.png)
Broken Crayons Still Color - Downtown - Newsletter
Raising our kids when we are still dealing with some of our own hurts and hang-ups is challenging. Author and speaker, Toni Collier, shares some of her journey in parenting, going from feeling completely unqualified to finding grace.
LEADERSHIP 2025/2026
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!
Table Team Lead:
The Table Team 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!
HORIZON WEST FEST VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP
Please consider volunteering one hour of your time to help us show other mama's the importance of having a community. Sign up HERE
VBS for MOMS
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
PRAYER REQUESTS
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
Fri, Feb. 21 at 7pm - 9pm - MNO Galentines! - Jennie Hanson's House
Come join us for our favorite MNO of the year! Galentines! Bring three of your favorite thing (all the same item, $5-10 each, unwrapped) to share with the group. You'll go home with three different items that others have shared!
Thurs, Feb. 27 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 10 - Digital Detox - Horizon West
Sat, Mar. 1 at 11:00am - 5:00pm - Horizon West Fest
Thurs, Mar. 6 at 6:30pm-8:30pm - Meetup 11 - Craft Night - Downtown
Sat, Mar. 8 at 10:00am - 11:30am - Park Play Date - R.D. Keene Park
Fri, Mar. 28 at 7pm - 9pm - Bunco Night! - Taryn's (TJ) House
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
Gifts From an Uninvited Guest
Rachelle Keng, MD
Grief. A five-letter word that we don’t like to associate with motherhood. But grief affects mamas more than we may realize.
Maybe it is the dying of dreams for yourself - giving up the career, the pre-pregnancy body, or the first time your child rejects you. Perhaps you are in the throes of postpartum depression. Or maybe you lost your mother before she could meet your precious children. Or maybe you are grieving a new diagnosis for your child and struggling to accept a new life for your family.
In the beginning, she will not leave you alone. Grief stays well past her welcome. Even when you do not have the energy to entertain her, she stays. She knows when you are depleted, and yet she moves in anyways. And so, you learn to live with her.
She reminds us that life is not what it is supposed to be. Grief introduces us to a community of others who have also met her. She teaches us to repent of our self-reliance and choose trust. Grief can sometimes teach us more than an answered prayer would.
Grief tells us that two thousand years ago, a man named Jesus knew her well. Jesus carried her on his back to the cross. Jesus told Grief she had a limited number of visits until He would rescue his people forever. His blood flowing down was the promise that there was a limited number of tears that would flow for you and me.
Grief can change what we value, what we treasure, and what we give.
So, when we see Grief at our doorstep, perhaps it is not an invasion, but an invitation. She is here to remind us that the world is broken, but this is not God’s original design. And she is a messenger to remind us that whatever insurmountable motherhood battles we are facing - we have not been abandoned. For God is near to the broken-hearted and comforts those who mourn. Perhaps Grief reminds us that the truest need for our children isn’t a well-rounded childhood - their truest need is a Savior from this temporal and evil world. She is reminding us that our citizenship belongs to a country where tears will no longer be.
Perhaps Grief may not be such a dreaded guest after all. She leads us to the cross and away from ourselves. She brings us to a Savior who understands our grief Himself. And in this grief, He brings us healing and peace.
“He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.” Isaiah 53:3-6
Where are you grieving in your motherhood? And how does Jesus understand and redeem this grief for you?
Can you see grief as a vehicle to healing and peace? Why or why not?
Spend some time with Jesus, reflecting on how He was “a man stricken with sorrows and well acquainted with grief.”
The MomCo Winter Garden
Comments