Board of Directors News
Articles are arranged in reverse chronological order.
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Let Your Light Shine
10/24/2011 “You and I were made to give light—to put our lives to work, to apply our patience in difficult trying situations—to let our light shine,” said Ms. Inelda González, president of United Methodist Women.
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Members Continue Dedicated Giving by Leigh Rogers
10/14/2011 As the Women’s Division studies funds endowed to United Methodist Women over the last 140 years, Treasurer Martha Knight asked directors to imagine what future members would say about their lasting legacy.
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United Methodist Women Board of Directors Meeting: October 2011
10/11/2011 Photos from fall board meeting held October 7-10, 2011 in New York at the Interchurch Center and the Church Center for the United Nations.
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Women, War & Peace by Tara Barnes
10/11/2011 Join United Methodist Women members around the country in watching this important series that highlights the importance of women’s voices in conflict and the necessity of ending war if we are to ever live in the world of peace God intended for us.
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Women's Division Board Meeting Wrapup by Leigh Rogers
10/11/2011 The Women’s Division board of directors approved the 2012 budget, received the criteria and application form for incoming national mission institutions that will be used to approve new partnerships, and approved a plan for a consultation with Native American Women in 2012, among other highlights at the division’s annual meeting, October 6-11 in New York City.
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Report of the Deputy General Secretary
10/10/2011 On Friday October 7, Women’s Division Deputy General Secretary Harriett Jane Olson addressed the Women’s Division board of directors at their annual fall meeting. With the message “Shaping the Future,” Ms. Olson spoke of how the current work of United Methodist Women shapes the Church and the world and how the organization plans to keep doing such work in order to “influence the future.”
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Directors Celebrate Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee by Linda Bloom
10/10/2011 Women’s Division directors had a discussion the following evening with Abigail Disney, executive producer for “Women, War & Peace,” a five-part series on PBS, and producer of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” a documentary in which Leymah Gbowee is a central figure.
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month by Ashley Baker and Julie A. Taylor
10/05/2011 The month of October began as and continues to be a time for people to come together to remember those who have died, support those who have survived and bring together those working in the field of domestic violence.
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Report of the President to the Women’s Division Board of Directors by Inelda González, president, Women’s Division
04/28/2011 Inelda González, president of the Women's Division, gave her speech to the board of directors at their Semi-Annual meeting, April 10, 2011 in Stamford, Conn.
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FAQs for Women's Division Proposed Structural Separation
04/11/2011 Directors of the Women's Division approved a proposal to structurally separate from the General Board of Global Ministries while continuing to work together in mutual areas of mission.
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Quilting a Future in Mission by Yvette Moore
04/10/2011 Women’s Division’s Harriett Jane Olson prepares division directors to consider proposals to restructure the women’s mission organization in an address filled with images of quilting at the division’s spring board meeting in Stamford, Conn., April 7-11.
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Finances Represent Where United Methodist Women Legacy Lives, Says Treasurer by Leigh Rogers
04/10/2011 Revenues rose from the previous year due to Assembly attendance and faithful giving by members as the economy begins recovery.
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Women’s Division Proposes Becoming “Structurally Separate, Missionally Connected” to Global Ministries by Leigh Rogers
04/10/2011 The Women’s Division board voted to become structurally separate from the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) while remaining “missionally connected” in staff configuration and by board directors at its recent meeting, April 7-11 in Stamford, Conn.
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Organizing for Mission by Tara Barnes
10/13/2010 United Methodist Women President Inelda González addressed directors, guests and staff at the annual Women’s Division board of directors fall meeting, paying tribute to the work of early women missionaries and challenging attendees to be proactive in mission work today, especially regarding immigration.
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Sally L. Vonner Elected to Women's Division AGS Position, and Other Approvals by Leigh Rogers
10/13/2010 At their Annual board meeting, Oct. 7-11 in Stamford, Conn., the Women’s Division board of directors approved or reported on the following actions.
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Giving for 2009 Sees New Factors at Work by Leigh Rogers
10/12/2010 Women’s Division Treasurer Martha Knight encouraged directors to continue to tell the story of Mission Giving, as “we cannot ignore the new economy.”
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Very Much In Control by Tara Barnes
10/12/2010 The Rev. Dr. Aleese Moore-Orbih of FaithTrust Institute led directors, staff and guests in a domestic violence awareness education session the Women’s Division Annual board of directors meeting in Stamford, Conn.
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Nothing Was Ever the Same Again After That by Tara Barnes & Yvette Moore
10/08/2010 Women’s Division head Harriett Olson opened the annual fall board of directors meeting with a message of hope that today’s mission efforts could be pivotal events for good in the lives of women, children and youth.
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United Methodist Women and Men Take Action Against Domestic Violence by Yvette Moore
04/18/2010 The organizations agreed to collaborate on domestic violence programs, training and resources that can be used in churches across the country.
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Directors Set 2011 Budget, Criteria for International Disaster Response at Spring Meeting by Yvette Moore
04/14/2010 Women’s Division directors set the division’s 2011 budget, made 2009 Call to Prayer grants and allocated more than $191,972 for repairs and maintenance of United Methodist Women’s national mission institutions at their spring semi-annual meeting.
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