Gimenez Family Life: March 2008

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Sheffy the Boat

Josh built a boat from a kit that the kind folks of Liberty Baptist Church in Stockbridge, Georgia gave to him. The boat turned out great! He named it "Sheffy" after one of his favorite movies. After we were done we sailed "Sheffy" for a bit. We had a great family day!

Letterboxing in McDonough

Today we took the kids letterboxing. This is one of our favorite pastimes when we have a chance to go. For those of you who don't know what it is....You go online and find where someone has placed a letter box in your area. It's like a scavenger hunt. There are clues to lead you to the box. Usually it's at a park, so that makes it even more fun! When you find the box you put a stamp in your book, and in their book. Anyway, we love going! We found three today in McDonough, Georgia. Patrick kept saying, "This looks like snake heaven!" When we were all do

ne we saw this sign about snakes!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Our Poor Saturn

I hope you're enjoying this day! This is a picture of our latest excitement. While driving to a meeting in Georgia Patrick heard a pop, then saw a man next to us pointing to our car. Patrick tried to pull over as quick as possible to figure out what had happened. (We were on I-75) Our poor Saturn that we tow had blown a tire and made a huge mess on the front end of our car. Yuk! Patrick tied the car back together with fishing line and wire and changed the tire. We have the tire fixed! We look back on this situation and think....we had a 2 hour drive ahead of us. The thought crossed our mind for me to just drive the car and follow the motorhome. I could have been driving when this happened! Or it could have happened two hours early while we were all driving the car! The Lord is so good and His timing is so perfect!

Canaan Jubilee

We went to the Land of Canaan Jubilee in Covington, Georgia this week. The sign said "Preaching, praying, singing, shouting" and they had all 4! It was an excellent meeting and the Lord stirred out hearts in so many ways.

Family Tips For The Taking:

"I CHANGE NOT".....That is what the LORD tells us in Malachi 3:6. As a child of God, I am able to fully depend upon my Heavenly Father to never change. He is stable, reliable, and always keeps His word and standards! This makes it possible to serve, obey, and have confidence in my God. I am able to succeed and live a true Christian life, not because I am great, but because I have a God who never changes and I know what He expects and how to succeed.

It would be hard to be a Christian if we served a god who changes his mind and flip flops on his laws and expectations. We would never have full confidence in our God nor fully trust Him because we would never know what to expect or what is right/wrong from day to day.

Thus, our children would have the same difficulties if we as parents are not consistent. One of the worst things that we can do, is to flip-flop on our convictions and standards before our children.

Let me explain....we have a rule in our family that we will never watch a movie or read a book with any curse word, no matter how "small" the curse word may be. If at any time, we continue to watch a movie or to read a book that has a curse word, we have just destroyed the "trust" and "standard" that we have set up for our children. Our children will then question in their hearts, all of our other standards, convictions, rules, and beliefs. They will never see them as "Biblical", but rather as "optional". This sets up a double standard or double mind in our home and there will be no consistency. Why does our younger generation struggle with Biblical standards and righteousness today?....Why is it that our younger generation is so unstable today?.....because we have failed to set a Biblical standard that does not change and that they can follow and believe in. Thus they become double minded. The Bible says, "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."

Parents, it is of the utmost importance that we be consistent and Biblical in all things. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might!!!

Prayer Requests & Praises:

Prayer Requests:
1) Please continue to be in prayer for Kami as we continue down the adventurous and trying health issues that Kami is dealing with. The doctors are still searching for answers.

2) Please be in prayer for Victory Springs Ind. Baptist Church. We are praying for one more 'solid' family to join that would be able to jump right in and faithfully help us in the ministries of the church.

Praises!!!

1) Praise the Lord for what God has been doing thus far at VSIBC! We still have a long way to go before the church is self-standing but to be where we are after 15 months is exciting!

Gimenez Family Life