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About Being a Student
Making the Most Out of Your Study Time!
Charis Family
Emily Palisano
Charis Cuisine
Thai Peanut Stuffed Sweet
Potatoes
Charis Around the World
Childbirth in Kenya
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Doran Richards, a Virginia midwife and longtime
friend of Charis, has recently been diagnosed with lymphoma. Please
cover Doran and her family in prayer. She and her husband are both
self-employed and have no insurance to cover her treatment. If you have
a little or a lot you can give to help her cover her medical expenses,
please click on this link to donate:
http://www.gofundme.com/ze6g8hrs.
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Mark Your Calendars
Charis “Labor Support” Workshop
Saturday, October 03, 2015
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
At
LifeSong Midwifery
in
North Port, Florida
For
childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, or anyone who would like to improve her
ability to support laboring women.
At our workshops, learning is interactive, hands-on, fun, and interesting. All
Charis workshops are taught from a Christian perspective, giving God the glory
for His marvelous creation and how He so wonderfully created women to bear
children.
You will spend the day making new friends and becoming more skilled in putting
to use many techniques to bring a woman comfort during each phase of labor,
understanding the science behind why the comfort measures work, creating an
environment conducive to the natural progression of labor, recognizing when a
woman is beginning to panic and helping her regain control, gently encouraging a
woman to effectively push out her baby while taking advantage of the natural
physiology of second stage, assisting a woman in breastfeeding for the very
first time, and so much more.
In addition to the valuable skills acquired at the workshop, you will also take
home with you a beautiful “labor support bag” filled with an assortment of tools
to help you successfully support, serve, and bring comfort to your future
clients as they labor.
A delicious lunch will be provided for all the workshop attendees to enjoy as
you get to know each other better during a midday break.
The cost is $225 for Charis members and $255 for non-members (includes one-year
Charis membership).
To register, complete the
Registration Form
and mail it, along with payment, to:
Charis Childbirth
2575 N. Toledo Blade Blvd., Suite 3
North Port, FL 34289
Registration must be received before September 12, 2015
Childbirth Preparation Classes
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Presented by: Birth InSight
Christi Jones (CCE, CD) and Aimee Roberts (CCE, CD)
Weekly Series
September 24-October 29, Thursdays 7:00-9:00
November 5-December 17, Thursdays 7:00-9:00
Weekend Series
August 28 & 29 (6:30-9:30) and (9:00-3:30)
December 11&12 (6:30-9:30) and (9:00-3:30)
Eat Right
Now Workshop
email info@birthinsightva.com for
upcoming dates
Live Right Now Workshop
email info@birthinsightva.com for
upcoming dates
For more information and to
register visit our
website
or call 757-270-0437
Attention Aspiring
Midwives!
You will love the flexible, thorough, distance academics
course offered through Charis Childbirth!
Check it out!
Want to serve childbearing families as a Certified Doula or Childbirth
Educator?
Become trained and certified through Charis Childbirth!
Take a look
at our unique certification process!
If you seek a school that offers the convenience of self-paced distance
learning, personal mentors for each student, a commitment to the highest
excellence in education, a family-like network of students and birth
professionals, and education from a Christian perspective, Charis may be just
the right fit for you!
For more information
Visit the
Charis Web site
for course description and outline.
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Our Director's Heart
New Charis Office
Moving Day and Workshop are approaching
fast!
Remember the day you moved away from home
for the first time? It may have been to go away to college or to get married,
but that step was a giant leap that catapulted you into adulthood.
For over 12 years, Charis has “lived” in an office in my home. It was a perfect
beginning, but the time has come for her to move out and step into adulthood! On
August 1, the Charis office will be moving just 10 minutes down the road into an
office complex in North Port, FL. This will give Charis more room to grow to her
fullest potential.
LifeSong Midwifery, my midwifery practice, signed a five year lease on a
building in Toledo Blade Professional Center in North Port back in January. The
owner of the building has been wonderful! One significant way he has blessed us
is by paying for the build-out to make the space perfect for our use. The
changes needed, of course, required permits and everything was held up in
permitting with the city for months. The work finally started in June and they
are on track to have everything completed by the end of this month. I was just
at our new office checking on the progress and it looks like the only things
left to do before we move in are floors and trim work. It looks great!
Beautiful new office in progress!
Those of you coming to the Charis “Labor Support” Workshop in October will have
the opportunity to spend the day in our beautiful new space. The school has an
office, a library, two big classrooms, and shares the restrooms and kitchenette
with the midwifery practice.
And, speaking of the Workshop, it is already half full; so, please put your
registrations in the mail as soon as possible! We will all meet for dinner on
October 2 at a fabulous restaurant near Nokomis beach, enjoy the beach and watch
the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico afterward, spend all day at the workshop on
October 3, and then have time to relax and enjoy little bit more of southwest
Florida paradise on the 4th. If I have a momma in labor on the 3rd, then that
will be the fun day and the 4th will be our workshop day. I’m looking forward to
spending a wonderful weekend of learning to serve expectant mommas with even
greater excellence and connecting with other like-minded birth professionals
from around the world. Can’t wait to see all of you!!!
Blessings,
Kristin Schuchmann, CPM, LM
Executive Director, Charis Childbirth, Inc.
Charis Childbirth’s new address as of August 1:
2575 N. Toledo Blade Blvd., Suite 3
North Port, FL 34289
Update
Charis Membership
We at Charis are extremely grateful for our wonderful members. This past
year, your dues have made it financially possible for us to creatively
correspond with people in areas of the world where internet is spotty at best.
Having all forms of communication available for us is essential if we are going
to successfully train birth professionals in the far reaches of the earth.
As our community of members grows, there will be more funds available for even
more world-impacting outreach. Thank you!
Membership is due every December 31 for the coming calendar year. So, if
you became a member on or before December 31, 2014, your dues should be mailed
by the middle of December, 2015, to be sure it is received in time. If you
become a member sometime in 2015, then your membership renewal is not due until
December 31, 2016.
You can send your membership form and $30 dues to:
Charis Childbirth
2575 N. Toledo Blade Blvd., Suite 3
North Port, FL 34289
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