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From Our Conference President, Amy
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Report from SEJ Quadrennial
Meeting...Called By Name
Read more highlights from SEJ 2008 Quadrennial Meeting. Photos are being added...check them out! |
Western North Carolina...
Special Mission Recognition, Gift to Mission, Gift in Memory, World Thank Offering, TOTAL UNDESIGNATED MISSION GIVING, and TOTAL GIVING!! Read more about it...from our Conference Treasurer, Sharon Smith! Read more about our 2007 Conference Giving...Exciting news about YOUR giving! |
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Click here for downloads and more information about Call to Prayer & Self Denial |
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to Nancy Garrison...on being commissioned as a Deaconess at the recent annual meeting of the General Board of Global Ministries. Nancy serves as the Executive Director of Brooks-Howell Home, a Women's Division owned retirement home in Asheville, North Carolina. Read more about the commissioning service on the GBGM website. 2008 marks 120 years of Deaconess service in the United Methodist Church. Read more about the ongoing legacy of these special lay women. |
| 2008 Conference Love Offering - A Gift to Mission Giving In Honor of Bishop and Mrs. McCleskey for Their Support of United Methodist Women in Mission [More information] | 2008 Conference Financial Goal - To increase TOTAL Mission Giving through the Five Channels by 1% [More information] |
 The NEW Mission Today! Make a Difference...Become a Mission Today Unit! Click here for more information |
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Western North Carolina Conference UMW Charter Club |
 NEW in 2008! For Christ's Sake, Turn the World Upside Down Initiative - Our Conference Priority for 2008 is to implement the "For Christ's Sake, Turn the World Upside Down" Initiative in the area of Public Education. Click here for more information |
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| Did You Know? March 23, 2008 was the 139th Anniversary of the beginning of the organization that we now know as United Methodist Women! On March 23, 1869, in Boston, eight women gathered at Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church to form the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Isabella Thoburn and Clara Swain left for India in November of 1869 as the Society’s first missionaries. It was the first of eight women's missionary societies founded by our predecessor organizations. Today, we continue the legacy of women organized for mission as United Methodist Women. Happy Birthday United Methodist Women! |
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Download Available: 2008 Pledge Service adapted from 2008 Program Book - Publish Glad Tidings! [PDF] [Word] Tell the mission story in your local unit, and challenge your members to participate in Mission Giving. Use Response Magazine & other resources to tell the story! Does your local unit participate in all five channels of Mission Giving? Have you personally given in all five channels? Give generously...Every mission dollar makes a difference! Our support for mission projects and personnel around the world makes mission possible...sharing the love of Christ, and touching the lives of women, children and youth. We cannot tell that story too often! [More info] |
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If you set yourself down in the middle of North Carolina, then head West, you'll undoubtedly run into some United Methodist Women of the Western North Carolina Conference. We have members in over 900 local units across the conference. Those local units include units of all sizes...from units found in small, rural churches, to units found in large, urban churches. And, our membership is intergenerational, from exciting new circles for elementary age girls and high school & college young women...to circles that include long time members age 100+, and everything in between! No matter the size of the local unit, or the age of its members, ALL represent women ORGANIZED FOR MISSION, and committed to the PURPOSE of United Methodist Women.
United Methodist Women is 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.
We welcome new members, and new local units, and are always excited to share about the many ways that United Methodist Women are involved in mission...making a difference, every day, in the lives of women, children and youth...around the world, and in our own communities. If you would like more information about United Methodist Women in the Western North Carolina Conference, contact any of the conference officers, or the district president from your area. Each of those officers is willing to help!
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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 2008 is
“Learning for a Lifetime” and
the offering will be used to fund programs at mission institutions
related to United Methodist Women and the United Methodist
General
Board of Global Ministries. The total offering will be divided among
United States institutions and international institutions.
