Mother's of Faith

It's been awhile since I have shared about mom's group, or now known as "Mothers of Faith."

Our group is so great and it's a privilege to serve the mom's of our church through the leadership of this group.  We just finished going through the book "Give Them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson.  It was a big challenge, but so helpful for me as a mom that desperately wants to raise my children in a godly way in the midst of this crazy, sinful world.  

We have now gone back to something we are hoping is a little more practical, Joy of the Word Filled Family, by John Barnett.  It is a great book and one I suggest everyone has on their bookshelf.  It isn't a book you have to read cover to cover.  It is written to both the husband and the wife.  They laid it out according to topic and in a way that you really can just read one chapter to help in the area you need the help in.  It's great and I'm hoping the mom's will read it and I know it will be great to teach out of!  I hope I do a better job of sharing here what we are learning then I did with the last book.

We are in our 5th season and do have our time together down to a good routine.  We've added a few new things and just cleaned it up and really are loving it!

We start at 9:30 with coffee and a delicious, homemade, somewhat-healthy treat and some fellowship.  Usually by 9:40 the kids are dropped off in their assigned spots and we are making our way to our seats for announcements and prayer.  Then we have a yummy recipe and sometimes a helpful tip.  After that we get into the teaching.  Hannah was teaching this day and you can see her in the purple chair.

 We try to keep the lesson time informal, where people can interrupt with questions.  We like sitting in a circle and try to make it feel homey.  As you can see, we have the pleasure of meeting in a beautiful home, that makes the homey-ness possible and delightful!!

While we are meeting our kiddos are out playing!  They have a planned lesson, activity, project and occasionally a time of singing.  They are even memorizing a verse!  They get to play outside on sunny days and run around.  This particular day we had 16 kiddos!!  If the little ones aren't walking yet, they have their own playroom!

This is Izzy.  She's been with us the entire time!  We've gotten to see her grow up as well!  She was 10 when we started, Thomas was about 6mos old.

Here's Allie, she's been with us since the beginning as well.  She was 9, I think when we started!  What a delight these girls are.  They love our kids and are so good with them.  They are a true gift to the moms and to the kids.

Back inside, when lesson time is down, we split up into small groups where we go over memory verses (if we are on top of things), have a discussion time based on the lesson for the day and then a time of prayer.

We continue to work on building relationships with these moms as we all strive to "Walk Like Jesus"

It's a time of blessing to me and I hope we have many more years to come!!