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Deaconess and Home Missioners: News and Resources

  • A Calling to Serve
    For laity in The United Methodist Church who feel called to full-time service with the marginalized and those in need, there is an opportunity to be a part of a supportive community as a deaconess or home missioner. Read more
  • Brooks-Howell Home
    The Brooks-Howell Web Site includes mission biographies and news about residents. The majority of the residents are missionaries and deaconesses.
  • My Calling to Fulfill
    by Mary Agnes Daugherty, this book gives a history of the Deaconess Movement
  • response Magazine
    Contains current as well as historical stories about Mission
  • Message From the President by Yvette Moore
    03/13/2013 United Methodist Women is the “right place” for women seeking to use their talents and gifts to help others, said Yvette Richards, president of the organization’s board of directors in her address to the new program advisory group assembled for its first annual meeting Mar. 7-9 at Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tenn.
  • Prayer Calendar Reflection: May 2013
    02/28/2013 The Prayer Calendar has sometimes been called a storybook. This is because it tells the stories of the work of missionaries nationally and around the globe.
  • Cutting-edge Ministry by Myka Kennedy Stephens*
    02/01/2013 United Methodist Deaconesses enter their 125th year of mission on the borderlands of the church and changing needs of society.
  • What is United Methodist Women Doing, in Heaven's Name? by Harriett Jane Olson
    10/22/2012 At their board of directors meeting, Harriett J. Olson asked, “What is going on with United Methodist Women, in heaven’s name?” In other words, how is United Methodist Women’s mission work living into the Gospel to benefit women, children and youth?
  • Interview with Yvette Richards by Leigh Rogers
    09/04/2012 Ms. Richards' expresses her passion in this dialogue saying: "United Methodist Women is a difference maker, a leader for women children and youth in making an impact. We need to know how to tell our story, often and everywhere. "
  • Program Advisory Group 2012
    08/08/2012 Portraits from the first Program Advisory Group Orientation held at Scarritt-Bennett, August 2012.
  • 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.
  • Profile of a Deaconess: Amanda Mountain by Mary Beth Coudal
    04/02/2012 Amanda Mountain was one of 12 deaconesses and one home missioner commissioned at the Women’s Division Assembly in 2010. Ms. Mountain is looking forward to standing with the 15 deaconess and 2 home missioners who will be commissioned during the 2012 General Conference on April 29, 2012.
  • Ramon by Matt Morgan
    03/18/2012 Ramon has been in and out of prison for most of his life, mostly for drug-related offenses, both using and selling. He is HIV positive, has mental health issues and has burned most of his bridges with friends or family.
  • It’s Time to Overturn the Tables by Laura Kirby
    03/11/2012 In a Sunday school class I was in years ago we were asked, “Is anger a sin?” The incident described in John 2:13-22, in which Jesus turns over the tables of the moneychangers and those selling goods in the temple, is one of the most often cited examples of Jesus displaying anger.
  • A New Unit Is Born at Christ Church in Cabot, Ark. by Colleen Caldwell
    01/03/2012 My local church home is Christ Church in Cabot, Ark. Started as a new church plant nearly six years ago, it had not yet started a United Methodist Women unit. As a newly commissioned deaconess, I felt it was important to give back to the organization that gave so much to me as I was going through the candidacy process. Therefore, I stepped out in faith to start planning for a new United Methodist Women unit!
  • Mission Theology in Asia by Emma Cantor
    12/08/2011 Regional Missionary Emma Cantor shared stark realities confronting Asian women, children and youth and stories of courageous women who make a difference.
  • United Methodist Women News: Volume 4, Number 3 (PDF)
    10/06/2011 Fall 2011 articles include: Others See Your Good Works and Give Glory to God, Joanna Girls: A Teen United Methodist Women Circle in Tennessee, Start Small and Grow, Deaconess Applicants Rally in Times Square for Fair Trade, United Methodist Women Sunday Celebrations, Who is My Neighbor? A Christian Response to Global Migration, Jesus Christ: Our Only Hope, United Methodist Women Deaconess Applicants Ask Hershey to “Raise the Bar”
  • Discernment Event for Deaconesses and Home Missioners
    09/08/2011 A discernment event has been organized in Asheville, N.C., October 28-30, 2011, to enable laypersons of The United Methodist Church who are living in the country to discern whether the deaconess or home missioner calling is for them.
  • United Methodist Women in Mission Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Dana L. Robert
    07/27/2011 The year 2010 is an important time to lift up the heritage and future of United Methodist Women in mission. This year marks two special anniversaries. One hundred years ago in Edinburgh, Scotland, Protestant mission societies gathered from around the world for the World Missionary Conference.
  • United Methodist Women in Mission Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 2 of 2) by Dana L. Robert
    07/27/2011 The year 2010 is an important time to lift up the heritage and future of United Methodist Women in mission. This year marks two special anniversaries. One hundred years ago in Edinburgh, Scotland, Protestant mission societies gathered from around the world for the World Missionary Conference.

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