FINANCE ELECTIVE
Discussion Questions
 What have you found to be the best thing about being in your leadership
position?
 What has been the biggest challenge to accomplishing your goals in your
position?
 Share some ideas you’ve tried which others might find useful.
 If you could pass on one piece of advice to your successor what would it
be?
Important Points about the position
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As finance leader you are reportable to your MOPS group, to MOPS Australia and to your Chartering
Church.
Finance Team members are often the first to have significant contact with a mum at a MOPS meeting
because they are sitting at the Welcome Table, and the impact of their sensitivity and warmth can set the
tone for the group and for their future involvement.
Position Responsibilities:
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Prepares a budget and tracks the income and expenses (Income Tracking Form, Reimbursement Form and
computer spreadsheet);
Serves as a financial liaison with the Chartering Church (Cash Book, Income and Expenditure Statement for
each financial year, auditing requirements and GST exemption);
Reports regularly to the Leadership Team;
Establishes a registration procedure for women joining MOPS (Registration Form and Privacy Form);
Show sensitivity to the financial needs of each MOPS woman;
Meets all financial obligations to MOPS Australia (Annual Charter Renewal, Participation Fees and Mothers
on the March);
May help organize fundraisers.
Other Points:
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How much does your group charge?
Have you increased your fees recently?
Do you have a discount or incentive scheme?
2015 Theme: Be You, Bravely
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Theme Verse:
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive
it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)
At any given moment in our lives each of us has...
Conversations we've been putting off.
Reasonable risks we've been avoiding.
Goals we want to achieve.
Yet often times the more significant an action feels the easier it is to put it off. We get distracted from the big
decisions by the immediate needs of the day. What all of us seem to have in common is that we need a nudge, a
nudge to help us get out of our ruts and routines so that we can begin risking bravely.
At MOPS we believe that you were meant to live deeply and so we have created this year’s theme to inspire you to
choose the extraordinary.
Be you, Bravely is designed to help us focus on making the choices that could create the most good in our lives,
help us to step into healthy risk and to do it in the context of community where we can cheer one another on.
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Sometimes, good people wait patiently for God to intervene when what he is wanting is for us to act bravely and do
something. Being a follower of Jesus calls for courage. The journey feels unexpected and unconventional. It
requires bravely playing hide and seek in the dark, confronting the fears that scare us and holding the hand of a
redeemer-guide who calls us to courageous acts of risk and trust. It means colouring outside of the lines. Dreaming
bigger than we ever have before and getting swept up into the plans of a God who leaves us breathless with
wonder.
It takes courage to ask brave questions and even more courage to search for the answers.
What will be in the Be you, Bravely Group Experience Kit?
24 Courage to be … Video Stories: See list below for topics.
7 Courage to be … Leader training video segments: Learn helpful team building techniques and get training to
help you lead with confidence.
Be you, Bravely: An experiment in courage guidebook: A workbook to go through together with your group.
Each chapter corresponds to a video segment. (see list below).
Mentor Bravely: The gift of presence: A guidebook to help the mentors in your group. Full of wisdom from other
women who have been there, done that. It’s full of tips for mentoring the women in your group.
MOPS Group Leader’s Guide outlining the essentials of MOPS: the elements of a MOPS group, how to run a MOPS
meeting, forming a leadership team, running leadership team meetings, how to access MOPS resources and
checklists for everything
10 complete meeting plans (we call them Fun, Think, Talk, Do cards) Includes ideas on how to incorporate the
theme into meetings, icebreakers, discussion questions and creative activity ideas
A copy of our newest MOPS book – Brave Mom: facing and over-coming your real mom fears by Sherry Surratt.
Book released in October.
"Be You, Bravely" Theme Ideas for Finance
Welcome Table:
 Decorate the Welcome Table with items such as feathers, feather garlands, boas, bird cages, bird nests with
birds, bird houses, arrows, glass ornaments with feathers or super heroes (table cloth = cape)
 Allow the mums to pay by term if they wish which will mean that they are really being “brave” and
committing to your MOPS group.
Welcome Bags:
 Magnet with all the upcoming MOPS dates or Leadership Team phone numbers/email addresses
 Small note cards
 Chocolate, mints or gum
 Feather duster
 MOPS logo pens or other logo items
 Feather pens
 Feather bookmark with bible verse on it
 Feather keychain
 Free espresso/latte coupon if your church has an espresso stand or shop
 Inexpensive items that reflect the theme
Icebreakers:
 4 Corners: Divide into biggest fears, talk about different times you had to be brave.
 Mama Bear Moments: Have a mum volunteer to share an area of her life or a moment when she or her
child had to be brave.
 Movie Madness: Write down as many movies or TV shows you can think of that have “brave” or “courage”
in the title.
Fundraising Ideas:
 Mother’s on the March
 Cupcake Stall
 Trivia Night
 Pie Drive
General Ideas:
 MOPSunday: www.MOPS.org/Sunday
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