Family Conference 2012

Our church held its yearly family conference last week, March 28th-31st.  Our theme was taken from Hebrews 11:7.  "Preparing an ark to the saving of my house".  Our guest preacher was Pastor Alex Ramirez from Cuernavaca, Mexico.  What a tremendous blessing he and his wife were to our conference. 
As always when we are busy doing God's work and or trying to help others, the devil seems to be around the corner to put obsticles or henderances in our way to make things difficult.  Such was the case in the preparation of our conference.  Every day was begun in pray ending with "I don't know how all will get done but all is in Your hands Lord!"  God is so good and it was amazing how the Lord stretched the hours of the days so that I could get things done, keep up with normal office responsibilities and of course my home.  The ladies of my church were such a blessing to bring my family and I meals for the week so that I didn't have to worry about cooking. 
So many of our people sacrificed in giving financially and gave many hours in preparing for this conference.  My prayer is that the Lord will bless them richly!


Our people preparing and getting in their places as we begin to start our conference.

 Our bookstore workers

Our pastry shop!  :)

Our wonderful and hard working kitchen help!

Nursery registration line.

Nurseries are starting to fill up!

Children starting to arrive for junior church.

Pastor & Mrs. Alex Ramirez

FAMILY CONFERENCE 2012

Pastor Ortiz welcoming everyone to our conference.

SPECIAL MUSIC

Pastor Ramirez

A special lunch was held at Olive Garden for pastors and missionaries and their wifes that attended the conference.

Spring Is Here!

I love spring!  Well, I like every season!  :)  I'm so glad I live in an area that I get to enjoy all four seasons.  I remember when we lived in Puerto Rico.  My first Christmas there was so hot and sunny!  I didn't have a Christmas that year!  Well at least it didn't seem like Christmas.
I was thinking of some of the things I am looking forward to in the next few weeks as spring is starting and thought I'd share them with you.  Maybe you share the same likes.

• The cool breeze through my windows.
• My garden that will come to life again.
• The crisp mornings.
• Being able to grill again.
• A comfortable walk in the evening.
• Seeing kites fly in the park.
• Going for an evening ride with the windows rolled down.
• The smell of cleaners as I begin to do a spring cleaning in my house.
• The sound of birds singing.
• Having more daylight.
• Seeing the trees and flowers bloom.
• Seeing GREEN.
• Flower scented candles burning.
• Switching in spring decorations on my dining room table and throughout the house and garden.
• Going to a Ranger's baseball game.
• Wearing summer outfits.
• The rain.
• The smell of fresh cut grass.
• Eating home grown tomatoes.

God has given us so many things to enjoy!  What are some of your favorite things about spring?  Leave me a comment and share them with me!  :)

Have a great and enjoyable spring!

Our Marriage Seminar and Dinner

Every year our church has a two day marriage seminar and we end it with our Valentine's dinner.  So Thursday and Friday February 23 & 24 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. we held our seminar.  We give out notebooks with material and they can also take notes.  The tables are decorated with chocolates, mints, coffee cake and valentine decorations which is great doing this after Valentine's Day because I am able to get them at 75% off.  :)  We have a break in between each session and they are able to go to the snack table and get chips and salsa and soda or water.
This year we had 28 couples that came for the seminar and 20 couples for the dinner.  We had a great time!
I think we ALL need a yearly charge to better our marriages.  I wish every church would do this.  We need stronger marriages to have stonger homes to have stronger churches.

Marriage Seminar

Our Valentine's Dinner

Mr. & Mrs. Fernando Menjivar

Mr. & Mrs. Jose Luis Gutierrez

Mr. & Mrs. Jose Valencia

Mr. & Mrs. Gilberto Ramirez

Mr.& Mrs. Jorge Ramirez

Mr. & Mrs. Julio Vargas

Mr. & Mrs. Agustin Alvarado

Mr. & Mrs. Rene Rios

Mr. & Mrs. Danny Ortiz, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Salvador Arevalo

Mr. & Mrs. Jose Espinoza

Mr. & Mrs. Pablo Rivera

Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Olivo

Mr. & Mrs. Alfredo Morin

Mr. & Mrs. Omar Dinarte

Mr. & Mrs. Salvador Rojas

Mr. & Mrs. Kelly Daniel

Mr. & Mrs. Pablo Landeros

Mr. & Mrs. Leonel Guevara

Pastor & Mrs. Danny Ortiz

We played a game "He loves me, he loves me not!"  The spouse had to draw a piece of paper that said either "He loves me "or "He loves me not!"  If she picked He loves me not they had to pick another piece of paper with an action of proof he had to do to prove to her he loves her.  Here are some of the actions of proof they had to do.

A back rub!

Kiss her feet!

Sing a love song!

Do sit-ups!

Buy his wife a gift!

5 kisses in front of everyone!

Give his wife his wallet and let her take out whatever she wants!

Propose to his wife again!