Sunday, September 27, 2009

STEERING TEAM ONLY...MOPS Fall Council Meeting

Join other Wisconsin MOPS leaders for a fall council meeting!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
9am - 2pm
Spring Creek Church
N35W22000 Capitol Drive, Pewaukee, WI
Cost: $5
Snacks and lunch will be provided.
This meeting is open to all MOPS Steering Team Leaders, Mentors and Discussion Group Leaders. I hope you and your team will plan to attend - it will be a great day! Topics to be discussed include:
Answer the Phone, It’s God Calling!
Leadership Relationships - these are the glue that holds your team together.
Courage - how can we be courageous together?
From the Juice Box to Jesus
There will also be time for networking. Please bring items such as newsletters, group directories, moppets ideas, creative activities, or other items to share on the Show & Tell table. We will also be having great door prizes! Please RSVP to your coordinator, Amy Gruetzmacher by October 13th.
Thanks!
Betsy Gasper

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

September Meeting Recap In Pictures

Guest Speaker Betsy Gasper




Top: Amy Gruetzmacher
Bottom: Wanda Leffel




























Top: Catrina Stover and Jamie Poelzer Bottom: Jessica Merrill and Jeanne Pacetti















Top: Amy Mealey and Ruth Sohre Bottom: Mentor Mom Michelle Gruber














Having fun at their "Time Out" table: Anna Herman, Crystal Topp and Joy Buntrock

Art and craft time: Carrie Lavin and guest

Friday, September 4, 2009

MOPS Meeting Tuesday, September 8th @ 9:15am

Hi Ladies~

I hope you all have a fabulous Labor Day weekend planned - whether it's heading up north for the last camping trip of the year or just relaxing around the house with your family - I hope you have lots of fun and good time with your loved ones!

We're very much looking forward to our first MOPS meeting of this school year next Tuesday, September 8th - the day after Labor Day. So, get the older kids on the bus and come on out to MOPS -- it's going to be a great time! We have a fun speaker lined up - Betsy Gasper, the head of the SE Wisconsin MOPS Council, and she'll be introducing our theme "Together on Planet Mom". Our hospitality girls have done a great job preparing the room, favors, and fun extras for you, and we'll have lots of stuff to give away too. As always, we'll be doing an "early-bird" prize drawing for those of you arrived and checked in before 9:15 (we've got restaurant gift certificates so you can enjoy a date night on us!) and we've also got four family 4-packs of free admission, tokens and dinner to a fun new play place in Sussex, as well as coupons for everyone who attends the meeting!

We'll begin our meeting in Room 152 promptly at 9:15 to maximize our time together, so please plan to arrive early to get your kiddos checked in and give you some time to grab some food, relax, and be ready to go. You'll find the nursery workers and check-in kiosks set up and ready to go by 8:45 am, so come early!

Some of you have already paid for the year, but for those of you who are interested, we now have available payment options online on our page of the church website. Check out the link below to see a video introducing our theme, as well as the opportunity to register for the upcoming year online using a credit card. http://www.springcreekonline.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=10294&sec_id=3128&nc=1252089646671
Otherwise, bring a check (payable to Spring Creek Church) or cash with you and we'll get you signed up with MOPS International ($24) - which includes some cool extras this year - and with our program ($7/month).

As always, please feel free to invite moms you meet to join us! Their first meeting is absolutely free. We'd love to have the opportunity to encourage them too -- as we all walk through the craziness that can result from being mothers of young kids.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!