Weekly Update for May 9, 2009

Happy Monday to you, Happy Monday to you... (and as Leiah would say, "yada, yada, yada").

This week (May 6) at M4M, we will be venturing outside our little walls to bless another organization, Mid-Valley Fellowship. Learn more about Mid-Valley Fellowship at their website.) We will be helping them set up for a luncheon that they are hosting for area pastors. You can drop your kids off at the nursery and either walk or carpool to the Flinn Building. It is located at 201 1st Avenue West, near Frogs & Pollywog's and Sunnypatch. Feel free to just meet us there if you don't have kiddos in tow. And for those of you that have been skipping breakfast to eat all the yummy snacks at M4M on Wednesdays... no one is bringing snacks this week, so be warned!

Next week (May 13) our very own Pam Weygandt will be speaking to us. For those of you that don't know Pam, she is a retired pre-school teacher from ACS and an absolutely delightful person! Do not miss this special treat. She hasn't given us a definite topic or title, but when I last spoke with her, she was leaning towards talking about fun activities to do with your kids. She has a heart for children and I can't wait to hear from her. Snacks will be provided by Amber's group. Special note: We need a volunteer (or two) to help with the older kids this week. Ong will not be available, so we're hoping someone else will step up. Thanks!

Also, for those of you that have the printed schedule of activities and are perhaps a little confused... We switched around two days' activities. May 6 (this Weds) we are doing our service project for Mid-Valley Fellowship and in two weeks (May 20) we will be having our small group day out. Sorry about the confusion and you may want to change that on your calendars. Or just pay attention to the emails.

See you Wednesday at our service project!
Karen

Smile Time! (Thanks Angela for sending this to me).

Smiling at the Storm
A little girl walked to and from school, daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with lightning.

The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she feared the electrical storm might harm her child.

Full of concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove along the route to her child's school. As she did, she saw her little girl walking along. At each flash of lightning the child stopped, looked up and smiled.

Another and another flash of lightning followed quickly and with each, the little girl would look at the streak of light and smile.

When the mother's car drew up beside the child, she lowered the window and called to her, "What are you doing?"

The child answered, "I am trying to look pretty because God keeps taking my picture."