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<\/p>\nWhen Jules Weidman moved to rural Michigan, a family friend encouraged her to visit a new MOPS group, which happened to meet right across the street from her home. Her past experience at MOPS had been great, but there was something different about her new MOPS experience \u2014 the moms made an effort to get involved beyond the meeting.<\/p>\n
When her group almost had to stop meeting, Jules was one of the moms to step up and join the Leadership Team. She knew moms needed MOPS, but had no idea how much their community would need MOPS in the coming months.<\/p>\n
Jules\u2019 close friend, the Coordinator for the group, stepped down when her young son was diagnosed with cancer. The women rallied around the family, spearheading a fundraiser selling bracelets (it went global!) to help support the family\u2019s expenses. They stepped in with meals and calls and childcare and, most importantly, by being present. They knew this was more than just a few meals for a family; it was standing alongside their friend and fellow mom as she faced her most difficult moments.<\/p>\n
Less than a month after standing with their friend at her son\u2019s graveside, another MOPS mom in their group faced gut-wrenching tragedy with the loss of her infant daughter. Her death was sudden, but the MOPS group jumped in to help in every way they could: They cried with their grieving friend. They helped with funeral expenses. They provided food and took trips to Walmart. They stood with her at her daughter\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n
This originally appeared inHello, Darling<\/em>Spring 2015. If you didn\u2019t get a copy and would like your own, you cansubscribe<\/a>to getHello, Darling<\/em>in your mailbox every season. If you subscribe, forward your receipt tomagazines@mops.org<\/a>and we\u2019ll shoot a copy of the current issue in the mail to you for free \u2026 just because we like you.<\/p>\n When Jules Weidman moved to rural Michigan, a family friend encouraged her to visit a new MOPS group, which happened to meet right across the street from her home. Her past experience at MOPS had been great, but there was something different about her new MOPS experience \u2014 the moms made an effort to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[32,218,229,156,29,44,160],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-friendship","tag-gather","tag-girlfriends","tag-inspirational","tag-mikkee","tag-mops","tag-thought-provoking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What tangible ways have you felt loved in a moment of crisis?<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"