Grace Church MOPS of Overland Park

Becoming a mother is exciting, but it also means adapting to a big life-change. It's easy to feel unprepared, overwhelmed, unappreciated, and even scared. Grace Church Mothers of Preschoolers (children who are birth to schoolage) group is a caring, encouraging, and accepting program for today’s moms. MOPS is a time of fun and fellowship, discussion, and sharing, inspiring speakers, a relaxing brunch, creativity and crafts. We offer a haven for frazzled nerves, where a mom finds out she’s not alone. A quality children’s program is provided for the MOPPETS where the kids share in fun, stories, and crafts.

The MOPS International theme for 2009-10 is Together on Planet Mom.  The MOPS Experience equips women for the joys and challenges of their lives as moms. One key factor in the MOPS Experience is the relationships built within a group. Time and time again, MOPS moms share that the friends they make in MOPS are significant for this season of their life and on into their future. God created us for relationship! It’s one of the defining parts of being human.

However, when you become a mom, all your relationships change. It’s like you have landed on a different planet—Planet Mom—and the relationships on Planet Mom don’t look like the ones on your previous planet. Your relationship with yourself is different—you are a mom! Your relationship with your husband, girlfriends, extended family, community and God have all changed. Many of these changes are positive, some are not. Even positive change requires adjustments on your part.

During the 2009-10 MOPS year, we will explore how to thrive in relationships Together on Planet Mom.