Maple Grove MOPS

This Week's Speaker:  Heidi Weber: Overcoming the unexpected Heidi Weber and her husband, Billy, have three children: Claire (5), Audrey (4) and Wes (2). They live in Maple Grove and attend New Hope Church. Heidi has been involved in MOPS for five years now, and loves that it provides yet another platform to share with fellow mothers how God has uniquely and abundantly blessed their family. Her favorite shows are Barefoot Contessa and Downton Abbey. Her favorite food is anything chocolate; she eats at Chipotle more than the average college student; and, she encourages every woman that crosses her path to buy a Hoover Linx vacuum... it has changed her life... and she hopes the same for you.   This Week's Reminders: This week we thought our mom's could use some down time!  Just a simple 20 minutes or so to catch your breath and take some "me" time.  We will have this time available for you to bring a good book, to spend some time in prayer,

This Week's Speaker:   Beth Beebe--: "Handling the Holidays" Beth grew up in St. Louis Park, MN in a strong Christian family. She is currently am a member of Bethany Church in Bloomington, MN and helps coordinate the curriculum for the Children's Ministry for elementary children.She has been involved with MOPS since 1995, when her oldest son was 1 year old.  She had long term medical complications and even severe post-partum depression following the births of both of her boys.  MOPS  was a lifeline for her during this time.  She received so much love, encouragement, and a sense of hope in mothering through MOPS.  God has given her such a heart for Moms and MOPS that she just love to give back to MOPS.  This Week's Reminders: Robbinsdale Women's Center donations : RWC is in need of infant sleepers sizes newborn to 6 months, newborn hats and baby wipes.  Please remember these are to be NEW items. We will be collecting these items at this meeting

This Week's Speaker: Embracing your Mess: Avoiding Mothering Comparisons *Video segment with Shauna Niequist Shauna Niequist is the author of  Cold Tangerines, Bittersweet , and Bread & Wine . Shauna grew up in Barrington, Illinois, and then studied English and French Literature at Westmont College in Santa Barbara. She is married to  Aaron , who is a pianist and songwriter. Aaron is a worship leader at Willow Creek and is recording a project called  A New Liturgy . Aaron & Shauna live outside Chicago with their sons, Henry and Mac. Shauna writes about the beautiful and broken moments of everyday life–friendship, family, faith, food, marriage, love, babies, books, celebration, heartache, and all the other things that shape us, delight us, and reveal to us the heart of God. This Week's Reminders: Robbinsdale Women's Center donations: For our next 3 meetings we will be collecting any of the following to RWC:  Infant Sleepers: Newbor

This Week's Speaker:  Sharon Sheppard Sharon Sheppard is the mother of a son and a daughter and is grandmother to 5 boys. She taught English to college students for 18 years, and currently works as a freelance writer. Her articles have appeared in Focus on the Family magazine, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Today's Christian Woman, and dozens of other magazines. She and her husband did 3 short-term missions in Latvia. She spends summers in Minnesota and Winters in Seattle so she can be near her children there. She is on the MOPS speakers list in both locations. This Week's Reminders: We are collecting diapers (size 1 and newborn) to donate to Robbinsdale Women's Center.  Thank you to all who remembered at our last meeting.  We will be delivering them after this week's meeting.   Don't forget to appreciate your MOPPET workers.  We want to let them know how grateful we are for their service to us!  This Week's MOPPETS

This Week's Speaker: Alisa Palmer-- "Training your Children to Work" "I am a writer and speaker who is passionate about intentional parenting. I believe we don't have to wait until our children are "of age" to train character, relationship skills and life skills. It is the ins and outs of the "daily grind" where we forge the character and skills in our children. I fully believe that training kids doesn't have to be like pulling teeth but should be injected with lavish amounts of creativity.  I believe that great parenting is 1 part creativity, 2 part consistency and 3 parts wisdom." This Week's Reminders We will be taking table pictures at this meeting for a MOPS directory.   We are collecting both Newborn and Size 1 diapers to donate to Robbinsdale Women's Center.  Please bring donations to our next MOPS meeting.  Friendly reminder, if you haven't already paid please bring your membership paym