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.

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.

Vacation Bible school 2009

Gosh what a funny feeling not to wake up and rush to church for VBS! Well the gift goes on even if our week has come and gone. I have gone to the bank 3 times with a big red bucket to deposit all the pennies raised for the children in Malawi , Africa. Mary Moore Lowenfield is there this summer and is using all the money to buy much needed food, books and clothing for the babies.

She told us that the first food the babies eat is porridge! We really don't even know the term "porridge" except in fairy tales. But it does conjure up a sweet picture . Hopefully in August when mary moore gets back, we can see what porridge looks like and see some babies eating it!

She also said some of the babies were growing and can't straighten out their legs in their feetie pajamas. So she is looking for some bigger sizes for our little friends