South East Perth Metro Region

I feel very privileged to be able to be a regional coordinator and I hope that I can support and encourage each one of you and your groups as you serve our wonderful God through the ministry of MOPS. It's so exciting to welcome Ellenbrook MOPS who will be starting in 2011, and of course Carey who started this term.

Cherie Macchiusi, Bec Gibbons and I have pledged to pray fortnightly via skype. We believe that prayer is the answer to all things, so please contact me with any prayer requests.

I would like to see a greater connectedness between the groups; regularly sharing ideas, successes and failures. Sometimes in our different roles we can feel lonely and isolated so please keep in fellowship, offer support and share each others burdens so we might grow together.

I would like to end with a verse that I read when starting the Riverton group. It's from The Message 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 : "Who do you think Paul is anyway? Or Apollos for that matter? Servants, both of us - servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants, or the one who waters who is at the centre of this process, but God who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working".

We have grown by two groups since Conference but If you know a church which may be interested in starting a MOPS group or would like to hear more about MOPS please do not hesitate to contact me. The more MOPS groups the more mums we can reach.

Sara David