Weekend Woundup and Weview #37

Our last weekend in Ohio for a while has come and gone and it was a great one. Thursday, Friday and Saturday we worked on the house from early in the morning until late in the evening and we are seeing a lot of progress. 

Danny (Kelly Jo's Dad) continued painting walls and cabinets and it all looks really good. I will try to snap some pictures the next few days.

Thursday evening we moved the finished linen cabinet from the garage to her bedroom. Isaac and I carried it around to the front door and then Kelly Jo, Lisa and Steve helped us from there. It required every one of us and a little combined brain power to get it in!

Here it is Saturday, mounted and with the doors installed. You can also see one of the pocket doors in place. The doors still need to be painted but we were trying this one out to see how they look. We love the pocket doors!

Thursday we had a team dig the ditch for the electric service.

That became a huge job with some drainage ditch work mixed in. I will devote a whole post to that later.

Sunday morning we were preaching at Dryden Rd which is always and honor and a privilege. It was a special honor Sunday because Bro. Bennie asked his daughter, Renae Coffman, to sing with us and she did. We used to sing with Renae a lot years ago and that is definitely one of the things we miss by not being at home. Thank you for singing with us Renae!

Ben was playing drums after church and it was so cute.

We had just enough time for a little salsa at Acapulco in the afternoon before our Sunday siesta.

Sunday night we went to Calvary Pentecostal Lighthouse in Middletown to preach for Pastor Kevin Allen and his folks.

It was a joy to be in church with friends and to experience the presence of God with them. God touched us in the altar and we are expecting to hear good reports in the future. Praise God for His help.

We have been keeping up with our friends near the Houston area since the hurricane and most of them are doing well. I honestly never thought about Bro. Mark Compton and his folks because they are quite a bit west of Houston and they are north of I-10.

We received word the other day that their church is flooded. The building is relatively new and they have built an additional building too. My heart is hurting for them as they try to figure out how to move forward.

A house we rented years ago flooded and I remember that helpless, hopeless feeling. We had less than one foot of water in the house. We moved out, spent a few nights in a hotel and then moved on with life. We had friends, family and the Red Cross to help us out. I do not think any of our personal items were damaged badly.

The folks in the Houston area have it much worse than that and the feeling of desperation must be overwhelming. Let's ask God to help them all. Please pray for Bro. Mark and his folks too.

That wraps up our weekend. Thank you for reading today.

Davy

View Out The Front Window September 3, 2017

This was our view from the front door last Sunday morning at Haytown Hill Church near Metamora, Indiana.

This was our view out the front window.

This was our view out the front window of the BoggsMobile after we pulled into the Barn Sunday evening.

Here are the links from our posts this last week.

Odie's Saturday Post

This Week's House News

A Bad Apple?

More Good News - Nigeria

A Prayer Request and Good News

Weekend Woundup and Weview #36

Thanks for reading today. May God bless you on this Lord's day.

Davy

Odie is Back In Blogland

Hey Friends, this is Odie checking in for another summer Saturday. Summer Saturdays are in short supply for this year. It is so hard to believe fall is upon us. 

In just a few days it will be travel time. The BoggsMobile will be rolling down the road for our next tour. We have a couple of quick stops by home planned in the near future but if all goes according to plan we will be traveling mostly until Christmas. I am ready to see a lot of you in the next few months. 

Dad has detailed for you recently that I had some phone issues beyond my control. Thanks to Dad for posting for me last Saturday and compiling everything I had previously sent to the blog. I am so glad to have a working phone and be connected again to the world. 

My phone quit without warning as I was preparing to send my final sets of pictures from Campmeeting into the blog last week. Sadly I lost over 30 pictures from after church Friday night. Some of them were great pictures that I was excited to share with you but I can not retrieve them. 

I did recover a few from Friday night's service. I am glad for good WiFi and Google Photos for helping me back up the pictures before my phone crashed. I do highly recommend the app Google Photos. Click Here  if you want to learn more about the app. I try to sync my photos on my phone when I find free WiFi available. Here are the pictures below I was able to salvage. 

Indoor Campmeeting 2017 at Dryden Road Pentecostal Church is now in the history books. It was wonderful to be home with our church family. Indoor is always a highly anticipated week at Dryden Road.

God blessed us with wonderful services. The preaching we heard was food from Heaven and the presence of God was amazing. It was an incredible blessing to feel Him so sweet and near throughout the week. We also experienced awesome food, fellowship and fun during campmeeting. 

As I close I want to praise the Lord for helping my Mamaw, Martha Boggs!  Thank you for your prayers. She is home recovering from her hospital stay. We ask for prayer a lot for our dear family and friends. I love to pass on the praise reports when those prayers are answered.

Thanks for visiting with us today. 

Odie 

This Week's House News

Can you believe that it is September 1st already? We started 2017 like three weeks ago, right? Wow!

It is time for a few more pictures of the progress on the house. There has been a lot going on this week including one project that I will share more about later.

First I have a great picture for you. This is a pre-hung door for the coat closet. It was ordered specifically for the house. Look closely at the name.

You see it? This door is for Oddie Boggs. That is right, Oddie instead of Odie. I would say that is just about right. I do have one question though. How do they know ODDie so well?

Danny, Kelly's Dad has been working very hard. We really created a bunch of work for him on this house. I am sure he is ready to be finished but it has been very nice spending some time with him. I know that Kelly Jo has loved having him here.

Danny is the best painter around and this house will be another testimony of that. He is a perfectionist in his work and it shows. We are thankful to have him in our lives AND on the job!

The cabinets look treeeeemendous!

Tuesday was also the garage door day!

There will be some more trim pieces later but we think it looks great!

Last week Bro. and Sis. Galiher took a moment to stop by and look at the house while they were in town.

We took them to sample the salsa at Acapulco, of course

Sis. Galiher wanted to be the first person to sleep in Odie's guest bedroom!

Thank you, Sis. Galiher for the good laugh.

So we are making progress on the house and trying to get to a stopping place before we leave town next week. The next two days should be pretty busy.

Thank you for dropping in to sit a spell.

Davy

A Bad Apple?

It is no secret that we like our iPhones in this family. I traded in my beloved Motorola Razor phone less than one year after the first iPhone hit the market. I had a rocky start with the iPhone. I was pretty much overwhelmed by the smart phone world and I told Kelly Jo to take it back after two days.

She learned how to use it instead of taking it back and then she taught me. That is pretty much the story of our marriage! The rest is history and I have been attached to the iPhone since that day.

Having a smart phone makes life on the road much more convenient and easier to navigate. Taking pictures, communicating with friends and family, taking care of business matters, actually navigating streets, finding locations, looking up information and a thousand other things are all possible because of a little iPhone.

Odie went the touch screen Blackberry direction for her first smart phone for a year or two. She went through four bad phones in one year and then tried an Android for a year.

She finally joined the the iPhone bandwagon and never looked back. Kelly Jo got her first iPhone about a year before Odie and has been using one every since.

In March of 2012 Odie bought each of us an iPad and we have used them a bunch!

I do have one complaint about Apple products. Like a lot of other modern gadgets, it seems that the iPhone has a built in shelf life. It is like some one programs my phone to only last 2 years, 11 months, 23 days, 6 hours and 17 minutes. Then it goes poof!

Either that or there is someone at Apple that randomly pulls up serial numbers of all the multiplied millions of iPhones, iPads and iPods and aimlessly hits the kill switch on two or three different ones every minute. Ouch!

I do not like to change phones. I do not like to upgrade software a couple of times each year and I do not like to upgrade phones every two years. I usually keep a phone until it is so old that it will not run the majority of the apps I need to run.

Are they forcing me into newer, bigger and better phones? I do not know, but we have made too many trips to the Apple hospital lately.

I have had my current phone about 25 months. I had problems with the charging port a month or so ago and had it repaired.

Odie has had her current phone 22 months. She had a broken screen replaced a couple of months ago. Friday night after church at Dryden Rd. Odie's phone died suddenly. She tried all the usual and unusual tricks to get it going but to no avail. Tuesday she had an appointment at the Apple store and they were able to revive it but she did lose all her information.

She had most of her apps and such backed up but she lost all the pictures she had taken Friday at Campmeeting. That was a little disappointing but she is glad the phone is going to live another day.

Kelly's iPad crashed a week or two ago and she took it to the same appointment. Unfortunately the Apple doctor was unsuccessful and the iPad was pronounced dead on arrival. Kelly Jo had tons of songs on her iPad and she did not have them backed up recently. That is bad!😭

Either the clock ran out, an employee hit the kill switch or it was a bad apple!

The jury is still out but I have my suspicions.😊

Do your phones have a shelf life? Thank you for reading today.

Davy

More Good News - Nigeria

Yesterday I posted a prayer request for my Mother and I appreciate you praying for her. She is doing well and we are very thankful for that. God has helped and is continuing to help her.

I posted some good news about Dad's truck too.

More Good News

Today I have two pieces of good news concerning Nigeria. When Bro. Shobanke was here in May, we were able to give a good offering, thanks in large part to Bethany Revival Center in Wichita, Kansas.

In January they gave Boggs Family Ministries a generous offering specifically for projects in Nigeria. I knew the main church in Abeokuta badly needed new windows and I had Bro. Shobanke pull together a price. 

With the Bethany offering and money we had set aside for missions, we were able to give an offering for the school, the church and enough to cover most of the windows and some paint.

In Abeokuta the windows are mostly (Maybe all) custom made. You can not go into a shop and choose from several types of ready made windows. It is not a quick process. The new windows are completed now and the church has been repainted too. Bro. Shobanke sent a couple pictures last week and the church looks great.

I also posted recently about one of Bro. Shobanke's branch churches needing to be torn down and rebuilt. Then I mentioned a few days later that a few folks were asking how to help and that we were going to send some funds to encourage them as much as we could.

We sent a good offering last week toward rebuilding the church and also some funds for buying school supplies. They should have the offerings in their hands by the weekend. The amount is only a small part of what they will need but it is a start. Hallelujah!

They have already begun digging and pouring the footer and will begin laying block soon if they have not already. That is wonderful news for Bro. Shobanke, Pastor Isaiah and that congregation It is wonderful news for me too. It thrills my heart.

Thank you to the individuals that gave toward helping rebuild the church building and to the Bethany Revival Center for all they did as well. May God bless you all.

Nigeria is like most third world nations, the needs are great. There is no way for us to help every person, build every building, preach to every village, put a Bible in every hand or feed every hungry child. It is a little overwhelming. But if we can help equip Bro. Shobanke and his people to win souls, educate the children and encourage saints along the way, then that is a good place to start.

One person, one family, one ministry, one nation, even a few billionaires can not do all that needs to be done. The physical, emotional and spiritual needs are too great. Since we are overwhelmed with the tremendous need, do we throw up our hands and do nothing? 

A thousand times NO!  

Let us make a difference where we can! What you do for others may be a very small thing in the big picture of the whole world but it will be a huge thing in some person's small corner of the world!

May God help us all to touch some one in a significant way today.

Thank you for dropping in.

Davy