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Valarie Aman and Cara Newhouse, during a recent orientation/training for the pilot Ubuntu Journeys team leaders and hostesses. Ubuntu eXplorers is a program of the Women's Division and United Methodist Women in partnership with Mission Volunteers of the General Board of Global Ministries and United Methodist Volunteers In Mission (UMVIM). It enables United Methodist women to build friendships and experience mission around the world.

 

Women's History Month - March 2006


Articles written by and about women in honor of Women's History Month

Learn about some special women in the history of The United Methodist Church:

Helen Kim
Lochie Rankin and Mary Lambuth
Mellie Perkins

arrow icon. Women and Globalization:
 Toward an Economy of Caring
In the marketplace Yaounde, Cameroon, entrepreneurship is undertaken by women - often primary family providers - who sell produce that they have planted and harvested. After two hours’ travel on a hilly dirt road in the Northwest Province of Cameroon, West Africa, the narrow valley opens on a vast hillside of young palm-oil trees. Women of all ages work together in this remote area, caring for their young children and babies among them and cultivating these trees that contain hope for their families’ future.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Agriculture | Christian love | Communities | Economy | GBGM programs | Globalization | Human rights | International affairs | Women | Cameroon |
Date posted: Mar 07, 2006
arrow icon. Spring event will focus on 'Caring for God's Creation' 
The Rev. Miriam Burnett A training event in April will help churches and individuals respond to an often-overlooked area of stewardship, yet one that has roots in Genesis: The call to care for the earth and its resources.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Children | Environment | Women | Youth | United States | World |
Date posted: Feb 27, 2006
arrow icon. Native American women answer call in different ways 
Josephine Deere As a United Methodist woman in ministry, Josephine Deere describes her lifetime of service and work as "a fantastic journey."

Deere, 60, works as a lay missioner for Fife Memorial United Methodist Church in Muskogee, Okla., in the denomination's Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Children | Women | Youth | United States | World |
Date posted: Feb 27, 2006
arrow icon. The Scholarship Program of the IPA (Instituto Porto Alegrense) Metodista in Porto Alegre for Afro-Brazilian Women
Her mother, a prostitute, disappeared when Esther** was a child.  Her father could not afford to feed and clothe her.  So, he gave her to a farm, where she worked tirelessly, almost as a slave. 

When Esther was 12, she ran away to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to work as a housekeeper. 
Source: Women's Division
More about: Children | Women | Youth | Brazil | United States | World |
Date posted: Feb 27, 2006