Volume 3

~ News From "Your Birthing Family" ~

Issue 7

   

In This Issue

About Babies
     From Despair to Hope ~ Part 2
Birth Story
     Luke Mason Jones
Question of the Month
     A Season For Exercise
 Charis Cuisine
      Thai Salad with Nutty Sauce
 Kids Korner
     Crou-Tongs
 Letters To The Editor
     Comments From Our Readers
Our Charis Family
     David Oshel
Charis Around The World
     Birth Houses in Ukraine


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 Mark Your Calendars

 Charis “Labor Support” Workshop

Saturday, August 9, 2008
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
at New Life of Virginia Beach
$200 / members -- $230 / non-members
(includes 1-year membership)
Lunch provided
All attendees receive great gifts to assist them in supporting laboring women!
(Seven contact hours will be awarded 
toward Charis recertification)

 Many topics of interest to childbirth educators, doulas, and midwives who want to improve their labor support skills will be covered:

Initial consultations
Labor support tools
The “I think I’m in labor” call
Interfacing with hospital staff
Effective positions and comfort measures
Helping a laboring mom regain control
Physiologic pushing
Helping a mom nurse for the first time
Post Partum
And more…

Registration deadline is approaching!
 Registration  and payment
must be received by July 20, 2008.

Childbirth Classes

Presented by Christi Jones and Aimee Roberts
Every Wednesday, Starting August 20th - September 24th
Location: Crosscurrent Church Office
508 Central Drive, Suite 106
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
For more information contact Christi Jones
757-270-0437
christimjones@cox.net

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Charis
Course for Childbirth Professionals

Want to become a Childbirth Educator, Doula, or Midwife? Charis offers excellent education for birth professionals from a Christian perspective.

The Charis Course for Childbirth Professionals is a two-part course. The first part is “Foundations for Childbirth Professionals”. In addition to this being the beginning of our Midwifery Academics Course, those who desire to become Childbirth Educators and Doulas will be fully equipped at the end of “Foundations” to take the exam to become Charis Certified Childbirth Educators and Doulas.

Part Two is “Advanced Midwifery Academics”, which builds upon “Foundations” to provide aspiring midwives an extremely comprehensive academic course. The two parts combined are designed to prepare midwives well for the NARM exam, but you will find that it far exceeds that standard.

For more information
Visit the Charis Web site for course description and outline:
http://www.charischildbirth.org
 

 

Our Director's Heart

Rose and Kristin Schuchmann
Rose and Kristin playing and singing together

Hello Charis Family!

Have you ever had someone pray out loud for you in your presence? How did you feel after the prayer? Encouraged? Full of faith? More confident that God would hear and answer? I appreciate so very much the prayers people have prayed on my behalf in their prayer closets, but I am super encouraged when I actually hear the prayers being prayed for me.

The Charis intercessors are faithfully praying for those of you who have asked us to pray for you to conceive and give birth to a baby, but we believe there is something more needed. (See James 5:14)

As I have personally been praying, God has brought to remembrance many people I have known over the years that were told they would probably never be able to have a baby, only to go on to have one or more children after being prayed for. One in particular is someone with whom most of you are familiar: contemporary Christian music artist Michael W. Smith. His wife, Debbie, was told by doctors that she would most likely not be able to conceive a baby. When they were at a point in their marriage that they wanted to have children, they looked into the different medical options available to them at the time. As they weighed all their options, they contacted their pastor for guidance. He suggested that the medical procedures would be fine as a last resort, but that they should first do what the Bible instructs in James 5:14-- have the elders anoint them with oil and pray for them. That is exactly what they did. They said that they felt so incredible after hearing all those godly men praying for them. They felt the power of God and knew He was at work. Within 3 months, they were expecting their first baby. The day they found out that they were expecting their fifth baby, they called their pastor and asked him to take them off his prayer list.

If you want to have a baby, but for some reason you have been unable to conceive or carry a baby to term, let us know. We want to be praying for you. But, also, please contact your church elders. Have them anoint you with oil and pray for you. There is so much power in corporate prayer like that. If you don’t have a local church family, find one today! If you live within driving distance of North Port, FL, and you do not currently have a church home, you are welcome to call Pastor Todd Schuchmann at 941-441-6452 to set up a time for our elders to anoint you with oil and pray for you. God loves to work in and through His Body, the Church.

As for the Charis intercessors, we will keep praying and believing for miracle babies. Send us your praise reports! To God be the glory!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Kristin Schuchmann

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What Charis is doing around the world

When Charis workshops will be held

Where You can find other Charis Members

Why Charis education is so excellent

How To become a Charis member

and more...


 Contact Us

Charis Childbirth
149 Business Park Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462
www.charischildbirth.org
 Kristin Schuchmann ~ International Director
Cell (941)441-6410  Fax (757)497-2398


Susan Oshel ~ Director of Midwifery Studies
(321)206-3464
 


Prayer Points

  • Please pray for peace, safety, and open doors for Elizabeth Carmichael this week as she goes back to “Candybar” for the first time since January.  Elizabeth will be trying to recover her midwifery education books and many other things that were left behind.
     

  • Grants and other funding for the expansion of the Charis ministry
     

  • For the Charis Childbirth Educator, Doula, and Midwifery students:  sharp minds to learn, opportunities for lots of hands-on learning
     

  • For the Charis CE’s, doulas, and midwives:  rest, peace, protection, wisdom, discernment
     

  • For the Charis missionaries and humanitarian workers:  protection, peace, divine guidance, financial provision

The information in this newsletter is for educational purposes only and is not intended to take the place of medical care and advice from your health care provider.

 'Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them from the ends of the earth,
 Among  them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and The one who labors with child,  together,
 A great throng shall return there...And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.'
 Jeremiah 31:8, 14
~~~
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July  2008