Mission Update
Women’s Division Policy Statement on GivingResponsible stewardship of God's gifts is a challenge for individual Christians, especially in a culture and economic system where accumulation is valued and rights of ownership unquestioned. Responsible stewardship is also a challenge for the women's Division. While giving and receiving are equally blessed, the Women's Division believes that accountability is required of both the giver and receiver. Decisions about budgets and giving are based on a strong belief in mission education, leadership development, and the centrality of the needs of women, children and youth.
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The Women's Division certainly takes financial responsibility and stewardship seriously. And we ensure that in all we do, we practice "accountability" or "responsibility."
One of the most important responsibilities of the Women’s Division is to protect assets. This is a major responsibility in light of our legal fiduciary responsibility. To do this, we practice proper accounting, carry out audits, monitor investments, and perform financial reporting to United Methodist Women members. In fact, the Women's Division finances are the most scrutinized of any agency in the United Methodist Church! Our budgets, audits, and other reports not only are examined by Women’s Division directors, but also by the General Board of Global Ministries’ finance committee, and submitted to the General Council on Finance and Administration. The Women's Division provides reports of its budget, financial disclosures, and audits extensively to its membership.
We are accountable to our membership, because their giving supports and sustains mission around the world! The Women’s Division receives no general church funds from World Service apportionments. It is the giving of United Methodist Women that provides the major support for National Mission Institutions; for programs and projects around the world; and for the sustenance of our mission personnel.
By protecting assets and being accountable to United Methodist Women, our organization enables mission around the world!
It is our legal responsibility to act prudently. It is our United Methodist responsibility to act in accordance with the Discipline. It is our United Methodist Women’s Purpose that we know God and "be actively engaged in fulfilling the mission of Christ and the Church."
United Methodist Women are called by God to be in mission and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ by sharing God's gifts with the oppressed and dispossessed of our world. This is all of our responsibility!
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