12/30 Goodwin Update

Hello everyone!  I hope the end of December finds you and yours in good health!  Here's an update on the Goodwin's.

Needs:

• Home to rent in Strafford while rebuilding
• Still need a couple of bureaus
• Non-perishable groceries
• Prepared meals
• Gift cards

Monetary donations are still greatly appreciated.  They can be made securely online through the ChipIn widget on the right of this blog (utilizes Paypal). You can continue to send monetary donations to Holy Rosary Credit Union or Northeast Credit Union. Please make your check payable to “The Goodwin Family Fire Fund”.

Here's to a happy and healthy 2010!

Thank you!

I wanted to pop on here and thank everyone for the amazing support and blessings that you all have sent the Goodwin's. In five short days we were able to raise over two thousand dollars. Collect enough gifts for the kids to have a great Christmas and clothing for everyone. GOD is so amazing. Thank you again and please remember to keep praying for them as they start to process of looking for a home to rent and rebuild the home. Jodi Decker Mops coordinator.

Goodwin Update 12/23

I was able to spend some time today organizing shoes, clothes, winter apparel and Christmas gifts.  I have an updated list of needs as well as more opportunities to help the family.

First off, Dover Baptist Church is having a Christmas Eve service "A Simple Gift" at 6:30 pm at 151 Washington Street Dover, NH 03820.  There will be a "Giving Tree" with ornaments you can take and on each ornament will be a gift request for the Goodwins.

Needs:

*Updated (12/24): If anyone knows of a house for rent in Strafford that would fit a family with 6 kids please contact Bambi at 742-8182. Adam and Kelly really need to stay in Strafford because 5 of the kiddos are in the Strafford school system.  Adam needs work pants (Carhartt, Dickies etc.) and outdoor working clothes, he is a 36/32 pant and a Med/Lg shirt.

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Meals are still needed and appreciated.  There are no food allergies.  Meals and groceries can be delivered to Bambi's house at 223 Clement Rd. in Rollinsford, NH.

Immediate needs are as follows: bureaus, church clothing (dressy clothes), new underwear and socks, towels, and the littlest child needs size 3T clothing.  The family is all set with winter jackets and accessories.  Click here for clothing sizes.

Other ways to give are by the secure ChipIn widget on the right column of this blog.  Donations can also be deposited in the "Adam and Kelly Goodwin" account at either Holy Rosary Credit Union or Northeast Credit Union.

Gift cards are still warmly welcomed.  Something they would love is gift cards for take-out and drive-thru restaurants.  Think McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut and any delivery services in the Rochester/Somersworth/Rollinsford area.

After the holidays there is going to be a need for storage space as well as loading and transporting goods.

A quick thanks (with many more to come) go out the the Children's Museum of NH for providing admission tickets for the family and to the NH Seacoast Project Linus for providing blankets for the family.

Goodwin Update

First, let's all look over at the donations ticker and praise God for His wonderful faithfulness!  Over $1400 raised!

I've talked to the family and right now their biggest need is air mattresses for the kids.  Something that can be easily inflated for the night and deflated for the daytime.  If you can provide these, please contact Bambi at the phone number below.

Donations of clothing, gift cards, groceries and pre-cooked meals can be dropped off at Bambi's house at 223 Clement Rd. in Rollinsford and can be reached by phone at 742-8182.

There are accounts opened for the Goodwin family at Holy Rosary Credit Union and Northeast Credit Union ("Adam and Kelly Goodwin account"). You can also donate via Paypal by using the secure ChipIn widget in the right hand column of this blog.  Every cent will be passed on to the Goodwin family.

More Goodwin updates, clothing sizes, news links etc, can be found on these posts at this blog.

Update on Goodwin Family

The Goodwin family has lost their home to a chimney fire.  WMUR is carrying the story right now:
http://www.wmur.com/news/22023104/detail.html
As is Foster's:
http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091221/GJNEWS_01/912219983

The immediate needs are money, clothes, and gift cards so they can begin to rebuild their lives and provide the basic necessities to their family.  Here's an updated clothing size list:

Adam- 34/32 pant, M shirt, 10 shoe.
Kelly- 5-7 pant, S shirt, 7-7 1/2 shoe.
Kendell- 0-1 pant, xs J shirt, 8 womens shoe- 13 year old girl
Taylor- 12 pant, 12/14 shirt, 3 1/2 shoe-11 year old girl
Logan- 8/10 pant, 3 1/2 shoe- 8 year old boy
Tucker- 7/8 pant, 7/8 shirt, 1 1/2 shoe- 6 year old boy
Griffin- 5/6 pant, 5/6 shirt, 13 1/2 shoe- 5 year old boy
Sawyer- 2T pant, 3T shirt, 8 shoe- 3 years on Monday boy

Donations can be dropped off at Bambi's house at 223 Clement Rd. in Rollinsford and she can be reached by phone at 742-8182.

There are accounts opened for the Goodwin family at Holy Rosary Credit Union and Northeast Credit Union ("Adam and Kelly Goodwin account"). You can also donate via Paypal by using the secure ChipIn widget in the right hand column of this blog.  Every cent will be passed on to the Goodwin family.

The family thanks you for your prayers and your overwhelming generosity.

MOPS Mom In Need

I was just alerted that one of our fellow MOPS moms, Kelly Goodwin, was involved in a house fire at her home.  As far as I know, the house is a total lost.  There is now a family of 8, 6 children, displaced right before the Christmas season. 

The family will be in need of practically every item you'd typically have in your home, clothes, food, pots/pans, furniture, mattresses etc.

The immediate needs will be clothing (don't forget winter apparel) for the family as well as shoes and food.  The kids are girls 11+13 and boys 3,5,6 and 8.  Amy is probably a size medium shirt and Adam, the husband, is a size medium top, pants are 36/32 and shoe size is 10.  Kendall (13 yr old girl) is a size 1 or 2, Taylor (11 yr old girl) is a 10/12, Logan (8 yr old boy) is a 10/12, Tucker (6yr old boy) is a 7/8, Griffin (5 yr old boy) is a 6/7, Sawyer (3 yr old boy) is a 3T.

Donations can be dropped off at Bambi's house at 223 Clement Rd. in Rollinsford and she can be reached by phone at 742-8182.

I am also putting up a ChipIn widget so you can donate monetarily to the Goodwin family.  Every single cent will go directly to them.  I am collecting funds through my Paypal account and will regularly withdraw the donations and give them directly to the family.

May God bless you and keep you safe this Christmas season.  Let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas and give with a cheerful heart.

 We had another new mom join us, this past mops meeting. This marks our 9th new mom to come to one of our meetings. God is really doing something amazing here. It was a small meeting, but we had a nice time. We enjoyed a longer than usually fellowship time with each other. We got the hear all about Bambi's adventure to Guatemala. I believe we were all touched by the stories she shared. Then at 11am we had a time of prayer for a little baby named Micah Kellsal who was having open heart surgery that morning. It was an emotion few minutes for most of us, thinking back about Lindsay and the fight that little girl fought. He is doing well. After that we all ventured down to the kitchen were we made cinnamon pumpkin potpourri candle holders.
We will be meeting again on November 18th. We will be sharing a Thanksgiving meal together (yes for Breakfast) and a time to fellowship, grow, and learn together as moms.

November Meetings

Come and join us this Wednesday November 4th at 9:30 a.m. Our topic this week will be Living at Light Speed. Leah Roth will be our guest speaker. Come and have some coffee, yummy treats, make a craft with us. Sit back and relax and enjoy some time away from your kids and chat with other Moms. We look forward to seeing you there.


Our next meeting will be on November 18th and our topic will be Growing With Extended Family.

Coppal House TODAY!!

Our MOPS group will be heading over to the Coppal House Corn Maze in Lee, NH, WEDNESDAY September 30th at 10 am. Feel free to bring a picnic lunch for afterward. All are welcome, the fee is $4 for adults and free for kids over age 6. We need 15+ participants in order to secure the group rate, so be sure to meet us there! :)

Every year the Coppal House has a professional company come in a cut out a design in their corn field. This year the design will be a skunk and flower. Througout the maze are mailboxes that have questions regarding skunks and flowers and if you choose the correct answers, you'll get the correct directions through the maze. There is usually a "hay bale maze" too for the little tykes to explore.

The maze is jogger stroller friendly. Afterward we can pick a pumpkin or other fall decorations at the farm store.

Hope to see you there!

MOPS Meeting #1

Today was the first MOPS meeting of the year, can we say, YAHOO!! :)

We had four new moms attend today! We all enjoyed a yummy breakfast spread of food and all the kids had a blast in their MOPPETS program. All of the moms made space themed name tags for themselves as well as name tags for the kids to wear in their classrooms.

Our next meeting will be September 16th at 9:30 am. We hope to see you there. If you've been considering coming, don't hesitate! You can jump in any time during the year, you are always welcomed. We hope to see you there! As a reminder, if you planning on becoming a MOPS member, member dues are due on the 16th.

Also, be sure to mark September 30 on your calender. We'll be meeting at the Coppal House in Lee, NH at 10 am for a stroll through their corn maze. Admission is $4 for adults and children 6 years and older.

Add Yours...

Do you have a favorite recipe or something you're made to bring to functions because it's that good? Then Dover MOPS wants your recipes for their cookbook!

You can go online and enter your recipes with this information:

www.typensave.com

Contributors name is you

Group login: dbccookbook

Password: angel3

We appreciate any and all recipes you contribute! Even if you can only manage to input one recipe, it's greatly appreciated!

Be on the lookout for this cookbook in print by years end! (Think Christmas presents...)

RSVP for the First Meeting!

First off, this is definitely not required! If you decide last minute to join us, we'd LOVE to have you!!

If you do want to let us know you'll be swinging by for our first meeting of the year on September, be sure to let us know on our Evite.

We hope to see you at 9:30 am at Dover Baptist Church in Dover, NH on September 2nd!

Sneak Peak!

The Steering Team had an awesome retreat planning the upcoming MOPS year. We have some awesome meetings in store.

Another exciting part of MOPS is "5th Wednesdays." You think we could come up with a cooler name than that, but well, it's what it is, the 5th Wednesday activities! This year we have three 5th Wednesdays with the first one coming right up on September 30th.

I'm excited to announce our MOPS group will be heading over to the Coppal House Corn Maze in Lee, NH. Every year the Coppal House has a professional company come in a cut out a design in their corn field. This year the design will be a skunk and flower. Througout the maze are mailboxes that have questions regarding skunks and flowers and if you choose the correct answers, you'll get the correct directions through the maze. There is usually a "hay bale maze" too for the little tykes to explore.

The maze is jogger stroller friendly. Afterwards we can pick a pumpkin or other fall decorations.

Hope to see you there! And don't forget, the first MOPS meeting of the year is September 2nd at 9:30 am. Be there!

MOPS Steering Team Retreat

This weekend the Dover MOPS steering team will be traveling to Rochester, NH for our annual retreat to plan our up coming year. This is a time for us to grow as a team and pray for guidance from God to do what he wills with our MOPS group.

Laura and I have a lot of fun stuff planned! Friday night we will spend most of the evening planning and we'll end the evening with a movie or what ever tickles our fancy. Saturday we will continue planning for the day and make our MOPS t-shirts. That evening we will head out to the Olive Garden for dinner (yum!).

We have a ton of new ideas to bring to MOPS this year. Please pray for us that we will do what God wants us to do.

Don't forget to mark the first MOPS meeting of the 09-10 year on your calendar! See you September 2nd at 9:30 am!

Steering Team Update

Here's some great news! Becca Bannon has agreed to be apart of our Steering Team as the Creative Activity's Coordinator. She is not only is a wife of our Assistant Pastor, but also is a first time mom this year. We are so excited to have her apart of the team and look forward to getting to know her more. Half the team, including myself, are new to there positions or to steering. I am so excited to see what God has planned for us, I know that it is going to be good.

We are welcoming Virginia as our publicity coordinator. One of her duties will be to help keep this blog updated.

Tracey is joining steering and will be working in the hospitality department.

And lastly, Laura and myself will be the MOPS Steering coordinators.

and.. time is a~ticking.. waiting for the 2009-2010 MOPS year to begin. We are so excited for it to start, but we need to plan our year first. Our Steering Team and I are really excited because good friends of ours have invited us to there beautiful home to have our retreat this year. They have even offered to do all the cooking for us. Praise God for wonderful people!! Friday night we are going to start the evening by getting dressed up and going out to dinner. We will return to watch movies and have some girly fun. Saturday we will get a bulk of our planning done.. We will keep you posted on how it goes!

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Play Date Friday

I am really getting sick of all this rain. I am starting to think that I am never going to enjoy my back yard again.

Since we have already canceled all the play dates that I have had planned, I am going to plan a play date here at my house this Friday, July 11th. Rain or shine. Keep an eye on the weather cause if the sun is going to be out we will be swimming and enjoying the mud puddles that mother nature seems to want to keep full.

Bring lunch for you and your kids.. We usually have a sign up sheet, but I think that it will be easier to just bring your own lunches. I can supply us with lots of ice coffee and juice for the kids. Looking forward to seeing you all this Friday. I miss our FUN play dates.

So a fun play date Friday at Jodi's house! See you there!

Free Veggie Tales DVD

Sign up for the Big Idea newsletter HERE, and you'll get a free Veggie Tales DVD. All you need to pay is the shipping fee which is around $2.99.

Enjoy!

Vacation Bible School at Dover Baptist!

Get ready for Son Rock Kids Camp at Dover Baptist Church!

Vacation Bible School runs from July 13 through July 17th from 5:30- 8:30 at the Dover Baptist Church. DBC will be serving dinner promptly at 5:30 pm. Son Rock Kids Camp is for preschoolers through 5/6th grade. Adult class will be available while kids are at participating in Son Rock Kids Camp.

Child care is also available. Contact DBC for more information 742-5452.

Hope to see you there, it's sure to be a BLAST!

Laura Groen's Baby Shower

Today we had a baby shower for Laura, our MOPS Assistant Coordinator.

Laura and her family welcomed the newest member of their family on Saturday June 13th, Case William, weighing in at 10lbs 2oz and 21" long. We like to have baby showers for our new moms after the babies are born. This way it gives us a chance to meet the baby and give mom time to recover.

We had a good turn out and served a salad bar for dinner (which was a big hit).

Laura was able to stock up on lots of diapers, wipes, and some really cute new clothes. Thank you to all who came! Bambi, of course, made an amazing cake that copied the napkin that we used. Thank you to all who came early to help with food set up and who stayed after to help clean up and thank you to Phylis for the fun time putting it all together.

2009 MOPS International Photo Contest

2009 MOPS International Photo Contest

It's that time again - time to pull out your camera to take pictures for the 2009 MOPS International Photo Contest. This year we’re looking for photos in four categories: mom and child, child only, family fun and mom-friends photos. Enter a picture that shows your child's unique and adorable qualities. Or send us one that reflects the bond between you and your child. Send a funny, unusual, touching or goofy family photo. You could even send us a picture that depicts the special friendship you share with other moms. We encourage photos from all seasons and holidays.

This contest is open through 07/15/2009.

What Dover Mops is up to..

We finished up our last meeting with a bang. We had our pastors wife in to speak to us about going back to school when your children are all grown up and moved out. It was amazing to hear her speak about how she went back to school and fulfilled her dreams. She is an amazing lady that we all look up to very much. We also had a little ceremony for the children that will be no longer apart of our Moppets program. They are now off to school.. We gave gifts to our Moppets workers in appreciation for all they do for our kids.

Laura and I are also very excited about our new coordinating positions. We are planning a retreat for August to take our steering team away for the weekend to bond and plan the coming years' curriculum.

We want to Congratulate Laura, Jon, and Tanner Groen and her family as they welcome the newest addition to there family Case William, weighing in at 10lb 2oz 21in. He and mom are doing great. We are planning a baby shower for her and Case on June 27th at 5pm. I will keep you posted on how that goes.

On Monday we will be going strawberry picking (if the weather allows us) at Butternut Farm. We will be meeting at 1:30pm. I will post pictures.