Phebe Fellowship - Spring meeting

I'm so excited to have our Phebe Fellowship underway again for the year! We take the Winter off here in cold and snowy Michigan! Yes, we're big chickens! Our poor ladies don't like to drive on the snowy, icy roads in the dark and I don't blame them. Our first meeting of the year was in April and we hosted a baby shower for the Levine family - they are from our home church and are missionaries on deputation to Tibet. They just had a sweet baby girl - Abigail Noel. The Levines weren't able to be here for the shower since they are finishing up missionary training school in TX. But the ladies brought in some really cute things for the baby and we had fun oohing and aaahing over them and then wrapping them. We had close to 30 ladies present for the first meeting and we played some funny games! I felt sorry for the poor ladies that volunteered in good sport and then had to end up eating a COLD Jr size jar of chicken & rice! Poor Jane's taste buds will never be the same!


Then we played a hilarious balloon game where you had to pair up with another lady and try to pop a balloon using only your behinds! I think there are pictures of that game too, but they are too scary to post! It was sure awful funny though!
After that game, surprisingly enough we actually had more volunteers for the next game of one handed baby diapering and dressing! They did it quite swiftly too!
















The ladies had a great time and really got involved in lending a hand with the food. I had several helpers that brought in yummy sandwiches, tasty salads and tempting desserts. Carmen brought cream cheese filled strawberries! My soul were they ever good! Amy brought a beautiful looking chocolate trifle! I gained 5 lbs just looking at the dessert table!

We were able to take a few minutes to look at our Spring / summer calendar and talk about some of the areas where help will be needed. We're joining with a sister church on May 24th for our Mother - Daughter banquet this year. That should be fun. The theme is "Friendship dipped in Love" and I have been asked to be the speaker for that. The theme is going to revolve around chocolate! YUMMO!

After that we have our Family camp out and SS picnic on June 13 & 14 (my Birthday!) at a nice Bible camp not too far from here. Then the very next day - Father's day - June 15 we will be hosting our annual Father's day Brunch! The men LOVE this event! We lavish them with pancakes - cooked by me, their loving pastor's wife! :) sausage, breakfast casserole, hashbrown casserole, ham, bacon, chicken wings, biscuits, sausage gravy, bacon gravy, cinnamon rolls, muffins, coffee cake, etc.... the list goes on and on. Our ladies really spoil the men that day.

Since this was our Spring meeting, I gave devotions on having a "Spring in our step" and shared some ways that we could do that. We ended the night with a sweet time of prayer for our missionaries.

I love hearing our ladies laugh and fellowship together. I think it's healthy for a church family to do that. They were excited about the meetings starting back up and were already talking about the May fellowship meeting - "Seeds of Kindness." That one will be a flower theme, since we'll be planting flowers all around the church that night.