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August 4, 2015
Conference Gram!
Annual Meeting 2015 Issue
Conference Gram - August 2015 Issue

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Hot off the press! ...the August 2015 issue of the Conference Gram. Get information about plans for the 2015 Annual Meeting...and more!

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Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting 2015 

Images of Mission...through the
camera lense of Paul Jeffrey 

September 11-13, 2015
Lake Junaluska

Are you making plans to attend YOUR Annual Meeting?

Join us as we celebrate our theme...IMAGES OF MISSION...and welcome Paul Jeffrey, United Methodist Missionary, photojournalist, and Senior Correspondent for RESPONSE, as our special guest for the weekend.

Online discount registration ($15.00) continues through August 31, 2015.

 

Contact Lake Junaluska separately for housing reservations at 1-800-222-4930

 

Read more about Paul Jeffrey, visit his blog, and view some of his incredible photography.

Paul Jeffrey - Photographer's Ministry with the Poor


Annual Meeting
Hands On Mission
Our hands on project for ANNUAL MEETING is UMCOR Health Kits & Gift to Mission CardsAs is always the case, we will be glad to accept all of the different UMCOR Relief Kits, and they will be delivered to the Mission Response Center.

Important Note:  Please be sure to carefully follow the directions for assembling any of the kits that you are preparing for our hands on projects. And, be sure to include in an envelope (on the outside of the box) the requested money for each kit for shipping & handling, and for health kits, the additional $1 for toothpaste.
UMCOR Health Kits

Get complete details about assembling an

Be sure to follow all directions exactly as shown, and do not include extra items.

On the outside of the box, include an envelope with at least $2.00 per kit to cover the cost of toothpaste and the cost of shipping and handling.
Ubuntu Day of Service 2015
United Methodist Women volunteer at Pfeiffer University at Ubuntu Day of Service 2014
Ubuntu Day of Service 2015
October 17, 2015
Multiple Sites Across the Conference

In 2014, 175 United Methodist Women put Faith, Hope and Love into Action by serving at sites across our conference!

Make plans to join us in 2015 for our 3rd Annual
Ubuntu Day of Service!

Online registration (free) is OPEN!


Registration is free, but we need to know who is coming in order to be prepared for your volunteer service. Register online by October 1, 2015.
Volunteer Sites this year include:
  • Bethlehem Center - Charlotte
  • Bethlehem Center - Winston-Salem
  • Brooks-Howell Home
  • Pfeiffer University
  • Bennett College
  • UMAR Homes in Charlotte & Gastonia
Get more information on our website at www.wnccumw.org
From the United Methodist Women National Office website:

National Seminar 2015
July 29-August 2, 2015
Chicago, Illinois 
United Methodist Women Act for Justiceat National Seminar - Read the wrap up of National Seminar 2015, and be challenged to act!


Ending Mass Incarceration: The Ongoing Call to Faith Communities

Western North Carolina United Methodist Women with National UMW President Yvette Richards and a sister from the North Carolina Conference - at National Seminar 2015!

National Seminar Webinars

United Methodist Women National Office is offering three prerecorded webinars as basic information for three of our 2016-2020 priority areas: Mass Incarceration, Maternal and Child Health, and Climate Justice

Conference & District News & Events
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!


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

Most recent issues:  NEW ISSUE! July-August 2015May-June 2015

Other United Methodist Women National Office News
United Methodist Women Joins Others in Letter to End Prosecutions
United Methodist Women act for immigration justice.
United Methodist Women 2015-2016 Program Book Now Available!
Theressa Hoover Community Service & Global Citizenship Award
Applicants must be laywomen between 21 and 35, and applications are due by November 2, 2015.
Learn more!
Other United Methodist Church News

News about the upcoming General Conference 2016 - umc.org

 

Click to visit these pages of our website:
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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