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3 R's of Friendship - Horizon West- Newsletter
You were made for connection and community, but building friendship can be hard. Amberly Neese, speaker, comedian and author, gives three tips to consider when you are growing friendships.
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2024-2025 CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Sun, Oct. 27 at 5pm - Trunk or Treat at FBCWG - Downtown
Come to First Baptist Church of Winter Garden for a fun Trunk or Treat event! The evening will start with trunks from 5:00pm-5:45pm and will close the evening out with pizza and a movie "It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!" The MomCo Winter Garden will have a trunk, so make sure to stop by and say hello! Don't forget to RSVP!
125 E. Plant St. Winter Garden, FL
Sat, Nov. 9 at 10am - Play Date @ Summerport Park
Fri, Nov. 9 at 7pm - Friendsgiving - Tori's House
Thurs, Nov. 14 at 6:30pm - Meetup 5 - Streamline Your Decisions & Smart Night Sleep w/ Jennie Clarke - Downtown
Come and join us for some amazing sleep tips for your little ones from our very own Jennie Clarke (Certified Sleep Consultant with Smart Night Sleep).
Does your brain ever switch on at night and stress you out, giving you a list of all the things you forgot to do? Author of the book, Remaining You While Raising Them, Alli Worthington provides some simple strategies to help lessen the mental load we as moms carry.
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Sun, Dec. 8 at 9am - MomCo Fundraiser, Pictures at Tucker Ranch
Thurs, Dec. 12 at 6:30pm - Meetup 6 - Christmas: A Love Story - Horizon West
Sat, Dec. 14 at 10:00 - 11:30am - MomCo Christmas Party - Downtown MPR
Tues, Dec. 17 at 7:00pm - Mom's Night Out - Dinner and Ornament Exchange at Tacos and Tequila
FBCWG EVENTS
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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.
DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER
The first meeting is always free! But if you enjoyed yourself and are planning to come back, we kindly ask that you register and pay dues. Our membership dues allow us to get materials and food needed for our fun outings and events that we plan throughout the year. With your membership, you'll gain access to a variety of MomCo materials/videos and not to mention, gain an amazing community of women (The MomCo Winter Garden!) who live near by that can help and support you.
When you register, you'll fill out a google form first, then you click a link that will take you to another site to pay dues. Be sure to return to the google form after paying dues to finish and submit the form.
Register HERE.
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Hope in Friendship Loss
Kristin Welch // blessedlittlebird.com
It is said that “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV),” and in my experience, this is true with friendship.
A few years ago, I experienced a heartbreaking 20-year friendship loss. While I can now see more clearly what God was doing, it was one of my most painful experiences. Because good friends hold your hair when you are sick, wipe your tears when you are sad, and pour the coffee when you feel lost, their absence can feel lonely.
I struggled to see past the loss of this friend, but God had already paved a path of redemption I was never expecting.
On a whim, I joined an online writing group. It was an investment, and I wanted to put my all or nothing into this group.
We met every other week for 12 weeks and talked about writing, social media and accountability. When the 12 weeks were over, there stood the fork.
Do we stop here, or continue this journey that feels new, fresh and life-giving? We had connected in such a unique way that it didn't feel right to just stop. Collaboratively, we decided to continue building whatever it was God had placed before us.
Over the next year, the five of us met consistently. Our discussions about writing slowly turned into talk about family, prayers for our kids, and sharing about life’s hardships. With each passing day, the five of us continued to become closer. After a year, we planned a meetup and spent three days together sharing our deepest aches and the messiest parts of our stories. Each of us sat, listened and engaged. We were invested.
And it was then, for the first time, that I understood. I had lost one friend, but I gained four.
It has been three years, and the five of us continue to meet via Zoom, chat daily, text, and send funny reels to each other. We have met in person in Indiana, Tennessee and Florida, sharing stories, tears and laughs that go into the depths of our bellies.
And we have experienced the restoration promise of Jesus.
The five of us live across the country from each other. But it doesn't stop the sisterhood that was so clearly set before us.
Adult friendships are hard. But God. He knows and is so, so good. He is not just a one-fold God, he is a four-fold promise keeper.
Questions:
How are you trusting that He can restore what has been lost?
What have you lost that God has restored in multiplication?
In my story, I had to take a leap of faith and join the writing group in the midst of being afraid of new relationships. Is there something the Lord may be asking you to do that requires some faith?
The MomCo Winter Garden
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