Gospel Music Picnic!

It's the "Gospel Music Picnic" festival at Silver Dollar City and we were there for the first day.  We heard Brian Free & Assurance, The Ball Brothers and The Whisnants.  All of these groups were pretty awesome! We also got to see a lot of friends from around the area.  Best of all...we have Tabitha and Anson home from Africa and with us at SDC!  Oh...there WAS the frozen  lemonade that I really can't get enough of!!!...and the Riverside Rib House!!!

Bon Voyage to South Sudan, Africa!

My daughter and son-in-law, Tabitha and Anson Miller, are presently en-route to South Sudan, Africa with a group from Ozark Bible Institute in Neosho, MO.  This is a short-term missions trip that they have been itinerating for since the first of the year.  They flew out of  Nairobi Kenya at 5:00 AM tomorrow.....(Sunday Kenyan time - 9:00PM CDST) and will eventually wind up landing at Aweil, South Sudan, Africa.  From there they will take ground transportation (Elephant...Camel???) to Winejok??? which is northeast of Aweil about 20 miles as the crow flies....(I really don't know how far it is if the crow has to walk and push a flat tire because there are no main roads shown on Google maps)....I talked with Tabitha just as they were leaving and she is super excited about this missions trip.  They will be working with the children, possibly 150-200 of them, so they really need our prayers....

 Just found this photo on Google Earth of the airport at Aweil.  See it HERE

Victory Assembly of God, Neosho MO

Last Saturday, we (Riggs & Associates, Inc.) had the privilege of staking out the new church building for the Victory Assembly of God in Neosho Missouri.  The Pastor, Rev. James Link and his wife Evelyn have been our friends for decades...since the early 80's...and when he asked if we could do the job I jumped at the chance!  It is a 100'x145' steel building on property just west of US71 on US60, on the north side of the highway.  The dust was about 6" deep and the ground was hard as a rock....as a matter of fact it was rock in most places!  We used "PK" or "MAG" nails with whiskers on most of the points but we had the column lines all staked in about four hours.  The Links treated us like royalty with a place to stay and meals, and we also enjoyed a "Jam Session" at the church on Saturday night!  I preached Sunday morning and had a good response in the altar so it was an all around good weekend!  God Bless the folks at Victory as they continue to labor in the Master's Vineyard!  

Regan Riggs and meself staking an offset point for one of the column lines.  I'm using the rover for the Robotic Total station and if you are wondering what the whiskers are just zoom in on my left pocket.

Brother Bob Thomas is supervising the erecting of the building so he is explaining what offset points he will need...actually I think we were taking a hydration break (for everybody in Rio Linda....that's a water break)  We were so busy that we forgot to take any more pictures so two is all you get!