Stations of the Cross
1. Jesus condemned
2. Jesus receives the cross
3. The first fall
4. Jesus meets His Mother
5. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross
6. Veronica wipes Jesus' face with her veil
7. The second fall
8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
9. The third fall
10. Jesus stripped of His garments
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies
13. Jesus' body removed from the cross
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Oriental Salad, Tara Tang
Ingredients:
Mixed greens
Chopped green onions
1/2 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 can La Choy rice noodles
1 pkg sunflower seeds
1 pkg slivered almonds
6 T red wine vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Toast sunflower seeds and almonds on a baking sheet at 350 F for 5 minutes.
For dressing: Heat the red wine vinegar and the sugar slowly until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and add the 1/2 cup veg oil. Add 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper. Serve the dressing at room temperature.
Mix dressing with all other ingredients right before serving.
Mixed greens
Chopped green onions
1/2 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 can La Choy rice noodles
1 pkg sunflower seeds
1 pkg slivered almonds
6 T red wine vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Toast sunflower seeds and almonds on a baking sheet at 350 F for 5 minutes.
For dressing: Heat the red wine vinegar and the sugar slowly until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and add the 1/2 cup veg oil. Add 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper. Serve the dressing at room temperature.
Mix dressing with all other ingredients right before serving.
Mops Front Porch, Kelly Ulm
God has truly blessed us this year in our Missions Outreach partnership with the O’Connor House . Here is a brief update on the happenings at the house.
One mom, who has been coming to MOPS, is due any day with a little girl. I know she is eagerly awaiting her arrival.
Some of you may remember another mom who attended a couple times. She is living in her own apartment and is working in Noblesville. A new resident who is 7 months pregnant has moved into the house just recently.
O’Connor House recently had a fund-raiser that some of us attended. The house is trying to raise money to not only cover costs throughout the year but also to buy a new home that can house 8-12 moms and their kids.
There are so many ways that we can continue to be involved. Donations of clothes, diapers, or any household item are always accepted. The O'Connor house also always needs volunteers and I would encourage all of you to get involved. You can volunteer once a month or once a week. It has been a true blessing to my children and me .
The most important thing we can do is to put the O’Connor House on our prayer lists.
One mom, who has been coming to MOPS, is due any day with a little girl. I know she is eagerly awaiting her arrival.
Some of you may remember another mom who attended a couple times. She is living in her own apartment and is working in Noblesville. A new resident who is 7 months pregnant has moved into the house just recently.
O’Connor House recently had a fund-raiser that some of us attended. The house is trying to raise money to not only cover costs throughout the year but also to buy a new home that can house 8-12 moms and their kids.
There are so many ways that we can continue to be involved. Donations of clothes, diapers, or any household item are always accepted. The O'Connor house also always needs volunteers and I would encourage all of you to get involved. You can volunteer once a month or once a week. It has been a true blessing to my children and me .
The most important thing we can do is to put the O’Connor House on our prayer lists.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Spring Crafts, Stacy Beeler
Will Spring ever really arrive? While we are waiting to see if the snow will melt, you can make these fun and happy spring crafts.
Spring Lambs
Welcome Spring with a flock of wooly lambs. Have your child trace his hand on black construction paper and cut out the shape. Glue a wiggly eye on the thumb, turn the shape so the other 4 fingers are legs, and glue on cotton balls to fill in the body. You can also add a colorful bow on its neck.
Three-D Flowers
Spread spring fever with this colorful craft. Cut a styrofoam cup in half lengthwise and glue to a piece of cardboard (creating a flower pot). Glue colorful buttons (or other objects) for flower centers. Cut out small petals and leaves, crease down the center (for a 3-D effect), and glue in place. Add stems with a green marker.
Easter Nests
This recipe makes perfect nests for Easter chicks! Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a saucepan. Add 1 cup of brown sugar. Boil and stir for one minute. Add a 3-ounce can of chow mein noodles. Put the mixture in 12 paper baking cups in a muffin tin. Use your thumb to press noodles tin a nest shape while still warm. Do not bake. Allow nests to cool. Give jelly beans to children to place in the centers of their nests.
Eggshell Art
Dyed eggshells make beautiful mosaic designs. Have your children wash eggshells and let them dry. Place shells in a plastic garbage bag and crush them (stomping on them can be quite fun). Use either egg-coloring dyes or tempera paint to dye batches of the eggshells in large containers. Lay colored shells on paper towel-lined trays or plates. Have each child draw a picture or design on stiff paper or cardboard. Then glue on colored shells to fill in their designs.
Have fun!
Spring Lambs
Welcome Spring with a flock of wooly lambs. Have your child trace his hand on black construction paper and cut out the shape. Glue a wiggly eye on the thumb, turn the shape so the other 4 fingers are legs, and glue on cotton balls to fill in the body. You can also add a colorful bow on its neck.
Three-D Flowers
Spread spring fever with this colorful craft. Cut a styrofoam cup in half lengthwise and glue to a piece of cardboard (creating a flower pot). Glue colorful buttons (or other objects) for flower centers. Cut out small petals and leaves, crease down the center (for a 3-D effect), and glue in place. Add stems with a green marker.
Easter Nests
This recipe makes perfect nests for Easter chicks! Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a saucepan. Add 1 cup of brown sugar. Boil and stir for one minute. Add a 3-ounce can of chow mein noodles. Put the mixture in 12 paper baking cups in a muffin tin. Use your thumb to press noodles tin a nest shape while still warm. Do not bake. Allow nests to cool. Give jelly beans to children to place in the centers of their nests.
Eggshell Art
Dyed eggshells make beautiful mosaic designs. Have your children wash eggshells and let them dry. Place shells in a plastic garbage bag and crush them (stomping on them can be quite fun). Use either egg-coloring dyes or tempera paint to dye batches of the eggshells in large containers. Lay colored shells on paper towel-lined trays or plates. Have each child draw a picture or design on stiff paper or cardboard. Then glue on colored shells to fill in their designs.
Have fun!
MOPS BACK ROOM, Kelly Ulm
Some of you may be wondering “What is “steering?” and what goes on in those back room meetings! “What is it those women actually do?”
Here is a quick overview of a vital team .The steering team consists of 12-15 moms who come together under the leadership of the coordinator and plan the MOPS year. We all have various roles that we are in charge of seeing through. Most of the roles are obvious by their title. We have a summer retreat where we spend all day planning the year; we brainstorm speakers, crafts, and other activities. Throughout the year, we meet monthly to make sure all the details are in place for the meetings.
We strive to find ways to always improve. We have two goals that we constantly try to keep in mind. The first and most
important goal is reaching out to moms and making sure we are showing Christ love to all the moms we meet in and outside of MOPS. Our second goal is to meet the needs of our moms that come to the meetings.
While we are not all able to be part of the steering team, each one of you is a special and intricate part of MOPS and what we do. We would not be who we are without each you here. The Lord is all knowing and everything he does is on purpose. He purposefully brought all of us together and that is awesome!
Here is a quick overview of a vital team .The steering team consists of 12-15 moms who come together under the leadership of the coordinator and plan the MOPS year. We all have various roles that we are in charge of seeing through. Most of the roles are obvious by their title. We have a summer retreat where we spend all day planning the year; we brainstorm speakers, crafts, and other activities. Throughout the year, we meet monthly to make sure all the details are in place for the meetings.
We strive to find ways to always improve. We have two goals that we constantly try to keep in mind. The first and most
important goal is reaching out to moms and making sure we are showing Christ love to all the moms we meet in and outside of MOPS. Our second goal is to meet the needs of our moms that come to the meetings.
While we are not all able to be part of the steering team, each one of you is a special and intricate part of MOPS and what we do. We would not be who we are without each you here. The Lord is all knowing and everything he does is on purpose. He purposefully brought all of us together and that is awesome!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Easter Books
Easter Bunny Are You for Real?
Myra, Harold
This book helps children see beyond Easter ‘s commercialism
An Easter Carol
Kenney, Cindy
Veggie tales (need I say more?)
The Easter Day Surprise
Fryar, Jane L.
Simple rhyme and colorful illustration.
That's My Colt: An Easter Tale
Mackall, Dandi Daley
The Easter story told from a young boy’s perspective
That Easter Morn
Chung, Chi
Words from the beloved hymn “O Sons and Daughters of the King”
.
He Is Risen, Indeed
Erickson, David
This picture book depicts the drama of Easter with Scripture
God's Easter Promise: Only God Would Have Planned It That Way
Barsness, Todd
How would Jesus have entered Jerusalem if YOU had planned it?... A unique walk through Holy Week
Easter Is for Me!
Mackall, Dandi Daley
Myra, Harold
This book helps children see beyond Easter ‘s commercialism
An Easter Carol
Kenney, Cindy
Veggie tales (need I say more?)
The Easter Day Surprise
Fryar, Jane L.
Simple rhyme and colorful illustration.
That's My Colt: An Easter Tale
Mackall, Dandi Daley
The Easter story told from a young boy’s perspective
That Easter Morn
Chung, Chi
Words from the beloved hymn “O Sons and Daughters of the King”
.
He Is Risen, Indeed
Erickson, David
This picture book depicts the drama of Easter with Scripture
God's Easter Promise: Only God Would Have Planned It That Way
Barsness, Todd
How would Jesus have entered Jerusalem if YOU had planned it?... A unique walk through Holy Week
Easter Is for Me!
Mackall, Dandi Daley
New Life at Easter, Emma Kalinowski
It’s Easter! I bet you are all wondering what fresh way you can make Easter come alive for your kids! Lets face it, Christ’s birth is a story kids love to hear, and Christmas a day they look forward to. Easter, however, requires more imagination.
To some, Easter is a day of chocolate bunnies, for some it is time with family, for others a special service at church, and for yet others, a combination! From family to family and within families, the ways we celebrate Easter vary wildly.
I expect that in our truly diverse MOPS group there are few who celebrate Easter the same way. Our MOPS moms come from Baptist, Church of God, Catholic, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian backgrounds and more! Many people come from “blended” faith families or do not identify with a denomination.
I am one of those “blended” family people. I grew up with an Anglican mother, a (formerly) Mormon stepmother, and then a Catholic stepmother. In high school, I became Free Methodist. To add to the “blend,” ten years ago, I married a Catholic man with a Jewish mother.
Since I married, my Easters have been at Aaron's Grandma’s house in Michigan with all the rowdy Polish and Polish -American relatives. They do strange things like having their Easter meal (rye bread, boiled eggs, and sausage) blessed by the Priest. They call this Swieconka.
This year, my poor husband will spend Easter in Indianapolis without his rowdy relatives because this Easter Vigil I am becoming Catholic at our local church.
To this end, I’ve studied the Catholic Easter traditions and am observing Lenten restrictions, including abstinence from meat on Fridays. These restrictions help me keep in mind Jesus’ sacrifice for us. My sacrifice and His are hardly comparable
“The Stations of the cross” were an important part of my grandmother’s Easter. She prayed at “stations” depicting the stops on Jesus’ journey to the cross. This is something I hope to do one day.
Many of us celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs (especially chocolate ones!). Bunnies and eggs are passed down to us from pagan celebration of the Spring Equinox. The hare (now a bunny) and the egg were symbols of the spring goddess Eostre.
It is hard to escape the ubiquitous bunnies and eggs, so as Christians we have created stories that link the bunnies and eggs to the story of Easter and Pentecost (Ever heard of Resurrection eggs?) We have new life in Jesus just as the eggs represent new life. Perhaps the bunnies, with their very “fruitful” inclinations can represent the spread of the gospel!
To some, Easter is a day of chocolate bunnies, for some it is time with family, for others a special service at church, and for yet others, a combination! From family to family and within families, the ways we celebrate Easter vary wildly.
I expect that in our truly diverse MOPS group there are few who celebrate Easter the same way. Our MOPS moms come from Baptist, Church of God, Catholic, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian backgrounds and more! Many people come from “blended” faith families or do not identify with a denomination.
I am one of those “blended” family people. I grew up with an Anglican mother, a (formerly) Mormon stepmother, and then a Catholic stepmother. In high school, I became Free Methodist. To add to the “blend,” ten years ago, I married a Catholic man with a Jewish mother.
Since I married, my Easters have been at Aaron's Grandma’s house in Michigan with all the rowdy Polish and Polish -American relatives. They do strange things like having their Easter meal (rye bread, boiled eggs, and sausage) blessed by the Priest. They call this Swieconka.
This year, my poor husband will spend Easter in Indianapolis without his rowdy relatives because this Easter Vigil I am becoming Catholic at our local church.
To this end, I’ve studied the Catholic Easter traditions and am observing Lenten restrictions, including abstinence from meat on Fridays. These restrictions help me keep in mind Jesus’ sacrifice for us. My sacrifice and His are hardly comparable
“The Stations of the cross” were an important part of my grandmother’s Easter. She prayed at “stations” depicting the stops on Jesus’ journey to the cross. This is something I hope to do one day.
Many of us celebrate Easter with bunnies and eggs (especially chocolate ones!). Bunnies and eggs are passed down to us from pagan celebration of the Spring Equinox. The hare (now a bunny) and the egg were symbols of the spring goddess Eostre.
It is hard to escape the ubiquitous bunnies and eggs, so as Christians we have created stories that link the bunnies and eggs to the story of Easter and Pentecost (Ever heard of Resurrection eggs?) We have new life in Jesus just as the eggs represent new life. Perhaps the bunnies, with their very “fruitful” inclinations can represent the spread of the gospel!
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