Resolutions for the New Year: Putting Faith, Hope and Love in Action

(Note: This article is from the UMW web page.  It was published in December of 2014 but is still relevant today.  If you want to read it on their page, click on the heading - it is a link.)

The New Year is a time to reflect back on the year that has passed and look ahead to the new one. It is a time when many of us make resolutions to lead a more meaningful life, or enrich the path we are on. Here are some suggestions from United Methodist Women for ways to live a more spiritual life in the coming year.

Help equip women and girls to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Follow your heart, answer the call, give to the World Thank Offering.
Spontaneous additional gifts can be given out of gratitude for God's abundance and in celebration of the joys of life.
The World Thank Offering is an opportunity for individuals to respond to God's abundance and grace with spontaneous gifts of gratitude. The funds collected are used in the total program of mission carried on through United Methodist Women's national office in the United States and around the world.

Or you can support the work of United Methodist Women for the next 150 years and donate to Mission Giving.

Take Action: Work for Justice through Service and Advocacy.
Pick one or more justice issues you care about, and try to create change: Contact your elected officials urging them to end child and family detention. Pick one (or more) of the 13 steps to environmental sustainability to implement or improve on.

Learn and grow: Read a Spiritual Growth Study or join our Reading Program and expand your knowledge year-round.

Volunteer at one of our many National Mission Institutions.

Take an Ubuntu Journey.

Subscribe to response magazine or visit www.unitedmethodistwomen.org every week to stay up to date; stay connected via social media.

Share your story: local, district and conference United Methodist Women members make mission happen every day. Inspire your sisters in faith, hope and love with a submission that might appear on the website, in United Methodist Women News or response magazine. Submit your story to tbarnes@unitedmethodistwomen.org of and include high resolution photos if possible.

United Methodist Women wishes you a purposeful and happy New Year!

Posted or updated: 12/30/2014 11:00:00 PM

Book of the Month - 2022 Prayer Guide

Welcome to United Methodist Women's 2022 Prayer Guide! Our beloved Prayer Calendar has a new name to reflect its devotional features. Surveys indicated that there is less desire to use this annual resource as a calendar or appointment book and more to use it as a tool for reflection and connection.

Our hope is that you will encounter God and find joy through the stories and prayers provided here. God's love invites us into mission with our neighbors and this love has the power to transform the world.

This new devotional resource will inspire you daily through prayers and reflections that testify to the impact of United Methodist Women and Global Ministries outreach in the world and how those who serve encounter God and find joy through their work and calling.

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 .

Don't just make resolutions, take the time to break them down into goals and action steps to help hold yourself accountable.  

If you want to work on the UMW principles as your resolution, look on the webpage and find the action steps that are suggested. 

Follow your program book and look at the suggested steps for follow up that are included each month.