View Out The Front Window April 15, 2018

This was our view out the front window Monday night in a rest area near Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

I failed to snap a picture our the window at Richton Tuesday night, but here is a picture of the BoggsMobile and tent trailer at Richton.

This is our view out the front window Saturday night at Summit Holiness Church in Prattville, Alabama.

If I turn the camera little to the left and take a picture out the driver's window, this is what we see. That is a beautiful sight.

I hope you have a great Sunday. Thanks for reading today.

Davy

Hard Work Pays Off

Note From Davy: 

We began ten revival last night for Pastor Rick Simpson and Summit Holiness Church. Praise God for the wonderful first night! I am so thrilled to be back under the tent. Thanks for all of those covering us in prayer. May God bless you for it.

Davy

Now a word from Odie:

Hey Friends,

Happy Saturday, this is Odie checking in from Alabama. 

Last weekend was the Pentecostal Fire Youth Conference in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Did you see our recaps of this awesome event? On Saturday I posted a few pictures with my notes from the weekend and on Tuesday and Thursday we posted pictures galore. 

People gather from across the nation every year for PFYC. You all know I highly recommend the conference to everyone. It is truly amazing to experience PFYC. People plan and save for months to make their trip possible every year. Hard work really does goes into to a PFYC trip. 

There is one special group of people that I am extremely proud of for making the trip to PFYC 2018. They traveled all the way from Atwater, California, and that is the crew from Amazing Grace Holiness Tabernacle. Many people from their church worked long hard hours so that they could send their young people to PFYC.

You might remember this picture of the Green Machine getting a bath last November. 

We were there when they had a car wash and a bake sale. It was the first fundraiser toward their goal of PFYC. They were all excited about to possibility of getting to attend PFYC. 

That fundraiser was just a few “drops in the bucket” or “crumbs” in the big picture. They were determined to make it work. I am so proud of them. 

This sweetheart did not get to make the trip. She worked so hard and she was the star of the car wash. Her enthusiasm was invigorating that day. 

They ended up with 13 people from the church at PFYC. California was well represented. I am so proud of them for making the trek across the country. 11 of them traveled by plane and the van to reach Pigeon Forge. They had a few bumps in the road but I am glad everything worked out for them in the end.

They all seem to have a great time. I know the girls received encouragement from God in the altars. Thursday night I was able to pray with them and it was blessing to me to see them be blessed. Their gang was even able to represent California Friday evening in the PFYC Mass Choir. The did an excellent job!

Emily and J.C. Burris are students at Heritage Seminary in Savanah, Georgia. They met up with their church group at PFYC. Emily and J.C. are wonderful young people! I am proud of them.

Pastor Jared and Sis. Valerie Burris are some of our dearest friends. We enjoyed getting to see them at PFYC! Thank you all for bringing your group! We love you!

The beautiful girls from Amazing Grace Holiness Tabernacle at PFYC. 

Some of the guys of the gang. 

I was so glad to see my buddy, Clayton. 

Finally, I had to post a picture of me with the star of Amazing Grace Holiness Tabernacle, Mr. Grant C. Burris. 

It was great to be with my friends. One of the girls said their hard labor was definitely worth it. Their hard work and determination paid off for them. I was glad to see them at PFYC 2018!

Thanks for stopping by to visit us. It always great to have you visit us. Have a great weekend. 

Odie

A Quick Recap of Our Week

We are scheduled to begin revival tonight under the Blue and White Gospel Tent right next to Summit Holiness Church near Prattville, Alabama. The tent is about 1 mile east of I-65 at Exit 181. Are you going to be here at least one night?

It was a hectic ride this week and I am a little glad it is over. I am ready to let the revival begin!

Here is a quick recap of our week to this point.

We spent the day in the bus shop at Vonore, Tennessee after long tedious drive Sunday and a short night's sleep. After the BoggsMobile was ready to roll again Monday, we pulled out about 5 or so that evening. Here it is before the Green Machine was hooked up.

We drove about 280 miles to a rest area east of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We had stopped to eat between Chattanooga and Birmingham and I think that was our only stop. We were very thankful to find a good place to spend the night even though we were stopping late.

We ran into a construction slow down about 20 miles before we stopped.

Tuesday morning before we left the rest area.

Over 800 miles after we turned around to go back to the bus shop, we passed the location of our break down. It was nice to keep rolling, maybe even pushing the pedal down a little more than necessary.

We pulled into Ricthon First Assembly about 12:30 PM Tuesday and started to work. Bro. Scott and Bro Brandon helped me change tires on the tent trailer. I will tell you more about the tires and wheels later.

Then we needed to sort out what would ride in the tent trailer and what would ride in the front bay of the BoggsMobile. We had to configure things to ride properly. With all the help, we finished that work in only a few minutes.

When that was completed, we hooked up the tent trailer to the bus and parked it so that we could pull out in the morning.

Bro. Scott and Sis. Kim prepared a tremendous meal and we enjoyed the food and all of the fellowship very much! It was a relaxing evening after a few rushed days! It felt good AND tasted good!

Wow! What an amazing meal!

Bro. Scott and I did have a few more things to sort and strap down Tuesday morning but we were rolling quite a bit before noon.

The Green Machine will not fit in the tent trailer with the big tent and 400 chairs. I plan to fix that when the tent trailer is in Ohio soon. For now, Kelly Jo must drive separately. That was fine Tuesday because Kelly Jo and Odie needed to stop several places in Mobile.

There we go!

They needed to pick up packages from Bro. and Sis. Williamson (The Apostle and The Epistle).



We had two packages shipped to them in March when we thought we would be preaching for them the second Sunday in the month. Those plans changed for Bro. Bill Houston's funeral and they were gracious to hold the packages until now. 

Kelly Jo and Odie ate lunch with them and went to Lowe's to buy a new piece of carpet for the platform area of the tent. I was pulling the trailer carefully, stopping often to check the load in the trailer and keep a close eye on the coolant temperature in the BoggsMobile. The extra weight of the tent trailer will prove the worth of our recent repair. I have complete confidence in the repair but  I need to be very careful.

We arrived in Prattville as church was dismissing Wednesday. I dropped the trailer, parked the bus and then we visited with Bro. and Sis. Simpson and Sis. Sondra West.

Thursday morning started early with a full day of preparing for the tent to go up. We worked and planned until late afternoon when the church folks arrived. A few hours later this is what we had.



One day next week I will try to post pictures of the tent going up.

It feels amazingly good to have the Blue and White Gospel Tent in the air again. We drove a long ways and endured a few twists and turns to get here, but it is good to be here. We are looking for a great week of services with folks saved, healed and delivered.

Come join us if you can. We would love to have you. Thanks for reading.

Davy

Pictures From Friday of PFYC 2018

Today is the second installment of pictures from the Pentecostal Fire Youth Conference PFYC 2018. I published pictures from the first day HERE. The pictures below are from Friday. I think you can tell from the smiles on faces that we were all having a great time.

I hope you enjoy all of the pictures. Thanks for reading today.

Davy