Updates and Possible Cure!

Here are a few updates from High Springs, FL!

• Our "Friends & Family Day" was a huge success!  We had 80 in attendance with 1 man saved!  Praise the Lord!

• We have started a men's Bible study on Monday and now have 4 men at the weekly Bible study.  It has been a great time of Bible study, snacks and ping pong.

• We had Dr. Bill Rice III with us last Wednesday night and we had 34 in attendance for our mid-week service.  The church gave a $400 love offering that night towards paying for deaf children to go to the Bill Rice Ranch's Deaf Camp this summer, free of charge!  VSIBC has such a giving heart and a love for the Lord.

• Our 1-Year Anniversary is on March 20th...Wow!  How time flies!

• Update on Kami's latest doctor appointment & results from more testing:
  
  Kami has now also been diagnosed with Tularemia, a bacterial infection of which the doctor says she has all of the classic symptoms and which showed positive in her blood test. Her doctor believes that this is the real culprit to Kami's health problems and is also the reason that the Lyme disease has not been successfully treated thus far. Amazingly, of all the antibiotics she has been on, none of them work against the tularemia bacteria. So, Kami is starting a new antibiotic regimen in the morning which could have some pretty nasty side affects.
  
  Also, after some genetic testing, Kami was found to have a mutated MTHFR gene, which we are told is often found mutated when people cannot heal from Lyme symptoms, etc.  This gene is the one that processes Folic Acid and Complex B vitamins which in turn supports the Immune system to do its job.
  
  In short, when mutated, folic acid and Vitamin B is turned into ammonia and causes symptoms to worsen and the body to physically 'go down'.  Instead of vitamins helping her, we now know that vitamins were having a reverse affect due to this mutated gene.   The answer to this is simple, she must take 'methylated' forms of both Folic Acid and Vitamin B6 & B12.
  
  We are hoping that these new findings and treatments will work.  Please remember Kami in your prayers.
  
  Together serving Him,
  Bro. Patrick Gimenez

Quarterly Update...

Time...where does it go?  It has been a whirlwind of events and activities here at VSIBC and that doesn't even include our family functions as well!

2016 is now in full swing and we are preparing for big things ahead! 

We kicked off our 1st Sunday of 2016 by unveiling this year's theme at VSIBC:

Our focus and goal is to highlight our personal responsibility of reaching others with the Gospel of Christ.  We have several things in the works for this year:

* Soul winning classes.

* The start-up of visitation times.

* Learning Bible Memory Verses that will help us in soul-winning.

* A concentrated effort in passing out Gospel Tracts.

* Special Big Days this year that will help us in getting more folks to church.

 

 

 

One of our Big Days is fast approaching!!!

 

We have a goal of having 70 in attendance and the church will be working and praying hard for this big day! 

 

Some other Note -Worthy News:

* We have been averaging 45 in our Sunday morning services for the past couple of months and our Sunday night crowd has been growing as well! 

 

* We have 2 missionaries scheduled to be with us in the next couple of months and our folks are getting excited about Missions!

 

* We have several preachers scheduled to be with us in the next few months as well:

Dr. Scott Caudill, Dr. Bill Rice, Bro. Dave Summerdorf, and Dr. Don Strange to name a few.

 

* We are already planning our 1-year Anniversary celebration on Sunday, March 20th! 

(Can you believe that it has almost been 1 year ago that VSIBC was started!)

 

* In February, I have the great privilege of speaking at the Florida Baptist College in Tampa, FL.  I am looking forward to this great opportunity!

 

Please be in prayer with us as we know that Satan hates our focus for 2016...so please pray with us and for us during this year!!!

Ugghhhh! It's been a while since my last post!

With everything going on in the Church Plant, remembering to put a post on here has been challenging indeed.    Here are a few updates since our last post from so long ago:

 

We had our first baptism service in the Santa Fe River

 

This is Silas...

This is Callie...

This one is hard to see because we had to go so far out in the river to get deep enough.  This is James, a young man who has a wonderful wife and son who have been attending the church since our opening day!

We had a great turn-out to see the baptism and everyone loved it being done at the river.

 

 

I threw this one in there for fun!  Got some deer meat in the freezer!

 

 

We had a Homeschool outing at the High Springs Fire Department

 

This is Elisabeth and Bro. Alderman who is a firefighter.  He and his wife have attended our services since the opening day.  They are a wonderful family and love the Lord. 

 

Side Notes:

 

- A couple of weeks ago, we voted to take on our 6th missionary family...the Payton family to Nicaragua. 

 

- This coming Sunday is our "Revival of Thanksgiving" with Dr. Fred Kindhart.  He will be preaching for us in all of the Sunday services and we are having a Thanksgiving Dinner as a church during the PM service.  So far, we have over 50 people lined up to attend the dinner! 

 

- We had two more families to join the church about 1 month ago. 

 

These are exciting times here at Victory Springs Baptist Church!!!  God is good, all the time!!!

 

 

 



Our Future Bus Ministry!

From the very beginning, I have been preparing the church for a future bus ministry here at VSIBC.  I have been telling them of the great results that we have seen in the bus ministry at every church we have been a part of.  It is our desire to reach right into our community and to reach families for Christ and the bus ministry allows us to do just that!

Just 2 weeks ago, I mentioned the bus ministry again and that Joshua and I were even talking about using his car to pick up 2-3 boys to begin with.  Then 2 days later, I talked with a gentleman form North Carolina who wanted to give us a van!

He had it at the shop and his mechanic had gone through the van.  It was in excellent shade with over $3,700 worth of repairs.  It has new tires, brakes, headlights, working A/C and a bunch more!  If that wasn't enough, He rented a car for Kami and I to meet him 1/2 way to pick up the van, paid for a hotel for us, paid for our dinner, and gave us cash to pay for the gas for the trip and to register the van!

 

It was even professionally detailed and cleaned before we got it.  We already have it lined up to get the church name lettered on the van! 

 

The church folks are so excited to see God provide in such a wonderful way and we are a huge step closer to starting the Bus Ministry of VISBC!