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Manchester United Methodist Church’s United Methodist Women offers creative, supportive fellowship, and participates in global and local missionary projects. Volunteers to help with leadership positions, programming, and special events are always needed. Members attend small groups (circles) each month to enjoy shared interests and concerns. In 2005, the Manchester Unted Methodist Women donated more than $22,000 to local missions and mission work around the world that benefit women and children.
Listed below are several of the organizations we were able to contribute to:
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Blue Mountain Camp
Centenary Cares
Children’s Hope International
Circle of Concern
Epworth Children’s Home
Good Samaritan Fund (MUMC)
Habitat for Humanity
Hinton Center
Kids’ Place
Kingdom House
LaClinica Health Center
Lydia’s House
Manchester Center
Metro Homeless Center & Family Services
Mozambique Initiative
Pony Bird
Shalom House
UMCOR
Village of Blue Rose
Susanna Wesley Foundation
Kathy J. Weiman Foundation
Wings of Hope
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You are invited! Come and see what we have to offer. MUMC United Methodist Women hold several events during the year and sponsor small circles or sub-groups that focus on the common interests of the participants and are purpose-driven.
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Our Purpose:
The organized unit of UMW shall be a community of women whose purpose is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative, supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministires of the church.
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UMW Events at MUMC - 2007
Calendar of Events*
Information to come.
Other Women's Events
Information to come.
UMW Activities
Chapel Prayer: Tuesdays, 9:15 a.m.
Marlene Kuhlman - (314) 878-8291
Lydia Circle: 1st Thursday, 9:30 a.m.
Sue Copeland - (636) 394-7535
Jane Carr - (636) 394-9151
"Market for Missions" Garage Sale: 1st Friday/Saturday in June
Jean'ne Patton - (636) 936-8475
Debbie Benna - (636) 256-1981
Diana Van Leuven - (636) 230-7603
Dawn Kramer - (636) 230-3089
Mary Martha Quilters: Monday, 9 a.m.
Audrey McKinney - (636) 227-7324
Mom-to-Mom: 1st Monday, 9:30 a.m.
Beth Dorrance (636) 391-7901
UMW Board Meetings:
These meetings take place on the 3rd Thursday each month at 7 p.m. in the MUMC Library. All UMW are invited to attend along with our Circle Leaders and Board Members:
National UMW Website: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umw/UMW History
A Handful of Women Made a Difference
It was a stormy night in Boston on March 23, 1869, when Mrs. William Butler and Mrs. Edwin Parker, wives of missionary husbands to India, arrived at Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church to speak about the plight of women and young girls in India. Only four women had braved the treacherous weather to hear the distressing news that there were only male doctors in India and the women were being denied medical assistance and the young girls were not being educated.
The ladies were reminded by Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Parker that women are as much disciples of the Lord as are men. Also, women are called to care for the poor, the widows, and the orphans in every land. After considering the small sacrifices each must make in order to help their sisters in Christ, the ladies joined with Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Parker.
This was the beginning of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This group succeeded in sending teachers, Isabella Thoburn and Dr. Clara Swain to India as our first female missionaries. They built a school to educate girls and a hospital to provide medical care for women.
*Other events may be scheduled throughout the year.
