Call to Prayer & Self Denial

Has your unit made plans to celebrate Call to Prayer and Self Denial this year? This special observance is usually held the first few months of each new year. The theme for 2010 is “Property Makes Mission Possible". 

The 2010 Call to Prayer and Self-Denial offering fund will provide for capital expenditures at mission institutions related to the Women’s Division of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Women’s national policy-making arm. In the United States, these institutions include community centers, women’s residences, schools, colleges and residential treatment centers. Internationally, these institutions include hostels, residences, hospitals, clinics, schools, and community and day-care centers. The offering will be divided between U.S. and international projects. Funds from this observance will be used to expand facilities for new and emerging programs, as well as for repairs and renovations to maintain and enhance established ministries with women, children and youth.

The Quiet Day service for the Call to Prayer and Self Denial is in our 2010 United Methodist Women Program Book -- Let's Get Together.  It will also available here on our website...click here to download a PDF of the quiet day service.

Prayer from the 2010 Call to Prayer & Self Denial Prayer Card:  (United Methodist Women members may make copies of this prayer for use in their units)

Gracious God, as we enter into a period of prayer and reflection, give us the clarity to remember your goodness in our lives and the lives of those we love and hold dear.

Keep before us the fact that we are fortunate, and that you expect us to share your love with others in whatever way we can.

Guide us on this journey of self-denial. Show us the path you want us to take.

May our actions be what you desire your children to do.

This we ask in the name of your son, Jesus the Christ. Amen.
 

Local units share in the Call to Prayer and Self Denial Observance in a variety of ways.  In 2008, one local unit in the Waynesville District...Love's Chapel UMC, located in Sylva, North Carolina...used the quiet day service during Sunday morning worship, sharing in the service with the whole congregation.  They placed an offering plate at the kneeling rail, and the congregation came to the altar to share their gifts to mission.  The Call to Prayer offering collected that morning was over $300!  What a neat way to share United Methodist Women with the congregation!

• Click here to download PDF of a Prayer Card that you could use in your local unit.
• Click here to download PDF of the "Property Makes Mission Possible" service from the 2010 Program Book
• Click here to Visit the Mission Resource Center to order Call to Prayer & Self Denial supplies
• Click here to download PDF of 2010 Call to Prayer & Self Denial Packet Letter
• Click here to download PDF of 2010 Call to Prayer & Self Denial Packet Order Form

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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.

This page was last updated on Sunday, January 03, 2010.