United Methodist Women

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The UMW invites you to build new friendships with women sharing a common goal. Won't you join us?

Purpose

The organized unit of United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose purpose is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative, supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.

Activities

Monthly Unit Meetings

  First Tuesday of each month
  10:00 am
  Aldersgate Fellowship Hall
  NOTE: in October, the unit meeting will be at 7:00 pm

Monthy Circle Meetings

   Inspiration meets the third Tuesday at 10:00 am
   Sunshine meets the third Tuesday at 10:00 am
   Star meets the third Monday at 7:00 pm
   Mary Martha meets the fourth tuesday of the month at 7:30pm in the Parlor

Mary Martha Circle News

Our next Mary Martha Circle meeting is February 21 at 7:30 pm in the Parlor. We will cover chapters 9-12 of Raising Faithful Kids in a Fast Paced World. If you have any questions, please call Delancey S., 972-572-7840 or Marla F., 972-283-2738. We welcome new members at anytime.

Other Activities

- Summer Luncheon
- Children's Sabbath
- Reading Program
- Women's Spring Tea

     - District & Annual Conference Meetings
     - Fall Festival
     - Christmas Awards Program

Missions, Supporting International, National, and Local Projects

Missionaries

- Willa Yost (Indonesia)
- Rev. Leta Gorham (Nepal)
- Sally Morris (Sierra Leone)

Contributions of money, time, and supplies given to:

- Dallas Bethlehem Center
- Wesley-Rankin Community Center
- Methodist Medical Center Auxiliary

     - Blanton Garden//CC Young
     - Duncanville OUtreach Center
     - others as needed

UMW Story

For more than a century, women in the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren traditions have led a struggle for human rights and social justice. The generation of women who founded the early missionary societies developed powerful networks and organizational structures to help women attain full participation in the life of the church and society.

In the early years of the women’s mission organizations, the focus was on sending missionaries and helping to change the lives of women and girls in foreign lands. They incorporated the values of home and family into public life, as they addressed issues of poverty, child labor, immigration, migrant labor, family life, racial discrimination, full clergy rights for women, and many other social ills of the day..

Many problems faced by the women at the turn of the century have reemerged in our own time with a new and demanding urgency: new waves of immigration, homelessness, racial divisions, threats to the environment, substance abuse and addiction, lack of affordable health care, concerns for the well-being of children and the elderly, public education, questions about women’s roles in society, and world peace.

Because of the faithfulness and courage of the millions of women who prayed, planned, organized, marched, petitioned, labored, and supported the work of the early missionary societies, the lives of countless individuals, especially women and children, have been irrevocably changed. Women, children and youth in our generation, and the ones that will follow us, are living the legacy of the women’s missionary movement of the 19th century.

During the 30th Anniversary of the creation of UNITED METHODIST WOMEN, we have much to be proud of and a great deal to celebrate as we continue the journey begun more than 133 years ago by our faithful and courageous foremothers. (http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/history/legacy.html)