Bethany Revival Center - Revival In Pictures

Praise God for a wonderful week of revival at Bethany Revival Center in Wichita, Kansas. We met Pastor DiZazzo and his folks shortly after we arrived in Wichita to pastor in 1999. We had a little fellowship the four years we were here (They were very faithful to come to tent revival at New Horizon) but we did not really get to know each other until our first revival in 2003. We have been back for revival every year so this marks our 13th annual revival at Bethany.

God has been especially good to us this week. We have had fellowship from other churches and first time visitors in the altar seeking God. The Bethany folks have been having church and getting help as well and all of that makes for a good revival.

We sure appreciate the hospitality and kindness of our friends in Wichita. We are really looking forward to being back with them for City Reach September 6-13 along with other churches joining in. I know that God is going to save souls in Wichita!

We have one more night and then we are off toward Ohio. I am hoping the BoggsMobile will be near 100% by then after I install the new part today. I will let you know. Enjoy the Revival In Pictures.

Davy

Sedgwick County Jail Report

Service at the Sedgwick County Jail Wednesday morning was out of this world good. Thank you for praying for us. The guys that go to chapel on Wednesday are going for in-depth Bible study so most of them are confessing Christians looking for strength and striving for spiritual maturity. They are hungry for God and for His help.

When they came into service Wednesday five of us had been in there praying for several minutes. Bro. DiZazzo, Bro. Mitchell, the jail chaplain and new volunteer were praying that God would meet with us and minister to the inmates. 

The inmates came in ready to worship and have church. God met with us in a powerful way and it was tremendous. I have been there in many great services but this was one of the best.

One thing we always do is sing "Fix It Man." They love Bro. Joe Bill Houston's song and they sing it about every week in the year. They were singing at the top of their lungs and glorifying God both Tuesday and Wednesday. It was awesome. Bro. Joe Bill would have loved it.

When it came time for preaching they just about preached me silly. They were soaking it up and pulling it out of me. When I called them forward God ministered to us all in a special way. Praise God for His help and His blessing. It sure was good.

Wednesday night revival service at Bethany was very good too. We had lots of fellowship from Pastor Don Crowley and the First Church of God in Christ. It was great to have them and great to have God moving among us. We are excited to see what He is going to do the next two nights.

Thanks again for praying for us and thanks for reading.

Davy

Going To Jail Again

We are having service every night at Bethany Revival Center as we usually do during revival. But we are a little extra busy this week. Monday I was busy with the BoggsMobile. I went as far as I can go and there is nothing to do now to the bus until I receive another part toward the end of the week. That frees up a little time.

I am filling that time with preaching at the Sedgwick county jail two mornings. I preached there yesterday morning and I am preaching there again this morning. Preparing and preaching twice a day is certainly enough to keep me occupied.

This is the ninth year in a row that I have preached at the county jail while I am here in revival and I always enjoy it very, very much. The first year I preached once and the next two years I preached three days. This is the sixth year that I have preached two days while I am in revival at Bethany. There is always more days available to me but in order to execute my duties faithfully to Bethany I keep it at two days now. That seems like a pretty good balance.

I love preaching to these guys. Each person in the service is at a different stage spiritually and some are not saved at all. God is always ready to minister to them and many of them are ready to receive it. That makes for a good response to the preaching especially if they know the preacher is real. At times the spiritual opposition is strong but God always brings the victory.

If you read this before 9:30 central time this morning, take a moment to ask God to help me, Bro.Charles Mitchell and Pastor John DiZazzo in the service this morning.

The girls are staying busy preparing for our time away. There's lots of sorting and packing going on along with last minute decisions on what to take and what to leave behind. Odie is not going with us but she is not staying in the bus so she is packing too.

We have got to get the bus back to Ohio after we finish here so pray that I can pull all the electrical stuff together. I think I can drive it without the alternator as I did the last 680 miles out here as long as I drive during the day, run the generator and keep the AC off. I would rather have it fixed though. I hope the next part works and I hope I can install it without problems.

That's all for today. Have a great day.

Davy

Where Is Waldo?

In April of 2012 Kelly Jo and I disappeared as part of a planned rest break for about two weeks. We figure it is just about time to do it again. This trip has been two years in the planning and we have had definite plans and reservations for well over a year. We leave Wednesday night June 24th and we are a little excited.

We had no phone service and no internet to speak of for most of our rest time in 2012. I am not sure how we will be situated with phone service and internet signal this time but I imagine it will be a little better than it was then. If we have signal we may post a little along the way but Odie will be taking care of things in my absence.

Last time we had a pretty good time with folks speculating where we were going. I figured I would open it up for guesses again. 

Where are we going? I will answer the question with multiple choice and let you decide.

1. Interviewing hundreds MORE candidates for a potential husband for Odie. We have applicants from all over the world.

2. Taking the BoggsMobile in for the new super secret, energy efficient, power boosting technology that will supposedly increase our fuel mileage to 36.4 MPG saving us thousands of dollar$ in fuel every year.

3. Hiking the Appalachian Trail from beginning to end again. This time from Maine to Georgia.

4. We are meeting for high level talks with the upper management of McDonald's to discuss ending my personal boycott of cheeseburgers. They desperately need my "Billions Served" to pull out of their downward financial spiral.

5. Re-filming our new hit reality show "Extreme Liposuction" for the Discovery Channel. The last time their puny little suction motor was not powerful enough. I hear they have upgraded to a 7.3 Powerstroke diesel motor.

6. We are filming a documentary for National Geographic about Odie living harmoniously in the wild with a family of Grizzly bears. The working title is "Meals On Wheels."

7. Swimming across either the English Channel or from Cuba to Key West. We are still investigating which place has fewer sharks AND shallower water.

8. We are attending training and obedience school with our new bus pet. He is a cute little potbellied pig named Wilbur.

9. Wimbledon called saying they need a little more competition for Serena Williams so Kelly Jo will be playing in her first Wimbledon tournament. Look for her at center court in the finals.

10. Recording my second exercise video with Richard Simmons.

11. Okay, It is finally time to hang up our bus keys and Pastor a church. We are considering multiple offers in various parts of the country. (No way anyone that reads this blog regularly is going to believe this one.)

This is an open book quiz so feel free to post your answers here. You might even be able to come up with some more ideas. Several of you know where we are going this time so keep that information to yourselves and don't spoil the secret for those that are guessing.

Have a great day. 

Davy