You will LOVE this!!

Mary Moore posted this video "How do I love thee"on her blog and I immediately thought of you.

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Savior's Celebration Video

The Savior's Celebration song and video.

The Wedding Feast

This is the video we showed to the children to explain to them what a wedding was. 

Children's Videos from HopePointe Church on You Tube

There are lots of videos on You Tube that we have done here at HopePointe. 

Here are a couple links to them but if you go to You Tube and search Tricia Lowenfield you will find them all.

Here are a couple links:

Is God Calling you?

ABC's

Be Kind Be Sweet

Fishing For the Word

I'm Third

Savior's Celebration Photos

The parables yea yea yea
The ping pong balls are flying!! I mean the popcorn is popping....

Some lovely ladies sporting the latest in fashionable snack flowers.

The Parable Princess and her crush...The Professor.
The Professor carrying away a seed from the parable of the Sower.

A Few Vacation Bible School 2010 Heroes

Vacation Bible School 2010 is in full swing with 3 days to go. I was thinking today about some of the people who make it so very special. And I could go on for days but for now I will highlight a few:

Paul was only scheduled to be at VBS a couple days but I think he realized how much fun it was and how much we needed him and he has extended his time with us!! He has learned some new talents as well that he never knew he had....painting and puppetry!! And we are all blessed with Paul's over the top encouraging words!! You are awesome Paul Lewis!
Our fearless leader Hillarrie had dedicated a tremendous amount of time to get Savior's Celebration over the top. We appreciate all your efforts to make this so much fun for all of us! She is an expert at flexibility and organization and recruiting.

Imagine giving up a week of family vacation to spend at vacation Bible school?! Darrell is a dedicated dad and husband who is a lawyer and a hero to us!! Thanks, we are in awe!!!

Cindy Taylor tells me that her real job is accounting, but as far as my accounting goes she is the most creative left brained person there is. Tonight my husband told me that he wished Cindy had been his mom so that he could have found little lamb cupcakes on the counter when he got home from school or chocolate pudding flower pots with graham cracker sprinkles as dirt and gummy worms on the side complete with a Gerber daisy growing out of the top. Cindy could have given the children a cup of goldfish and a sip of water and they would have been happy, but instead she creates snacks that go with the theme of the day and are beautiful to behold. Simply fabulous darling!!

Summer VBS July 12-16,2010

It's that time again to Celebrate Summer!! At HopePointe, we are about to gear up a week from today to share a lot of joy with children. So we will have "A Savior's Celebration VBS starting Monday July 12,2010 at 9am. There are still some spaces open so if you want to join in the fun you can sign up here.

Christmas PLAY

We will be having a Christmas Play on the evening of Dec. 13. Please leave a comment if your child would like to participate. We won't be having rehearsals until after Thanksgiving, but we will practice the music during Children's worship on Sundays. We will post everything you need to know on this blog! I hope you will be part of this great evening!! Blessings..Tricia

Fishing For the Word

Okay...we are having way too much fun on Sunday mornings at 9am. Today the word that Sam Sam the Fisherman found for us was "Kindness". And this is the video we watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYRNy_7qCLw

New Sunday Format

This last Sunday started the first Sunday of 2 worship services at HopePointe. That also means 2 worship times for children. So they are at 9 and at 11:10. Also there is a Discipleship time at 10:00. I will get some pictures up of our new stage. It is really fun!!

Porridge and Formula

This is the sweet conclusion of all the pennies that were raised by children at Hopepointe Church in The Woodlands,Texas. The money was sent to Malawi and spent to buy 100 pounds of porridge and 35 cans of powdered formula...enough to feed the babies at the Crisis Nursery for 4 months. Mary Moore Lowenfield spoke to Hopepointe church. Link here to listen to her talk.http://hopepointe.org/index.php?nid=89549&s=gl Thanks for sharing Mary Moore! You helped us to vicariously share the love from Africa and in a small way, be part of your time there. Fiyfi is sitting on top of 100 pounds of porridge!
Mary Moore with little Ruth.
Mary Moore with her favorite little baby.

Oh the Babies!!

It's so much fun to keep discovering pictures of our little friends!! And Mary Moore hasn't even come back yet!! Put August 16th on your calendar to hear Mary Moore speak at 10am Hopepointe Church. She gets back Monday the 10th at 2:30 pm. Please pray for travel mercies and that it won't hurt her heart too much to leave the babies..

Mary Moore and Chiosmo Joseph

Never did i really expect to find treasures on Facebook, but tonight I did!!! The first photo I have seen of Mary Moore holding one of the babies in the Crisis Nursery in Malawi. This is Chiosmo Joseph of whom we told the story in an earlier blog. He is a little miracle saved and safe in the arms of those who minister at the nursery....sweet.

Mid Week Children's Program

We are considering a mid week children's program from something like 5-7pm including pizza. We would learn songs and skits that we could then perform for hospitals or anywhere and we might later on use this time for rehearsing parts of our Christmas play.

So... here is the question: does anyone want to suggest the best night of the week for this?

Precious Money Gets Spent

Today was the day that all the money got to exactly where it was intended for. Mary Moore went with a driver and a nurse to the factory where porridge is made. Well the dry stuff that gets made into porridge. She was able to purchase 4 twenty five pound feed sacks full for a grand total of 100 pounds of porridge. That cost was 18,000 Kwachas!?

Then they went to somewhere else and bought 35 cans of dry formula that cost the rest of the money and that was that. She said that should take care of the 17 babies currently there for four meals a day for at least 4 months. Yeah!!!

And we all helped !!!

When Mary Moore returns (soon) we will have photos of all this. In the meantime...you will just have to wait.

Oh... I just realized that there has been no way to comment on posts until now. So feel free now to leave some thoughts.

404 dollars is about 60,000 kwacha in Malawi, Africa

This cute little picture reminds me all the cute faces that came to Vacation Bible School and raised $404 which converts to 60,000 kwacha!Doesn't that sound like alot?! Mary Moore is being taken by the driver of the lady-Mwawi who is the head of the Crisis Nursery, today to get the money from an ATM and then to go buy formula and porridge. She will let us know how much she gets with all those kwachas. She said 100 kwacha buys a coke. But somehow I'm not getting a picture of how that relates to formula and porridge.

I don't know why, but I am soooooo excited for her shopping adventure. She promised to take photos so we could all feel like we went with her.

Mary Moore will arrive back in the USA on Monday August 10th. She promises she will bring lots of stories and pictures from the babies. I can't wait!!

Mary Moore's Birthday in Malawi, Africa!!

Fun fun this world of cyberspace... I got up early this morning in search of Mary Moore because it is her birthday and because she has been in a remote village in Africa with no power and no shower for 5 days!!! And...suddenly I saw a liitle box pop up on my computer screen that said "mama!!". So so happy that made me!!

So this is what she told me... she is is back to the city where the nursery and babies are. She took her first shower in 5 days. (What a great birthday present!!) The group from Ministry of Hope that picked her up from the village brought signs that said "Happy Birthday" and that was a strange sight in the village as they don't celebrate birthdays. They don't even know when their birthdays are! She said everyday is the same, they don't really keep track of them. I asked her if they use calendars and she said "sort of".

But the sweetest thing was that they made her "special porridge" not because it was her birthday, but because she was leaving the village... She was the first white person to ever stay in their village... Happy Birthday Mary Moore!!!
Mary Moore in Oxford, England on her 4th birthday.
Mary Moore in Charleston, South Carolina on her 2nd Birthday.

Mary Moore went back to the little village in Malawi, Africa with no power or modern conveniences yesterday and will be there until Friday which is her birthday.

We spoke to her on Sunday and I asked her if she was studying up her scripture in anticipation of this week. She said that actually what had helped her was all the notes she had taken over the years in her Bible. She said that as they called her to do her impromtu teachings last she realized that if she turned to a page with lots of writing on it, it wasn't that hard to teach. So... remember that the next time you have the opportunity to write notes in your Bible. You never know when it will be needed!

Unfailing Love

Well, wouldn't you just know it...Mary Moore cam back from a few days in the Village with no modern comforts at all and said her eye was healed. Just a little bruised on the eyelid! It probably looks fabulous, just the right shade! So, thanks for the prayers!

She shared in our online chat yesterday that she taught preschoolers, widows and teenagers! Was asked by the teacher to give 5 inpromtu Bible studies (at different times) and learned to make and eat nsumi made of flour and water. She goes back to the Village on Monday. I do wonder if she will be studying up on some Bible this weekend?! She is back with the babies for the weekend though. I can't wait to hear how all the little ones are doing.

He Carries then Close to His Heart

It is important as you read these wonderful stories from Malawi, Africa that we remember how much the Lord loves these babies. He has a plan for them. Yes, he called one little baby girl home this summer, but oh He loves each one and you and me. Pray for them as you read their stories.

And please pray for Mary Moore as she was hit in the eye with a soccer ball yesterday and lost her vision for 30 minutes and has a swollen shut eye. She left today for a week to 10 days in a poor village with no shower or toilets. She is going to be teaching some preschoolers and then will return to the Crisis Nursery for the remainder of her time in Malawi. Please pray the eye stays clean and protected. Thanks.