Gimenez Family Life: Hotel Life and just a bit more..........

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Hotel Life and just a bit more..........

(Silas playing with his train in the hotel window.)

Hotel life can get tiring but we try to make it as fun as possible. Sometimes, we get into the hotel and we unload all of our stuff (suitcases of clothes, bottled water, 2 play-pens, suticase of shoes, briefcase, hanging clothes, sleeping bag, and much more.....) and then we find our own corners to just have a moment to unwind. Silas found this window sill (above) and loved looking out over the water below and playing with his train. Sometimes we read books, sometimes we play family games, and sometimes we collapse into bed and take a nap!

We just arrived back into Ft. Myers yesterday (Monday) and spent some time at Kami's parent's house. Then we came back to my mom's and unpacked and re-packed all of our suitcases and did laundry. We head back out tomorrow to Tampa to be a part of the Mission's Conference at Southside Baptist Church with Pastor Kerry Nance. We are excited about the conference and especially the fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

The conference runs from Wednesday thru Sunday and then we come back to Ft. Myers to celebrate Beth's birthday.......yes, she will be our newest teenager! Yikes, two teens in the same house! She is developing into such a Godly young lady. Just the other day, she was ironing all of our clothes and I asked her what she was doing. She replied, "Daddy, I am practicing my skills!" I praise the Lord for her!

As for our family's health, every one is doing fine but I went back to the doctor today and got some more antibiotics. Hopefully this latest prescription will cure me for good! I just praise the Lord that we are able to attend this upcoming conference. Please continue to pray for a house to become available next month for us to rent, for my french paperwork from France to come in so we can get French passports, and for all of our finances to come together. We are still needing 9 more churches to take us on for support, a vehicle, and all of the finances needed for moving a family of 7 to a foreign country. We appreciate and covet all of your prayers for us and praise the Lord for each and every single one of you!

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!

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