrived Monday morning.

For those who may not know, Dorcas was saved in our Gospel Crusade in Abeokuta in December 2009. When I invited people into the altar for salvation Dorcas literally drug herself 65-70 feet to the altar. She is physically unable to walk but she wanted desperately to pray for salvation. On the second night of the crusade she was wonderfully and gloriously saved.

This is Dorcas in the wheelchair during a Sunday service in Christ Ambassadors Holiness Church in Abeokuta in November 2013.

We have kept in touch with Dorcas since 2009 and we are always thrilled to see her when we are in Nigeria. She has a very pleasant and sweet spirit. Being handicapped is never easy but is especially difficult in a third world nation. Dorcas has a wheelchair that she uses in the church but the outside world is not accessible to a wheelchair at all in most of Nigeria. She drags herself wherever she goes outside or even inside if there are steps or other obstacles.

I often tell about the night of her conversion in my preaching. It still thrills our family to think about how God saved her and how she was determined to get to Jesus no matter what she had to do. I also tell how Kelly Jo and I have tried to send or take her a little money each year to help her survive. We know somewhat of her physical difficulties and we want to encourage her on purpose along the way.

During tent revival in Waynesville I mentioned Dorcas the first night of revival. Pastor Danny Morgan (Kelly Jo's brother) and his church were moved to give an offering to Dorcas. When all was said and done his church gave nearly $500! I had a few hundred more saved for her and I gave it all to Bro. Shobanke while he was in the states this summer.

I told him that I believed Dorcas would probably have a special financial need of some kind since God had provided the money through miraculous means. God knows what He is doing way before we have a clue.

While Bro. Shobanke was in the states, Dr. Kehinde Hunyinbo (Dr. Isaac) took Dorcas to the hospital for a thorough medical examination. Dr. Isaac is one of Bro. Shobanke's preachers in the church and a very fine man. It was determined that surgery could possibly help but she would have to be admitted to the hospital and it would be costly to pay.

When Bro. Shobanke arrived in Nigeria he told me he acted upon my words and asked Dorcas to use the money for the hospital bill. She was admitted and deposited the money for medical care and his church has been paying the balance.

According to the letter I received from the doctor they found muscle contractures in both hips and knees that prevented Dorcas from walking. She has undergone two surgeries and is still in the hospital receiving physical therapy. She will be in the hospital several more weeks and then in outpatient therapy after her release.

The wonderful good news is that Dorcas is now able to stand up and walk with a walker in the hospital. This is a dramatic improvement and they are praising God for it. We are rejoicing with our dear Sis. Dorcas and we are praying for a complete healing for her. Praise God for His help. Praise God for Dr. Isaac. Praise God for God's people helping to meet part of the need in advance.

There have been and will continue to be more financial expenses and we are going to try to help with that as we can. We will send an offering when we send school supplies in December. If you would like to help with either cause please let us know. Anything you give will be a great help and it will be appreciated tremendously!

Our God is great and greatly to be praised!

Davy

Weekend Woundup and Weview November 2

To give an account of our weekend we need to go all the way back to Wednesday of last week. We closed our three night revival at Amazing Grace Tuesday and said good-bye to our Burris friends Wednesday morning. We sure love those folks! Thank you all for your kindness and hospitality.

We really had no firm plans until our flight was scheduled to leave Friday although we did have a few options. 

We could drive down to southern California and explore for City Reach but without some firm direction from the Lord I could not imagine fighting all that traffic just for fun. 

We could drive toward the mountains or the coast and rest while we enjoyed the scenery but that would require some extra driving too and we just could not get enthused about driving. Plus the weather was going to be cool and windy on the coast Thursday.

We could visit with friends. We appreciate the invitations and we always enjoy our California fellowship but our social meter was feeling pretty full. We knew we needed some family time. We have not always been diligent about carving out family time but we are trying to do better.

I let Kelly Jo make the final decision and we ended up in the Fresno area relaxing all day Thursday. It was the right call, especially in hindsight. With all the confusion of Friday, traveling and delays Saturday and traveling in the rain Sunday, we were glad we had taken time to recharge. Even though we rushed into revival Sunday evening at the last minute we were still relatively well rested.

I thing the idea of Odie spending the night in an airport and her picture showing up around the world might have inspired American Airlines to go the extra mile and put us in a nice room Friday night. They were not required to do it but they did. We sure do appreciate it!

Like I said, it was a very nice room!

Saturday we started all over again. The trip from Fresno to Dallas was on time but the flight from Dallas to Meridian and on to Hattiesburg was delayed a couple hours due to storms in Mississippi.

We reunited with the Green Machine in Hattiesburg, Mississippi about 45 minutes from the BoggsMobile. We had not had a good meal all day so we made plans to stop at Huddle House in Petal. It is suppose to be open 24 hours a day on the weekend but they told us they were closed when we went in a few minutes before 11:00.

No worries. We pulled over to Walmart to fuel up and then next door to Waffle House. We each had a big omelet for a late night snack.

First, gas for $1.71 per gallon!

That's the Huddle House across the way taken from the Waffle House parking lot.

We unloaded our luggage from the Green Machine and laid down to rest about 1:30 AM. It felt like the alarm went off about 10 minutes later and we were up trying to get ready to roll toward Alabama. We had to get ready in the rain and then drive in the rain for most of the five hours but we made it.

We parked, set up and walked into church about 30 minutes before starting time. We are very glad to be with Pastor Jon Isaacs and his folks again. We are looking forward to some great services this week.

We had a nice meal and fellowship with the Pastor and his family and few others after church and we were home at a decent hour. Thus came the end of an exciting weekend. I hope your weekend was great as well.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

View Out The Front Window November 1, 2015

Check out our posts from the last week at the links below.

Odie's Saturday Post

School Supplies For Nigeria

30 Years and Out

Revival In Pictures - Atwater, California

Same Place One Year Ago

Weekend Woundup and Weview

Here is a picture out the back door of Bro. Cliff and Sis. Cindy Burris' home where we stayed this week in Atwater California.

This is a picture out the front door.

We stayed at a very top secret location for two nights this week and no pictures were allowed. Actually we were so busy doing nothing that we forgot to take a picture out the window even though we reminded each other several times.

Here is a picture out the window where we stayed Friday night near the Fresno Airport.

We did make it back to Mississippi late Saturday night after a few extra twists and turns. We will detail the whole trip in a later post. Here is our view from the front window when we arrived.

I do not know what our signal will be like this week near Elba, Alabama. If we can post, we will. I hope you have a great Sunday.

Davy