Mr. and Mrs. Dereck and Jody Conway

Hey Friends, This is Odie checking in from Richton, Mississippi. It has already been a weekend full of activity. My awesome (should have been twin) Jody Henderson married her sweetheart. 

The wedding was beautiful! I was thrilled to be in attendance to watch Jody and Derek begin their new life together. I am so happy for Mr. and Mrs. Conway. Four years ago I told Jody that this day would happen. She did not believe me but now it is a day for the history books. 

It has been great to be back in Richton. Thanks to Bro. Scott, Sis. Kim, Regan and Rylee for opening their home to me. I enjoy being with my "Richton Family". 

I will meet up with my parents later today. We are anticipating a wonderful Sunday here at First Assembly in Richton. 

Now here are some pics from the wedding. 

Odie

Before the wedding selfies with the bride and groom. 

Wedding cake 

Groom's Cake 

Card table 

Food table 

The girls 

Jody and Regan 

Jody and Mariah

Bride and Guys

Strike a pose

Mr and Mrs. Derek Kyle Conway 

Guestbook Table 

Me with Sis. Kim and Bro. Scott Morris 

I love Jody

Me with Miss Kanah Raine

Me and Rylee 

Time to leave 

Regan and Brandon 

Me and Regan 

Computers and Oil Change

We did not travel far but we ended the day with more accomplished than I imagined we would and that felt good!

Wednesday was the last night of revival at White Plains and we hit the ground running Thursday morning. Odie was going to Richton, Mississippi for a wedding so KJ was up early helping to get Odie in place for that. I was up early banging my head against a block wall! Ouch!

You may remember that my long time laptop bit the dust the last week of December. Most of the information was backed up but there were some files I really needed that I did Not back up when I thought I had. 

I had completed almost ALL of our year end book work after we returned from Nigeria and lost it all. I even lost some of the files that I needed used to complete all of that. I have been diligent to back information up on two thumb drives since my last crash two years before but evidently I forgot once!

I can hear my brother Steve saying right now, "Jesus saves but Davy doesn't." So, so, so true in this case.

I took the hard drive to three places early in January but they could not retrieve the information. I called the manufacture of the hard drive and they recommended a whole list of companies that could do it.

Awesome!

I contacted several of them and three answered me by phone or email with a price. The lowest price? $750!

Not Awesome!

Those files could be recreated with available information but it would take time. I needed a day with nothing else on my plate so Kelly and I could devote the time and attention necessary to do it. Yesterday was that day.

It was a long and tedious day but I look at it this way. I did not spend $750 so I worked yesterday for $750! That is a pretty good day where I come from! I have more to do but I feel so much better now.

We were hooked up and ready to leave White Plains at 5:00 Thursday afternoon.

My destination was about an hour and 20 minutes by bus. I was headed to Speedco in Pearl, Mississippi. The BoggsMobile was in need of an oil change and this was my best opportunity to get it done. I was thinking I would park close and be the first one in line this morning. When I called ahead they told me they were still open with no waiting. Cool!

I pulled right up to the lane, unhooked the Green Machine and drove inside.

Less than 45 minutes later we were completely gone! That is really good! I have waited 2-3 hours other times to get in and then up to 90 minutes more to pay out and hit the road.

The guys in the bay told me they had been slammed all day long with trucks. They barely had time to breathe and then all of a sudden it is like someone turned off the faucet. There were three open bays when I pulled up!

A few minutes later we were parked at Flying J for the night and back to work on other projects.

I slept like a rock last night and I am ready to hit the books this morning again. I hope you have a good day! Thank you for reading.

Davy

Revival In Pictures-White Plains

It has been a beautiful week in Mississippi and we have enjoyed beautiful services with beautiful people! I say this often from the pulpit, "I am so glad to be saved and to be part of the family of God!" I can not imagine Not being saved and Not being introduced to all of my brothers and sisters. That has never been more true than right now! 

I love being saved. I love the great big beautiful family that God has thrown me into. I am surrounded with family from California to New York, from northern Vermont to south Texas, from Nigeria to Mexico and a few hundred million more that I have not met YET!

Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

 17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Yes, sir! It is wonderful to be saved!

Last night was the last night of revival at White Plains. We had another tremendous service to cap off the revival. Thank God for all of His blessing on us and on His folks here. He has been near us all this week.

This is a Revival In Pictures post so let us get down to the business you came to see. Roll out the Pictures!

Thanks for stopping in.

Davy

Introducing Some More Family!

We had another great service at White Plains Tuesday night. Odie has been taking lots of pictures each night so we should have a Revival In Pictures post on Thursday.

Today I have several pictures of some of our family visiting last night. They drove over from Stonewall, Mississippi to be in revival with us and we enjoyed having them so much.

This is Selah Shoemaker with Davy

Davy and Pastor Edward Shoemaker

Pastor Edward and Sis. LaBona Shoemaker



Ivie Shoemaker, Odie and Selah Shoemaker

Kelly Jo and LaBona Shoemaker

It was so nice to have Pastor Edward, Sis. LaBona, Ivie and Selah Shoemaker and a whole pew of church folks with them in service Tuesday night. They were a great blessing to us and to the service.

We love spending time with family. Family? Did you know we had family all the way down here in Mississippi? Well, we will have soon so we are already claiming them! Bro. and Sis. Shoemaker's son Ben is planning to marry my oldest niece Deidre Boggs. That makes us family!

The big day is Friday October 6!

Deidre was kind enough to plan the wedding so that we could be home 😁 and we are excited to be able to attend. We are also glad to welcome Ben and his wonderful family into our big family. It is going to be a momentous occasion for sure!

Now you know about our family in Mississippi! It was great to see them!

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Prayer For Josiah Cheek

Update At The End Of The Post
The first week of the year we were in revival in Amber, Oklahoma and I introduced you to Pastor Russell Cheek and his precious family. This is a link to the Revival In Pictures from Amber and their family is pictured near the end of the post.

They are a beautiful family and they are in need of prayer right now. Their baby Josiah has been struggling with major health issues and they had to rush him back to the emergency room recently.

Bro. Russel and Sis. Tonya and their baby Josiah.

Josiah is a very sick little boy and he is in the hospital right now. Unless things change, he will be having neurosurgery soon, possibly today. Bro. Russell and Sis. Tonya need a miracle right now. We have been fervently praying for several weeks and we are asking for you to join us in prayer for this baby and his family.

He was nine months old when we were there, so that makes him about eleven months now. This little guy needs a miracle from God and we know that God is able to perform the miracle Josiah needs.

Thank you for praying. We know that God hears and answers prayers.

Davy


Update
Bro. Russell sent this out this afternoon.
Surgery complete. Drain placed successfully. However to the surgeon's surprise, the fluid was heavily infected; so heavily infected that she said she would have expected him to be near comatose. They are inserting a new pic line while he is still asleep for another few weeks of antibiotics, likely all three that he has been on previously. If the fluid culture identifies a particular bacteria then antibiotic treatment can be more specific. Thank you for praying. Please continue. God bless all our dear friends!