Below is info on our 2014 BETTER TOGETHER Conference! What an amazing time we had and WOW, did the Lord show up! CLICK THIS LINK and DISCOVER how to HOST a BETTER TOGETHER Conference at your church! A Conference by: REGISTER NOW for the 2014 M.O.M. Conference ~ BETTER TOGETHER July 31st – August 2nd, Jacksonville, Florida at Trinity Baptist Church Time is ticking and BETTER TOGETHER will be here before you know it! We’ve had women contact us who really want to go but who are on a very tight budget. WE DON’T WANT FINANCES TO STAND IN THE WAY! So… …
Lunchbox Love Notes For Your Kids
It’s that time again. The kids are back in school and with that our mommy calendars immediately start to fill up. New routines. New bed times. New nightly stress about homework and even after school activities. Oh how I love the smell of a freshly sharpened number two pencil (no really, I do) and also dislike all the anxiousness that surrounds the back to school season. Did we get all the supplies on the class lists? Are we going to miss the bus? What about classes, did they get the classes they needed or the teachers we wanted? Breathe in …
Where the M.O.M.s Are
Many of you know The M.O.M. Initiative has a team of 25 M.O.M.s who work hard to provide encouraging, relevant, relational and challenging content for the website as well as resources to help ministries develop powerful missional mentoring ministries. We get emails from women asking us where the M.O.M.s are speaking. So, today, I’d like to share with you where the M.O.M.s are for the rest of 2013 so you can pop in to one of the events they are speaking at, tune into their radio shows or watch their television interviews. Oh…and if you do meet the M.O.M.s during one …
HAPPY 4th of JULY… AND a Cruise You Won’t Want to Miss!
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!! It’s the day we celebrate our INDEPENDENCE as a nation and honor God for making us ONE NATION UNDER GOD! Enjoy your day, sweet moms! We’re FREE! AND… I’m SUPER EXCITED to tell you about an upcoming cruise that our very own M.O.M. Mentor, Melissa Mashburn, will not only be sailing on, but she will be one of the speakers! AND…she is offering $100 of the cruise when you use the promo code “MEL” when you register. SO… It’s time to pack those flip flops and sunscreen! Grab a couple of your best friends, or come …
Praying For Your Kids: Simple, Specific, Power-Packed Prayers
For years I had heard it said that we needed to pray for our kids. I get that, and I completely stand behind that thought process. What I didn’t always understand was the beauty and wisdom that came from praying simple, specific, power-packed prayers over my kids. It took a lot of reading, praying and talking with my husband, but over the course of all that investigating we discovered there were some very practical things we wanted to pray for over our boys. It actually fit perfectly with my M.O.M. Mission Statement (see my post in May 2013) and very …
Mom Mission Statement…and why it’s important to have one
4 “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.[a] 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. 6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. 7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Deuteronomy 6:4-7 NLT Mission Statements — Most businesses have them, ministries have them, and so do …
Heightened Awareness: Living Life in the Midst of the Unknown
© Angela Farley | Dreamstime Stock Photos RF-LL Most of my life is lived in a constant state of heightened awareness. At any given moment I am painfully aware that I could have to drop everything and be in the middle of a medical crisis. Truth be told, that is pretty much true for any of us, especially moms. Our kids are in a state of constant movement and yes, at any given time, they could get hurt. For me, it is the same, except that I have also experienced this medical crisis too many times. In 2005 my oldest …
Where are the Continuing Education Credits for Motherhood?
Don’t you wish there were Continuing Education credits for motherhood? Back in college there were classes for just about everything: Music Appreciation, English 1101, Calculus, Religion, you name it and it was there. Unfortunately, I have yet to see a college level class on Motherhood. Sure, there are classes you can take while you are pregnant, and even some awesome mommy and me type classes, but where are the classes for: bandaging up boo-boo’s, pre-pubescent anxiety, peer pressure, broken hearts, and helping your child find their identity in Christ. Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the …
When the Christmas Season Hurts
What happens when the Christmas season hurts? Usually just saying the word Christmas brings up a bounty of fun family memories – snow, family, the smell of a fresh cut tree and yet this year, for many people just the thought of the Christmas season brings tears to their eyes. What happens when the Christmas season hurts? Practical tips to make it through this Christmas. Click To Tweet It’s a powerful parallel, on one hand there are millions of people everywhere that are full of the Christmas spirit. You know who they are, they just can’t help themselves, they have …
How to Be Thankful Even When You Don’t Feel Like It
And be thankful. Colossians 3:15b ESV How do you get to a place of thankfulness when it would be so easy to just give up and become bitter or beaten down by the tough seasons in life? Everywhere you turn others are talking about their sweet family traditions and keeping a daily journal on their instagram page of things they are thankful for and you, well, you find yourself thinking…what do I have to do to catch a break here? Yep, I hear you sweet friend. It’s not always sunshine and lollipops in my world either, but let me let …