SEPTEMBER 2013
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M O T H E R S O F P R E S C H O O L E R S First Presbyterian Church // Edmond, Oklahoma
WELCOME FROM our 2013-2014 MOPS coordinator katie moore We are mothers and wives. Daughters and sisters. Friends and neighbors. We share a season of life that binds us together: the preschool years. In many ways, we are so similar. Yet, for all that we share, we are also very different. We are boy moms and girl moms. We are younger and older. We breastfeed and bottlefeed. We have four kids, and we have one. We’ve had careers before kids, and we’ve had kids before careers. We are co-sleepers and crib lovers. We always wear babies and never do. We cry-it-out and never have. We are cloth diapers and disposable diapers. We are epidurals and natural childbirth. We are right-brained and left-brained. We are extroverts and introverts. We are early risers and night owls. We are laid back and tightly wound. We are from all over and from right here. I love this about us.
Our differences remind us that there are a million ways to do this thing called motherhood. I don’t know about you, but I need to be reminded that the story of motherhood is as varied as the faces that fill our room. I need to be reminded that I don’t have to fit a certain “mom” mold, but that God made moms in a beautiful REMI array of personalities, N W e will DER: circumstances, interests, be t direct and talents. ory p aking hot You are that reminder. next meeti os I love what we have in ng Sept. common and all that we 27! don’t. Welcome to this crazy little group called MOPS.
YOUR STEERING TEAM & MENTOR MOMS
Your 2013-2014 Steering Team & Mentor Moms are here to serve you. Feel free to contact any of us with any concerns or needs that you might have throughout the year. Are you interested in joining this group of dynamic women? We are still looking to fill the following: CARE & PRAYER, OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES, HOSPITALITY, AND FUNDRAISING. Let your table leader or any Steering Team member know if you would like to serve with us and help make MOPS even better! Coordinator Katie Moore Registration/Finance Jessica Filson Creative Activities Michelle Curran Kristin Newton Discussion Group Leader Patricia Lodge
Discussion Leaders Shauna Austin Kara Hale Danielle Herndon Patricia Lodge Megan Looper Laura Opperman Publicity Teresa Miller
Moppets Leader Kimberly Madero Community Outreach Michelle Boe Sharon Thompson Hospitality Lindsey Malone
M O P S E D M O N D F P C . B L O G S P O T. C O M
Mentor Moms Laurie Ashford Cindy Birdwell Cindy Elass Cheri Fuller Denise Heitman Veta Roberts