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169 archived articles posted in 2005 found
July
25 articles found for July, 2005
  • Public Education 
    Children study at their home in Arizona. From its humble beginnings when a small group of women gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 1800s, women organized for mission have given themselves to the work of health and education.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 29, 2005
  • Historic Institutions  
    Dr. Carolyn E. Johnson, former president of the Women’s Division “One of the founding principles of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society in 1869 was that women and girls around the world should be educated to be leaders within their countries to change the lives of women, their families, and their societies. Education was an acceptable form of evangelism for young women missionaries, so the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society sent out hundreds of single, well-educated women who founded primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher learning.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 29, 2005
  • UMW Green Team Goes to Conference Schools of Mission 
    Mid Lawrence, Green Team member in the Kansas East Conference. As Conference Schools of Christian Mission get under way, the Green Team members take to the road to the schools to promote the work of the Team’s environmental advocacy. Displays and handouts are set up in the respective conference schools and the information on water conservation, water pollution and water safety as well as toxins in the environment are shared.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 28, 2005
  • Brown v. Board of Education 
    Pauli Murray, civil rights advocate, feminist, lawyer and ordained minister. It was a historic moment in the midst of the year-long celebration of the 135th anniversary of United Methodist Women and its predecessor organizations. The occasion was the commemoration of the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation. The place was the fall 2004 meeting of the Women’s Division in Stamford, Connecticut.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 27, 2005
  • New Leadership Institute introduced at NAFUM biannual meeting 
    The biannual meeting of the National Filipino American United Methodists (NAFAUM) took place at University United Methodist Church in Las Vegas, Nev., July 11-14, 2005. Approximately 300 women, men and youth, both lay and clergy, heard Bishop Minerva Carcano (Desert Southwest Conference) deliver the opening worship message.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 26, 2005
  • Creating a Transformational Ministry Through Our Connectional System 
    Kyung Za Yim, Women's Division President, speaking at the National Association of Filipino-American United Methodist. On July 11, Kyung Za Yim, Women’s Division president, addressed the National Association of Filipino-American United Methodists as the keynote speaker at the Leadership Institute in Las Vegas, Nev.  Her speech to the gathering looks at the connectional system of our church, the needs of the world, and the work to be done.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 25, 2005
  • Hmong Women Have a Vision of Mission 
    Kady Herr-Yang (top left), Women's Division Director with Hmong United Methodist Women from Wisconsin Conference. On July 8 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Sacramento, Cal., United Methodist Women gathered for morning porridge, then began their meeting.  The women were new to the organization, but filled with a vision.  They were Hmong women, celebrating their fifth year as women organized for mission.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 25, 2005
  • DIAKONIA: Brings Deaconesses Together from Around the World  
    Six of the seven German Methodist deaconesses of the Methodist Episcopal Church who founded the Bethesda Society in 1897. On July 21, United Methodist deaconesses will gather with other deaconess sisters from around the globe and ecumenically at a DIAKONIA World Federation meeting in England.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 22, 2005
  • Reading, Writing and Raspberries: Food and Nutrition in U.S. Schools 
    <b>Contact:</b><br> Office of Public Policy<br>GBGM-Women's Division<br>100 Maryland Avenue, NE Room 530<br>Washington, DC 20002<br>(202)488-5660<br>Fax:(202) 488-5681 Every day, more than 26 million children in over 99,000 public schools across the country eat lunches subsidized by the National School Lunch Program. Good nutrition promotes education because children learned better when they ate better. However, much of the food available to American children in school fails to meet their nutritional needs.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 20, 2005
  • Young Women Look Toward Anaheim 
    Young women perform liturgical dance during worship services at past assembly. As seasoned members of United Methodist Women plan a trip to Anaheim next May for the quadrennial United Methodist Women’s Assembly, young women also are saving their money and packing their bags.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 18, 2005
  • Public Education Summit To Set Direction for One-Million Women 
    Julie Taylor, Women's Division, Executive Secretary for Children, Youth, and Family Advocacy On July 29, United Methodists involved in public education will arrive in Nashville, Tenn., to set the direction of 1-million member United Methodist Women as they advocate for quality public education in the United States.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 15, 2005
  • Young Women:  Helping One Million Members Integrate Their Gifts  
    Paulette J. Kim, Women's Division, Executive Secretary for Membership On July 14-17, more than 20 young women from around the country will gather in San Francisco, California to help set the direction of the one-million-member United Methodist Women (UMW).
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 13, 2005
  • Editor’s Note 
    Kelly C. Martini, Women's Division, Communications Director/Information Officer As the Women’s Division works to be good stewards of our money for mission and as we explore how we communicate effectively, we have decided to publish the summer Mission Update newsletter online.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • Create Friendships and Experience Mission First-Hand 
    Women's Division executive Karen Prudente talks with young woman at leadership training event led by regional missionaries in Phnom Pehn, Cambodia The Women’s Division and Mission Volunteers office of the General Board of Global Ministries are forming a partnership that will enable women from the United States to build friendships and experience mission for one to two weeks in  Zimbabwe, Uruguay, Cambodia, Sierra Leone or Cote D’Ivoire.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • The Changing Face of Mission - Three Times a Week! 
    Regional Missionary Marthe Dansokho presents certificates at graduation ceremony for a United Methodist Women-supported job skills training program helping young women and their families live more abundantly in Senegal. United Methodist Women are known for the diversity of mission programs and projects that we support through our own work and through partnerships with others.  The difficulty with this is that it can be hard to comprehend the amount of work we do locally and around the world.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • Bible Women Program Expands to Angola 
    The women are from the Women's Division, Church World Service, Africa Office and Angola National Council of Churches. Far left is Deolina Teca, far right is Josefina Sandemba. With a national election coming up in 2006, church women in Angola are helping their sisters—70 per cent of whom are illiterate—understand the issues and prepare themselves to vote in a country long at war.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • United Methodist Women Use Summer as Time for Learning  
    J. Ann Craig, Executive Secretary of the Women's Division at Upper Atlantic Regional School More than 20,000 United Methodist Women members, clergy, children and youth will be using up to a week this summer to study Children of the Bible, India/Pakistan, or public education.  The schools of mission and mission education events take place in annual conferences across the United States.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • Detained South Asians and Muslims without Rights 
    Young woman performs in a youth group's play about tolerance in Hyderabad, India. United Methodists have the opportunity this summer to take up the cause of South Asians, Muslims, and Arabs who are detained or being deported from the USA without consideration of their basic human rights.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • United Methodist Women’s Assembly – Invite Another! 
    Assembly 2006 Logo Every four years the United Methodist Women’s Assembly involves close to 10,000 United Methodist Women.  And with every new woman attending the event, a new member commits herself to the mission of United Methodist Women!  So why not use next May as a time to recruit new members?
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • Children: A Prayer Concern 
    A prayer for all children.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • Resources: Start Planning Children’s Sabbath Now! 
    The Children’s Sabbath encourages a long-term commitment from United Methodist Women and their congregations based on education, advocacy, prayer, and action to make the world just for poor children and their families.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 11, 2005
  • Local UMW Shares Pakistan Experience  
    Girls study in school in Pakistan's Chakwal District run by Women's Division-supported Pohotar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA). In February, Diane Miller, former Women’s Division staff and United Methodist Women member from Mount Lebanon United Methodist Church in Western Pennsylvania conference, traveled with a group from the General Board of Global Ministries and with church members from around the United States to India and Pakistan.
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 07, 2005
  • Chief Executive Signs A Letter Speaking Out on Iraq 
    Jan Love, Deputy General Secretary of Women's Division As the nation observes the Fourth of July, Jan Love, chief executive for the United Methodist Women’s Division, in conjunction with church leaders around the U.S., signed  “A Call to Speak Out on Iraq,” released today by the National Council of Churches USA.
    Source:   WD Press Releases
    Date posted:  Jul 04, 2005
  • Last Regional Schools of Christian Mission 
    J. Ann Craig, Executive Secretary of the Women's Division at Upper Atlantic Regional School This weekend, study leaders for Pacific and Upper Atlantic Regional Schools of Christian Mission gathered at Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho and Marywood University in Pennsylvania. 
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 01, 2005
  • Responsively Yours: Rules of War, Prayers for Peace Response Magazine July-August issue
    Jan Love Deputy General Secretary Women's Division Torture is wrong. In 1982 the late John Paul II said, “The memory of Jesus stripped naked, beaten, derided, nailed to the cross” should make all Christians “reject, spontaneously and absolutely, any recourse to such means which nothing on earth can justify and which destroy the dignity of both the tortured and the torturer.”
    Source:   Women's Division
    Date posted:  Jul 01, 2005