Beechfork Holiness Church - Revival In Pictures

It has been another great week at Beechfork Holiness Church. We love coming to our Tennessee home! Pastor Herman and Sis. Margaret Woods are like parents to us and have been for over 30 years. They have embraced us and their church family has followed their example. We have embraced them all in return.

God has helped us each night of this revival and we are anticipating His help on this final night. I would love to see the church folks truly encouraged and blessed as a result of revival. God has certainly proven Himself able and willing to help us.

This is a Revival In Pictures post so let us get to the reason you came. Here are the pictures from Beechfork Holiness Church this week. 

Davy

Hotel Life Versus Bus Life

We have spent our fair share of nights in hotels and motels. We have pretty much traveled all of our adult lives, always going some where in a hurry. We have now spent a combined total of 17 years in full time travel and as far as we know, there is no end in sight.

We have stayed in Sunday School rooms, fellowship halls, evangelist quarters, parsonages, Pastor's homes and a bunch of hotels. Hotels are the easiest for us because most of them are accessible to Odie. We do tire quickly of hotels though.

We love the comfort and satisfaction of having our own bed every night and some privacy for our family. It is also very important to have space that Odie can navigate and not be limited. Most homes and evangelist quarters are not accessible for her and most folks understand that.

We talk to people out here on the road that travel for business and some of them are in two to three different cities a week for weeks on end. They live out of a suitcase and go from one hotel to the other. That gets old in a week or two!

That is why we go to the great expense and aggravation of hauling our home around with us. I get tempted at times to believe that we are "wasting" money that could be better spent and then we stay a couple of weeks in a hotel and I am slapped back into reality.

The last two weeks we were in a very nice hotel. It was clean and comfortable and the employees were friendly and helpful. It could not have been much nicer, but it was not our home.

We could not cook, could not play music loud, could not talk loud after church and could not regulate the temperature properly. We could hear the babies cry, the dogs bark, the kids racing in the hallway upstairs, the neighbors snore, the early risers close their door and the cleaning staff start to work.

Those are not complaints, just the reality of hotel life.

It was so good to get back to the BoggsMobile and enjoy our little home on wheels. It is expensive, exasperating and even enraging at times, but it is our home. We are very thankful for the BoggsMobile.

There is one thing about hotel life that we dearly love. IF you have ever spent more than a few weeks in an RV, you know that water is always limited. Either the water supply is limited in the fresh water tank, the hot water is limited to the very few gallons in an RV water heater or the tank capacity for the drain water is extremely limited.

For us, all three of those limitations usually apply in the BoggsMobile. That means careful water conservation and navy showers. What is a navy shower?

A navy shower (also known as a "combat shower" or "military shower") is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of water and energy by turning off the flow of water in the middle portion of the shower while lathering.

Hotel life reverses all that for us. We have unlimited water, unlimited hot water and unlimited drain capacity. I know. We should be concerned about the world water supply and conserve water anyway, but give us a break. This is our one indulgence!😁

This last hotel had the hottest water we have ever had in a hotel and we enjoyed every drop of it. I think we all took at least two long hot showers every day! We were squeaky clean by the time we left London, Kentucky.

But it is still good to be home! We will take the bus any day, even over long hot limitless showers!

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Celebrating 60 Years At Dryden Rd.

Revival

We have had four good services so far at Beechfork Holiness church. It has been so easy to preach and they have been responding in the altar very well. We are expecting three more wonderful services this week. I love revival!

House

I mentioned earlier that we plan to break ground on the house for Odie to live in the week after Easter if all goes as planned. We are still trying to line up all the contractors for the beginning stages but I believe it is all coming together. I know that many of you are praying about this with us and I appreciate it. I need God's guidance in many, many areas, probably more than I even realize.

Dryden Rd. Pentecostal Church

We are excited to be home that week for an additional reason. Our home church, Dryden Rd. Pentecostal Church will be celebrating 60 years on Dryden Rd. and 70 years as a church Easter week. They will have special services beginning resurrection Sunday and continuing all week long. It will be a special time.

Associate Pastor Gary Lee will be preaching Sunday morning and then preachers that grew up at Dryden Rd. will be preaching each night during the week. The schedule, as I understand it, is as follows.

Monday - Evangelist Bill Houston

Tuesday - Pastor Dallas Lakes

Wednesday - Pastor Larry Daugherty

Thursday - Pastor Darrell Meadow

Our Pastor for over 39 of those 60 years at Dryden Rd, Pastor Bennie Sutherland will finish it up on Friday.

It is going to be an awesome time all week long and we are very excited about being there every service. I am thankful that Bro. Bennie planned this celebration way ahead of time and mentioned it to us over a year ago so that we could make plans to attend.

Join us that week if you can.

Thank you for reading today.

Davy

A Story of A Brighter Day!

Many of you followed along with us in 2015 as our dear friend, Sis. Mary Isham was sick with cancer and then quicker than any of us could have believed she was taken away. 

These are the last two pictures that Odie took of Sis. Mary Isham in March, 2015 while we were in revival at Beechfork.

I was honored to preach her funeral in November, 2015. It was one of the saddest days in my memory but it was made bearable by the wonderful visitation of the Lord during the funeral and the committal service.

Sis. Mary was one of the sweetest human beings on the face of the earth and a beautiful Christian on top of that. Her passing was a tremendous loss to her church, her family, her friends and her precious husband. Sis. Mary had been married to her husband Joel all of their adult lives and understandably Joel had the breath knocked out of him with Mary gone.

It was awesome to see and feel the Spirit of God touch all of us during the funeral but it was especially wonderful to see God touch Bro. Joel. It was exactly what he needed to face the long, lonely days that lie ahead.

Those days were darker and more desolate than Bro. Joel could take by himself. God blessed him and kept him day by day. Soon the days turned into weeks and months and a year. Step by step and prayer by prayer, God pulled Bro. Joel through the grieving process.

Late November, 2016 God dropped gracious blessing on Bro. Joel. A fine Christian woman from Alabama walked into Beechfork Holiness Church during a special service. Over the months they developed a friendship and then love.

Bro. Joel and Sis. Amber recently announced that they will be married in May. We were very blessed to have them in service with us Sunday night at Beechfork.

When Bro. Joel called to tell me the news a while back, he started describing Amber and I realized we know her! She attends a church in Alabama where we have had friends for many years and we met her when she visited a revival we had in Tuscaloosa some years ago.

We were very impressed with her character and spirit back then and we are even more impressed now. She obviously has great taste in her man.

We are very happy for Bro. Joel and Sis. Amber! Congratulations and may God give you many years together!

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Weekend Woundup and Weview #14

It was a great weekend full of lots of activity and great church services. Odie finished up the week at PFYC and she loved it! She gave a full report with lots of pictures in her Saturday post and I think you will enjoy it. 

I drove down for the Friday morning service and I enjoyed it as well. Pastor Israel Sanders preached great on "Sold Out To Giving" and it was a tremendous message.

It was also wonderful to see a bunch of friends from across the country. I arrived about 2 hours before service so I could fellowship. I probably visited with at least 100 people before church and waved at a few hundred more. I loved being part of God's big family!

I mentioned in last Monday's Weekend Woundup and Weview that it was an unusual weekend since we did not travel between revivals. I think I more than made up for that lack of travel over the course of two weeks in London. I made a 260 mile loop to take the BoggsMobile to Vonore, a 400 mile loop to go home for the building permit and a 260 mile loop to PFYC and back!

The revival Friday night at Liberty Pentecostal Tabernacle ended with a bang. God moved among the people during the preaching and altar service in a powerful and sweet way. Pastor Lester Carpenter and his folks treated us so well and we appreciate their hospitality and kindness.

Saturday morning we went by the church and picked up the sound equipment and headed toward Tennessee. As we pointed south, we waved goodbye to all of our friends and two great weeks of revival, one at First Pentecostal and one at Liberty Pentecostal Tabernacle.

We met Odie and her ride along I-75 on the north side of Knoxville and then we finished the drive to East Tennessee Luxury Coach in Vonore, Tennessee. It was very good to see the BoggsMobile again and wonderful to climb back into our own bed!

It is only about 34 miles from the BoggsMobile to Beechfork Holiness Church as a crow bar flies. I know it is supposed to be "as a crow flies" but we like to say as a crow bar flies around our house. We like to picture the crow bar flying in a straight line between two points. So it is only 34 miles as a crow bar flies but is about 65 miles as the Green Machine flies.

We can make really good time on Sunday morning with no traffic, about 75 minutes, but it takes us considerably longer in the evening. We decided to spend the day over there rather than drive back and forth all day.

We had a great response in the altar Sunday morning and Sunday night. It is great to be back with our dear friends. We have know Pastor Herman and Sis. Margaret Woods for nearly 32 years and we have been coming to Beechfork for nearly 29 years.

We rolled back into Vonore about 11:00 PM.

That wraps up our weekend. I hope that you had a great weekend as well. Thank you for reading!

Davy

View Out The Front Window April 2, 2017

Here are links to our posts from the last week. Make sure you visit Odie's Saturday Post if you have not already seen it. She gave a full report from the Pentecostal Fire Youth Conference with lost of great pictures.

Odie's Saturday Post - PFYC 2017 Pictures

Revival In Pictures-Liberty Pentecostal

A Change of Plans

Marvelous Monday

Odie's Newsletter

Weekend Woundup and Weview # 13

This was our view out the window this last week in London, Kentucky. It is very similar to last week except it is on the second floor!

This was our view when we arrived at the bus in Vonore, Tennessee. We are super glad to be back in our cozy home!

We begin revival this morning with Beechfork Holiness Church and Pastor Herman Woods. We are very glad to be here and we are expecting the Lord to visit us here as He has the last several weeks.

I hope you have a great Sunday. Thank for stopping in.

Davy