United Methodist Women
Our retreat was truly a blessed event! A special thanks goes out to Kathy Guier who led our spiritual time. We explored our understanding and relationship with God the father, son and Holy Spirit.
We prayed, walked, puzzled, crafted, visited and just enjoyed being together as Christian women.
Upcoming event!
Our nominations committee will be looking for
women to serve on our 2020-21 board. If you are
interested in serving this organization please
contact Denise Wallace or Teresa Webster.
Our March book is:
Fly Girls – How five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
MONTHLY CHARITY
Mar.:
April: plan crafts
May: crafts for our CUMC kids
June: VBS help/donation
The organized unit of United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose purpose is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church. Over one million women have chosen to be members of a special organization with a specific purpose.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family’s expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes—and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.
Women United in Christ
All women of CUMC and their friends are welcome and encouraged to participate in the activities of the group.
Here are some opportunities:
Book club annual retreat annual tea
Candlelight circle Sunshine circle
Purpose:
To support missions for women and children around the globe and locally with our pledges.
Support the women of CUMC with activities and fellowship.
Provide a college scholarship(s) for a young lady of CUMC.
Encourage growth as Christians through our fellowship and serving others.
One of the traditional goals of UMW is a Reading Program. For information about this program visit http://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/reading-program/all-books.. Our UMW has some of the recommended books. The books are available in the church library, please sign out the book that you take. For the list of the current titles owned by CUMC UMW click on UMW Book List. Our Book club reads contemporary books and occasionally books from the UMW book list. Participants in the reading program are recognized annually at the Metro district UMW meeting. You can get credit for books that have been on the UMW list 5 years or less.
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Upcoming Events
BOOK CLUB
Fly Girls – How five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien March 31, 2020
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede April 28, 2020
The Dutch Girl Audrey Hepburn and World War II May 26, 2020
Wonder Women: 25 Women Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers Who changed History by Sam Maggs. The stories of the brilliant, brainy and totally rad women who broke barriers. June 30, 2020
CANDLELIGHT CIRCLE SCHEDULE:
Candlelight Circle 2019-20 meetings schedule
Our meetings are typically the 2 nd Tuesday of the month starting at 6:30pm. We support our
local restaurants by eating in downtown Carrollton for most of our meetings.
March: No meeting
April 14: Cane Rosso
Mission: plan for Mother’s Day crafts with our CUMC kids
May 6: Wednesday before Mother’s day in tri-room at church
Mission: help our CUMC kids make gifts & cards for their moms and grandmas
June 9: Teresa Webster’s house
Planning meeting for next year
SUNLIGHT CIRCLE:
Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday morning of each month at 11:30 in the Tri-room in the Family Life Center from September to May. These ladies share a salad lunch, a devotional, and fellowship. so bring you favorite salad and come enjoy this time together.
Cathy Fettke is chairperson. 972-247-6398
MORNING BOOK CLUB CIRCLE:
The Morning book club circle meets the last Wednesday of the month at 10:00am.
EVENING BOOK CLUB CIRCLE:
Meetings are the last Tuesday evening every month at 6:30 p.m.
Leader: Tere Henry
We want to meet the needs of more women of CUMC and the community. Come be a part of women whose purpose is to help women and children both near and far.
If you are interested in joining the Women United in Christ (United Methodist Women) at Christ Church, pick up a brochure at the Welcome Center in the narthex, contact one of our UMW board members (listed below) ,come to any of the meetings or telephone the church office at 972-247-6136.
2019 -20 Board members:
President and retreat chairperson: Barby Matous
Retreat Vice-president: Teresa Webster
Co-chairs for tea: Barby, Teresa and Barbara Haley
Vice-president ( youth & children's activity coordinator) Amy Ruppersberg
Secretary: Laurie Lewis
Treasurer: Buff Schmid
Communications: Julia Smith
Book Club: Tere Henry
Daytime Book Club: Jan Blankenship
Nominations committee: Teresa Webster and Denise Wallace
Sunlight circle: Cathy Fettke
Candlelight circle: Barby Matous, Laurie Lewis
BOARD MEETING DATES
These dates are on Thursdays! This is a change from last year.
Jan. 9: retreat
February: retreat
March & April: NO meeting, scholarship committee will meet if we have applications
May 7: nominations committee report