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Women's Self-Defense - Horizon West - Newsletter
- The MomCo Winter Garden
- Apr 3
- 6 min read
Join us as we learn some valuable life skills from Legends Martial Arts Windermere. They will be providing us a Women's Self-Defense class! Check their site out HERE
Please spend the time to take our survey so we can continue to improve our group and how we can help our community of moms. Take survey HERE
Don't miss out and register NOW to get $10 off our registration fee. For only $85, you will be registered for the 2025/2026 year AND you can attend the rest of this years meetups, events, and play dates for FREE!
Use code: MOMCOHWFEST
Code expires April 30.
Complete your registration form and payment HERE
Looking to be more involved in our group? Think about joining our Leadership team or becoming one of our amazing Table Leads!
Click HERE to fill out the form!
Connection Lead:
The Connection Lead is a Leadership role that will be responsible for communicating, sending reminders, and meeting with the Table Leads. You will help the Table Leads communicate with their members and assist them with any questions they may have throughout the year. Although it may be helpful to have already been a Table Lead so you know what information was helpful throughout the year, it is not a requirement.
Table Lead:
Table leads will have the opportunity to communicate with their table group throughout the month to check in and remind them of upcoming meetings and events.
Every table group is unique. There are so many things we can learn from each other – things that will help the moms sitting around your table feel welcomed, loved and accepted. As the leader, your task is not to tell the group what to do, but to use questions to draw out what moms need to talk about and to help others understand that often there are no “right” answers. When a person knows you are listening and can relate to her, it opens the door for deeper conversation.
Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! MomCon is the place to be! Click HERE to get your ticket!
Sign your kids up for First Baptist's VBS and then take some time for yourself to partake in VBS for MOMS! Learn more HERE
If you have a prayer request, please fill out this form so we can prayer for you.
2024-2025 CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS
RSVP to any of our events HERE on our Facebook Events Page
Thurs, Apr. 17 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 13 - Teach Your Kids to Wildly Hope - Downtown
As parents, we have the amazing opportunity to teach our children about the hope of Jesus. Carlos Whittaker shares how we can wildly hope with our kids and teach them that they are part of God’s hopeful plan for the world.
Sat, Apr. 19 at 10:00am-11:30am - Easter Party Egg Hunt - Orchard Park
Sat, Apr. 26 at 6:00-9:00pm - MNO Dumpling Party - Q's House
Thurs, May 8 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 14 - Restoring Your Body Image - Horizon West
Sat, May 10 at 2:00-3:00pm - Winter Garden Splash Pad Play Date
Fri, May 16 at 7:00-9:00pm - MNO Crocheting w/ Tori - Tori's House
Thurs, May 22 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 15 - End of Year Praise & Pajamas - Downtown
Sat, May 31 at 10:00-11:30am - End of Year Pool Party Play Date
FBCWG EVENTS
Check out all of FBCWG's upcoming events HERE.
EXTRA INFO
FOOD SCHEDULE AND TABLE GROUPS:
Please refer to our Google Sheet for your Table assignments and food rotation schedule. When it is your turn to provide food, please put what you will be bringing or if you will be chipping in money to help contribute. If for some reason you cannot make it to the meeting, please drop off your food to someone else in your Table Group.
See schedule HERE.
ORGANIZATIONS WE SUPPORT
DEVOTIONAL
What You Have, Not What You Imagined
Shaunti Feldhahn / Compassion International
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. −Proverbs 3:5-6, esv
Kelly was in turmoil. They could never afford a private coach for their eight-year-old daughter. She and her husband worked multiple jobs, with sporadic unemployment in his construction business. The comfortable life she had imagined had been replaced by the stress of making ends meet. Once Marissa’s talent became apparent, they raided savings to help pay for lessons and competitions. Brett wasn’t happy about it, but since he was the one who didn’t make enough money, Kelly wasn’t about to let him complain.
Kelly fumed: If God had given Marissa this gift, why wasn’t He providing the resources to maximize it? Why couldn’t He give her husband a better job?
All of us have ways that our dreams and prayers haven’t been answered in the way we would choose--and battered dreams can lead to battered hearts.
Maybe you dreamed of being a stay-at-home mom, but instead find yourself grieving a broken marriage and working full-time to pay the bills. Perhaps you’d always envisioned your kids growing up camping every weekend as you love to do –but your kids and husband have zero interest. Or you try to avoid your Tesla-driving friends seeing your twelve-year-old minivan—which isn’t getting replaced anytime soon.
It’s easy to blame our earthly circumstances or someone else. It’s easy to have turmoil instead of contentment and peace.
For a time, Kelly allowed those thoughts to fester. Her marriage suffered. Her husband shut down. She shut herself off from God.
Then one day, she watched Brett and Marissa cuddling on the couch, watching TV. She was struck anew by how much they loved each other, and suddenly realized: God had given them this talented daughter, knowing that they would not have the money to pursue high-level gymnastics. So, God must have had a different purpose. Maybe it was simply to give Marissa something she loved doing!
Similarly, she realized, God had connected her and Brett, knowing that they would not be wealthy. Knowing that they would have to decide whether they would find joy in each other and be content in all circumstances. After all, their modest income was considered immeasurable wealth in most countries of the world! Maybe this situation was designed to help them find that contentment . . . if she would let it.
God’s view is bigger than ours. When our reality doesn’t match our expectations, yes, we pray and hope – but we also must allow God to be God. We must take a bigger perspective and allow Him to give us the peace we crave. Not because we get what we want, but because we trust in the One who loves us and always knows best.
Questions:
Do you sometimes feel like you are not getting the life you imagined? What are two or three of the main ways that you find yourself discontent?
What are some reasons why God might be allowing those aspects of your life? What might He want to do in your life, and the life of your children, as a result?
The MomCo Winter Garden
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