December 2005 - click here to view issue(pdf format)
Volume # 11 - Issue #4

February/March 2005
Volume #11 - Issue #1

• Editor’s Note 
  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
  More about: Newsletters |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• Create Friendships and Experience Mission First-Hand 
  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
  More about: Women |  Cambodia | Cote d´Ivoire | Sierra Leone | Uruguay | Zimbabwe |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• The Changing Face of Mission - Three Times a Week! 
  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
  More about: Missionaries |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• Bible Women Program Expands to Angola 
  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
  More about: Children |  Economy |  Education |  Women |  Angola | Asia and the Pacific Islands | United States |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• United Methodist Women Use Summer as Time for Learning  
  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
  More about: Education |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• Detained South Asians and Muslims without Rights 
  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
  More about: Civil rights |  Communities |  Human rights |  Immigration |  Violence |  War |  Women |  Pakistan |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• United Methodist Women’s Assembly – Invite Another! 
  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
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• Children: A Prayer Concern 
  A prayer for all children.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Prayers |  Women |  World |
  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
  More about: Children |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Jul 11, 2005
  
  
• Applicants Wanted for Public Education Summit 
  As part of the Women's Division's ongoing Campaign for Children, Phase III, a Public Education Summit will be held July 29 -31, 2005 at Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The focus will be advocacy in Public School Education.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Advocacy |  Children |  Education |  GBGM events |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• From the Deputy General Secretary...
  "More milk, less kick, please..." 
  Nineteenth century Hindu mystic and guru Sri Ramakrishna once said, "Religion is like a cow. It kicks, but it gives milk, too."
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Education |  Jesus Christ |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• Division President Sees First-Hand the Effect of Tsunami on Women and Children 
  Kyung Za Yim, president of the Womenís Division, went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, January 12-16, with an eye for the concerns of women and children in the tsunami-stricken area.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Women |  Tsunami |  Indonesia |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• Are We Closer to Peace Today? Prayers for Peace Continue 
  It has been two years since the beginning of the Iraq War. The war rages on and our troops continue to serve in Iraq. We are in the middle of the Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010), a decade that the World Council of Churches has designated for church communities to work towards peace and reconciliation.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Peace |  Prayers |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• A Gift to Mission from the Sea 
  The new Gift to Mission Card, a swirling shell, reminds one of Anne Morrow Lindberghís book, Gifts From the Sea:
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Finance |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• A Call for Justice 
  Good news! In 2005, Call to Prayer and Self-Denial grants will be open to all national and international groups that fulfill the theme, Women Seeking Justice in the Workplace.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Economy |  Finance |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• New Subscription Services for Response 
  With new online ordering and renewal options, it is now even easier to bring to life mission stories with a subscription to Response magazine.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• The 17th Assembly of United Methodist Women-Coming Soon! 
  It's time to think about attending the 17th Quadrennial Assembly of United Methodist Women, May 4-7, 2006, in Anaheim, California.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• Calling Teen and College Women! 
  The Women's Division is accepting applications from young women, and those who work with young women, for service on the teen or college/university consultative group for United Methodist Women.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• Thank You,
  United Methodist Women! 
  For the past year, United Methodist Women have been celebrating 135 years of being organized for mission!
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• United Methodist Women and Public Education Summit 
  A Public Education Summit will be held July 29 -31, 2005 at Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee. This unique event is being planned as part of the Women's Division's ongoing Campaign for Children, Phase III, which is focused on advocacy in Public School Education.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Education |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  

November/December 2004
Volume #10 - Issue #4

• Applicants Wanted for Public Education Summit 
  As part of the Women's Division's ongoing Campaign for Children, Phase III, a Public Education Summit will be held July 29 -31, 2005 at Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The focus will be advocacy in Public School Education.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Advocacy |  Children |  Education |  GBGM events |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Mar 04, 2005
  
  
• President's Report: Kyung Za Yim Shares Vision for Future of the Women’s Division 
  In her opening remarks, Kyung Za Yim, president of the Women's Division, told Women's Division Board members that she was introduced to United Methodist Women through the Women's Division trainings provided to Korean-American women. "In the past 10 years," she said, "I have been to leadership training events, to U.N. seminars, Washington, D.C. seminars, Regional Schools of Christian Mission, Conference Schools of Christian Mission, the Korean Language Coordinator's trainings, and writer's workshops.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Christian love |  Education |  Health |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Painting a Portrait of Our Future:  An Invitation to Envision Our Life Together
  For the next four years, we have an opportunity to paint a portrait of who we want to be—of what we want to hang on the wall for posterity. To paint this picture, we must dream dreams together and ask God for a vision. We call on the Holy Spirit to guide us to grapple honestly with where God wants us to be in coming years.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Christian love |  John Wesley |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Where to find Information on the Women's Division Directors Meeting in Stamford Connecticut 
  On October 15-18, Women's Division directors met in Stamford, Conn., for their first board of directors meeting of the quadrennium.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• New Directors Begin Four-Year Tenure 
  Fifty new directors gathered in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 9-12, for the organizational meeting of the Women's Division and training about their responsibilities as new directors for the national arm of United Methodist Women. The new directors were elected in March by other United Methodist Women from their jurisdiction.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Women Encouraging Voters 
  Women's Division leaders encouraged passersby to get to the polls.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• End Sterile Discussions, Choose Work for Peace 
  As United States presidential candidates continued to debate the justice of the war on Iraq, leaders from across religious traditions came together at the Church Center for the United Nation's observance of the International Day of Peace on September 21.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Peace |  Violence |  War |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Teen Advocates Say, Ending Child Labor Requires Rights for All People 
  Two teen delegates to an international conference on child labor shared their passion for that issue with directors of the Women's Division of The United Methodist Church's missions agency.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Advocacy |  Children |  Human rights |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Prayer Concern 
  Prayer for humanity.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Prayers |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Poverty Survey to Assist United Methodist Women in Mission in Their Communities 
  During the summer of 2004, the section on Christian Social Responsibility (CSR) conducted a Poverty Survey, implemented by the Social Action Mission Coordinators from local units. It was a means to gather some basic data about the economic and social conditions in their communities.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Communities |  Globalization |  Poverty |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Women’s Division Supports Election Monitoring  
  The Women's Division Board of Directors, to help counteract possible voter disenfranchisement during the elections, worked with "Count Every Vote 2004," a nonpartisan project that sponsored training for monitoring in ten states.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Advocacy |  Human rights |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Greeted warmly by board members 
  Barbara Campbell addresses board members on the organization's 135-year history.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• 2005 Reading Program Catalog 
  Free catalog listing of books to help education yourself for mission.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Education |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• United Methodist Women: A Century+ In Mission 
  This multimedia CD-ROM allows you to learn about events, places, and actions of women organized for mission in the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren traditions for the past 135 years.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  

August/September 2004
Volume #9 - Issue #3

• Where to find Information on the Women's Division Directors Meeting in Stamford Connecticut 
  On October 15-18, Women's Division directors met in Stamford, Conn., for their first board of directors meeting of the quadrennium.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Dec 01, 2004
  
  
• Four Institutions:
  A Century of Changing to be in Mission With Children 
  United Methodist Women support more than 100 national mission institutions that meet the needs of women, children and youth. And their mission isn't new, but it has had to change to meet the needs of the community.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Communities |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Sep 27, 2004
  
  
• Liberian United Methodist Women Continue Despite War 
  While some United Methodist Women in this country struggle with varying ideologies and theologies within the organization, other United Methodist Women half way around the world struggle with life and death situations. Yet mission on behalf of women and children continues.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Communities |  Conflict |  Missionaries |  Violence |  War |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Sep 24, 2004
  
  
• With Thanksgiving: Women's Division Honors Outgoing Leaders 
  Since 1972 the Women's Division has honored its presidents by setting aside money to be used in programs of special interest to them.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Education |  Grants |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Sep 21, 2004
  
  
• Social Action as Mission: Focus on Racial Justice 
  United Methodist Women have been addressing social justice issues as part of Christian mission for over a century - welfare reform, reproductive rights, child advocacy, migrant workers issues, economic and welfare reform. One area they've consistently addressed is racial justice.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Hate |  Race |  Women |  Africa | Sudan | United States |
  Date posted: Sep 20, 2004
  
  
• Networks Help Make Mission Possible 
  Though United Methodist Women are one-million members strong, the organization needs networks to be in mission. Two ways that the organization works in networks are through our mission institutions and our higher education institutions.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Education |  Women |  China | India | Japan | Pakistan | United States |
  Date posted: Sep 20, 2004
  
  
• United Methodist Women Lead the Way: Giving God Gratitude 
  United Methodist Women have been giving the fruits of their abundance since 1887 when A Call to Prayer and Self Denial began as a way "to consecrate a portion from abounding riches or scant poverty to send forth the good tiding of great joy unto all the earth". (Dorothy M. Woodruff, "The Story of the Week of Prayer and Self Denial 1887-1961")
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Donations |  Finance |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Sep 20, 2004
  
  
• Resources: How Can you Continue God's Mission? 
  God's mission with women, children and youth began 135 years ago and continues. There are several ways in which you can continue to make a difference.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Education |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Sep 20, 2004
  
  
• Jan Love: A Vision for United Methodist Women 
  For hundreds of thousands of women, United Methodist Womenís story is not only persuasive, but deeply connected to their faith stories and journeys. Together, the Division and United Methodist Women need to creatively and assertively tell our story, and if that ís not persuasive, we have to figure out why.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Christian love |  Communities |  Women | 
  Date posted: Sep 08, 2004
  
  
• Mission Possible Through Undesignated Giving 
  When I was elected as a director of the Women's Division in 1988, we were given buttons that said "Undesignated Giving Makes Mission Possible." This is still true today even though we do not have the button.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Finance |  Mission opportunities |  Missionaries |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Sep 08, 2004
  
  
• For 135 Years Schools Have Sustained 
  When our foremothers went into the world as missionaries, many began schools to educate women and children. One hundred thirty-five years later, these schools still exist. But the trials they have been through and the adjustments they've had to make are stories themselves.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Education |  Missionaries |  Violence |  War |  Women |  China | India | Korea | Sierra Leone | United States |
  Date posted: Sep 08, 2004
  
  

April/May 2004
Volume #9 - Issue #2

• Participate in the "Call to Prayer for Peace Campaign - From Lent to Easter and Beyond!" 
  United Methodist Women continue their prayer campaign for peace as the first anniversary Iraq’s invasion passes and as violence continues in the Middle East, Africa, Haiti, and all places of unrest. United Methodist Women began the campaign last year, from Advent to Easter. Now, the campaign continues.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Advocacy |  Children |  Peace |  Prayers |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Apr 21, 2004
  
  
• Division Approves Future Work Around Public Education 
  United Methodist Women concerned with good public education for all children will have a chance to participate in advocacy. The Division is developing educational efforts during 2005-2006 that will further promote United Methodist Women’s Campaign for Children, Phase III.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Education |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Apr 21, 2004
  
  
• Celebrate 135 Years with United Methodist Women 
  “Celebrate: A Seed Is A Promise” ($7.00) is a new video to help women celebrate United Methodist Women. With a song written for the video, and with footage of the work of United Methodist Women over the past 135 years, this video will be useful even beyond this year.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Music |  Women |  United States |
  Date posted: Apr 21, 2004
  
  
• Cover the "Uninsured" Week: Get Involved! 
  Forty-four million Americans lack health care coverage – an increase of more than two million in just one year. Eighty percent of these uninsured are in working families! 8.5 million are children
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Advocacy |  Children |  Health |  Women |  Youth |  United States |
  Date posted: Apr 14, 2004
  
  
• Women's Division President Spring 2004 Report 
  Women's Division President, Genie Bank gives last report at Spring 2004 Board Meeting
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Environment |  Health |  Women |  Africa | United States |
  Date posted: Apr 14, 2004
  
  
• Young United Methodist Women Member Participating in Global Conference on Child Labor 
  Young United Methodist Woman, Kim, 17, from Cal., will be attending the first ever Children’s World Congress on Child Labor May 10-13 in Florence, Italy.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Children |  Women |  Italy | United States |
  Date posted: Apr 08, 2004
  
  
• Deputy General Secretary's Quadrennial Message to United Methodist Women 
  This speech was given at the quadrennial meeting of United Methodist Women, which took place in each of the five jurisdiction's of the United Methodist Church. The purpose of these meetings are to elect directors to the Women's Division, elect jurisdiction officers, and give United Methodist Women a chance to celebrate and educate themselves for mission with others from their regions.
  Source: Women's Division
  More about: Bible |  Children |  Communities |  Education |  Jesus Christ |  Women |  Israel | Malaysia | United States |
  Date posted: Apr 02, 2004
  
  

For comments or suggestions, please contact: Kelly Martini, Editor via e-mail kmartini@gbgm-umc.org or by telephone: 212-870-3729.