March 23, 2010

We decorated flip-flops and shared verses about feet and walking.

March 9 , 2010

We did decoupage. I forgot the camera, but lots of creativity was being used!
I read about Amy Carmichael.

Mother/Daughter Event

Several moms and daughters from church will be attending a mother/daughter conference.
You and Your Girl with Vicki Courtney



We all made tie-dye shirts to wear tomorrow. That was fun, we all enjoyed it and will probably make tie-dye again as a Faithgirls project.

I hope to update this blog soon!

February 23

Pizza night!
My mother was sort of stuck here do to bad weather in Austin Texas, so she made 2 batches of pizza dough in my bread machine. The other girls brought favorite pizza toppings, I think nearly everyone brought pepperoni!

The girls were divided into 4 groups and they made their pizzas. My mom came along to see the Faith Girls program in action and was a big help showing the girls how to work the dough on the cookie sheets. (when I grow up I hope I'm like her ☺) While the pizza where in the oven, the girls and I started our lesson.

We studied about David Livingstone, Missionary/Explorer in Africa.

While telling the African people about the Gospel and establishing mission bases for other missionaries, Dr. Livingstone explored Africa and made maps of the unknown wilderness. He was also a medical doctor and an abolishonist, working to end the slave trade.

Dr. Livingstone faced many dangers, disease, cannibals, wild animal attacks just to name a few.
Statue of Livingstone being attacked by a lion. This attack left his arm nearly useless the rest of his life.
I of course knew the famous line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" and that Dr Livingstone was an explorer of the continent of Africa, but what I was not taught in school was that the whole reason he was in Africa to begin with was to minister to the people of Africa and tell them about Jesus.

Dr Livingstone remained faithful to his calling to share the love of Jesus to all people and nations.

February 9

We made brownies!
We used the recipe that I learned in 4H back in the 70's
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup melted butter/margerine
2 eggs
1/3 cup cocoa
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup nuts, or chocolate chips or other candy ( we used M&Ms)

Mix sugar into melted margerine, add eggs, vanilla and then the dry ingredients. You can add the extra goodies in the batter or sprinkle on top. Bake for 25 minutes at 350.

We finished our study on Gladys Aylward. Gladys did many dangerous things in her life, but she always looked to the Lord for her guidance and protection. She is a very good role model for our girls.


We will finish our baking unit February 23. I've changed the lesson plans- we will finish with pizza!

January 26

We made yellow cake from scratch. Was tasty, but the church oven isn't all that great and the bottom burned.

We continued our study of Gladys Aylward. Gladys was determined to spread the good news of Jesus wherever she found herself.

Christmas Party!

We had our Faithgirls Christmas Party at our December 9th meeting.

The girls learned several new games.
We call this one the "Chair Game". The person in the center says a statment that is true about them, if it is true about you, you have to jump up and run to another seat. The person left without a chair is the center person. It is lots of fun.

We had a craft time where the girls made Christmas ornaments.



We played another game where the girls would draw a slip of paper that had an action on it, they would have to perform it. The next person would draw an action and perform the first persons action and their action. It goes on until the last person has to perform them all. I thought it sounded like fun, but it wasn't as much fun as the chair game.

I premade cut out sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies and the other moms brought frosting and sprinkles for decorating.
The girls decorated cookies for thier refreshments.

We played "Queenie Queenie who has the Ball"
We had a book exchange as the gift exchange.

What a lovely group of young ladies!