Follow up links

Hello everyone! Here are some links to things that have been discussed in the last couple meetings. First, here are some great ideas for making your own "budget friendly" cleaning products. I have tried some of these since the last meeting and I like them. (Especially the ones with lavender!)

Mini Manor Blog

Macheesmo

There are also some great tutorials on how to sew your own reusable Swiffer pads and dusters. I haven't done it, but I've "heard" they work better than the real thing.

Make your own Swiffer duster

Cloth Diaper Swiffer Pad (great idea!)

Swiffer Crochet Pattern




And here are a few links from today's meeting:

Very cool magnetic menu board

Pepperplate

Another cute menu board

Dinnertool







There are so many great ideas for meal planning out there that it's a little overwhelming! I recently discovered the recipe section on the Whole Foods website. There are a lot of healthy yet tasty recipes on there. So far all of the ones I have tried have been great.


And finally, here are some ideas for your Thanksgiving table. :)







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Megan

New MOPS year starting September 13th!

Well, it's that time of the year again! School is starting up and MOPS will be resuming meetings on the second Tuesday of September. Don't forget you can pre-register for MOPS by sending an email to jacksonvillemops@yahoo.com just letting us know you are coming and how many kids we can expect you to bring. We will have limited room this year so sign up soon!
We are excited about a new year with some great guest speakers and hope you join us!

Onslow Pregnancy Resource Center

Thank you to everyone for giving Shelia Judon a warm MOPS welcome today! Your questions were great and the picture frames look beautiful.

For those of you who weren't able to make it to today's meeting, Shelia is the executive director of the Onslow Pregnancy Resource Center, a pro-life Christian ministry that reaches out to girls and women in unplanned pregnancies. The center offers free services that include pregnancy tests, options counseling, abstinence education, material needs, and post-abortion counseling. It is a nonprofit organization that is funded by churches, businesses and individual donors. Although their mission is to prevent abortion, their first priority is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with their clients.

Clients who come into the center meet with one-on-one with a trained counselor who shares information about fetal development and the abortion procedure. Many clients do not know that the baby's sex is determined from day one of conception and that the baby has a heartbeat on day 20. Counselors also explain the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of abortion. They often will share these passages from Psalms:

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

The counselors care for each client, and they pray they make a decision for life.

Onslow Pregnancy Resource Center is always seeking volunteers and prayer warriors, and also have several fundraising opportunities. For more information, call 910-938-7000, email at oprc4hope@yahoo.com or go to

www.oprcfriends.com