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About Babies:
Hidden Messages
Ask the Professional:
Smoking
and the Unborn Baby, Part II
Charis Cuisine:
Vegetable Miso Soup
Kids Korner:
Just a minute!
Our Charis Family:
Elizabeth Lugmayer
Pregnancy and Birth:
Birth
of Kiera Jewel Hooker
Tidbits from Ebony
Leaving This Post
Adventures in Madagascar
Living in a ‘Developing Country’
Newsletter Archives ~
Aug.
2006
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2006
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2006
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2006
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Our
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Charis invites you to contribute to our
growing newsletter.
What a fun family venture! Check out each section and see what
you might have to offer. Post your Charis workshops and
gatherings here, also. If you'd like your babies' pictures to
be featured in our regular sections, the Charis Newsletter
would be honored!
Submissions need to be made by the 5th
of each month for that month's publication on the 15th.
 NEW We now invite you to
post your comments to our new "Letters To The Editor" section.
Some of you have made comments to us individually, now you can tell
everyone! Your comments can include how the articles in the
Newsletter are affecting your lives, or anything else you feel moved
to express.
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Midwifery Academics Course
Charis Childbirth Services
is pleased to announce the launching of
our
MIDWIFERY academics course in 2007!!!
Midwifery
Academic Course Outline
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Now, women
who desire to prepare well for the NARM exam, a requirement to
obtain the credential of Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), can
enjoy a comprehensive course that is designed with the highest
standards of excellence and that is written from a Christian
perspective.
This course is designed and written by Susan Oshel, CPM, who has
been serving childbearing families for over 3 decades. We are so
blessed and so excited to have Susan as part of the Charis family!
Check our
website for the exact date of launching.
www.CharisChildbirth.org
Contact Susan Oshel
for more
details:
(757)271-1247
Mark Your Calendars
Charis Childbirth Classes in Virginia Beach
Spread the word! This 8-week childbirth preparation series began
Tuesday, January 2, 2007. There's still time and room for more
expecting families.
This series is perfect for anyone with an estimated due date in
March or April of 2007.
Contact Michelle Kaufman for details or to register:
Childbirth Educator Workshop
Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
(for aspiring childbirth educators)
for details, contact:
Charis Childbirth
Services
149 Business Park Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462
www.CharisChildbirth.org
Kristin Schuchmann ~
International Director
(757)639-5325 Fax (757)497-2398
Susan Oshel ~ Director of Midwifery Studies
(321)206-3464
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Rose
working on "home improvements" in Virginia
Happy New Year Charis Family!!!
Greetings from my "construction zone". Our home in Virginia Beach
has been in the throws of home improvements since the beginning of
October in
preparation for selling our home. We are almost finished-- and boy
will I be glad it is all over! By the time you get this
newsletter, we will have our new carpet and floors installed and
the house will be FOR SALE! (Call me if you or someone you know
are looking to buy a 4 bedroom home.) Even more exciting than
selling our current home, however, is the anticipation of moving
into our brand new house in North Port, Florida, whose
construction
is due to be complete in March or April. Gasp! We are moving far
away!
Our
house in Florida being built
See
the sliding glass doors on the left?
There's the future Charis office!
Recently, I had someone say to me, "What am I going to do next
time I have a baby??? I don't think I can do it without you!!!"
Well, the truth of the
matter is that with or without a great doula, you will give birth
to your baby! But, I do know the value of having the support of
great midwives and
doulas and I understand why people want to carefully choose
their birth team. Well, even though the Schuchmann family is
moving to FL, and with us the Charis international headquarters,
it will not change the services Charis offers in the Tidewater
area of Virginia. Charis is worldwide, but
there are more Charis childbirth educators and doulas in and
around Virginia Beach than anywhere else in the world... and I
have trained every one of them to serve families with he same high
standards of excellence. They not only have what I have poured
into them, but each of them has unique gifts and skills of their
own that make them even better! I truly have successfully worked
myself out of a job here. Michelle Kaufman is filling
my size 6 shoes here as local director and will be glad to connect
Tidewater families with the excellent childbirth professionals and
childbirth classes in that area.
Many of you know what our family is up to, but for those who
don't, I'll explain. Todd and I will be planting a church in North
Port, FL, and subsequently a church-planting movement in
South Florida (and beyond). Our church will be part of
New Life
Ministries International
and Vanguard Ministries. This is something for
which God has been preparing us for many many years and we are so
excited and humbled by this assignment. Please pray for us as we
launch out!
Love and Blessings,
Kristin
Charis Vision and Mission Statement
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