Welcome to Zone 30!
This is THE place to find the latest information about Zone 30 and MOPS International. Events – both locally and nationally – will be included here. It is our goal to encourage, equip and develop you as MOPS leaders and this website is one way of helping you stay connected.
A list of Zone 30 Field Leaders is to the lower right. You will find more about your Zone 30 Field Leaders by clicking on the "Field Leaders" tab to the left. National and Zone events can be found by clicking the "Zone Events" tab. Discover more about this year's theme by clicking the "2008-2009 Theme" tab. For encouraging leadership articles, click the "Leadership" tab.
While you're here, feel free to sign our guest book, post a message on our forums, answer our fun mini-poll, or take a glance at our calendar. Thanks for stopping by; we pray you visit often.
Check Out the Forums
Click on the forums link on the left and access our very own forums for Zone 30 MOPS leaders. We have started a thread for sharing meeting ideas and also a place to discuss the monthly Coordinator’s Resource email. Add your own questions or post some issues your group could use some outside help with. Pop in and introduce yourself and enjoy this tool.
And if you would like to see some pictures of other MOPS leaders (maybe some of your own group) at Zone events, visit our photo album by clicking the tab to the left.
Zone 30 News
God is on the move in Zone 30 (
When Zone 30 was formed in 2005, we were blessed by 3 wonderful Council Coordinators. However, the majority of the groups in our Zone were without a CC. God has been moving hearts and impacting lives and I am pleased to announce that there are currently 10 CC's in Zone 30. Even more exciting, that means that ALL of the groups in
God is on the move again in our Zone and is calling 2 of our Council Coordinators out of MOPS and into different areas of service. While my heart is sad to see Tori Ryan (Eastern Nebraska CC) and Kris Huie (Omaha Metro CC) move out of our MOPS circle, I am excited to see how God will continue to use them to impact lives. Please join me in thanking these ladies for their vision and passion for MOPS. I'd also ask that you'd join me in praying for "What's Next".
"What's Next"........Is God calling you or someone from your MOPS group to step up to the next level of MOPS leadership? More information about becoming a CC is located at http://www.mops.org/page.php?pageid=1137 If you are interested, please contact me. I would love to visit with you.
I'd also like to take a moment to encourage you to pray for each other. Zone 30 has been right in the heart of devastating weather lately....hail, floods and tornadoes. Please continue to lift each other up in prayer as communities meet the challenges posed by such extreme weather. My heart has been warmed by stories of encouragement that you have shared.
You Are A Leader!
By Carol Kuykendall, Leadership Development Team Leader
Do you think of yourself as a leader?
If you have the slightest doubt, consider this definition: A leader is one who influences others.
So here’s another question: Do you know the power of your influence?
Think about a normal day in your life. Maybe it goes something like this. Early in the morning, you help your children get up and get going. You encourage them into their good moods. You review the plan for their day. You pay special attention to the one who had a bad dream last night, or the one who needs the confidence to speak up to a neighbor child who is being mean. You even suggest words he might use in that situation.
Maybe then you take a child to preschool, where you greet the teacher and pass on some helpful information about your child. You thank her for the effective pre-kindergarten training she is doing with the class.
Maybe you go on to a job, or back home to work on a project, or to a MOPS Steering Team meeting where you share your idea for growing your MOPS group or presenting the “Fruit of the Spirit” theme in a mom-friendly way, or raising money so that your whole team can attend Convention in September.
All through your day, you are influencing others in various circles – at home, at preschool, and in MOPS. You are encouraging them and inspiring them by casting vision, which means you visualize what is possible in the future, and then motivate them to achieve that possibility. Jesus cast vision when he saw Peter and Andrew fishing. He challenged them to do something bigger -- to become “fishers of men” as his disciples. Jesus saw a future possibility for Peter and Andrew, just as you see future possibilities for your children and your MOPS group. Casting vision is a manner of influencing others, and is a quality at the very core of leadership.
The process of influencing and casting vision is made up of two parts: the “what” and the “how.” What are you influencing others toward? What matters most – to your child or your family or your MOPS group? What is the potential and possibility?
Then how are you influencing others? Are you communicating in a positive way, seeking to bring out the best in that person? Modeling to that person? Walking alongside that person? Encouraging and empowering that person?
With every leadership role, you become connected to a circle of people where your influence is powerful. It is a place of privilege and responsibility; privilege to be used by God to encourage others, and responsibility to grow personally and use your influence with humility and courage.
God uses every role in our lives to grow us into the women he created us to be so that we might be prepared to carry out his will for us – and others through us. His call to women in leadership is to influence others for his purposes.
As a woman, as a mom, as a member of a MOPS Steering Team, you are a leader!
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