This last spring we decided that we needed more from the church we were currently located. The church across the street wanted us. (you'll notice that was past tense) So our coordinator set up a meeting to meet with the pastor and the youth pastor so that we could discuss what they could do for us and what we could do for them. Unfortunately she neglected to invite the rest of the steering team. We start questioning her and she said the meeting went good and we are going to be switching churches in the fall. As you can imagine there were a lot of unanswered questions so we cornered her on it. She said they needed a decision soon because of budget reasons. You see they are suppose to pay our charter fee.
We discussed it as a steering team minus our coordinator and decided that I would co-coordinate the year coming up so that there wouldn't be any more communication errors. We then talked with our coordinator and told her that I would be filling the position with her and why. She was not happy to say the least. We were because a team cannot be just one person and that is how she was running it.
We then set up a meeting with the pastor of our 'new' church and we walked away so discouraged. It was not good. He kept saying things like, 'If this year don't go good you'll have to find a new place to be.' and variations of it. Then he chastised us for not always getting along and that everybody needs to do their own part. We were an extension of the church and yet they wouldn't be able to help us with anything. We weren't to do fundraising for the group finances but the church wasn't going to be able to help us out. He talked around our questions and never answered them. Not good.
A couple of weeks after our meeting with him one of the steer team member heard from her church that they wanted to start a moms group. Not a MOPS group but a moms group all the same.
We don't care if we are MOPS or not just so long as we are a group. the name shouldn't really matter. So last Friday night at our "mops" retreat we decided to really switch things up.
Now we are really excited for the new year. Our year won't start until January now so we didn't have too much to plan so we took advantage of the situation with some 'adult' punch. So YUMMY! It goes down way too smooth though. Saturday morning we got up, went shopping and just spent the day together being girls. Not moms, just girls. I think this is something we should twice a year. I don't think our husbands agree though.
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