Need Coffee and Conversation? Try MOPS!

We all know having a conversation and a hot cup of coffee is pretty elusive when you have small kids...this cute video made by our friends at Scottsdale Bible MOPS takes a look at the "natural habitat" of moms and illustrates the need for MOPS perfectly!



We hope you'll join us September 5!  We'll have the coffee waiting.  Register today!

Top Ten Reasons to Join MOPS This Year!

If you are still thinking about whether you should join MOPS this year, here are ten great reasons!  Our fall semester begins September 5, don't miss it!  Register today!

Top Ten Reasons to Join MOPS

10.  You'll get to finish a hot cup of coffee at least twice a month.

9.  Mentor Moms: Perspective, wisdom, and advice on how to get your toddler to pee pee in the potty, already!

8.  No worries about making pies for Thanksgiving.  'Nuff said.

7.  Relevant guest speakers who will show us how to bravely embrace who we are, along with practical information on how we can take action tto accomplish that!

6.  Get rid of some of your "Pinterest guilt" by making at least seven cute and useful crafts this year!

5.  Enjoy a yummy hot breakfast at each meeting that you didn't have to make and that no one is
     demanding bites of.

4.  Who needs "Vegas, baby!" when you'll have a chance to win at every MOPS meeting in our raffle!

3.  Great conversation that does not revolve around princesses, Cars, or what happens when you give a mouse a cookie.

2.  Would you rather be doing the laundry?!

And the top reason for joining MOPS this year?

1.  Community and friendship with other moms in the same stage of life who get it!

2014-2015 Theme: Be You, Bravely

We are so excited for the new year of MOPS to begin!  The theme for this year is "Be you, Bravely."  Here is some more information:

It seems we spend all of our time doing two things- living and waiting to live.

If you are like us, that "waiting to live" category is comprised of a few things that make us uncomfortable, things that require courage to act. For us, it means that we have dreams we want to see realized, conversations that we need to have, and decisions we have been avoiding.

Sometimes realizing how significant an action is makes it harder to accomplish. We become paralyzed from acting because starting feels risky. The urgency of day-to-day demands make them the easiest to deal with.  But days, months and even years go by with the same opportunities standing in front of us, waiting to be chosen.

What we all seem to have in common is that we need a nudge--a nudge to get us out of our ruts and routines so that we can be reminded to risk bravely. 

At MOPS, we believe that you were meant to live deeply and so we have created this year’s theme to inspire you to choose the extraordinary.

"Be you, Bravely" is designed to help us become more ourselves, and to remind us that courage is always worth it and that we are all in this together. Cheering each other on toward our futures is the gift of community at MOPS.

We are so excited to journey alongside you this year as we ask one another what it means to “Be you, Bravely.”

Theme Verse:  Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.  Isaiah 43:18-19   (NIV)

Join Us September 5 For A New Year of MOPS!

The Steering Team has been busy all summer making plans for an amazing year with all of you!  We are so excited and we think this year will be one of the best ever!  Our theme this year will really stretch all of us and provide a lot of encouragement, and we have some great speakers lined up and some really fun crafts planned, too.

Our first meeting of the 2014-2015 year will be on September 5.  (The rest of the year's schedule is posted here!)  Make sure to reserve your spot now and register today!

If you're just learning about MOPS and you have questions, check out our FAQ page or email us at valleyspringsmops@gmail.com.  We'd love to see you on September 5!