Volume 5

~ News From "Your Birthing Family" ~

Issue 10

   

In This Issue

Midwife Monologues
    
End the “Battle over Birth” by Letting Women Win
About Birth
     Ob-Gyns Issue Less Restrictive VBAC Guidelines
     MANA responds to ACOG's release
Our Charis Family

     Hannah Johnson
Charis Cuisine

      Russian Borsch
Charis Around the World
     Tidbits From Ebony

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Update

Our address

Charis Childbirth, Inc.

P.O. Box 6900
North Port, FL 34290

It's been over a year since Charis headquarters moved to Florida.  If you use our old Virginia Beach address, your mail will not reach us as the post office is no longer forwarding mail.  Be sure to mail your yearly membership fees to the Florida address!

Look us up
Charis and our Midwifery Scholarship Fund


Mark Your Calendars


Childbirth Education Classes

Hillsboro, Ohio
(1 hour east of Cincinnati)


Presented from the heart of a Childbirth Educator and Doula:
Vicki Sink

Come join in on the fun!

Six Week Class
January 13, 20, 27 & February 3, 10, 17
Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm

Click > here < for more information or to sign up

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms 127:3


Childbirth Education Series

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Presented by:
Christi Jones (CCE, CD) and Aimee Roberts (CCE, CD)

Weekend Intensive:
October 22nd - 23rd
December 17th - 18
 
six week class
fall: Oct 13th-Nov 17th
winter: Jan 5th-Feb 9th
Wed nights 7-9pm

Cost $200.00

For more information and to register visit our website:
http://www.birthinsightva.com
 


  • 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
     
  • For  our  directors  and  administration:   Wisdom, guidance, energy, and provision from God as Charis enters this season of growth


Our Director's Heart

Back Row: Mary Ann Stoltzfus, Sheri Hunt, Corrine Henderson, Tara Thessen, Allison Brunett, Chantal Wilford, Celia Sorensen - Front Row: Ellen Smith, Kristin Schuchmann, Maggie McCarthy, Susan Oshel,
Not pictured: Esther Smith, who is behind the camera. :)

What a wonderful time we all had at the recent Charis “Labor Support” Workshop!  Childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, students, and others who just love pregnancy and birth came from many states to gather at Birthways Family Birth Center in Sarasota and learn more about serving laboring women. Susan is in the process of collecting all the pictures that were taken at the workshop and you can look forward to a full report in next month’s newsletter.

September and October have been beautifully birth-busy for me.  I have had the privilege of seeing many new little ones enter the world recently and look forward to quite a few more before the end of October.  When life fills up with responsibilities, commitments, and other “important” things, it is easy to neglect rest and leisure time.  I’m guilty!  That is not the healthiest way to live, however. My body is telling me to slow down and rest so I don’t burn out.  November holds fewer “due dates”, so I’m taking a little break to go enjoy Epcot with my family.  I encourage all of you who are also feeling weighted down by life’s pressures and demands to give yourself a break, remember to have a true Sabbath rest each week, and to take some time for recreation and leisure.  When we have received what we need, then we have what it takes to pour into those around us and accomplish what God calls us to do.

Blessings to all of you,

Kristin Schuchmann
Executive Director, Charis Childbirth, Inc.


 


Contact Us

Charis Childbirth
P.O. Box 6900
North Port, FL 34290
www.charischildbirth.org


 Kristin Schuchmann ~ Executive  Director
Cell (941)441-6410

http://happyhealthyliving.wordpress.com/

Susan Oshel ~ Director of Midwifery Studies

 



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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 '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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October 2010