Mcinvale, Mutombo, Demontrond and Montgomery receive the Samaritan award that I have sculpted.

The Samaritan award that I have sculpted is received by a few honorees each year. These people are honored for their "good Samaritan work" that they are a part of. I just received these photographs of this years honorees. You can read more about this wonderful center by visiting their website at www.samaritanhouston.org. It is great to be a part of this project.

There are even videos of each honoree receiving their awards.
Event Chairpersons Susan & Dick Hansen
Special Guests Carole & Ronald Krist
Honoree Dikembe Mutombo (third photograph)
Honoree George DeMontrond, III ( fourth photograph)
Honoree Lee Hage Jamail ( first photograph on left)
Honoree Jim MacIngvale ( first photograph on left)
John Montgomery ( first photograph on right, holding the award)

Looking at their previous honorees list It appears that Sylvan had received his award in 1998. ( I mentioned the story about this award and Sylvan in a previous post) It is hard to believe it was that long ago.

A wonderful blessing a great story

I have finally finished the God’s Word new website, complete with shopping cart. It has been a massive undertaking. I hope it works, as no orders have been placed as of yet,

and then I got this phone call…

Before I tell you about the call I must say that The God’s Word gift series holds a special place in my life. I wanted the sculptures to be blessed, both in the giving and the receiving. I prayed over the years that people would see them and not only like them but because they come with a card and letter they would see the ministry behind them.

The phone call…
A woman called today telling me that she had seen the Samaritan Award ( shown above) that I had done for the Samaritan Center. This is an award that I designed for them years ago and they give away each year. She wanted to know if she could buy one.

I told her that I could not do so without the permission of the Samaritan Center. I have only done that once before, for Sylvan Rodriguez who requested one and received permission. Sylvan was a wonderful man and news anchor here in Houston. He passed away of pancreatic cancer just shortly after receiving the sculpture.

The woman asked if I had any other sculptures with a spiritual meaning and the feeling of the Samaritan. I directed her to The God’s Word gift series and the two of us browsed through the cards and letters of each piece. She told me a story about how her husband’s brother had been on the streets for years and no matter what the tried they could not help him. Another family befriended him and took him in. He lived with them for 14 years. This past week the consequences of street life caught up with him and his body, worn, shut down. He was 49 when he died. They were looking for the “perfect” gift to give the family. I was so blessed that they felt this type of ministry in my artwork. when she say the God's Word Sculpture “the bad I do” she new that it was perfect! I don't have a video on this piece yet, but you can read the message behind it on the God's Word website

This is what I prayed for. That people would utilize this series for a ministry to others. That it would bless in the giving and the receiving.


One more thing...
turns out Sylvan had purchased that Samaritan sculpture for this woman's husband. Knowing this I can only imagine the type of person her husband is, he must be a warm and wonderful man. They didn't know the trouble Sylvan had gone through to get the piece. It is one of their cherished possessions.

The entire story gave me confidence to keep pushing with the God's Word series. I have worked 3 months so far on the back end of that new endeavor. The call gave me a little more incentive.

Notice the video links on the left hand page?

You can now view my last few videos by clicking on each of those links it will take you to my tv page at CreativeEndeavors.blip.tv

A new video about Prayer and the James 5:16 sculpture

A new video for the god's word collectible series.

How to subscribe to this blog?

I have heard it time and time again in the marketing on the interent. Words like feed, subscribe, ping etc. If you would like to know what changes on this blog or others, and don't want to have to go to each just click on the orange link on side of this blog, next to it the copy says subscribe to a reader.

If you are reading this information somewhere else and can't see the orange icon the blog is located at http://www.creativesculpture.com/blog. Clicking on that links is step one. Here is a wonderful and simple video that someone else did on this subject. Spending a moment listening to it and following the steps may save you a ton of time in your surfing on the web. The video is called RSS in Plain English.

Don't you just love learning things!

Where to find all of the videos that I have created.

Of course if you scroll through this blog located at http://www.creativesculpture.com/blog you will find the videos.

For those of you wanting to see all of my videos in one place you can do so on my you tube page located at http://www.youtube.com/user/sculptorandwriter

I also have a show page at blip tv it is called Creative Endeavors as is located at this link http://creativeendeavors.blip.tv/#673525

Creating Videos, podcasts and art

I'm enjoying creating the videos and am just learning about all of the places to post them. Please keep coming back and checking on my productions. Future plans for production include

* Creating a mold and casting the Dick Hathaway memorial

* The travel to Vermont and the installation of the Dick Hathaway memorial ( I am searching for Vermont College and Goddard College alumni between Texas, where the studio is located and Montpelier, where the sculpture will be placed. I hope to shoot footage of the professor along the way).

* Creating the Newsboy ( this is a video version of what was created as a blog years ago)

* The inspiration behind each of the God's Word Collectible Gift pieces http://www.godsword.net

* A spiritual testimony

* The creative process and spiritual enlightenment, how do they go together

* Marketing in the arts

and the list goes on.

Of course I may be sidetracked by my podcasts that I want to create. These too will be on several topics, including an ongoing series called Generations. My daughter, my mother and I will be discussing different topics, Three generations of Christian women!

Meanwhile... I still must create. and I am thankful for the apprentices that have applied. Soon I will be introducing them.

Another video of my work

I suppose I'm on a role. This is my fourth video created for the web. For those who are interested they are all posted on my you tube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/sculptorandwriter

I have decided to create a video for each of my God's Word Collectible gift pieces. There are 16 right now and I am working on more. This is the first of these. These videos are a useful resource in showing the artwork and from all sides and for talking about the card and letter that come with the piece. For those wanting to look at the card and letter it can be found at the God's Word website here is a direct link to the Ephesians sculpture

Goodbye to my most recent helper

Layne has worked for me for a few months now. She has been a wonderful worker. I wish her the best. She is planning on getting a paying job so she can go to Europe in the summer after graduation.