Help us prepare the best we can for you! Please RSVP for MOPS 2015-2016 :-) You will still need to fill out the registration forms at the first meeting you attend, but by submitting this form you can help us be prepared for the upcoming year!
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Welcome to our NEW website for Northeast Military MOPs! The leadership team has been hard at work for the upcoming MOPs year - we want this to be the best year yet. But first... a little information from our website!
About Us Welcome to Northeast Military MOPs, a group for military and non-military mothers! We are a loving, caring, Christian support group of women celebrating Motherhood! Join us as we meet the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month from 9:30 am to 11:30 am at Northeast United Methodist Church at 4000 Hard Scrabble Road in Columbia, SC. We welcome soon-to-be mothers all the way through mothers of Elementary kids! Our time together includes: guest speakers, discussion groups, crafts, service projects, breakfast and fellowship with each other. Childcare is provided (ages newborn to kindergarten) with Bible lessons, art, crafts, snack and lots of fun! All our teachers have had a background check and love to be with children. NEW this year, we will also be providing a Homeschool room with supervision for children in First through Sixth grade! What is MOPs? MOPS is a grassroots movement that believes moms are world influencers. We also believe that incubating hearts and giving just-because-hugs can change the course of history. That’s why we connect moms all over the world to a community of women, in their own neighborhoods, who meet together to laugh, cry and embrace the journey of motherhood. MOPS groups are rallying women to be more honest, to feel more equipped and to find our identity by journeying along side one another. MOPS stands for Mothers of Preschoolers, and by preschoolers we mean kiddos from birth through kindergarten. We know it's a little confusing so let's just stick with "MOPS." We are moms, and we believe that better moms make a better world. (source: mops.org) About MOMSnext MOMSnext is a group for mothers of school-age kids. MOPS International believes Better Moms Make a Better World. This is true during the preschool years and beyond. As mothers enter the school years, new challenges and issues arise, but the need for community and hope remains. For this reason we offer MOMSnext, a ministry to mothers of school-age kids. A MOMSnext group is an open, accepting place for all mothers of school-age kids to experience authentic community, personal growth, practical help and spiritual hope. (source: mops.org) For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12
Sometimes we need new eyes. A perspective shift that recalibrates our hearts to the rhythm of God’s goodness surrounding us. To tune our hearts to better hear the music of the divine echoing throughout this world. That we might let that goodness seep into our bones and into our hearts so we can remember what it feels like to flourish. We think flourishing looks a lot like: Celebrating Lavishly: Celebrating breathes life into our days. Could it be that commemorating moments might help us to become more alive, to remember what is good and become masterful at recognizing it? How would life change to regularly invite friends into our stolen moments with uninhibited dancing and the best food, while gathered around the biggest table with the deepest conversations? Lavish celebrations can be sacred markers that help remind us who we are. Embracing Rest: Perhaps it is time to let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as a measure of worth. What if one of the most life-giving activities that would contribute to our flourishing is welcoming rhythms of rest and play into our lives? Creating healthy rhythms in our life is one way we nourish the weary spots in our soul. Noticing Goodness: Could it be possible that we don’t need new things but rather new eyes to see what we already have? What if we regained our sense of vision, an acute resolve to find hope in the cracks and mire of the mundane? Noticing what is good gives us the gift of perspective and reminds us the sacred is closer than we think. We become more ourselves when we celebrate, rest and notice, and that looks a lot like flourishing. But this flourishing isn’t the precious or exhausting kind. This is a fierce flourishing. It is a deep-in-your-guts experience of gratitude and hope compelling you to raise your hands and dance freer than you ever have before. It is a fierce protection of your most important moments, an invitation to rest and an opportunity to enjoy the people who are right in front of you. This year at MOPS, may we become a home for found wanderers, redeemed prisoners, explorers at the edge of their comfort – all of us who were one-time captives now celebrating our unearned freedom, because we have regained the eyes to see. May this year unfold into radical expressions of your own unique Fierce Flourishing. (source: mops.org) |
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