Our Lord’s United Methodist Women’s unit provides a variety of programs to help the women of the church to grow spiritually, enjoy friendships with like-minded women, and support missions locally and around the world.
Homebound Church Members Lunch
Caring Ministries and UMW are planning a lunch for our homebound church members. These groups are glad to provide an opportunity for such members to socialize with their church friends, but extensive help is needed from the congregation.
A variety of tasks are involved, summarized below; please review what you can offer to do to help:
* Provide entertainment, such as organize a sing-along, sing a solo/duet, play a musical instrument
* List and shop for the lunch ingredients
* Set up tables with cloths, dishes, silverware, and centerpieces and decorate Fellowship Hall
* Prepare and cook the lunch (main dish and dessert)
* Be a chauffeur and pick up a guest; take the guest home after the meal and entertainment * Serve the meal to guests and workers
* Clean up Fellowship Hall and kitchen
As you will note, many hands are needed to provide this time of fun for those church members who were active in leading our church in years past. We need to show them we still appreciate their work.
UMW Report - March 5th meeting
On March 5th the UMW welcomed Heather from ERAS Senior Network non-profit organization. This group works with seniors, disabled adults and caregivers in the Waukesha and Milwaukee areas to help them stay independent and have meaningful lives. We learned about the transportation service called “Find a Ride” for both Waukesha and Milwaukee counties and we were given their RIDE booklets and pamphlets to hand out and use. These have been put on the woven shelves in the narthex in the window nook. When the church building is opened for use again, please feel free to take one home or pass along to someone who may need to make use of this service. The Senior Network also helps coordinate senior volunteers who want to help others in many areas, such as food delivery, light cleaning, small home repairs, shopping, yard work, Bus Buddies, and helping in school programs. It was a very informative talk.
UMW Reading Program
Although the church library is closed for the time being, you may be able to access the books for the 2020 UMW Reading Program from other sources. These books are A House in the Sky (Education for Mission), summarized below, Feathered (Leadership Development), Tilly and the Crazy Eights (Nurturing for Community), Midnight Teacher (Social Action), and Working Class Rage (Spiritual Growth).
As summarized on the Amazon listing of the book A House in the Sky,
Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia. It is the New York Times best-selling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told...A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review).
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark.
Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Homebound Church Members Lunch
Caring Ministries and UMW are planning a lunch for our homebound church members. These groups are glad to provide an opportunity for such members to socialize with their church friends, but extensive help is needed from the congregation.
A variety of tasks are involved, summarized below; please review what you can offer to do to help:
* Provide entertainment, such as organize a sing-along, sing a solo/duet, play a musical instrument
* List and shop for the lunch ingredients
* Set up tables with cloths, dishes, silverware, and centerpieces and decorate Fellowship Hall
* Prepare and cook the lunch (main dish and dessert)
* Be a chauffeur and pick up a guest; take the guest home after the meal and entertainment * Serve the meal to guests and workers
* Clean up Fellowship Hall and kitchen
As you will note, many hands are needed to provide this time of fun for those church members who were active in leading our church in years past. We need to show them we still appreciate their work.
UMW Report - March 5th meeting
On March 5th the UMW welcomed Heather from ERAS Senior Network non-profit organization. This group works with seniors, disabled adults and caregivers in the Waukesha and Milwaukee areas to help them stay independent and have meaningful lives. We learned about the transportation service called “Find a Ride” for both Waukesha and Milwaukee counties and we were given their RIDE booklets and pamphlets to hand out and use. These have been put on the woven shelves in the narthex in the window nook. When the church building is opened for use again, please feel free to take one home or pass along to someone who may need to make use of this service. The Senior Network also helps coordinate senior volunteers who want to help others in many areas, such as food delivery, light cleaning, small home repairs, shopping, yard work, Bus Buddies, and helping in school programs. It was a very informative talk.
UMW Reading Program
Although the church library is closed for the time being, you may be able to access the books for the 2020 UMW Reading Program from other sources. These books are A House in the Sky (Education for Mission), summarized below, Feathered (Leadership Development), Tilly and the Crazy Eights (Nurturing for Community), Midnight Teacher (Social Action), and Working Class Rage (Spiritual Growth).
As summarized on the Amazon listing of the book A House in the Sky,
Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia. It is the New York Times best-selling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told...A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review).
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark.
Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).