MOPS is for moms with children birth through Kindergarten and meets on the first and third Fridays of the month at Washington from 9:30-11:30am. MOPS is a dynamic, inviting environment where women can come just as they are to build friendships, be encouraged by each other and gain practical parenting strategies. Moms get together to share food, laughter and to hear inspiring speakers. While moms are in our MOPS meetings, their children are lovingly cared for in the MOPS Kids program. You will experience authentic community, mothering support, personal growth and spiritual hope, all to help you be the best mom possible.
Here’s a little bit about what we’ll discussing this year:
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)
After a year spent hunkering down, living smaller, and experiencing a little more fear and anxiety than usual, we are declaring this is the year of going big. It's a year of fresh starts and turning ordinary experiences into extraordinary ones. Enthusiasm will replace worry. Friendship will replace loneliness. No longer will we wait to “get back to normal”; instead, we will start making space for the new things God has for us. We will become less guarded and more daring because this is our year to live All For Love.
Love is the most powerful force on the planet, and yet the concept almost seems cliché. We tell somebody we love them, and in the same breath we talk about how much we love a new podcast. Perhaps we've become so accustomed to the word that we've forgotten how rev- olutionary it is, how God's love changes everything. It is life-altering, curse-lifting and, as shown in Christ's resurrection, quite literally death-conquering.
In order to do this we will:
Walk in power For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Tim- othy 1:7
Love One Another Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39
Make Love your Legacy Let all that you do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
This year we embrace the transformative power of love, to the point where it starts to affect everything we do—the way we talk to our kids, interact with strang- ers, handle disappointments, celebrate victories, make decisions. When love floods into our lives, it all shifts. It results in less doom-scrolling, more conversation. Less comparison, more community. Less fear, more confidence. More over-the-top displays of compas- sion. More patience. More life in our souls. This year, love will save us. In fact, it already has, because love’s name is Jesus.
If you are interested or have any more questions contact Dana Reid or Brittany Kageorge