Anyone part of the Friday Arlington JF&CS new parents group?

[obie119.livejournal.com]

Hi all,
I'm posting to DSLJ because our Arlington group (at least when I was in it, in 2011-12) had a lot of crossover with Somerville!

Elise, the longtime moderator/gem of the Friday morning JF&CS group at the Calvary church is moving to Seattle. Many of us are thankful for her 10+ years of volunteer service and are having a fun informal reunion in her honor this Thursday at Magnolia, starting at 4:30 PM.

For more information (including info about the scrapbook in progress - deadline is today or arrive early at the event):
http://bit.ly/elise_party

To RSVP to the reunion (recommended!)
http://bit.ly/elise_rsvp

Hope to see you there!
-Karin and other grateful Arlington-area parents

PS: please pass this along to other parents that you know!

Comments

[ron_newman]

For those of us not familiar with them, can you tell us what JF&CS are?

[obie119.livejournal.com]

Hi Ron! JF&CS stands for Jewish Family and Childrens Services. It's a social service agency that does many, many things, including running many weekly support/social groups for new parents. (there's one in Somerville as well, near Winter Hill). Participants do not need to be Jewish; the groups are not religious in nature.

Anyway, both the Somerville and Arlington groups have lots of fans and overlaps, so I figured I'd try here to seek out more people - we have a number of parents who were in the group years ago who are excited to see Elise again and thank her for all her support!

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Did you try posting to the SomervilleMoms email list too? (I only skim it, and might have missed it, as I attended the Somerville one.) If you need a list member to post it for you, I'd be happy to.

I would add, in case anyone besides Ron is curious, that the social service agency and the support group in Arlington, and the support group in Somerville, serve everyone in the community. The "Jewish" is because its run by a Jewish agency which is presumably involved in services like this in a religious-ish mission of doing good in the world, not because it's only for Jewish families and children.

[obie119.livejournal.com]

Hiya! If you could post this to the Somerville Moms group, that'd be great - thanks! I am not a member of that, as the two Arlington lists are more than enough for my inbox to handle :) Thanks again!