United Methodist Women

Good morning to the Trinity Tribe!

I hope you are all well! I got some good work done yesterday. I still need to plan some more of worship for the rest of the year and into next year, but I made a dent!

Today is the General Meeting of United Methodist Women! I am interested to attend my first one of these!

United Methodist Women is 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 ministries of the church.
Those are wonderful goals. The precursors to UMW developed in the late 1800s when women and children were legally classified as “chattel, legally dead, non-persons.” What a horrid thought: Women and children being non-persons. We learned in school that if it weren't for these women's organizations in all Protestant denominations, the church might have all but disappeared. Women typically attended church more faithfully than men in that time period. Women got excited for Jesus and helping others in their own areas and around the world! Women organized…women prayed…women raised money…and women proclaimed the Gospel! They did this even though they were "non-persons." Pretty amazing! These are all things we should all be proud of.

So, if you know a United Methodist Woman, give her a pat on the back and shake her hand for the proud tradition which she carries.