Travel Days Toward Home

The first of this week was mostly travel with a little rest and recuperation thrown in for good measure. We only drove after church Sunday night about 100 miles and stopped in a beautiful rest area along I-26. There are times that it is difficult to find a place to park along the road at night but this rest are was huge and had plenty of room. It was a very peaceful place to park.

Monday we had a gorgeous drive into east Tennessee. We have not been in the beautiful mountains much during peak leaf season the last few years and we have missed it. For several years we preached revival at Beechfork near Knoxville during October but we have not been able to do it because of tent revivals. We plan to get back to that wonderful habit.

It was nice to be back in the mountains as the leaves are changing.

Monday evening we stopped at an RV Park in Tennessee. I include this picture because it was the first time we had plugged into electricity since we left the Richton Park in Richton, Mississippi over two week before.

We loved the mountains so much that we rested Tuesday and spent another night in the campground. That day of rest was just what the doctor ordered. We drove some in the mountains and did as much of nothing as we could fit in to 24 hours. It also gave Bro. Jimmie a chance to catch up to us.

Wednesday morning we were up before daylight getting ready to leave. I filled the fresh water tank and emptied the holding tanks waiting for the people around us to stir so we did not wake them all up.



By daylight folks were beginning to crank up and leave so we did the same. Other than one fuel stop we zoomed 310 miles home in only a few hours.

A few hours later, Bro. Jimmie joined us at the Lazy OD Ranch.

It is good to be back home for a few days. We have been to church Wednesday and Thursday nights and we worked on tent stuff Thursday. I will try to have pictures of all that on our weekend update Monday.

Thank you very much for reading.

Davy

A Little Closer to Nigeria

We are now back in Ohio and Bro. Jimmie is here too. We are working on tent stuff today and possibly tomorrow. I will tell you more about our travel days later. Today I have exciting news about our upcoming trip to Nigeria.

We finally received our travel visas yesterday from the Nigerian Embassy. Since we are not supposed to make flight reservations until we know the visas are issued, it was getting pretty late. When we received the email Tuesday night telling us the visas had shipped, we jumped on finishing our travel plans.

The flight prices had been amazingly low a few weeks ago. Since then they have bounced up and down $7-800 at a time. That is enough to give a guy a heart attack. Although we were not able to take advantage of the lowest prices, we were very pleased with the price we found.

Several airlines were offering great deals on multi-city destinations and that opened up opportunities to travel other places to visit and maybe preach on this trip for about the same money. This is a big old world and we have seen so very little of it. We are always excited to hit the road or sky or water or space ship and zoom off to some place new!

I have talked to Bro. Shobanke several times the last week or so. They are having prayer revival the whole month of October. He called Wednesday and said, "We are gathered here  in the church praying for you and your family and your coming to Nigeria. We are believing God for great results." That is super encouraging!

With earnest prayer like that, I believe that God will give us great results. We will be preaching three specific meetings plus individual services as well. Here is a picture of a flyer for the Gospel Crusade in Abeokuta. 

In addition to that meeting, we will also preach the Minister's Conference at Bro. Shobanke's church and a campmeeting in Iwo, Osun State for Pastor Isaac Adewale. Bro. Shobanke said Pastor Isaac has been asking for us to come for quite a while and we are all glad that it worked this year for us to preach the campmeeting.

Another highlight of the trip will be visiting the GoodNews Christian School in Abeokuta. We are looking forward to taking school supplies to the children and seeing first hand the progress on the new classrooms. I fully intend to be able to deliver an offering that will get them very close to finishing the new building, if not completing it all the way.

I love the kids and I love the burden that Bro. Shobanke, his daughters and the workers have to carry on the work of the school. It is a huge task any where to keep a school going but especially in Nigeria. It is so very needful and we are extremely thankful that God has allowed us to be a small part of it. We are anxious to spend some time there.

We still have quite a bit of preparation that must be completed before we leave but with visas in hand and travel reservations made, we are much closer.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Pictures of The Tent Coming Down in Fayetteville, North Carolina

The wind was strong Saturday as we began to take down the tent. That was good and bad. The wind was good because it helped assure that the tent was completely dry before we took it down and packed it away for the winter. The wind was bad because it makes getting the tent on the ground kind of difficult.

Although the wind cooperated somewhat while taking the tent down, folding the tarps was another story. That was hilarious to watch. I thought for a moment that 4-5 people were going to be swept away and land at Kitty Hawk or in the Atlantic Ocean. Since Kelly Jo was one of those people, that would have been tragic!

They did finally get it all down and folded but it was fun while it lasted. We appreciate the folks from Wesleyan Pentecostal Church and a few of the homeless guys that helped us get the tent down. They worked great together and did exactly as they were instructed to do. That makes the whole project much easier.

It has been a super great year under the tent but it did feel good to get it down for the last time this year. Tomorrow we plan to begin transferring all the tent, chairs and other tent stuff from Bro. Jimmie's trailer into our tent trailer. That should be a pretty good task.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Davy

Here is the crew.

We missed Frank in the picture above so here he is below. Frank was a big help all week.

There blows the wind!

The tarp folders are about to blow away!

Here it is all safe and secure.