Hospitality Volunteer Needed

The Steering Committee is looking for a volunteer (or two!) to help with coordinating meals for our moms in need.  We currently have six moms expecting babies in the next few months and are in need of someone to help us in organizing meal delivery for these moms (we try to schedule a week's worth of meals for each mom after delivery).  There is a great website that does all of the hard work (http://www.takethemameal.com/ - thanks Jill Deitz!), but it would be helpful to have a contact person who can take on this task.  If you are interested in helping, please let Heather or Erin know!

Directory to be Emailed Thursday

If you would like to be included in our member directory and/or receive a copy of the member directory, please get your registration forms into Erin or Heather by the meeting on Wednesday evening.  We will send out updates during the year as we add new members. 

Last Call for Family Cookout RSVPs!

If you haven't yet replied to the evite for the Family Cookout this weekend at Erin's house, please do so ASAP!  We have to place a chicken order in advance and shop for paper products, so if you could please let us know if you will be coming via evite by Wednesday, we would greatly appreciate it!

Safe Kids is on Again!

Safe Kids has finally responded and they are planning on doing a presentation for our group on Wednesday, October 20th as planned, so we will keep that topic as originally scheduled and keep the coupon seminar for later in the year.  They are planning to discuss car seat, choking & holiday safety, and any other questions you may have that we can fit into the schedule!

This Week's Meeting Topic

Our meeting topic this week will be a group discussion about the chapter on Sarah from the book Mothers of the Bible.  Don't forget to bring your reading guide for the scripture & discussion questions!

Don't Eat the Trail Mix!!!

We are so happy to announce a new member to our group that is also expecting a baby...welcome & congratulations Michele Cancilla!  We are now up to SIX laundry baskets of baby essentials that we will be filling at our family cookout next weekend!

Next Meeting Topic

Our next meeting is Wednesday, September 15th and our topic is It's Okay to Say No...and Not Feel Guilty!  If you haven't signed up for child care this year, please email Amy Stokes for children 3 and under and/or sign up for TLC for children 4 and older.  Hope to see everyone on Wednesday!

Heather's Devotion

Many of you asked about getting a copy of the devotion Heather did several weeks ago, so here it is!  It has also been posted as a Word document on the Shutterfly website.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

 

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

 

For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.

 

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

 

People, even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

 

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

 

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

Evite List Update & Directory Publication

We are going to be updating the evite list for future events.  Please make sure that you have paperwork on file with us to continue receiving invitations for future events.  If you have been to a meeting, you have completed the registration forms; if you have not yet been to a meeting, please complete the registration forms found here and turn them in to Heather Korey or Erin Clary.  You do not have to commit to evening meetings to be active with this group, but for housekeeping purposes it would be very helpful for us to have an information sheet filled out for everyone that is going to participate in group activities.  We are also trying to get everyone's information compiled in order to publish our directory of contact information for members.  We cannot publish your contact information without your permission on the registration form, nor can we distribute the contact information of others to you until you have completed the paperwork.  Please print a copy of the registration forms and hand them in at the next Time Out meeting or event that you attend.  Thank you so much for your help with this!

Meeting Topic Change

We are going to change the topic for our October 20th meeting to Couponing 101: Grocery Stores.  We have been trying to get a representative from Safe Kids/Gwinnett County to come out and do a presentation on child safety & do car seat checks, but we can't get them to contact us back and confirm a presentation.  We are going to continue trying to get a safety presentation lined up for later in the year, but we know that we have lots of new mommies interested in learning more about coupons, so we decided to shift the schedule a bit.  Please feel free to invite your friends or anyone else you think is interested or could benefit from learning about extreme couponing!!

Another Pregnant Mommy!

Congratulations to Jessica Cole, one of our newest additions to the group who is also expecting a new addition herself...a baby boy due in December!  Please add Jessica to the list of mommies that we are going to be celebrating at our upcoming family cookout on September 26th at Erin Clary's house.  In addition to Jessica, we have four other expecting mommies in our group: Jenn Samonsky, Karen Hay, Jamie Bouchard & Beverly Prickett! 

Next Meeting Topic

Just a reminder that our next meeting is Wednesday, September 8th and our meeting topic will be a discussion about our first book chapter on Eve from Mothers of the Bible.  Don't forget to print out and bring the list of the discussion questions posted last week!  If you missed last week's meeting and do not have your book, please come anyway, you will be able to participate without having done the homework!

New Evites are Coming

Apparently the "new & improved" Evite is not so user-friendly (hooray!  it is not just me!), so we are going to cancel the original evite and re-do them under the "old & superior" version!  If you have already replied, please re-RSVP when you get the new invitation.  Sorry for the confusion and pray that the new version of Evite doesn't completely replace the old version anytime soon...at least not while I (Erin) am in charge of sending invitations!!!

Mom's Night Out: Thursday, 9/16

Just a reminder that we have a Mom's Night Out on the calendar for Thursday, September 16th.  If you have any ideas or activities in mind, please email Erin or Heather!  Look for an evite by the end of the week.

Save the Date!

Look for an evite later this week for our Time Out! family cookout on Sunday, September 26 from 5-7 at Erin Clary's house.  We had a family dinner after our Easter Egg Hunt last spring and had lots of fun with the whole family, so we hope you will be able to join us!  We are also planning to celebrate Karen Hay, Jenn Samonsky Jamie Bouchard & Beverly Prickett's babies that evening with a small baby shower.  Karen, Jenn & Beverly are having boys and Jamie is having a girl!

Time Out! is going to pay for fried chicken from KFC, Erin is going to supply paper products and Heather is going to supply drinks.  Please bring a dish (appetizer/side/dessert) to share!

Important Documents to Print

We will begin our book study, Mothers of the Bible, next week.  If you are participating in the book study, click here to print a copy of the reading guide & study questions.  You can also access this document on the Shutterfly website. 

You can find the handout from tonight's meeting on the Nine Characteristics of Biblical Fellowship here.  This document can also be found at the Shutterfly website.

If you would like to participate in the book study and have not already done so, please contact Heather Korey immediately to order a book!