New Music From The Isaacs

Hey it is Odie, I just wanted to share some exciting news with my fellow Isaacs fans. The long awaited new project, "NATURE'S SYMPHONY IN 432 - A Journey from Pain to Praise" from the Isaacs was released nationally yesterday. Click the link above to read more about this CD and the story behind it. 

 

The Tennessean did an article about my cousin Sonya Isaacs, her husband, Jimmy Yeary and the Isaacs new project. You can read it here

Order your copy now at the Isaacs site by clicking here. It is also available on iTunes or Amazon. 

Isaacs fans have been waiting over a year for this recording to be released. This project is fantastic!!  They just keep making incredible music! It gets my five stars rating, not that my rating means anything in the music industry. 

We have only been able to cross paths with the Isaacs to attend a concert once this year.  I am going through major Isaacs withdrawals. I keep a close eye on the Isaacs schedule! Hopefully I will be able to see them at least one more time before years end. I am looking forward to seeing them perform some of the new songs from the new project along with all my favorites. I love listening to the CD's but there is nothing like sitting in the front row and listening live!

We did get to see Ben for a few hours in February. We met him in Nashville to pick up some awesome equipment for City Reach. It has been a huge help and blessing! We are loving the equipment but we loved seeing Ben for a few hours just as much!

 

Thanks for reading and do not forget to add this album to your collection. 

Odie 

Marking Time

Note:
This post was originally supposed to go live early on the morning of September 2nd. At some point it disapeared but I did not notice until September 8th. Here it is again. Maybe it will stay put this time.

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Marking Time

Well, I have been pretty bummed about the difficulties concerning Nashville City Reach but we have had some highlights along the way. God is so very good to us even if we do not understand everything He is doing in our lives or in the lives of others. I am content to trust Him. He is definitely trustworthy.

One of the highlights has been all the encouraging phone calls and texts that I have received. Thank you all for rallying around us with kind words fitly spoken. May God bless you for being such a blessing to us.

Another one of the highlights was visiting Eastern Indiana Pentecostal Campground this week. They are having a youth revival at the tabernacle and I am glad we went. It has been years since we have visited their campmeeting and although we see most of the folks at other meetings, it was good to be back.

Kelly Jo and I were both reminded of a previous visit probably 20 years ago. Their campmeeting is in mid June and it is usually scorching hot that time of year. One night the temperature dropped during service and we and 200-300 of our closest friends thought we were going to freeze to death in the middle of the sermon.

At that time the platform was on the end of the tabernacle and had three walls. The preachers were completely shielded from the wind and had no idea that the rest of the congregation was in Antarctica. The night speaker was preaching a very serious message and everyone was pretty much scared to make a move for the exits.

He took a very long time inviting us all to the altar and almost daring anyone to go the other direction. Once the altar call was completed and a few "wicked" souls timidly made their way to the altar, 75% of the crowd bolted for the warmth of their cars. If the preacher closed his eyes for ten seconds at the wrong time, he probably thought we had all be raptured away.

There was no cold this time and that made the service much more enjoyable. We enjoyed the service, the fellowship and Bro. Jeremy Spurlock's preaching.

Bro. Spurlock was planning to be with us for all of City Reach Nashville and was going to bring some families from Hodgenville, Kentucky with him. I wanted to personally tell him of the disappointing change in plans. That made the trip to Connersville of dual purpose. I would say we killed two birds with one stone but I did not throw a stone and there were no birds harmed in the writing of this post.

I hope you all have a great weekend. Thank you for reading.

Davy

City Reach Nashville

I mentioned in Monday's post that City Reach Nashville was on the cancellation bubble due to location issues. I shared the details which I will paste below for those that might have missed it. I have been hoping the other location would open up but nothing has changed. We are now at the point where getting the proper permits in time would be nearly impossible even if a great tent location magically appeared out of thin air.

So I am sadly canceling City Reach Nashville. It hate it so bad. I am trying my very best to hang on to the words that Pastor Israel Sanders sent to me. "God always knows when to open and when to close the right doors. So keep your hand on the knob and when He turns it, push and when He has it locked, be content!"

God knows that Kelly Jo and I have tried our very best to follow through on our desire to hold a City Reach campaign in Nashville. We have made three separate multi-day trips to Nashville, trying to twist the door knob. We have walked the streets, driven for miles on those city streets, prayed, talked to people and met with leaders of churches and ministries. We have done everything but beat the door down and we pushed it hard a time or two. It is locked for now so we are asking God to help us be content.

I have contacted Pastors, churches, evangelists and individuals that I know wanted to come to Nashville. Could you help me pass the word to someone that may have made plans to join us in Nashville? I would appreciate the help very much.

I would also appreciate you praying for us. We need to know what direction to go now. There are open doors but we really want the correct open doors. I would really like to be under the tent this month but I realize it would be difficult for anyone to pull something like that together on very short notice. Please ask God to guide us.

Thank you very much for reading and for praying. May God bless you for it.

Davy

Part of Monday's Post:

We are coming down to the wire on our City Reach Nashville and we have hit a pretty severe snag in the planning. During our last trip to Nashville for scouting purposes we settled on one of the city parks that is situated in a great neighborhood for tent revival.

It was not our first choice site but it was very obviously a good location and the best available choice we had. We filed an application before we left town and the metro parks folks followed up with us right away. They have been very kind, very helpful and very accommodating through the whole process.

They gave us a tentative green light and started the formal approval process. All looked good at each communication. They did ask us to adjust our date 2-3 days later because of an annual street festival in the same park and we were glad to do it.

Late in the process the manager (Also very nice and kind to us) expressed worries over having two large and loud 3-6 day events with only one day in between them. She has a responsibility to listen and respond to the neighbors surrounding the park and she was concerned they would be fatigued by the time City Reach began and not respond positively to it.

I understood and agreed with her reasoning. It would be very hard to reach folks when they were mad as hornets that we were there. They might be mad at the park. They might be mad at the city. They might be mad at the manager. They might be mad at the street festival. They might not be mad at us at all but they might take their frustration out on us by doing their best to ignore everything we do.

She offered us a time slot a week or two later but it was not workable for us. We could also have started much earlier but that was not good for us or for the churches involved. We would have had to begin two days from now in order to do it. It was not possible.

#35 Weeekend Woundup and Weview

Please read yesterday's post concerning City Reach Nashville if you missed it. We are still asking God to guide us. I have received encouragement from several folks and I have appreciated every word. Thank you very much.

Monday a Pastor sent a very timely and insightful text. He said, "God always knows when to open and when to close the right doors. So keep your hand on the knob and when He turns it, push and when He has it locked, be content!"

Praise God! I needed to hear that!

Today's post brings us back to regular programming that was delayed by yesterday's interruption. Here is our Weekend Woundup and Weview.

Odie posted the summary from Dryden Rd. Fellowship meeting and the pictures from Friday but I have a few pictures that did not get posted.

The band





Here are a few from the kitchen and food table, a very important place at campmeeting.

We were so blessed to have Pastor Alan Harris and his precious wife Sis. Tammy with us for a couple of days this year. These are some of our favorite people in the world and it was good to see them.

After a tremendous service Friday night we stayed way too late visiting with friends but it is difficult to leave when you know it may be a year or more before you see some of them again. The late night turned into an early morning and we were off to the Lazy OD Ranch Saturday morning.

The weeds are trying to take over the gravel area so I spent quite a bit of time spraying 4 gallons of weed killer on them. It was all in vain though since a pop up storm blew in and washed it all away. Oh well!

I did get the grass moved before the rain.

Sunday morning we were with Pastor Kelly Rogers and the Dodds church right next to the Ranch. We enjoyed the service and enjoyed the great lunch with family afterward. We failed to snap a picture of everyone but here is part of them.

Sunday evening we were invited to West Harrison, Indiana to sing and preach for Pastor Wade Hicks and his folks. We had a great service, a wonderful visit with our friends.

A torrential rain came through while we were at Frisch's Sunday night after church. Some places in Cincinnati received 5 inches of rain in a very short time according to reports. 

Monday was a work day at the barn. There is always a project going there and Monday's involved using the table saw, a lot. I finally had enough of fighting with it and built a make shift table to make it easier.



That pretty much brings you up to date. Thanks for reading.

Davy

Update on City Reach August 29, 2016

I usually post the Weekend Woundup and Weview on Mondays but I am going to postpone that until Tuesday this week. I have some information that is time sensitive and I would like folks praying with us today and tomorrow if possible.

We are coming down to the wire on our City Reach Nashville and we have hit a pretty severe snag in the planning. During our last trip to Nashville for scouting purposes we settled on one of the city parks that is situated in a great neighborhood for tent revival.

It was not our first choice site but it was very obviously a good location and the best available choice we had. We filed an application before we left town and the metro parks folks followed up with us right away. They have been very kind, very helpful and very accommodating through the whole process.

They gave us a tentative green light and started the formal approval process. All looked good at each communication. They did ask us to adjust our date 2-3 days later because of an annual street festival in the same park and we were glad to do it.

Late in the process the manager (Also very nice and kind to us) expressed worries over having two large and loud 3-6 day events with only one day in between them. She has a responsibility to listen and respond to the neighbors surrounding the park and she was concerned they would be fatigued by the time City Reach began and not respond positively to it.

I understood and agreed with her reasoning. It would be very hard to reach folks when they were mad as hornets that we were there. They might be mad at the park. They might be mad at the city. They might be mad at the manager. They might be mad at the street festival. They might not be mad at us at all but they might take their frustration out on us by doing their best to ignore everything we do.

She offered us a time slot a week or two later but it was not workable for us. We could also have started much earlier but that was not good for us or for the churches involved. We would have had to begin two days from now in order to do it. It was not possible.

This is a long story but necessary to explain why we lost our location and there is really no one to blame. We have reached out to another location. It was our first choice after nothing was available in downtown proper but there was a small scheduling conflict there too. I am hoping they are able to work with us. If they are not able then we will have to postpone City Reach Nashville to another time.

We are going to wait on them a few days and then we will have to make the decision. Would you help us pray? 

I have said from the beginning that I want to be in the right place at the right time preaching the right message to the right people. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. God knows that and I expect that none of these scheduling issues have surprised Him at all.

I have reached out to some of the Pastors that have supported City Reach Nashville financially and have pledged to support it physically. They have been very understanding of the situation and have assured me they remain committed to it IF it all comes together.

I will post more information later in the week as it becomes available.

Thank you for reading.

Davy

View Out The Front Window August 28, 2016

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

Odie's Saturday Post

Dryden Rd. Thursday Pictures

Dryden Rd. Wednesday Pictures

Dryden Rd. Tuesday Pictures

Travel Days - New York to Dayton

Weekend Woundup and Weview

This was our view out the front door most of the week at Dryden Rd. Pentecostal Church.

This was our view out the front window.

This is our view not out the front window now at the Lazy OD Ranch.

And the view out the front door.

We are preaching and singing tonight for Pastor Wade Hicks in West Harrison and we are looking forward to it. I hope you have a great Sunday.

Davy