Jill Savage is Coming to Yuma!

Ladies Mark Your Calendars for April 28, 2011!!!

The Yuma MOPS group is excited to host Jill Savage as a guest speaker on April 28th at 6:00 PM at the First Southern Baptist Church in Yuma, CO.  We are opening this event to the public!  This event is free with a love offering.  Childcare and finger foods will also be provided!

So, ladies bring a friend, your mother, your sister, an expecting mother or anyone you know who could use an encouraging word and inspiration from our sister in Christ, Jill Savage.  Men, you're more than welcome to attend as well!

Here's a little information about Jill:

Jill Savage is an author and speaker who is passionate about encouraging families. She is the author of seven books including Professionalizing Motherhood, My Hearts At Home, Real Moms…Real Jesus, and her most recent release Living With Less So Your Family Has More.


Featured on Focus on the Family, Crosswalk.com, and as the host of the Heartbeat radio program, Jill is the founder and director of Hearts at Home, an organization that encourages moms. Jill and her husband, Mark, have five children, three who are married, and one granddaughter. They make their home in Normal, Illinois.

Please e-mail krystal.ballah@gmail.com with any additional questions!

You can check out Jill's website's below:

http://www.jillsavage.org/
http://www.hearts-at-home.org/

Video Clip of Jon Holsten

Jon Holsten will be at FSBC on Thursday, November 11th.  Doors will open at 6:00 PM and he will begin speaking at 6:30 PM.

Here's a great video clip of our guest speaker this week!  This will give you an idea of what Jon will be speaking about.  Remember to bring your spouse, parenting partner, grandparents, childcare providers, etc!

'The Swimsuit Lesson' is coming to Yuma, CO!

As a life-long child protection advocate, Jon Holsten is an internationally recognized speaker and children's book author. A veteran police sergeant and child sex crimes investigator in Fort Collins, Colorado, Jon has investigated and helped successfully prosecute dozens of child sexual abuse cases.

His experiences on the front lines of law enforcement have led Jon to seek new ways to protect children from predators. His research and passion led him to create the wildly popular children's book: The Swimsuit Lesson. Beautifully written and illustrated, The Swimsuit Lesson helps parents talk to their young children about privacy, modesty, and those who might do them harm. The book has been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, numerous local media outlets and even caught the attention of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Jon has written articles on child sexual abuse and prevention for Focus on the Family, Children's Ministry Magazine, and other publications. In addition to his international speaking audiences, he has become a very popular speaker for local MOPS (Mothers' of Pre-Schoolers) groups.

Through his writing and speaking, Jon demonstrates his passion for helping parents protect their children from predators. A doting dad himself, Jon and his wife, Ceri, have six children of their own and make their home in Fort Collins, Colorado.

You can read more about Jon and his story at http://www.theswimsuitlesson.com/.

Home Economics - October 14, 2010

What a wonderful meeting we had on October 14, 2010. Heather Henricks was our guest speaker and she spoke on Home Economics. Here’s a summary of her presentation.


If you recall the first thing Heather asked us to do was look at each and say ‘You are not the expert’ and then she also had us look to each other and say ‘I am not the expert either.’ She wanted us to understand that she was not an expert at home economics but would like to share some things that have been working for her and her family!

Before we review some tips and tricks Heather shared with us, I wanted to take a minute and note the ‘God moment’ we all experienced that night! Rachael Drullinger shared a wonderful devotion from Proverbs 31:10-31 which talks about the virtuous women (defined as a woman of strength, efficiency and ability). Heather also shared that Proverbs 31 was also the inspiration of her presentation. It was so neat to see how God used this passage for extra emphasis this evening!

Thanks Rachael for sharing with us!

Thanks Heather, you were such a blessing!

Now, back to some things Heather shared with us… Heather reminded us that even though our stages of life will change the desire to maintain and manage our home will not. Here’s a simple question as we got started, ‘Did you feel good about your home today?’

I loved the correlation Heather made between our home and a corporation and as moms; we are the CEO of our home! As the CEO we have several things to manage:

1. Chores

    a. Laundry

        i. Doing it means wash, dry, fold AND put away!

       ii. Get your kids involved. Kids older than 3 should be able to help.

      iii. On a side note I (Krystal) have gotten my 17 month old to help by putting his dirty clothes in the hamper and putting some of the folded things away. It tends to take a little longer, but he loves to help.

      iv. I’ve (Krystal) also utilized the delayed timer on my dryer. Before I leave for work in the morning I put a load of laundry in and have it set to finish before I get home. Once I get home, I put it in the dryer and then by the time supper is done the kids and I can fold and put it away! This has been a huge time saver for us!!!

  b. Cleaning Bathrooms

      i. Complete task once a week

      ii. Send your kids to clean one bathroom while you clean the other. Make it a game and set a timer!

     iii. Don’t over work the bathroom; just spend about 15 minutes cleaning!

     iv. Consider cleaning the bathroom while your kids are in the bath tub since you have to be in there anyway!

  c. Doing the dishes

      i. Do the dishes every night! This makes for a much better beginning to the next day!

      ii. Get your kids involved!

      iii. Paper plates are not a sin! Use them!!!

  d. Cleaning Floors

      i. Schedule to complete twice a week and don’t stress out about the times in between!

See below for the picture of a sample of charting your home tasks and don’t forget to schedule your time off!

Thanks Amy for assisting Heather!

Take some time to layout your schedule of duties and your time off!

2. Paperwork

    a. Here’s a motto – only handle paperwork once.

    b. Sign it, file it… take care of it right away

    c. Have a place for all paperwork to prevent the horrible piles!

3. Daily Clutter

    a. Daily clutter needs to be taken care of EVERY DAY

    b. One thing that works for Heather is having a basket for each kid. She puts things in their basket and then once a week the kids are responsible for putting these items away. Great for homes where the kids’ bedrooms are downstairs or upstairs!

    c. Make sure to do a sweep through your home before lunch and before bed.

    d. Prepare backpacks (or diaper bags for working moms) before bed.

    e. Gift to yourself is having a clean home and ready for the next day!



And above all make sure to schedule yourself a break!

‘She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness’

Proverbs 31:27

Thanks to both Rachael and Heather for sharing with us!

Stay tuned for a posting of a video of our life lesson on bow making!

Blessings,

Krystal

Jill Savage is Coming to Yuma, CO

That's right, you read the title of this article correctly! 

Jill Savage will be coming to Yuma, CO on May 12, 2011 so mark your calendars now because you don't want to miss this event!  Jill Savage is an author and speaker who is passionate about motherhood. She is the author of six books including Professionalizing Motherhood , Is There Really Sex After Kids?, My Heart’s At Home, Real Moms, Real Jesus and her newest release, Living With Less So Your Family Has More. A mother of five and grandmother to one, Jill speaks to thousands of women each year about their value as a wife and mother. Featured on Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Woman magazine, and Family Life Today, Jill is the founder and director of Hearts at Home, an organization that encourages and educates moms. The Savages make their home in Normal, IL.

Check out http://www.jillsavage.org/2007/12/who-is-jill-savage.html to read more about Jill or visit http://www.heartsathome.org/ to read more about the Hearts at Home organization.

In the months leading up to having Jill Savage speak during a MOPS meeting we will be going through one of her books 'Real Moms...Real Jesus.' 

What does Jesus know about the peanut-butter-and-jelly life of a mom? Plenty! Jill Savage, founder and director of Hearts at Home, introduces the real Jesus to real moms. In chapters that examine key behaviors and decisions Jesus made during His life on earth, Jill brings those lessons right down to the laundry-filled, sticky-fingered days every mother knows.

Between the chapters are interactive vignettes that turn the concept of the book back around. If the meat of the content is looking at Jesus' life on earth and understanding how to apply that in our everyday lives, these perspective vignettes are brief, refreshing glimpses starting with our own messy, busy lives. Jill continually reminds the reader that Jesus is not an unattainable deity, but a Friend who understands.

How will this work within our meetings?

So, for each month we will have a guest speaker share with our group for the first meeting of the month and then the second meeting of the month we will go through one or two chapters of this wonderful book!  And then we'll wrap up the book by listening to Jill Savage speak (LIVE IN YUMA, CO) to moms in our group as well as invite other MOPS groups in surrounding communities and other moms within our community and surrounding communities!

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