What comes with my membership dues?

Yesterday all of our members should have received an email from our Co-director Christa Margene explaining that registration is now open for our 2011-2012 MOPS year!  To register please follow the links under "Pages" (found on the left of this page).  You might be wondering what we do with the money we collect so here is a quick explanation:

First, MOPS International charges us $21.95 for each MOPS member.  With these dues MOPS international sends you all of the following goodies:

• MomSense Magazine                        
• Weekly Mom-E-Mail
• MOPS Reusable Shopping Bag
• MOPS Iron On Appliqués*
• MOPS Stickers featuring VeggieTales

The rest of the annual $35 fee goes to covering the costs of our meetings, craft projects, welcome packets, etc.  We are also supported financially by our host church, Central Baptist Church of Bearden.  They are gracious enough to cover the cost of childcare for all of our meetings!  Not all MOPS groups have this support from their host church and we are so grateful that they bless our moms in this way.

This year we have a new optional fee.  We have noticed that bringing a main dish to Thursday night meetings is a burden to many of our MOPS moms.  To offset that burden we are offering and optional $15 fee per semester to cover the cost of a main dish at these night meetings.  We will still have a limited sign-up sheet for side dishes and dessert, but moms might only have to volunteer once a semester (or year) instead of once every two or three months.  We are excited about this new part of our meetings and we hope it makes it easier for our moms to attend.

Scholarships are available for those moms who are enduring a financial hardship. For more information please email us at centralbeardenmops@gmail.com