Hi all!
We had a great meeting yesterday!
We are super excited to announce that after expenses our smart mama resale made $1300 for MOPS! Yeah! What a blessing! You all are so awesome! Everyone pulled together and did their part and I could not be prouder to be in the company of such a great group of moms! You all rock! Thanks for all you do, I could never properly thank you, but please know I am extremely grateful!
Steve Leavitt of Hope for Life Ministry spoke about loving your husband. I think everyone took away something they could apply in their life.He may come back for an encore early next year for a dinner with our husbands.
We also launched Operation Christmas Child, we passed out boxes, but you can use any shoe box or one of the plastic shoe boxes from Walmart or Target. It is a great opportunity to teach your children about giving to others. Our family has participated for 10+ years and we just love it! This year they have an awesome new feature where if you pay your shipping costs online, you can print out a label for your box that can be tracked, and you can know where your box went. I am super excited about this! Make sure to include a letter and picture of your family in the box. It really does mean the world to these kids that someone, somewhere cares about them. It has been such a blessing to our family. Complete instructions for packing the box is on the Samaritan’s Purse website. Also if you have any questions please ask me or Sarah Smith. I will be posting some all about me inserts for the boxes on the yahoo group, so be looking for that soon.We will be returning the boxes to the next meeting and Heather will drop them off for us after we pray over them.
Saturday is Thanks and Giving Back at Mount Olive. It is from 2-4 pm. There will be several service projects going on at the same time. We are doing Christmas craft kits for the children at Dell Children’s Hospital. We still have a few spots if you would like to volunteer to help with the booth or just come and bring your family and friends for an afternoon of fun and giving back!
Our craft for our next meeting is glass tile necklaces, so cute! If you would like to out a picture of your child, children, family, etc on your necklace and are not sure how to reduce your pic to a 1X1 inch square please e-mail it to me and I will do it for you and print and bring it to the meeting, If you do it yourself, please print on matte photo paper as it gives the best image in this format. I super excited to see how awesome these turn out. I will also be bringing some designs to choose from, should you not want to do a picture.
Be on the look out for the evite for our 3rd annual Favorite Things party, MNO coming up on the 19th of November. This is being hosted by Stephenie Gilmore and will be an awesome time! So mark your calendar now!
Ok…. Wow! That’s a lot! Well, you know moms, we are the ultimate multi-taskers!
Hope to see everyone soon!
Happy Fall!
