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General Conference 2012: News and Resources

  • How Will Recent Changes to United Methodist Women Affect Local Women? by Marva Usher-Kerr
    12/01/2012 The 2012 General Conference allowed United Methodist Women to separate from the General Board of Global Ministries and become an official independent organization within the United Methodist Church. Since then, many members have been inquiring about how this historic action will impact local United Methodist Women.
  • A Circle of Thanksgiving by Carol Lakota Eastin
    11/01/2012 What does the national Thanksgving holiday mean for Native American peoples?
  • Perspectives on General Conference: on gcsrw.org
    10/01/2012 Leanne Nakanishi, California-Pacific Conference United Methodist Women’s president, and general secretary/CEO Harriett Jane Olson are featured in the Sptember/October 2012 edition of The Flyer.
  • Is This Your Mother's UMW? by Linda Bloom
    07/02/2012 On May 1, the 2012 United Methodist General Conference approved legislation to separate UMW and its administrative body, the Women’s Division, from the Board of Global Ministries, to which it had been related for decades.
  • Responsively Yours: What Can You Imagine? by Harriett Jane Olson
    07/01/2012 Structural configurations alone will not make us the multigenerational, multicultural, multilingual, multiracial, Spirit-filled organization that we want to be. But if we imagine it and build it and work toward it, I believe that God will bless our efforts beyond our wildest imagining. 
  • An Act of Repentance by Yvette Moore
    07/01/2012 Delegates to General Conference 2012 used United Methodist Women resources to prepare for a service of atonement for a 1864 massacre native Americans; beyond repentance for past wrongs in the US, the service denounced modern-day genocidal policies and actions against indigenous people around the world.
  • Cordialmente Suya: ¿Qué Podríamos Imaginar? by /por Harriett Jane Olson
    07/01/2012 ¡La Conferencia General de 2012 ha lanzado a las Mujeres Metodistas Unidas a un nuevo futuro! La propuesta conjunta de la División de Mujeres y la Junta General de Ministerios Globales se recibió con tanto apoyo que el primero de mayo fue aprobada abrumadoramente; mientras que la reestructuración del resto de la iglesia fue debatida con mucha emoción.
  • Korean PDF - Responsively Yours: What Can You Imagine? by Harriett Jane Olson
    07/01/2012 Korean version of the monthly installment by Harriett Jane Olson. Structural configurations alone will not make us the multigenerational, multicultural, multilingual, multiracial, Spirit-filled organization that we want to be.
  • Is this your mother’s UMW? by Linda Bloom on umc.org
    06/29/2012 United Methodist Women starts a new chapter of its 143-year-old existence as a mission movement for women within The United Methodist Church.
  • Now For Something Completely Different by Harriett Jane Olson
    05/18/2012 I left Tampa on May 5 with hope bubbling up in my thoughts about possible structures for The United Methodist Church. Here’s what I saw.
  • United Methodist Women and the Display That Wasn’t by Yvette Moore on gc2012conversations.com
    05/03/2012 United Methodist Women didn’t have an exhibit at General Conference. Instead, they roped off their display area and set off on a flurry of learning and mission opportunities around Tampa, where General Conference is being held.
  • General Conference Approves New Resolution on Peace in Afghanistan by Leigh Rogers
    05/02/2012 United Methodist Women proposed the resolution, “Seeking Peace in Afghanistan,” which passed at General Conference with amendments, and calls for The United Methodist Church to support an end to war and seek a process of peace in Afghanistan.
  • Q & A with Cathy Capo Stone: Remember the Children Living in Poverty by Mary Beth Coudal
    05/01/2012 As adults discuss and make policy for The United Methodist Church, Ms. Cathy Capo Stone, executive director at Cornerstone Family Ministries, reminds us to not forget the impact of church work on inner-city children whom she cares for every day. Cornerstone is a United Methodist Women-related national mission institution.
  • General Conference Approves United Methodist Women Autonomy by Yvette Moore
    05/01/2012 By a vote of 889 to 20, General Conference made United Methodist Women an autonomous organization within the United Methodist Church May 1 during its quadrennial meeting Tampa, Fla. The historic vote separates the national policymaking body of women organized for mission within the denomination from the church’s mission agency for the first time in more than 70 years.
  • Craft Sales Support Mission in Zimbabwe by Yvette Moore
    04/28/2012 Handcrafted gifts by Zimbabwe women sold at General Conference benefit Nyamacheni Mission School, a 2011 United Methodist Women Call to Prayer and Denial grant recipient.
  • United Methodist Women Day by Yvette Moore
    04/28/2012 Women organized for mission gathered for sisterhood and rallied for immigrants and an end to private prisons April 28, United Methodist Women Day at General Conference.
  • Rally Highlights Private Prison Detention by Leigh Rogers
    04/28/2012 Coinciding with a rally to end the private prison industry’s increased detention-for-profit policies, United Methodist Women members descended on General Conference to declare Saturday, April 28, 2012 “United Methodist Women Day.”
  • “Signs” of Life in Lay Ministries by Yvette Moore
    04/27/2012 Mary E. Harris of Conway UMC in Orlando, Angela Liston of Morrison UMC in Leesburg, FL, Michelle Menefee of First UMC in Houston, TX, and Betty Ostrom of Pine Castle UMC in Orlando are laywomen composing the team of ASL interpreters for the 2012 General Conference.

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