United Women in Faith: response

Gum Moon Residence and Asian Women’s Resource Center 
supports women and children in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Visit https://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/a-golden-door-to-new-life to read this article on our website.

Nothing is constant but change, so the saying goes. Our current church landscape is unsettled, and changes are coming. United Methodist Women has prepared by taking needed action now. We are and will be a place for all women who want to work together in mission focused on women, children and youth. Women have always been able to be members of United Methodist Women without being a member of The Un...

“Walking the path with our neighbors” is how Sandra Soroka describes the work of the Neighborhood Center. And there are as many paths and ways of walking with neighbors as there are facets to this longtime community gem in Utica, New York. Over the past year, the center struggled to keep essential activities open for families, children and people in need. The center’s leaders, particularly Soroka,...

United Methodist Women member Vickie Powell-Bass works in her community to uplift schoolchildren through her local school council. Visit https://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/i-will-step-in to read this article on our website.

United Methodist Women is making new wineskins so that new generations of women can join in the joy of turning faith into action with a community of like-minded women. Members soon will have the opportunity to experience exciting innovations to popular United Methodist Women programs like Mission u and Leadership Development Days as well as use templates for new programs like Soul Care Retreats. E...

United Methodist Women, the future is calling for our resolute action today. Now is the right time to claim our roots, strengthen our relationships and our outreach, and tend our foundations. God is preparing us, in the midst of this prolonged uncertainty, for faithful and fruitful work in and through the changes ahead. Now is the time to lean forward toward the opportunities that God is providing...

En el mundo y en la Iglesia Metodista Unida, vivimos en un estado prolongado de incertidumbre. La pandemia de COVID, con sus manifestaciones de las desigualdades raciales de nuestro sistema para que todos las veamos y sus diferentes impactos económicos, ha amenazado la sensación de seguridad de algunos y ha aumentado la inseguridad de otros. Los científicos que estudian el cerebro nos dicen que la...

세상 속에서 그리고 연합감리교회 안에서 우리는 오랫동안 불확실한 상태로 살아가고 있습니다. 모두가 알고 있는 우리 시스템의 인종적 불평등과 그로 인한 경제적 영향의 차이를 드러내는 COVID 팬데믹은 일부 사람들이 가지고 있는 안전의식을 위협하고, 사람들의 불안감을 고조시켰습니다. 뇌 과학자들은 우리에게 위협적인 것으로 인식되는 불확실성 상태가 불안 반응을 일으키고, 이러한 상태가 오랫동안 지속되어 많은 사람...

“Through turmoil and distress, anxieties and fears, external macro and micro aggressions, internal struggles, through inherited traumas and collective grief, sorrow or tears, we must be determined to find and hold onto the joy that is ours,” said Ebony Diaz, United Methodist Women’s executive for membership, nurture and development and one of the event planners, looking directly through her Zoom c...

As United Methodist Women members our faith guides us to care for God’s creation and the “least of these.” The production, transportation and combustion of fossil fuels cause catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate system and harm the health of communities around the world. Currently, 80 percent of the energy consumed in the United States comes from fossil fuels. We must urgently transition t...

Bethlehem Centers are celebrating its 127th year, growing out of a partnership between two women, Sallie Hill Sawyer and Estelle Haskins, who sought to impact the lives of others and provide essential services for the working poor. A national mission institution supported by United Methodist Women, it is one of approximately 90 funded by the agency. Located throughout the United States, they are m...

Belief is not purely a matter of the will. Belief is action—belief is a matter of the heart as well as the mind. Over and over again Scripture refers to believing with our heart. We don’t just think that God loves the world—we believe it! We don’t just think that United Methodist Women is called to serve and to advocate for women, children and youth—we believe it! We don’t just think there is a ro...

This year, 2021, is the 120th anniversary of the first mission study, published in 1901 by the Central Committee on the United Study for Foreign Missions. Finding Peace will continue to be a book Mission u participants study together in 2021, along with Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Bearing Witness in the Kin-dom: Living Into the Church’s Moral Witness Through Radical Dis...

Being innovative means thinking outside of the box. It means being creative and bold. In the ministry of a layperson, it means going where the church has not always been or is sometimes unwilling to be. Being innovative is transformative. What makes Hansen’s ministry innovative is her willingness to listen to the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the community. Then she finds the assets within the...

United Methodist Women-supported national mission institutions 
bend with challenges but do not break remaining reliable sources 
of help and hope for their communities. --- This episode originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of response, the award winning magazine from United Methodist Women. Visit www. UnitedMethodistWomen.org to find out more.

It’s important to recover the names of women whom history might neglect—think about the power of the research that led us to name the heroes of Hidden Figures fame: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Look to the stories of women in the Bible, both named and unnamed, who broke barriers and lifted others up. It’s also important for us to know that these were real women—not paragons...

미국의 여성 역사의 달과 국제 여성의 날(3월 8일)은 우리가 다양한 "첫 번째"를 기념하는 시기입니다. 미국 대통령 취임식에서는 첫 번째에 대한 사례들을 보여주었습니다. 첫 번째 여성, 첫 번째 아프리카계 미국인이자 첫 번째 남아시아인 부통령인 카말라 해리스(Kamala Harris), 미국 대법원의 첫 번째 히스패닉 대법관인 소니아 소토마요르(Sonia Sotomayor), 그리고 최초의 청년 계관시인인 아만다 고먼(Amanda Gorman)이...

El Mes de la Historia de la Mujer en los Estados Unidos y el Día Internacional de la Mujer el 8 de marzo, son momentos en los que celebramos muchas cosas por "primera vez". La inauguración presidencial de los Estados Unidos mostró varios de estos primeros eventos: la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris, primera mujer, primera afroamericana y primera del sur de Asia en este puesto; la jueza Sonia Sotomayo...

The next four years will be exciting for United Methodist Women. Your board of directors elected in the summer of 2020 is a diverse group of faith-filled leaders led by your new executive officers: President ‘Ainise Isama’u, Vice President Cynthia Rives, Secretary Bethany Amey Sutton, Finance Chair Heidi Careaga and Governance Chair Daryl Junes-Joe. Enjoy the profiles of these women committed to f...

“Once a deaconess, always a deaconess” is a phrase often heard when talking to the women who are graduates of Harris Memorial College in Taytay, Rizal, Philippines. If they move to the United States, their dedication to serve God and their neighbors continues. Just as deaconesses and home missioners consecrated in the United States, they are committed to lifetime ministries of love, justice and se...

Victoria Nicolasa Mendoza Mamani has been part of the workshops for 10 years and is a leader in her local Methodist church. She makes and sells shawls and skirts thanks to the skills she learned in federation workshops. Making clothes for herself and her family is cheaper than buying clothes, she said. “These workshops have been very helpful for me. These workshops have been a big support for all...

The beginning of a new year is often a time of new responsibilities. In this particular year, following our normal patterns has a new level of complexity as we add the responsibility of protecting one another and ourselves from a life-threatening disease. Regarding our spiritual health, it’s a good time to start with the basics. - - - This episode originally appeared in the January/February 2021 i...

새해의 시작은 새로운 책임이 부과되는 때이기도 합니다. 특별한 상황을 맞이한 올 해, 우리의 일상적인 패턴을 따르는 것은 생명을 위협하는 질병으로부터 서로와 우리 자신을 보호해야 할 책임이 추가됨으로써 새로운 차원의 복잡성을 갖게 됩니다. 한편 우리의 영적 건강에 관해 생각해 보자면, 기본부터 시작하기에 좋은 시기입니다. - - - This episode originally appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of response,...