A Post On Friday With No Name

Today's post is a quick recap of the last few days.

Tuesday night I was preaching at Dryden Rd. concerning my vision for City Reach Dayton. Number one, it was great to be home and number two it was good to preach about City Reach. It seemed to be well received if the conversation after church was any indication. We are praying that God will cover us up with His presence in City Reach Dayton in July.

It was great to have Dad and Mom there!

Davy and Pastor Bruce McGuire

Odie and Sis. Sutherland

Bro. Bennie, Eugene Boggs (my Dad) and Davy

Wednesday evening we spent a couple hours at Corwin Pentecostal Church for Bro. Acy Wendell Lamb's visitation. Bro. Acy was a great influence to us when we were young along with hundreds of others. While he was Pastor of Corwin church the last several years he invited us for multiple revivals and was a great encouragement to our family.

Later Wednesday evening we stopped in at Acapulco for one last visit. My brother Steve met us there and we really enjoyed visiting with him.

Thursday morning we prepared to pull out of the barn and point toward the west. We decided to dehydrate the bus and leave it behind. It takes up much less room when it is dehydrated.

When we get back, all we have to do is add water!

Just kidding! We are taking the bus with us!

We can actually buy diesel for the bus on this whole trip cheaper than we can buy gas for the Green Machine, stay in motels 11 nights and eat all our meals in restaurants. Plus we get to sleep in our own bed!

We stopped in Collinsville, Illinois, near St. Louis, and ate supper with the Brimm's at Bandana's BBQ.

It sure was great to see all of them. The Brimm's have been such dear friends to us for many years and we do not get to be with them near enough. The hour with them last night was just enough to whet our appetite for more!

I wonder how many times I have driven through or around St. Louis in my lifetime. The first time I drove through the city was the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving in 1986. I was driving an 86 S-10 Blazer, back when the two-door version was the only flavor they offered. It was my first "new" car. It was actually a company car for GM executives but they were sold as new to employees. I had only had it a few days. It had 7000 miles on it when I picked it up.

It was late at night and we stopped and walked around the Gateway Arch. We also walked down to the water and put our hand in the Mississippi. That makes perfect sense, right? Every one would touch the Mississippi if they are that close!

Since then I have driven through town or bypassed around town more times than I can remember. I have driven nearly every car and truck I have ever owned through St. Loius and pulled three different fifth wheels and of course driven the bus through.

Why do I tell you all that? To tell that even with all that experience I still make mistakes. I made a wrong turn and took the interstate right through town instead of around the easy southern bypass. The bad part is that I made that mistake at 5:00 rush hour. OUCH!

At least we made it out alive even though we lost 40 minutes to an hour in traffic and wore my nerves down to the roots!

We pulled into our familiar parking spot in the RV parking section of the Flying J in Sullivan, Missouri about 7:00 central time. It was cold over night so we ran the generator to keep things from freezing up.

We drove 446 miles Thursday and we have 341 miles to go today.

We plan to be in service tonight at Bethany Holiness Church near Sapulpa, Oklahoma for a Planning and Vision Service for City Reach Tulsa. Come be with us if you can.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

A Nigeria Bound Suitcase

The school supplies for GoodNews Christian School in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria are on the way. Kelly Jo and Odie went to at least four different stores gathering the best deals on the particular school supplies that can be used at GoodNews.

Kelly Jo packed and weighed until she had the suitcase at 50 pounds on the dot. We owned a suitcase that was nearing the end of its life so we sent the supplies in it rather than buy a new one.

We took the whole kit and caboodle to the UPS store and sure enough it was 50 pounds on the nose!

By the time they wrapped it for shipping it was a little more than 50 pounds but it was wrapped good.

It arrived safe and sound at Pastor Sam Snow's in Texas. He will be leaving for Nigeria in a few days and will deliver the supplies for us. We sent money to Bro. Snow as well to pay for our suitcase to travel as an extra piece of his luggage. Hopefully we will have pictures of the folks in Nigeria receiving the bounty. I am very thankful Bro. Snow was willing to do it.

We sure appreciate those that purposefully helped send these supplies. These things can really make a difference in the lives of these students and certainly facilitates the teaching and enhances the learning experience. Sis. Ruth and Sis. Rebecca and their staff are always very thankful to receive whatever we can deliver or send to them. May God bless you for your kindness and generosity. 

We also sent an offering to help with Sis. Ruth and Sis. Rebecca's supplies, a small offering to help with Sis. Dorcas' medical expenses, and offering for Pastor Shobanke and his church and finally an offering for a couple of the Pastors we try to support periodically. Thank you for helping us do that!

We are very anxious to return to Nigeria and our dear people there. Hopefully we will be able to go next November or December by God's grace. Bro. Shobanke tells me they are already fervently praying about it. Sounds good to me.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Schedule Change For This Week

There is a schedule change that affects this week so I am interrupting regular programming to pass the news along.

We were scheduled to do a Planning and Vision Service in Richmond, Indiana Thursday night but that service is no longer on the schedule. The Pastor that had asked me to come, is not getting as much participation from local churches as he would like at this point. Even though he would still like for me to do a tent revival at his church, he did not feel like it would make much sense to do a Planning and Vision Service if most the churches were not planning to participate. I wholeheartedly agreed.

We may do a tent revival for him, a tent revival some where else or we may do a City Reach in another city. That remains to be seen. But there will be no service there Thursday night of this week. IF you know of anyone that might have been planning to attend Thursday, please let them know the service is canceled.

This will actually make our week a whole lot easier. We will be in the Tulsa Oklahoma area on Friday, so no service Thursday night in Indiana makes that trip much less difficult.

While I am discussing the schedule, we have a few added dates in the next few weeks as well. We will be in Elkton, Virginia at Bible Holiness for Pastor Brent Gabbard on Thursday December 10th. We will be in Dayton, Ohio at First Pentecostal for Pastor Kevin Lloyd on December 22nd. We will be at Garden Acres Pentecostal Church in Goshen, Ohio on Monday and Tuesday, January 4-5 for Pastor Dwayne Cornett.

You can always see our schedule at a glance HERE. That should bring you up to date.

A Very Boggs Thanksgiving!

Saturday was the big day for Thanksgiving dinner for the Boggs family. Since all the children married off, Mom has often had her dinner sometime other than Thanksgiving Day so that we could spend time with our spouse and their families on Thursday. 

Kelly Jo, Odie and I are not usually home at Thanksgiving at all so this was an especially memorable year for us. We enjoyed every moment of the day! To be a part of this evening was a treat, the meal was tremendous, the camaraderie was terrific and the laughs will be treasured for a very long time.

Dad and Mom host a lot of our family get-togethers at their barn and everyone loves it. It is a great place to gather, eat and have fun. However, with colder weather the barn is out of the question so we often rent the fellowship hall at Dodds church for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

That has been very handy for us since we have been parked within 75 feet of the front door for the last several years when we are home. Now we are right next door at the Lazy OD Ranch so its still very convenient for us. It is nice that we have lots of room for the meal and for fun and games too.

Boggs people always have plenty of finger foods to eat while real food is on its way!

Like most families we have a large iPhone contingent in the Boggs family. It turns out that we had some very early adapters to iPhones in our family.

Check this out!

Even Android people can admit this is cool!

Dad and Mom with the children and spouses. Children from left to right: Jay, Theresa, Kelly Jo, Davy, Steve, Karen, Holly and Tommy

This is with grandchildren thrown in the mix. Grandchildren left to right: Victor, Luke, Lauren, Deidre, Odie, Jonas and Isaac.

This is all the women folk with our honorary and well loved sibling Lisa.

That was our Thanksgiving and what a great evening it was. Thanks for joining us.

Davy