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United Methodist Women e-News
Western North Carolina Conference
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Just 2 Days Left!
2015 Spiritual Growth Retreat
available thru June 7th!
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Need a break...some time for reflection?
Need some time to listen to God?
We have just what you need!
It is not too late to join us for the
2015 Spiritual Growth Retreat!
Love as God Loves
June 12-13, 2015
Lake Junaluska
We all need a break from our busy lives, a time for reflection, a time to listen for God's guidance. We are so busy doing all the things we are called upon to do, we don't often take the time to slow down, to sit back and think about the things that are really important. Join us to pray, to listen, to study, to fellowship with United Methodist Women from across the conference, and to spend some quiet time in reflection.
Retreat Leader: Rev. Toni Ruth Smith
Music Leaders: Rev. Mark Barden & Catherine Ritch
In Concert: Lake Junaluska Singers
Online Discount Registration continues through midnight on June 7, 2015.
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| | Left, Ethel Harpst circa 1948. Right, Sarah Murphy reads to 6-year-old Mary Murphy on March 11, 1946, at the Sarah Murphy Home. |
RESPONSE: JUNE 2015 ISSUE
Building Bonds at Murphy-Harpst
By Ansley Brackin
Murphy-Harpst began as a dream cultivated by two women in the early 1900s. Their dream continues to thrive through the care and devotion of United Methodist Women members today.
Murphy-Harpst now provides individualized treatment and secure living space to children who have been abused or neglected, regardless of their gender, race, or religious beliefs. It is a not-for-profit organization committed to meeting the needs of young people through residential treatment, placements in specialized foster care and community programs.
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A woman prays with her United Methodist sisters at the South Carolina Legislative Action Day in Columbia, South Carolina, in March 2015.
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RESPONSE: JUNE 2015 ISSUE
My Sister's Keeper
United Methodist Women in South Carolina
serve as the voice for the unheard during a legislative advocacy day.
by Jessica Brodie
It's a sunny, cloud-speckled spring morning in South Carolina, and on the campus of Epworth Children's Home in Columbia, women of all ages and races are making their way across the lawn.
They're headed to Legislative Advocacy Day, a South Carolina United Methodist Women's event that has gone on for so long even their oldest members can't precisely recall when it started, back when it used to be called Capitol Day and was held at a church and culminated on the steps of the statehouse. Today, the hundreds of women have come to Epworth from every district in the state, as far away as the swamps of the Lowcountry or the foothill mountains of the Upstate, all there with one purpose in mind: to advocate to the powerful on behalf of those without power of their own.
It's a heady feeling, they say, and one that calls them back year after year, all in the name of God.
"That's what we're called to do - to advocate on behalf of those who cannot do so for themselves," said Rebecca Eleazer, member of Francis Burns United Methodist Church in Columbia, who has been coming to the annual event as long as she can remember and now pitches in as registrar. "This day is a vehicle to train women to go into the field."
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Resident / Nonresident, and
One-Day Overviews
July 16-19, 2015
Pfeiffer University
Residential Youth Camp
Latin America: Places, Culture & Faith
Mission Studies:
Created for Happiness: Understanding Your Life in God [ Learn more]; Latin American: People and Faith [ Learn more]; The Church and People with Disabilities [ Learn more]
Registration is open
thru
June 26, 2015
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Annual Meeting
Images of Mission
September 11-13, 2015
Lake Junaluska
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| Rev. Paul Jeffrey,
Special Guest Speaker |
Online Discount Registration opens
June 15, 2015.
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Conference & District News & Events
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Visit our website for the latest United Methodist Women news, district newsletters, and individual district calendars of events. You can also find links to the individual district Facebook pages!
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 Brooks-Howell Home Serendipitor - Read the latest issue of the Serendipitor, the newsletter of Brooks-Howell Home. Brooks-Howell is a retirement community of deaconesses, home missionaries, missionaries and others who have answered God's call to mission service here and throughout the world. Visit the Brooks-Howell Home website at: www.brooks-howell.org
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Other United Methodist Women National Office News
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Other United Methodist Church News
WNCC AC 2015- News & Information about the Western North Carolina Annual Conference 2015 (June 17-21, 2015 at Lake Junaluska) -ac2015.org |
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The LEGACY FUND
Celebrate United Methodist Women!
150 Years and Counting...
Celebrate the dedication and foresight of our foremothers in mission as we lead up to our 150th anniversary in 2019!
Our Western North Carolina Every Member Legacy Fund Goal: That every member of United Methodist Women make a gift to The Legacy Fund of at least $18.69 per year, over and above her Pledge to Mission, for five years (2015-2019). We have added a Legacy Fund / 150th Anniversary page to our website...where we will continue to add and share information as we move toward our 150th anniversary in 2019...check it out!
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