| |
 | Meeting Dates and Times |
| Steering Team |
| Mentor Moms |
| A Letter From the Coordinator |
| Directions to West Bradenton Baptist Church |
| F.A.Q. |
| In The Loop Newsletter Archives |
 | HOME |
|
When and Where MOPS meets the second Friday of every month from September through May. We meet on the second floor of West Bradenton Baptist Church from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. For more information contact Ashley Brandes, Coordinator. |
Steering Team
Check out these websites!
Coordinator:
Ashley Brandes
Co-Coordinator/Moppets:
Grace Hager
Creative Activities:
Doris Brust
Publicity:
Lela Hartsaw
Finance:
Heather Gillen
Discussion Group Leader:
Ann Jones
Hospitality:
Gwen Jankovich
Mentor Mom:
Bev O'Brien
Mary Burns
Muffie Abbott
MOPS INTERNATIONAL MOPSHOP MOMSENSE RADIO MOMSENSE DAILY E-MAIL MOM RESOURCES MOPS TO MOM CONNECTION WEST BRADENTON BAPTIST CHURCH FAMILY FUN THE FLY LADY WHAT'S HAPPENING MANATEE
A Letter From the Coordinator
|
|
Welcome to MOPS!
We are very excited to be starting our fifth year of MOPS at West Bradenton Baptist Church. Months of praying and planning have gone into making this the best year yet. We've added park parties for you and your little ones, we've tweaked the discussion group format to make it more about the moms, and we've included numerous opportunities for each mom to become more involved. We want you to make this your MOPS group.
The MOPS International website has the following to say: "In our homes of origin many of us learned the deepest lessons about relationship, developed life routines and acquired our tastes and preferences. And now, as moms, we long to create homes where our families can thrive and grow - and we can too.
Our homes must be safe places - physically and also emotionally safe. In them we bond, we eat and play and rest together, we decorate and provision our special home spaces. The theme the HOME factor: BEGIN HERE ... GO THERE enriches our perspective and hones our abilities to create a cocoon of home.
But at its healthiest, our home experience should fill us and launch us into wider circles of investment and influence where we interact with our world. We return HOME to reconnect and refuel - but we'll move from the HOME outwards to make a difference.
The heart of the HOME is also a picture of God's desire to interact with us and deeply love us where we really live. He desires to make his home in our hearts. He expresses it this way in the theme verse: '...he lives with you and will be in you.' John 14:17.
The three key elements of the theme that we will explore together this year are:
I encourage you to make every effort to attend our monthly meetings. And don't forget about the weekly park days - Thursday mornings at Lewis Park. I hope and pray that you are as excited as I am about the upcoming year. I can't wait to see what Christ has in store for each and every mom that attends this year.
Serving you through Christ,
Grace Hager, Coordinator
West Bradenton Baptist Church MOPS
