Tuesday Night in New Castle, Indiana

The laptop I use every day is several years old but I had to replace the hard drive two years ago. The hard drive seems to have kicked the bucket again yesterday. Bummer!

We have another laptop that Kelly Jo uses some. We need to get it out and hook it to the internet. It is difficult to get the blog to format correctly on my iPhone. 

We had a nearly two hour drive home after church last night and then I spent a good amount of time trying to get my computer going. That puts me running short on time this morning so you get mostly pictures today. 

We drank a little salsa at noon Tuesday. 

Yesterday afternoon we drove to New Castle, Indiana to sing in a Christmas service for Pastor Brian Hisle and his church. It was a wonderful evening. 

We appreciate the Hisle family's friendship. They have been friends of ours for many years and we love their family very much. 

Here are a few pictures from last night. I hope you enjoy. Thank you for reading today. 

Davy

Road Pictures From Nigeria

Kelly Jo and I have been resting good since we returned home but I have been waking up at 4:00 AM every night. My body is telling me it is 10:00 or 11:00 AM and I have to get up. Monday morning I slept passed my internal "wake up call" and it was wonderful. I hope that continues at least some of the time.

We have a few road pictures taken out the window while in Nigeria. Although traffic can be hectic and travel nerve-wracking in Nigeria, it really is the best way to get a view of the country. Folks usually love to see the road pictures and I have already had a few ask where they are.

Bro. Shobanke's nephew, Emmanuel, drives for us and has driven us nearly every day of every time we have been there. We love his driving. He is politely aggressive and generously uses his horn. Using the horn in Nigeria is not an expression of anger at all. It is generally a polite way of saying to other drivers and pedestrians, "Hey, I am here and I am coming through. I am beeping because you may not see me."

Bro. Shobanke's oldest son, also named Emmanuel, picked us up a couple of time and drove us to the church this year. He did a great job too.

Most of these pictures are taken out the windows so they are not as clear as they should be. It seems a little intrusive to roll the window down and take pictures of everyone as we go by, so we take them through the window.

We had never seen these three wheel taxis in Nigeria before but they are every where now.

There is also a new company selling motorcycles there. They are a little bigger than the motorcycle taxis used to be. The company has sold thousands of them in Nigeria the last two years.

Notice the baby on the mother's back. We have seen taxi bikes with another child in front of the driver and a third adult between the driver and the mother with the child on her back.

This is the entrance to the Christ Campaigner's Church in Osun State.

This is school children walking home.

That is all the pictures from Nigeria. I will try to write a post summing up the whole trip soon. Thank you for reading today.

Davy

Weekend Woundup and Weview

It has been a busy and fun weekend for our family. It is very nice to be back into somewhat of a routine. Friday night was our first Christmas service. We had a great time with Pastor Randy Brown and the church in Sharonville, Ohio. It was very good to have my Mom and Dad there with us.

My brother Steve and his wife Karen were there and Renae and Jacqueline Coffman were there too.

Pastor Randy Brown and Davy

Saturday was quite a bit warmer with rain all day. I worked on some bus things and barn things most of the day but we did take a little time to drink some salsa for lunch.

Sunday morning Odie went to Dodds with my parents.

We went to Dryden for a super great Sunday morning service.

Sunday night we had our second Christmas service at Anchor of Hope in Lebanon, Ohio. They included us in their special candle light Christmas service and it was so good.

This is sound check.

They have a terrific band at Anchor and we supplemented their band by having Bro. Michael Alexander with us playing bass. They all sounded awesome together and made it real fun to sing. I wish I could take a full band with me every where but I am very thankful to have the best piano player in the USA every night. I suppose I should not be greedy!

That pretty much wrap up our weekend. The cold came back with a vengeance Sunday and that is no fun. I keep telling myself that we will be in the south before too long. That will be nice!

I hope you had a great weekend. Thanks for reading.

Davy