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1856 |
Methodist Mission in India established |
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1869 |
The Heathen Women’s Friend was published in November |
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1869 |
Isabella Thoburn and Clara Swain sent to India |
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1869 |
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church |
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1875 |
Woman’s Missionary Association, United Brethren Church |
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1878 |
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
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1879 |
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Protestant Church |
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1880 |
Woman’s Missionary Advocate published by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church South |
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1880 |
Woman’s Home Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church |
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1881 |
Mission Bands for young people ages 6-16 established |
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1882 |
Woman’s Evangel published by the Women’s Missionary Association of the United Brethren in Christ Church |
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1884 |
Woman’s Home Missions published by the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |
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1884 |
Woman’s Missionary Society, Evangelical Association |
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1884 |
"A Woman’s Missionary in Every Congregation and Every Woman a member" became the motto for the Woman’s Missionary Society |
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1886 |
"Mother’s Jewels," a Mission Program for children under one year of age was founded |
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1887 |
A reading course for members of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society was started |
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1890 |
The first president of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society was Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of the President of the United States |
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1890 |
Woman’s Home Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
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1891 |
Belle Harris Bennett was instrumental in establishing Scarritt Training and Bible School, Kansas City, MO |
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1891 |
Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society, United Evangelical Church |
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1891 |
Woman’s Missionary Society, Evangelical Association |
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1893 |
Woman’s Home Missionary Society, Methodist Protestant Church |
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1896 |
The first retirement home for missionaries and deaconesses opened in Ocean Grove, NJ in 1896 (Bancroft Rest Home) |
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1910 |
Woman’s Missionary Council |
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1911 |
First Bethlehem Center established in Augusta, Georgia |
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1914 |
Ethel Harpst established the McCarty Settlement Home for children in Cedartown, Georgia |
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1917 |
Fenton Memorial Rest Home established exclusively for deaconesses |
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1922 |
Woman’s Missionary Society, Evangelical Church |
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1932 |
World Outlook published by the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church South |
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1939 |
Woman’s Society of Christian Service Wesleyan Service Guild, The Methodist Church |
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1939 |
The Methodist Uniting Conference created the Central Jurisdiction |
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1939 |
The Uniting Conference created The Methodist Church and The Woman’s Society of Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild was formed |
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1940 |
The Methodist Woman published by the Woman’s Division of Christian Service, The Methodist Church |
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1942 |
The first Assembly of The Woman’s Society of Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild, St. Louis, MO |
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1942 |
1st Assembly Woman’s Society of Christian Service, The Methodist Church, Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. J.D. Bragg President, "Facing This Hour" |
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1946 |
2nd Assembly-WSCS Mrs. J.D. Bragg, President, "He is Our Peace" |
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1946 |
Women’s Society of World Service, Evangelical United Brethren |
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1949 |
Ellen Barnette and Pearl Bellinger first Black women missionaries sent to India |
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1950 |
3rd Assembly - WSCS Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, "Christian Faith for a World in Revolution" |
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1950 |
1st Quadrennial Convention, Evangelical United Brethren Women’s Society for World Service, "Declare His Glory" |
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1951 |
States Laws on Race and Color, by Pauli Murray published by Women’s Division |
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1952 |
The first Charter for Racial policies adopted |
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1954 |
Support for the historic Supreme Court decision (Brown vs. Board of Education) |
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1954 |
2nd Quadrennial Convention, WSWS "Ye Shall Be My Witness" |
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1954 |
4th Assembly - WSCS Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, President, "Jesus Christ...The Way" |
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1955 |
Policy statement on school desegregation adopted by The Woman’s Division of the Evangelical United Brethren Church |
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1958 |
3rd Quadrennial Convention, WSWS "Him We Proclaim" |
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1958 |
5th Assembly - WSCS Mrs. J. Fount Tillman, President, "Christ’s Message for Today" |
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1961 |
Purchased site at First Avenue and 44th Street, New York City |
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1962 |
6th Assembly - WSCS Mrs. J. Fount Tillman, President, "The Church in the World" |
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1962 |
4th Quadrennial Convention, WSWS "Clothed With Power" |
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1962 |
New Charter for Racial Policies adopted |
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1963 |
The Church Center for the United Nations dedicated |
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1964 |
Restructure of the Board of Missions, reorganization of the Woman’s Division |
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1964 |
The Charter for Racial Policies for The Methodist Church adopted by General Conference |
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1966 |
5th Quadrennial Convention, WSWS "Remember Jesus Christ" |
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1966 |
7th Assembly - WSCS and WSG, Mrs. Glenn E. Laskey, President, "Called to Renewal and Service" |
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1968 |
Women’s Society of Christian Service Wesleyan Service Guild, United Methodist Church |
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1969 |
Successor to World Evangel and The Methodist Woman, Response Magazine was published in January 1969 |
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1969 |
Passed resolution in opposition to the Vietnam War |
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1970 |
8th Assembly - WSCS and WSG, The United Methodist Church, Mrs. Eunice Harrington, President, "Choose Life" |
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1972 |
United Methodist Women |
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1972 |
Organized around the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment |
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1972 |
General Conference established the Commission on the Status and Role of Women (COSRW) |
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1973 |
Al Carmine wrote, "Many Gifts, One Spirit" for the 1974 Assembly |
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1973 |
Division approved an amendment calling for the impeachment of President Nixon |
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1973 |
Tenth Anniversary of The Church Center for the United Nations |
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1973 |
9th Assembly - United Methodist Women, Mrs. C. Clifford Cummings, President, "Many Gifts, One Spirit" |
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1974 |
Dedication of the bronze monument honoring Mary McLeod Bethune, Washington, DC |
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1974 |
Joint Seminars on National and International Affairs program authorized |
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1975 |
Law of the Sea Project began |
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1975 |
Barbara E. Campbell’s, The Middle of In Tomorrow published |
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1976 |
Ministries To Women and Ministries To Children: A Policy Statement adopted |
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1978 |
To A Higher Glory published by the Task Group on the History of the Central Jurisdiction |
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1978 |
A Charter for Racial Justice Policies in an Interdependent Global Community adopted |
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1978 |
Thelma Stevens’, Legacy For The Future published |
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1978 |
10th Assembly -UMW, Mrs. Mai H. Gray, President, "A New People for a New Age" |
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1981 |
Women’s Division initiated an Oral History Project |
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1982 |
"Christ Our Hope--The Journey Our Life" Assembly in Philadelphia |
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1982 |
Alma Mathews House was rededicated to a new ministry as a meeting and housing facility |
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1982 |
11th Assembly - UMW, Mrs. Ruth A. Daugherty, President, "Christ Our Hope--The Journey Our Life" |
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1983 |
Theressa Hoover’s "With Unveiled Face" published |
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1984, 1988 |
Sent resolutions to General Conference in opposition to apartheid in South Africa |
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1984 |
"Share the Vision--Say Yes!" district mission team training design launched |
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1986 |
"Into the Future by Faith" Assembly in Anaheim, California |
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1986 |
This is Our Song: Employed Women in the United Methodist Tradition by Ann Fagan was published |
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1986 |
12th Assembly - UMW Mrs. Carolyn M. Marshall, President, "Into the Future By Faith" |
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1986 |
Encyclopedia of One Hundred Women in Mission published |
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1987 |
United Methodist Women’s Campaign for Children launched |
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1988 |
Centennial celebration of of the office of deaconess in the Methodist tradition |
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1988 |
Women’s Division assumed ownership of the Scarritt Graduate School property and organized the new Scarritt-Bennett Center Board |
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1990 |
Transfer of the administration of Response to the Women’s Division |
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1990 |
Delivered 10,000 postcards signed by Assembly participants requesting President Bush to sign the child care bill |
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1990 |
13th Assembly- UMW Mrs. Sally G. Ernst, President, "Witnesses for a New World" |
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1990 |
Theressa Hoover Community Service and Global Citizen Award established in 1990 |
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1990 |
"Witnesses for a New World" Assembly in Kansas City, Missouri |
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1991 |
Transfer of the administration of the Service Center to the Division |
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1992 |
Robincroft and Brooks-Howell retirement homes consolidated |
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1992 |
The 20th Anniversary of United Methodist Women |
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1994 |
14th Assembly- UMW Dr. Carolyn E. Johnson, President, "Count Me In" |
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1994 |
"Count Me In!" Assembly, Cincinnati, OH |
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1995 |
"Speaking Out In The Public Space" by Peggy Billings was published |
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1997 |
The New Structure for United Methodist Women |
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1998 |
"Make Plain the Vision" Assembly in Orlando, FL |
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1998 |
15th Assembly - UMW Mrs. Sara Shingler, President, "Make Plain the Vision" |
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1982-1985 |
Centennial Era Celebration |
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1984-1986 |
Political Skills Emphasis |
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1996-2002 |
Yes! Count Me In Membership Campaign |
