by Web Admin | May 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dr. Irish Spencer, President and CEO of Welfare Reform Liaison Project, a Guilford County Community Action Agency, was honored at the White House on Friday, May 1st as one of the President’s Champions for Change. The event is part of the Administration’s Employers of...
by Web Admin | May 5, 2015 | Advocacy, UMW National Office, Women and Children
From the United Methodist Women National Office Website: Each year, 300,000 women die globally during pregnancy or in childbirth. Yet 90 percent of these deaths could be prevented if women had access to low-cost interventions, some costing less than $5.00. Although 99...
by Web Admin | May 4, 2015 | Advocacy, Immigration, UMW National Office
From the United Methodist Women National Office website: In 2014, thousands of children, alone or with families, crossed the U.S./Mexico border seeking safety in the United States. They fled extreme violence and poverty in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. They...
by Web Admin | May 2, 2015 | Conference News
The Western North Carolina Conference blog radio station, Connect, featured our conference president, Tonya Lanier, this week! If you missed the broadcast, you can still listen to the podcast. Just click here! Check Out Christianity Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with...
by Web Admin | Mar 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
On March 23, 1869, eight women gathered at Tremont Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts, and organized the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, what would become United Methodist Women. Those women raised money to send a doctor, Clara Swain, and a...
