A Home Run

I have to admit that this well known evangelist is not only good at baseball but hit some home runs with his messages at this years camp. Both Bro Stetler and Bro Kaufman did outstanding in the pulpit. Bro. Stetler was already one of my favorites but I now will have to add Bro. Kaufman. Three messages that really stand out is the first Sunday night of camp where Bro. Kaufman preached a message on "Forgiven and Forgotten." He talked how that when God forgives He also forgets.....we may not forget and other may not forget but God does forget. Bro Stetler preached on Wednesday night on the spiritual warfare that satan is waging against in in ways that we are sometimes unaware of his tactics. On Friday night Bro Stetler preached a message with a family emphasis. That night he preached on Lot and all the mistakes that Lot made, but when we read over in the New Testament we read that Lot was a man after God's own heart. Bro Stetler spoke to us that even godly and good people make stupid mistakes. This message was a message with warnings to all of us for if not by the grace of God there go I. I was able to get these three messages on CD. I must admit that there were other messages now that I think that truly challenged my heart like Bro Stetler's message on Sunday morning entitled "God coming through the back door." You see God came in the back door so that no man would be left out....this was a power house message. Bro Jones on the last Sunday morning preached a message with such love and passion on challenging us to reach out to our communities....this too was a very, very good message.



But I have to say that this was the most beautiful site of all at Rock Lake Camp. This lady who did the children's ministry blessed my heart the most. I brought her home with me as a souvenir. I now own a shirt that says "I went to Rock Lake Camp and all I got was her."

Weasels and Witches

To most people this post may not make any sense but to people who like to play cruel jokes on unsuspecting people this post is appropriate. In the community where I work a very interesting event occurred. This event made the news and included the name of my hospital.This event was covered by many different media outlets in the state and our organization had received many different calls. I hate to deal with the media and want no part of having to give statements. Please realize that our hospital was not the interesting part but that was the ending result of the incident. Some so-called friends of ours located in Columbus, Indiana (I won't mention the name of the Waldens) decided to connive with a certain blonde woman and a prank was devised. I received a call from a certain man identifying himself as a reporter from the Evansville Daily. This call came over my cell phone and asked if I was in charge of the nurses at my hospital. This false identified person proceeded to ask questions in regards to this event which I am not allowed to release especially to the media. I professionally asked this person their name and phone number and was ready to kill the person who gave out my cell phone number to the media. I was trying my best to get off the phone with thsi person and wanting to get ahold of our Public Relations Director when a certain man began to laugh with a certain wife of his laughing hysterically in the back ground......the joke was on me. This certain family and a certain wife of mine should beware because there will be pay back. I will get even and this is a promise.......to the weasels. Don't worry I will have a wonderful attitude all the while. I am open to anyone and everyones suggestions for a payback to these weasels!!!!!!!!!!

Weary, Tired, Worn But With Lots of Stories

Have you ever been so tired that you are not sure if you are dead or alive? I feel like I have been through the ringer a couple of dozen times. We arrived home at 1:50 am this morning. After driving straight from Rock Lake Camp to home with three sleeping passengers, with moments of barfing and yelling. As most of you know we left Rock Lake at 9:00pm with a certain little boy with a fever and complaining of not feeling well. I had loaded the van and had asked a certain little Blondie to make sure that Connor had something to catch stomach secretions that might occur on our long trip home. As we start off I once again ask the certain little Blondie if she had a sack or something and her reply was no. Now being a nurse I have found myself in situations where I was not prepared and believe me that these are lessons that you learn very quickly in nursing. ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR THE WORSE!!!!!!! These are very hard and messy lessons but once learned you never, ever forget. The little Blondie I can tell by her tone thinks that I am being my typical neurotic self and asked if I had any ideas of what we could use. I quickly reach back to the back floor board to the bucket that is holding the boys toys and suggest that we use this as our emergency catcher of body secretions. So off we went and the boys soon started to settle down and mommy was busy playing games on her computer. Approximately 15 miles from the Indiana state line we heard the sound of gastric juices being expelled from a certain little boy. This sound is very clear to this trained ear and does not need any type of announcement......but as this little boy spills his guts another little boy quickly begins to yell "Connor is frowing up in my bucket, Connor is frowing up in my bucket!!!" (over and over and over). Then the little Blondie playing her computer begins to yell at the same time "Gene, He is throwing up!!!! Gene, He IS THROWING UP!!!!!" Now this man knows from experience what throwing up is and can hear that sound six rooms away. I did not need the entire vehicle to announce to me something that I could not do anything about at that moment. We were out in no where land and no where to pull off. Finally as we made our way off the side of the road the little Blondie quickly put her computer way(lest it be spattered by some type of body secretions). I truly felt that since her job so far in the trip had been computer expert that she could get out and clean up the bucket that Kent was so worried about. Gagging and flopping around on the side of the road the little Blondie finished cleaning the bucket. Starting back out to make it home before I had to leave for work in a few hours the little Blondie announced to everyone in the car that she was no longer hunger and theer was no need to stop after midnight for food. The little Blondie turned off her computer curled up in a ball and went to sleep. The Davis family finally arrived home, emptied the rented van, took a shower and went to bed at 3:00am and was back up at 7:00am for a first day back at work. Needless to say that in this family there is never a dull moment. Stay tuned to other stories of camp and stories that should never be told.

We are off!!!!!!!

Twas the night before the Davis family left for camp.........The van was all loaded with everything they owned. The kids were all nestled on the floor of their parents room while visions of golden arches danced in their head.

Well it goes something like that....I think!!! I can't believe that camp is finally here and we are about to leave. I am so looking to this next week. I have to believe that with the week we have had that the devil must be fighting because he knows that God has something special for us this next week. It has definitely been one of those weeks. Wait I think this is where I need to practice what I preach....PRAISE THE LORD!!! I do not want to sound like a grumbler or a complainer so I will choose instead to PRAISE the LORD!!!!!

If you would happen to think of the Happy Campers please whisper or even yell a prayer for us. What a privilege to be able to serve the Lord and to be able to minister for Him. So if you think of us just know that we will be PRAISING THE LORD!!!!!

Someone loves me.....

For those of you that know me know that I am far from being a technology geek. I am just a plain old geek. Yet recently while on a company trip I became fascinated by the driver's GPS system. Now it does not take much to impress me and this really impressed me. Now realize that recently in Doodle Land we made a purchase of a laptop that a certain blonde has been salivating over. This was definitely a want and not a need. With minimal eye rolling and no complaining from me (not that it would have mattered) Hermie made his new owner ecstatic. When I mentioned in passing that I wanted to price a GPS the certain little blonde holding Hermie in a death grip to her chest made the following comment...."Those are way to expensive...you don't need one anyway." I found that comment very interesting considering the several hundred dollar want that the little blonde was holding with a death grip and the couple hundred want I was wanting. Like any good husband I push her comments aside and decided that a very nice GPS was in my future. Please understand that I very rarely spend money on myself. I would much prefer to spend it on my boys and my beautiful blonde. As I began to price this new toy that I now longed for my beautiful blonde continued to make comments like "you don't need one of those things you are good with directions." At last this past Sunday I called my mom for my bi-weekly check-in...when low and behold out of the blue my mother informed me that she had ordered me a GPS of my very own. She had been looking at them recently and she really felt that her little boy could use one of these since he spends so much time traveling. Thanks MOM you are great!!!!! Now that we saved the money on a GPS I now see a blackberry in my very near future. Don't worry if I tell the beautiful blonde I want a blackberry she'll think I am ordering a pie and ask me to get her a chocolate one.

Please pray for me I think that I will be dead after she reads this post. Jesus come quickly....please!!!!

Camp Wanna Praise Him

Dear Readers,

The Handy Dandy Davis Family will be heading out this next weekend for another scheduled ministry time with kids. We will be making our way to our northern neighbors in Michigan. This time next week we will be on the camp grounds of the Great Lakes Bible Methodist. This will be our third year to be the children's workers with these dear people. I have truly come to love and adore these northern friends. Of course Bro and Sis Blake Jones are very dear to our family. Bro Jones helped marry Ang and I 10 years ago this past June the 20th. We will be home less than a week and than we will be heading out once again to Kingston, Ontario for a VBS with Angie's cousin Joe Krohn. We should be returning on Monday and starting VBS at our church (where we will be helping David and Sara Fry). Our theme this year is Camp WannaPraiseHim and we are trying to teach the kids the importance of Praising God. In these busy days and weeks I have to remind myself of my own lessons that I am teaching. Praising God in the good times, Praising God when we want to complain, Praising God when we people "bug" us and Praising God when we are disappointed. I am so looking forward to being in camp once again. The workers this year are Bro Daniel Stetler, Dr Kaufman, Daniel and Angie Edwards. If you think of the Davis family over the next couple of weeks please say a little prayer for us.

Yours Truly,
The Happy Camper

I went to VBS and all I got was.......

made into a smore!!!!!