District President

The President and Vice President positions are still open.  Anyone who is interested in holding these positions should contact anyone on the District Nominations Committee.  The chair is 

• Gail Antijunti 
• phone: (360)256-5916 
• cell: (360)718-0685
• antijuntigail@gmail.com

New Lesson - World Thank Offering

Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.

And as he sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples—for there were many who followed him. When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? ”When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.”

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.

“No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

For more - check out the program book!

Book of the Month - 2021 Leadership Development

#NOTYOURPRINCESS:
VOICES OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN

Edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews and art. Stories of abuse, humiliation and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often refective, but always strong, the women in this book will give readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.

This one was chosen for November as a representation for reading during Native American Heritage Month.

United Methodist Women TABLE

(QUILTS ARE IN A SEPARATE AREA. I have all the supplies for those tables too)

Pacific Northwest Conference Annual Meeting 

Thursday – Sunday June 9 – 12   2022 PUYALLUP FAIR GROUNDS

Contact Ann Conklin  aconklin@pnwumc.org , who oversees the Mission Ministries area. This is an on-line form usually available several months ahead, which you can do/request for both quilts (4 tables or more, if allowed) and UMW ( at least 2 tables).  pnwumc.org 

What to bring: tablecloths for two tables (there is a Legacy tablecloth that would work for one). Lots of downloads from unitedmethodistwomen.org or free stuff  and handouts from umwmissionresources.org  

A bowl of candy, lifesavers, whatever you feel like offering those visiting or passersby. It will probably need refilling.

Tri-folds –

1. Information about UMW (Response magazine, Assembly, Jurisdiction, pictures of activities or Conference team, whatever else might grab their attention. LOVE RIBBON CARDS & GIFT TO MISSION CARDS offered for sale?
2. Legacy is still important, and we have pictures of 60 units on a flash drive (ask me), also, there are lots of stories to share on that trifold. 
3. The Reading Program trifold with handouts available (25? Or more). Some information about our reading club or suggestions about books and how to get them (including Mission u books 😊).
4. Education for Mission trifold with what we do Nationally Internationally, State and local. Handouts of the four priorities, which can be downloaded from the National website and copies made. Also, copies of the Mission Today brochure.

This information is “also” for Mission u. People like to browse in the Resource Room. Blessings, Marsha

Date Reminders

CALENDAR 2022 : these are tentative and subject to change as circumstances change.

These are the dates from the Conference Calendar:

2022 PNW UMW Conference Calendar

• January 15, 2022 Winter Conference UMW Exec Meeting    Zoom

• TBD Eastern Washington Legislative Conf. TBD

• February 10, 2022 Washington Interfaith Advocacy Day Olympia, WA

• March 18-20, 2022 Spring Conference UMW Exec Meeting Lazy F Camp Ellensburg, WA

• April 2, 2022 Mission u Trainings Begin Zoom

• May 20-22, 2022 Assembly Orlando, FL

• June 9-12, 2022 UMC Greater NW Shared Annual Conf. WA State Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA

• July 21-22, 2022 Summer Conference UMW Exec Meeting Selah, WA

• July 22-24, 2022 Mission u Wesley UMC Yakima, WA

• September 2022 Puget Sound Missional District Annual Meeting TBD

• September 17, 2022 Inland Missional District Annual Meeting. TBD

• September 17, 2022 Seven Rivers Missional District Annual Meeting TBD

• September 2022 Crest to Coast Missional District Annual Meeting TBD

• September 2022 SeaTac Missional District Annual Meeting TBD

• October 13-14, 2022 Fall Conference UMW Exec Meeting Bothell UMC, Bothell, WA

• October 14-15, 2022 Conf. UMW Annual Meeting Bothell UMC, Bothell, WA

• 2024 Western Jurisdiction Quadrennial Mtg. TBD

If you have any other information that you want me to put here, please let me know by calling (360) 609-0503 or emailing me at lmilner2016@gmail.com .

From the Program Book

What the United Methodist Women and church show us about who Jesus is isn’t meant to be a static thing, only spoken of here, but a dynamic breathing gift that inspires us in the rest of our lives. Here are some suggestions for how you can live out what we have experienced today in your everyday life, in a few different forms of community.

Plan on taking these actions sometime during the month.

• By Yourself: If you took an honest inventory of your soul, what is a group (a town, a profession, a culture or race, an age group, a religion) that you feel uncomfortable or uncertain about?  Find a media source (a newspaper, a blog, a book, a song) from members of that group, and devote yourself to trying to
  increase your open understanding so you can move through your initial suspicion or resistance.
  At Church: Who are the “tax collectors and sinners” from the perspective of your church community? Think of one way you could serve that group on their own terms, not yours, and do it.
  In Your Community: Challenge yourself to ask one person in your community who is not at all related to United Methodist Women what it might take for them to find the group relevant to their life. Would it need to meet at a different time or place? Expand the topics it addresses? Do “meetings” a different way? You don’t have to make any changes yet, but open yourself to the possibility that some kinds of change could make your
  service stronger.
  With the United Methodist Women:
  • Gather differently! Most of us have set habits about how we do United Methodist Women ministries and programs. Plan to do your next one in some way you never have before—whether its in a different location (a local diner or coffee shop rather than at church?), with different people (invite someone new!), by purchasing the resource on Mighty Networks, or in some other way that embraces that God is always making all things, including the United Methodist Women, new.
  • Give to the World Thank Offering. Click on “Where it is needed most” and then select “World Thank Offering” from the drop-down menu.
  • Pray every day for people and projects serving in the world supported by your giving using the Prayer Calendar.