Classic Mary Moments: The ANGEL!!!

Friday, August 6, 2010

The ANGEL!!!

The other day my neice was going through my photo albums. She pulls out this one photo and is looking at it, then she says to me, WHO ARE ALL THESE KIDS?!?! Soooo I look at it and just BUST up laughing!!! This picture was from WAAAAAAAY back in the day!!! The Abbott's must have been out of town and my mom was watching all their kids and it was all of us sleeping at night. It was me, my sister Theresa and the Abbott's oldest daughter Devi in the big bed, Joe in his bed and Dustin, Davy and Danny on the floor on the other side of the room... ( We lived in a VERY small house and all five of us Ginty kids shared a room...till we moved to Phoenix when I was 14) ...and this all was soooo long ago Denae and my two youngest brothers weren't even born yet! I pointed to MJ the boy in the middle on the floor and said to her, GUESS WHO THAT IS? She just kind of shrugs..So I tell her...Thats our PASTOR now! Her mouth just kind of drops and her eyes get all bugged...just shocked to see PASTOR lookin like a little boy.
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Sooooooo I was tellin my sister and she was laughing and she says, do you remember the time, the Abbott kids were over and we ALL got in BIG trouble?! So i'm like NOOO! So she says that ALL of us kids Me, Theresa, Joe, Dustin, Devi and Danny all got in BIG trouble. Apparently, we had all snuck into the pantry together and were eating chocolate together...EXCEPT PASTOR!!! (Davy)

Pastor was EXEMPT from these naughty actions. He had stayed in our room and was playing with the Tinker Toys! (Awwwww) After hearing this story, I have to say, I was REALLY touched to the very core of my being!!! *Wipes a tear! (HAHAHAHA!) WOW!! Even at such a young, early age, PASTOR was BUSY BEING an example to all of us children of how we should be acting.

HE WAS...
SET apart...like the three hebrew children...Like Daniel in the lions den... Like David and Goliath... like Rahab in the city of Jericho... like the burning bush THAT REFUSED TO BURN!!! THE ANGEL amongst us heathens!!!

YUP! Thats MY PASTOR!!!

He ALWAYS did have a halo above his head!!! :)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHA!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaHAHAHAHaHAhAHaHAhAHAHaHAhAHahahahahahHAhAHHAHA!!!!

(Just makin sure you use that Rogaine I gotcha!;)

NO REALLY...

My pastor IS AWESOME!!! :)

(&& soooo is his BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL, DROP-DEAD GOURGOUS WIFE!!)

P.S. He probabley doesn't even like chocolate!

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!