Maple Grove MOPS

This Week's Speaker: Pete Larson: Love Often, Laugh Much: Making Marriage All it Can Be Pete grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota as the 9th of 14 children. After graduating from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, Pete began working with youth and families at St. Patrick’s Church in Edina, MN. Following ten years of youth and family ministry, Pete began working at Youth Frontiers, where he led over 600 retreats, speaking to over 100,000 kids in grades 5-12. He was also a host on The Wishing Well T.V. show at the Minneapolis & St. Paul Children’s Hospitals. Pete is the co-founder and Executive Director of Family Fest Ministries, Inc., which seeks to strengthen families in the Christian Faith through weeklong and weekend retreats for families and couples. Pete often speaks at church youth groups, conferences, and retreats. Pete also writes blogs for myfaithradio.com and 1st Corinthians 13 Parenting . He lives in Bloomington, Minnesota with hi...

This Week's Speaker: Caroline Mandich: Jesus in your Mothering My husband, Danny and I are both from Canada. I graduated from the University of Western, Ontario. Danny graduated from Ohio State and played hockey for the Minnesota North Stars from 1982 to 1986. when he retired due to an injury, we stayed because we loved the lakes, the people and the way they celebrated family and the seasons. We have been married for over 30 years and have 3 children; Danielle 27, Josh 26 and Grace 21. We are empty nesters (Boo hoo) and are just learning to cook for two again. I love Jesus, great conversations, the outdoors, making family memories and hope to someday have all my photos out of containers and into frames and albums. This Week's Reminders: You have until Monday night to subscribe to the blog to be entered in to our drawing for Jen Hatmaker's revised edition of "Interrupted".   If you still have not paid your MOPS dues for the semester or year, ...