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Atlanta Marietta District Reach Out Newsletter
Fall 2013
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
September 2013
“Doing a New Thing”
“Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the
wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:19
Greetings to all Atlanta Marietta District United Methodist Women!
Fall is just around the corner, and I hope that all of you are having a great year in your local units of
United Methodist Women! Thanks to all of you for the many ways that you support our mission to
women, children and youth as we are “Doing a New Thing” in United Methodist Women. It has been
very exciting to hear about all of your mission projects, exciting meetings, great speakers, and special
events that you have been having at your churches.
We had a wonderful time at Mission u in Athens at Athens First UMC on July 19-20. We had good
attendance from our AMAR District as we participated in the three classes on Poverty, The Roma of
Europe, and The Call: Living Sacramentally, Walking Justly. This was a wonderful event with good
teaching, good music, good food, and great fellowship! Thanks to all of you who were able to attend!
We are looking forward to our AMAR District UMW 20-30-40 EVERYBODY event which will be held
on Saturday, September 21, at Smyrna First UMC. Fran White has done an excellent job in planning for
this event. We will have workshops on Identity Theft, Healthy Living, and Human Trafficking. We
appreciate the wonderful members of Smyrna First UMC for hosting this event!
On October 5, 2013, we will have our North Georgia Conference UMW Annual Meeting at 9:30 at
Douglasville First UMC in Douglasville, Georgia. Our speaker is Harriett Jane Olson, general secretary
and CEO of United Methodist Women. Be sure to register for this event on the conference website at
www.ngumw.org or you may mail in your registration form. A form is included in this newsletter.
Instead of doing a hands-on missions project, we will be taking up a special offering to support our
National Mission Institutions, and in North Georgia we have FIVE mission institutions! They are:
Clark Atlanta University, Murphy Harpst Children’s Center, New Bethlehem Center in Augusta, and
Wesley Community Centers in Atlanta. We are asking each United Methodist Woman in the conference
to donate at least $5.00 to support these mission institutions. You may bring your individual, unit, or
district donations to the annual meeting.
On Sunday, October 20, 2013, we look forward to seeing all of you at our Atlanta Marietta District UMW
Annual Meeting which will be held at Acworth UMC at 2:30. Our speaker will be Deloris Carhee, past
president of the North Georgia Conference United Methodist Women. We look forward to hearing from
Deloris as she speaks to us on ways that we are “Doing a New Thing in UMW.” We hope that we will
have great attendance from all of our Atlanta Marietta District United Methodist Women. Please make
plans to bring a group from your church.
On Saturday, November 9, 2013, we will be “Doing a New Thing” as we have our Atlanta Marietta
District Presidents Leadership Brunch at Saint Andrew UMC at 9:00. All presidents are invited to join
the Atlanta Marietta District Executive Team as we meet together for our leadership workshop. We will
have a delicious brunch provided by the members of Saint Andrew UMW. Information and updates will
be presented by members of our AMAR UMW Executive Team. We are looking forward to spending
some time with the presidents of our Atlanta Marietta District United Methodist Women. This should be
a great time of good communications, good information, good food, and good fellowship. All presidents
are asked to be in attendance for this important workshop. If the president is not able to attend, please
send someone to represent your local UMW unit.
The 2014 UMW Assembly will be held from April 25-27, 2014, in Louisville, Kentucky. The optional
Ubuntu Day of Service will be on April 24. This Day of Service will give the opportunity for attendees to
go out and serve the community in Louisville. We are hoping that we will have a good group from our
district and from our conference at this International Assembly of United Methodist Women.
I have had the opportunity to attend several of these assemblies. They are always very inspiring and very
enlightening as we learn more about the scope of our organization. It is always good to be with other
United Methodist Women from around our country and from around the world. Please go ahead and
register for this event as soon as possible. Early registration is $225.00. Please go to the website at:
www.assembly2014.org to register and to get further information.
Deloris Carhee is heading up our North Georgia Conference Limitless Young Women’s Task Force. This
conference committee will be a diverse group of young women from each district who will be actively
involved with United Methodist Women. They will meet together to discuss new ideas to attract young
women to know God better, new and fun ways to experience Jesus through worship, program and events,
new opportunities to bridge the gap and be a supportive community with teens, young women, and the
elderly through technology, music, history, etc. They will also develop new leaders, new and revived
excitement, and give new life to others through Faith, Hope, and Love in Action. We are so very happy to
have three young women from our district on this important committee. They are Peyton Dugger from
County Line UMC, Desiree Moore from Union Chapel UMC, and Alexis Arnold from Union Chapel
UMC. They have already had a meeting at the home of Sue Raymond, our North Georgia Conference
UMW President, and have started making some wonderful plans. We want to thank these fine young
women for serving on this Young Women’s Task Force. I would also like to thank Stacy Hull from
Union Chapel UMC who has been very helpful in identifying two of these young ladies and in providing
transportation to the meeting! I also want to thank Nadine Lacy and Lynda Teague from County Line
UMC for identifying Peyton Dugger as a great candidate for this committee!
Thanks so much to each one of you for all that you do for United Methodist Women as we work together
in “Doing a New Thing” and demonstrating “Faith, Hope, and Love in Action.”
We look forward to seeing you at our district and conference events this fall!
May God bless you as you continue to serve Him daily.
Carolyn Lee Wilson
President AMAR UMW 2013
770-427-6840
E-mail: [email protected]
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DATES TO REMEMBER:
September 21, 2013 AMAR District 20-30-40 EVERYBODY! Event
at Smyrna First UMC
October 5, 2013 North GA Conference UMW Annual Meeting
at Douglasville First UMC
October 20, 2013 AMAR UMW District Annual Meeting at Acworth UMC
November 9, 2013 AMAR UMW District Presidents Leadership Brunch
at St. Andrew UMC
April 25-27, 2014 United Methodist Women’s Assembly in Louisville, KY
Vice President’s Message
Reminders: So Simple, Yet So Complex
As we come to the close of the year of “Doing a New Thing” Isaiah 43:19, I am being regularly reminded
of the simplicity and the complexity of Jesus’ answer to the Pharisees when he was asked which is the
great commandment in the law. He responded, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second
is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Matthew 22:37.
In Vacation Bible School, we were reminded to Love God (wrists crossed on chest/fingers pointing to the
sky) and Love Neighbor (thumbs pointing to those on either side of you). And we were reminded, “Don’t
poke them in the eye.” My husband, Eddie, and I were also blessed to be able to attend a Great
Commandment Ministries Couple Retreat. Pastor David Ferguson reminded us that Great
Commandment love comes to us from God first. We then share it with those closest to us and then
outwardly with the world. All the telling the gospel is for naught if we don’t “Do the Book.”—do as we
are commanded.
I am grateful to have sisters in United Methodist Women to love me and with whom to be neighbors in
sharing God’s love in the world. I am excited to see that love shine out to all those who are touched in
programs and institutions where our hands, hearts and dollars are used. It is through that love that the
world with see our God and our Christ. Let’s continue to “Do the Book” together.
Sylvia Robertson, Vice-President
Treasurer
Kudos to all our Units for a job well done!!! The numbers are in and Atlanta Marietta District did a
wonderful job with our Mission giving this past year. You have gone over and above our Purpose of the
United Methodist Women.
We have the following Award areas for this past reporting year (8-1-12 thru 7-31-13):
Five Rainbow Women
Ten Memorials
Three 5 star Units
Twelve 5 star Plus Units
24 minutes, 38 seconds of Candleburning
I am very pleased to say that we had two 5 minute Units this year.
All of this info will be in the Conference Annual meeting program as well as our Annual meeting
program.
As your District Treasurer, I am so proud of your Faithfulness. God has really been working in the
hearts of the members of our Units. Together, we stand to make a difference in the Mission efforts in our
world.
I will see you all at the Annual Meeting as we celebrate this past year and prepare to work even harder in
the coming year.
I am always available to you for help in any area. Please call me and we will figure it out together as a
team.
Blessings to you,
Nadine Lacy, AMAR District Treasurer
[email protected] or 770-428-3585
Historian
Please send me pictures or updates on what your UMW Unit is doing. I cannot maintain the history of
the District without your help. The Conference Historian has three goals set for this year. The first was
to select someone from our District to honor. I chose Louise Young and Sandra Clarke. A book was
made of all the Districts honorees and distributed at the Spiritual Growth Retreat at Simpsonwood in
May.
The second one is a poster for the UMW Breakfast. The only pictures I have to put on the poster are the
ones I took.
I would like to include all the units when we do a news letter of something for the Conference. Please
send me your information.
Evelynn Herring
Atlanta Marietta Historian
1401 Dogwood Circle SE
Smyrna, GA 30080
770 435 304
Education & Interpretation
I hope many of you were able to attend the Mission u Event in Athens in July. Athens First did an
outstanding job hosting this event. As always, the studies were wonderful. There were studies on The
Roma of Europe and another on Poverty. From the comments I heard, both of these studies were
outstanding. However, I went to the one led by Mary Anne Brannon: The Call—Living Sacramentally,
Walking Justly. It was simply fantastic!! I was deeply touched and inspired by this wonderful study. If
you have ever taken a study with Mary Anne, you know we all had a wonderful time. We studied, we
learned, we prayed, and we laughed a lot! The Executive Board has voted to have this study for our
Mission Study in 2014. Mary Anne has also agreed to lead this study. Registration forms will be
available later. Mark your calendars for February 8, 2014 so you won't miss this event.
As the warm temperatures of summer give way to the cooler ones of the fall, I know many of you will
become very busy with various activities. However, make time for some of the wonderful reading
available through UMW books. I just finished, “Because He Lives – Faith, Hope and Love in Action”.
While some of this true story is heartbreaking to read, it is also one of the most uplifting and faith
affirming books I've read. If you haven't read it yet, add it to your “must read” list!
God Bless each of you as you continue the work of UMW!
Lynda Teague
Education & Interpretation Coordinator
Communication Coordinator Message
This has been a whirlwind year for AMAR UMW. It seems that everyone is very busy with activities at
their churches. I wanted to share an event with you that some of the Acworth UMW was recently blessed
to participate in. In September, several UMW members and their spouses, along with other members of
AUMC and Associate Pastor Linda Burchall travelled to Baldwin, Louisana to work at Sager Brown. If
you’re not familiar, Sager Brown is the location where all the kit materials that UMW collects are sent
each year for assembly to send out to disaster areas.
Baldwin, Louisana is a very small rural town with impoverished residents. We had the opportunity to
assemble kits in the warehouse depot, work in the sewing room or work in the community either with the
local school children or making repairs to residents’ homes. There were two other states-Texas and
Tennessee- who had church members working with us. While we were there, we loaded an 18 wheeler
trailer with health kits for shipment to Angola. It was very emotional for all of us as we held hands and
our own Pastor Linda led us in prayer that the shipment made it to its designation.
Sager Brown has wonderful facilities that provided us with air conditioned rooms and three huge meals
each day. Each night, after working all day, our group met for devotional and dominoes. On Wednesday,
we were off after lunch, so we took in some of the sites. Our group went to Avery Island where Tabasco
sauce is made.
AUMC has already scheduled for 12 members of our church to return to Sager Brown next year. If you
ever have the chance to serve at Sager Brown, take the opportunity. You will truly be blessed.
I have attached some pictures of Sager Brown and I hope to share more with you October 20. I look
forward to seeing you all at the annual meeting at AUMC.
Becky Tyler
770-715-6743
Photos
1. Storage containers for kits. We emptied these each day as we assembled health kits. Notice that
several of the containers say “empty”. Sager Brown is in need of all types of kits.
2. Playing dominoes at the end of the day.
3. Pastor Linda and UMW members Clydie Williamson and Julia Killimett sewing school bags.
Spotlight on St. Andrews UMW
Our St. Andrew UMW is truly blessed to have over 90 ladies active in one of the three circles. All ages
learning and growing together in faith.
Each circle meets once a month for a program which consists of an invited speaker, a focus on a special
community program and need, or a program from our UMW program book. Of course refreshments are
a must. Thus far, we have had speakers from Wellspring Ministries, the Wesley Foundation at
Kennesaw State University and Our Pal’s Place (a pet adoption facility and education center). Some of
our circles have chosen to go off site to complete a social action project; such has packing boxes at Project
Mail Call. We realize the importance of helping in our own community and in world-wide mission work.
Writing letters to service men and women, collecting school supplies, providing summer buckets for
Murphy Harpst, participating in MUST summer lunches and even collecting old towels, blankets and
treats for our local pet rescue are all a joy. We have also collected items for Rev. Kimberly Sinkfeld’s
transitional center for women, after hearing her plea at the UMW Social Action Event.
Each year we have a Daughter’s of Christ Banquet in May. This year our theme was ”A Taste of the
Caribbean: Hope for Haiti”. Our menu consisted of various Caribbean foods & beverages. The children
loved eating the mango, coconut, etc. We even had coconut water to drink, very tasty for some, not so for
others. We learned many factors about our Caribbean neighbors and came away with an abundance of
empathy for those that are so poverty stricken. The little ones made Caribbean themed necklaces as a
remembrance of this special gathering & created greeting cards for the students at Andrews Christian
School in Haiti. This is our church sponsored school. We also collected over $1,000 to help pay the
teachers at Andrews Christian School in Haiti.
We calendar a fun day each year in which members from all three circles gather for fellowship. We
attended the Piedmont Park Farmers Market and then had lunch at the Atlanta Food Trucks on Howell
Mill Road.
Coming up is our 2nd
Bunco game night of the year. We provide a snack meal, play Bunco and raise
money for our mission projects. Middle School students and up can attend. Our craft fair is nearly upon
us as well as our annual Women’s retreat.
Another favorite unit event is our Christmas Tea & Tour of Homes. We begin with a themed Christmas
tea luncheon and then break up into groups and visit homes of 5 of our members, all decorated to the
nine’s for Christmas.
I am blessed to be a part of this dynamic UMW group who are definitely on the move.
Amy Paine
President of St. Andrew UMW
North Georgia Conference - United Methodist Women
Annual Meeting Douglasville First UMC 6167 Prestley Mill Rd
Douglasville, GA 30134 770-942-3146
OCTOBER 5, 2013 9:30am – 2:00 pm
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2014 AMAR UMW Schedule
Jan 19 (Sunday ) Program and Exec. Mtg, County Line UMC, 2:00 p.m.
Feb. 8 (Saturday) Mission Study, [?? ] , 9:00 a.m. **
March 30 (Sunday) Lenten Day Apart, Bethlehem UMC, 2:00 p.m.
April Hands on Mission Project, to be decided
April 13 (Palm Sunday) Finance and Exec. Mtg., Powder Springs UMC, 2:00 p.m.
UMW Assembly in Louisville, KY April 25-27
August 10 (Sunday) Team Mtg., Hollydale UMC, 2:00 p.m.
Oct. 19 (Sunday) AMAR District Annual Meeting, Bethany UMC, 2:30 p.m.
Nov. 8 (Saturday) District Leadership and Exec. Mtg., Acworth UMC, 9:00 a.m.