Charity Tabernacle - Valentine Banquet

For well over twenty years, Tami and I have been in charge of the Valentine Banquet that the Ozark Holiness Fellowship (our fellowship of churches) has every February. A couple of years ago, we decided to start having it every two years to hopefully generate more attendance and anticipation and... participation. So...since we did not have it this year, we just went completely haywire and planned a trip to the Valentine Banquet hosted by the Charity Tabernacle Church in Cold Springs, Kentucky. We traveled to Florence, Kentucky (on the south side of Cincinnati, OH) on Thursday, spent the day sight-seeing on Friday and went to the banquet on Friday night. 

We had an absolute blast! I'll hafta be honest... it was great just sitting, enjoying the proceedings and not having to worry about running out of food, making goof-ups as an MC, making sure everything came off without any major "hitches"...you get the picture. Pastor David Brock and his wife, Sister Sharon did a wonderful job as Hosts. Dale and Pam Hiles - friends of ours for decades, had a major part in the planning and organizing of the banquet and it was great! Rev. Johnny Shepherd of Richmond, Indiana gave us some sage advise about expressing our love to our mates. We met old friends, made new acquaintances, ate until we were comfortably full, laughed 'til we hurt and stayed up way past our bedtime!

I was having such a good time, I didn't get very many pictures....

Justaselfie!

A side of the Right Honorable - Rev. David Brock that I had never seen!...Performing his duties as "Dr. Dave", answering questions from the audience about love and marriage.
One newly-wed asked Dr. Dave "How can I make sure I remember our anniversary?" His reply..."Just forget it one time!" 

Knights of the Round Table and their Ladies!
L-R Ricky and Donna Pryor, Dale and Pam Hiles, Ray and Tami Riggs, Barry and Karen Hatfield, Rodney and Kim Eldridge.
From what I understand, Tami and I were filling the spot of another couple who could not be at the banquet this year, Jim and Bonnie Gilles

Tami and Pam - old friends!