"And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deuteronomy 6:7)
After teaching at the private school for the teenage boys that had been kicked out of public school, Frances decided to resign from the career that she was passionate about and at this point she excepted a positon for a job that she never did resign from, MOTHERHOOD! Once Frances became a mother she knew that she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, and her husband always backed her up in this decision because his mother had been a stay-at-home-mom, he saw the importance in that decision.
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Frances said, "The moment I held Theresa, my firstborn in my arms, teaching was put on the back burner. I had a new passion, a new dream and a new career. I was a mommy now and I loved every moment of it. It was just the best thing. You have this little person that was created by God, given to you to care and nurture for." She said that when her second child Joseph was 3-months, she got a phone call. It was the Vice- principal of the private school she had taught the boys at and she was calling to tell Frances that she had recently become the principal of the private school and that the vice-principal position was now open. After thinking about it she felt like Frances was the best person for the job. Frances said she was honored that she was being offered the position as vice principal without even an interview. However, without hesitation and much to the principal's surprise, Frances said, "Sorry, I am a mommy now and that is my job.” She never looked back or regretted her decision to give up her career as a teacher. Even in her last days she always said that it was worth every sacrifice and she always felt that there was no higher achievment for her than being a mom.
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Frances loved spending time with her children. She never really was one to go hang out with girl friends, she was always hanging out with her kids. She was always helping them have the best school projects in their class, she volunteered in their class rooms, she taught the mini museums. Every summer she took her kids to Jr. Youth Camp where she was the arts and crafts teacher. Every craft that she would make with the kids would always have a Bible scripture on it. She said that this was a way of getting The Word of God in homes that may never otherwise have scriptures in their home.
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Every night before they went to bed, Frances would sit on her chair in the living room, her five children gathered around on other chairs and the floor and she would read to them, The Box Car Kids, The Hardy Boys, Beverly Cleary books, she loved to read to them. The kids would always beg her to read more, come one mom, just one more chapter, just one more!!! Sometimes the book was so good she just couldn't stop for the night, and she would say to the kids, just one more chapter, just let me read one more chapter to you guys. Sometimes she would think the book was so funny she would be laughing so hard she couldn't even get out what she was saying and the kids would say, MOM! What's so funny? We can't understand what your reading!!!
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She taught her kids through her actions the importance of faithfulness to the house of God. No matter how sick she was feeling, she rarely ever missed a church service. She also taught her children through her actions to do what is right no matter the risk or what anyone else said. Two times, for her pregnancies with her youngest sons, she went to against what her doctor said, advising her to have abortions when he told her the danger of her being pregnant. She didn't care what anyone said, she was willing to give up everything for the life of her babies.
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She would tell her children that they had to love God with everything and she would always tell them, "Keep your eyes on Jesus, and everything will be alright!" Two days before Frances died, she called for all her immediate family to come into the room and she told them that she was leaving soon and to remember to be kind to each other and to always walk in His ways! Her family and God were the most important things to her. Her biggest disapointment as a mother was the amount of children she had, she always wanted ten but she was only able to have five!
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"And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes." (Deuteronomy 6:8)
Frances always loved God and desired to please him, but she was not always Pentecostal in her faith and she never had plans of becoming one. However, she had a very persistent neighbor that lived across the street from her that kept inviting and inviting and inviting her to church. and She always said no, But her neighbor never stopped asking and one day she finally gave in and went to church with her neighbor, if only to get her to stop asking and with that one visit to a Pentecostal church, Frances never stopped going. She said that she just loved what she saw with people openly worshipping God and what she felt in God's presence and she never looked back! When Frances converted to Pentecostal, she began to make some changes in her life, but she never really saw it as give anything up, she always said she just wanted to be pleasing to God.
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Frances attend Pastor Vic Votaw's church for 9 months before moving to Arizona. During that 9 months, Sis. Fran immediatley began teaching Sunday School, she recieved the gift of the Holy Ghost and was baptized in Jesus name, just like it says in Acts chapter two. Bro. Votaw began teaching her Bible studies once a week, which usually included a good Italian dinner for him. Finally, one day during the Bible study, Frances said she got a revelation of one God, she said when it happened it was like scales had literally been lifted from her eyes and a veil removed, she finally saw it, she understood, there was only ONE GOD and Jesus was his name. God had not just sent someone else to die on the cross for him, but God himself robed himself in flesh and came down to earth to die for her sins. She got it, she understood the scriptures, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5) She knew now that there was no need for someone else to intercept between her and God, because Jesus had already done that and now she herself could boldly go before the throne of God. Her pastor was so excited he was shouting and said Sis. Fran lets go dance for victory in the streets.
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After 9 months at Pastor Votaw's church, in 1986, the Ginty family, with only their first three children moved to Arizona, the state Frances had gone to college in. She always loved New York City, but felt that with the way things were at the time in the neighborhood they were living, she felt like she wanted her children in a safer environment. Once the Ginty's moved to Arizona, they soon found a home in Cave Creek Arizona, then they immetiatley began looking for a home church to go to. Frances said that when she had told Bro. Votaw that they were moving to Arizona, with Arizona being on almost the completely opposite side of the U.S. he said that he did not know of any specific Pentecostal churches in this state, but that when she got there to pray and God would direct her to the right church. So she began searching for the right church for her and her family. She visited several different church but kept looking, however, she always said that the moment she walked into Landmark Pentecostal Church, she said "I'm home." She felt it in her spirit, this was it, this is where she belonged and through thick and thin she attended this church for 30 years.
Part 3 tomorrow
♥Mary Frances :)
