Welcome to Cedar Grove United Methodist Church Church

The entire program and organization of United Methodist Women focuses on mission. Our mission initiatives include:

· Providing opportunities to grow spiritually

· Equipping women & girls to be leaders

· Providing transformative educational experiences

· Organizing for growth & flexibility

· Working for justice through service & advocacy 

Focus on Women, Children & Youth

From its beginning, United Methodist Women has focused on ministries with women, children, and youth.

Women

Women have been empowered by leadership education opportunities, mission education, the Reading Program, tools for advocacy and more. These opportunities allow women to act and to empower women in the United States and abroad.

United Methodist Women also support programs and projects aimed at improving the special needs of women because of their refugee statuses, their immigration statuses, situations in which they are abused, their high illiteracy rate in some countries, their economic dependence, their educational disparities, and much more.

Children

A special emphasis of United Methodist Women is children, because women care for children. If children are raised with safety, security, food, shelter, education, and basic human rights, these children will grow to be loving and secure adults. United Methodist Women believe deeply in responding to Jesus' mandate to "care for the least of these."

Children often do not have a voice in this world, so United Methodist Women cares for them and advocates on their behalf. United Methodist Women commits to children globally through community centers, educational opportunities for refugee children, homes for street children, advocacy against sexual exploitation and child labor, educational institutions and much more.

Youth

United Methodist Women work with youth organizations globally and with programs and projects that support and empower youth. United Methodist Women also enables youth to be in mission by support of the US-2 program, the mission intern program and the Global Justice Volunteers program

A special emphasis of the organization has been to involve young women in all the ministries and leadership of United Methodist Women. A teen and college/university women consultative group helps direct the program of United Methodist Women to be more inclusive of younger women

United Women of Faith Council Report

The Esther Dorcas Unit of Cedar Grove UWF have had a good start this year.

In January we had our planning meeting and completed our 2024 calendar of

events. In February we had our pledge program where we commit to a yearly

donation to help support woman and children around the world, our church and

our community.

In March we helped and supported our church Easter activities. In April we had a

successful yard sale in conjunction with our UM Men’s fish fry. We were blessed

with 27 vendors. I want to give a very special thank you to our Pastor for the new

addition of the Prayer Tent, and also thank those who set it up and prayed with

those in need of prayer.

In June we will be blessed to have two UWF sisters attending the NGC Conf., and

where we will be able to give a special offering to the conference selected

project.

Plans are already in place for our Tea Prayer Breakfast on 8/17 and our Church

Woman’s Day Service 8/18. Thus far the selected title is “For Such a Time Like

This” from scripture Esther 4:14.

Respectfully Submitted,

Valerie Willis, UWF Pres

· Men lead others best by modeling Jesus Christ in thoughts, words and deeds.

· Spiritual maturity is signified in spiritual reproduction, as the faith of mature disciples passes on in others.

· Men growing in Christ become effective spiritual leaders in their homes and congregations, working as partners with their spouses and congregational leaders-both lay and clergy.

· Spiritually growing men help congregations to become vital and alive.

· Everything desired from and through men comes as a result of men growing spiritually and maturing as disciples: family blessings, stewardship, service, outreach, prayer, spiritual leadership, lifestyle evangelism, and faithful obedience. Men are foundational to the life and health of the church.

· When a man lives daily in surrendered faith, God is honored and many lives are blessed. Transformed hearts are forged only within Christ-centered lives-nothing less is our acceptable offering; nothing less truly reveals Christ.