Trust God to Meet You in Motherhood

Sometimes motherhood feels like you're running on autopilot, moving so fast that you forget where you're going. Other times it feels like you're just trying to hold it all together whileworking through a never-ending list of errands.

But Jesus' invitation to follow him isn't limited to people with empty calendars and picture-perfect families. It's for moms waiting in carpool lines, cheering from the bleachers, and pacing outside a doctor's office. It's for moms who are tired, overwhelmed, running late, and somehow still trying to be faithful.

Moms on the Way offers moms of any age a chance to journey through the challenges of motherhood together. This Bible study includes access to weekly teaching videos and offers a practical way to encourage one another, share honestly about your struggles and hopes, and encounter the God who invites you into a process of spiritual transformation.

Through studying women in Scripture, this seven-week Bible study addresses these often-unspoken challenges that moms face:



- When we need a friend

- When we feel ashamed

- When we feel resentful

- When we feel like we don't have enough

- When we're caught up in the rat race

- When God invites us to embrace vulnerability

- When all we can taste is bitterness



Kathy Tuan-MacLean and Tara Edelschick, authors of Moms at the Well, invite moms to draw near to God and to one another as you share your struggles. Each week you'll study how God meets you where you are, welcomes you into honest conversation, calls you to trust and obey, transforms and sets you free,and invites you to be an agent of shalom.

With Moms on the Way, find encouragement in Jesus' healing and transforming presence and experience how God meets you where you are in motherhood. You'll see that motherhood is meant to be asacred journey, walking alongside the God who promises to be both your guide and your destination.



Kathy Tuan-MacLean (PhD, Northwestern) serves as faculty ministry national director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where she invites and resources faculty to follow Jesus together. She's a mother of three adult children and an overly anxious labradoodle. Since joining InterVarsity in 1990, she has led numerous students and faculty in Bible study, spiritual formation, and leadership development. She is also a spiritual director who has led marriage ministry and women's retreats. In herchurch, you can find her occasionally preaching, often teaching, serving as an elder, and regularly cooking for and hosting gatherings.



Tara Edelschick (EdD, Harvard) is a teacher, writer, mother of three, and grandmother. For three decades, she has worked as an educator, teaching public high school students in New York, graduate students at Harvard's School of Education, homeschoolers in Massachusetts, and incarcerated men taking college courses through the Emerson Prison Initiative. In her church, you can find her speaking at a women's conference or marriage retreat, teaching Sunday school, gathering mothers for prayer andBible study, or leading retreats for families.



Introduction: Moms on the Way



Week 1: When We Need a Friend



Week 2: When We Feel Ashamed



Week 3: When We Feel Resentful



Week 4: When We're Living in the Land of Not Enough



Week 5: When We're Caught Up in the Rat Race



Week 6: When God Invites Us to Embrace Vulnerability



Week 7: When All We Can Taste is Bitterness

Notes



"I lead a Bible discussion twice a month for a small group of busy moms—it's considered a good month if a mom makes it to both! Moms on the Way is a gift of grace and common sense as well as a guide for deepening discipleship to help us breathe as well as pray while following Jesus and changing diapers!"



"This Bible study meets moms right where they are at—in the mess and beauty of everyday life. With refreshing honesty and humor, Kathy Tuan-MacLean and Tara Edelschick testify to how Jesus has met them in their resentment and shame and brought about transformation by embracing vulnerability and receiving grace. This isn't a typical study with tidy answers; it's an invitation toward deeper faith, freedom, and lasting change."



"Knowing both of these women a bit, I sat right down and read their manuscript. Kathy Tuan-MacLean and Tara Edelschick are women and mothers I trust to be honest, biblically astute, creative, and in solidarity with Jesus. Chapter by chapter, they navigate the overwhelm of shame, loneliness, vulnerability, resentment, bitterness, busyness, and more that accompany the complicated lives of moms today. Moms on the Way is not only about biblical study and information; Kathy and Tara provide portable exercises, practices, habits, and prayers that connect daily circumstances with the presence of Jesus. I wish I had had this book when I had children in my home."