We were welcomed by staff members of Crossroads Fellowship holding signs up to encourage us as we walked into the building.
This year we were all able to sit with our small groups and start getting to know each other from the very first meeting. We enjoyed a delicious brunch and also a s'mores bar (Don't judge! S'mores for breakfast are delicious!)
We kicked off this year with a fun photo scavenger hunt where we quickly became acquainted while taking photos such as: acting like toddlers, acting out a labor and delivery scene, making a human pyramid, and taking a selfie of our group.
Check out even more photos of our scavenger hunt in the album in our Facebook group.
We watched a video from MOPS International that talked about our theme for this year:
We were reminded of the following things:
- Transformation can begin with a hug
- Love is the catapult that can start us on our journey
- Fire is always a tool of transformation
And, along with our theme of Find Your Fire:
We will be hearing much more about our theme and how we can live expectantly, surrender daringly, and breathe freely throughout the rest of our meetings this year.
To finish out our meeting, we spent some time with our small groups and talking about the ways that each of us Find our Fire:
We look forward to this coming year of MOPS and hope you all are excited for what is to come!
Announcements:
- Like our Facebook page and join our private Facebook group for more opportunities to connect with other MOPS members, and for announcements about upcoming events
- You can pay your dues here if you haven't already (if you still have your yellow card from our meeting, on the back you will see a check mark next to the items that have already been paid.) If you aren't sure if/what you need to pay, e-mail CrossroadsRaleighMops@gmail.com for more information or if you need a scholarship or a payment plan. Please be sure to pay your dues in September so that you will be able to continue to use childcare.
- We all love to enjoy brunch at MOPS! Each group will help to bring brunch 5 times each year. The brunch dates for each group are:
- Amanda/Mindy, Ann, Kristen: September 25, November 13, January 15, February 26, April 9
- Jamie-lee, Lacinda, Rosemary: October 9, November 27, January 29, March 12, April 23
- Nicole, Torri, Victoria: October 23, December 11, February 12, March 26, May 7
- It will help the childcare workers greatly if you have already labeled your child's bag/sippy cup/etc before dropping them off on Tuesday morning. Also, make sure that your child has an extra diaper/pull-up/change of clothes if needed.
- Want to get more involved in MOPS and have a little extra time before or after the MOPS meetings? Our hospitality team could use your help! There are approximately 157 little details that happen every month to make MOPS happen for you, and we could use a hand! This is a great way to get to know other MOPS friends a little better, and see some of the behind-the-scenes magic! Our main areas of need for the coming year are set up, greeters to welcome new moms and get them to where they need to be in the building, and clean up after the meeting. Even if you only have 15 minutes a week to give or if you're super bored while your baby naps and want a few more responsibilities, you can serve! Join our Hospitality Team FB group if you would like to get connected to serve! Many hands make light work. Even if you only have 10 extra minutes to offer on meeting days, we can use you!
- So that we don't have to close classrooms if a worker calls in sick last minute, we are going to have this sign-up for moms to volunteer holding babies or in classrooms. Babes-in-arms volunteers will "adopt" one of our Cuddler Kids to keep in the meeting with them; they'll get their baby fix and their mom will get a break! It may end up that we are fully staffed for the day you signed up for, and you get to attend the meeting! However, this wouldn't be known until the morning of. I am hopeful we will have enough women offer to serve on a volunteer basis so that we don't have to assign women/small groups Volunteers who do end up serving will receive a thank-you gift card. Thank you for supporting the moms in our group by volunteering!
We hope you will join us for our next meeting on September 25 to hear Bomi Roberson speak about Finding Your Fire in Rest.
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