 |  April 26, 2002 |
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by A. Victoria Hunter
Assembly exhibits offer a wealth of information, resources and programming ideas.
"The Exhibit Hall displays the Women's Division holistic approach to issues of spiritual growth, education, membership, peace, justice, racism and health," said Claretta Nesbitt, director of research and hospitality centers at the Women's Division United Methodist Office for the United Nations.
You can have your picture taken on the cover of Response magazine and learn how to use the Response audiotape, go online in the interactive computer area, and discover a fun way to "Sing A New Song" in the craft area. There's a conversation area where you can talk with persons in mission.
Throughout the exhibits, you can hear and see how your mission dollars are at work. You can listen to music, donate material resources, and see and hear the work of United Methodist Women through tape and videos.
The exhibits make the mission outreach of United Methodist Women come alive, Ms. Nesbitt said.
"Assembly participants can see how important their work toward undesignated giving becomes in supporting the ministries of women, youth and children," she said. "They can see what a difference the individual can make in the life of a woman, a child, a youth."
There are 24 exhibit spaces, including the Service Center; material-resources donation area; the International Market; and displays such as those on Scarritt-Bennett Center, the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women, Brooks-Howell Home, and the ministry of deaconesses.
"We have worked to be environmentally responsible with materials and resources in putting the exhibits and displays together," Ms. Nesbitt said. "The environmental-justice exhibit will highlight areas where we can be responsible users of resources and materials."
That exhibit includes information from the Chlorine Free Products Association. There is also an energy/climate-change display.
At the health exhibit, you can test your knowledge of the health-care system by resolving hypothetical situations. The education exhibit will let you look closely at standardized testing. And there will be exhibits that will inform you about Women's Division-supported mission institutions and projects in the United States and around the world.
"The spiritual-growth exhibit will look at some of the ways Bible women have had a hand in educating young women," Ms. Nesbitt said. "In the crafts area there is space to make ribbons supporting AIDS awareness, and you can make peace cranes."
Above: Scenes from the exhibit hall. Photos by Ed Moultrie, GBGM. Click on any photo to see a larger version.
Adapted for the web from Response Daily.
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