Out and About with MOPS!

Ladies Soccer Night
Come play soccer with other moms at White Rock park on Monday nights at 6:30 p.m. You can bring your kids if you can't find childcare...we will work it out. This is a great way to burn some calories while having fun.

Walking
A group of moms is walking together at 8:45 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at the Camp Lone Star road. It’s fun walking with other moms and kids in strollers, and there isn’t much traffic, so please join us!

Story Time and Playtime at the Library
Story Time at the La Grange public library starts at 10:00 a.m. every Wednesday. After Story Time, we go out to play at the library playground.

Bible Study
Tammy is hosting a women’s Bible Study at her house on Monday mornings at 10:00 a.m. Kids are welcome to come and play while the moms meet.

Moms Night Out!
We will hold a monthly Moms Night Out on the first Thursday night of the month at Las Fuentes Mexican Restaurant, 658 S Jefferson St, La Grange. Our first night out will be on Thursday, November 1, at 6:00 p.m.

Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze Outing
On Wednesday, October 17, we are going on an outing to Rocky Creek Farm in Moulton (about 30 miles south of La Grange). The farm features a corn maze,mini mazes, slides, barrel train, hay ride, pumpkin patch, wildflower patch. If you would like to go, please rsvp to Heidi Ehler. For more information on the farm, go to www.chaloupkafarm.com.

This Year's Theme

the HOME factor:
BEGIN HERE … GO THERE

In our homes of origin many of us learned the deepest lessons about relationship, developed life routines and acquired our tastes and preferences. And now, as moms, we long to create homes where our families can thrive and grow — and we can too.

Our homes must be safe places – physically and also emotionally safe. In them we bond, we eat and play and rest together, we decorate and provision our special home spaces. The theme “the HOME factor: BEGIN HERE … GO THERE” enriches our perspective and hones our abilities to create a cocoon of home.

But at its healthiest, our home experience should fill us and launch us into wider circles of investment and influence where we interact with our world. We return HOME to reconnect and refuel — but we’ll move from the HOME outwards to make a difference.

The heart of the HOME is also a picture of God’s desire to interact with us and deeply love us where we really live. He desires to make his home in our hearts. He expresses it this way in the theme verse: "...he lives with you and will be in you." John 14:17

Three key elements of this theme to explore throughout the year:

* Our homes are where we bond, cocoon, build inwardly.
* Our homes are where we refuel so that we can live fully in the world beyond.
* Our homes are a picture of Jesus' dwelling within us.

(From the www.MOPS.org website)