New – Going It Alone – Class Starting Soon
We have almost completed the “How Personalities Impact the Single Parent Home” series. If you missed it and would like more information please let me hear from you. We will begin a book study for single mothers November 22 using Michele Howe’s book, Going It Alone, Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom.  The class will meet at Calder Baptist in Beaumont, Texas at 9:15 on Sundays. Books will be provided for the first six moms and hopefully more once we get started. If you would like to particitpate via internet please send me an email with “Class” in the subject window. First class: “Tough Times: When Kid

Do You Want to be Right or Do You Want to be Happy?
“Lord, when we are wrong make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.” Peter Marshall The Reverend Dr. Peter Marshall (May 27, 1902 – January 26, 1949) was a Scottish-American preacher, and twice served as Chaplain of the United States Senate. He is remembered most popularly from the biography A Man Called Peter, and the film made from it.

Are You a Path Finder?
So often we refer to our lives as a journey. I call it “My Path.” It’s no simply trip.  Certainly there are days when I wonder if a path exists or if I’m even on the right track. The traffic, barriers and detours do seem to delay my progress. Each of us is traveling—choosing each step, turn, and sometimes deciding to detour. Do you have this struggle? Is it difficult to find your way?

Resources for Single Mothers
As SMORE for Women develops new ways to serve single moms we need input from you. Do you know of resources that we can share on our site? www.smoreforwomen.org Do you have links? Send them to me. Do you want to be listed as a resource? Let me know. Please look at our themes and let me know how you or your organization might fit in with our vision. I am looking forward to hearing from all of you out there.

Know Your Children
Reprinted with permission from Marilyn Mansfield, B.S., M.Educ. www.beingmebeingfree.blogspot.com  If you’ve had a chance to read Being Me, Being Free, you know it deals with four distinct personality types: Playful Sanguine Powerful Choleric Perfect Melancholy Peaceful Phlegmatic I witness these everyday — and I’m sure you do too. For instance, last night, as soon as my daughter Meredith got home from her summer job working at a children’s camp, she was