Lock's Memorial United Methodist Women

10/01/2022

United Women in Faith
Topic: “Justice, Healing, and the Legacy of Native American Boarding Schools”

The Native American International Caucus of the UMC invites all United Methodists to observe a special week of prayer and action from September 30 to October 6 focused on the theme of “Justice for Our Children - Healing for Our Communities.”

Join United Women in Faith members and friends on October 6 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. for a virtual time of gathering and learning together. Learn more and register.

We will:
* Pray together;
* Watch: “Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools” — an educational program recommended by NAIC;
* Reflect in small groups on the history of Native American Boarding Schools in the United States; and
* Consider how this history echoes into the present moment, as Native American students continue to face racial discrimination, criminalization and school pushout, and as survivors of boarding schools continue to call for justice and healing.

This event is hosted by United Women in Faith. There is no cost to participate. All are welcome. Space is limited and registration is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Time: Oct 6, 2022 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

09/04/2022

Women Of Faith, Rise, And Be Unbent
The God of our founders calls us to take our rightful places as leaders, with God's glory shining on our faces.
By LaTrelle Easterling
Beloved, stand up straight and let God's glory touch your face.
Heirs to the faith of your mothers and grandmothers: Stand up straight and let God's glory touch your face.
Be unbent and walk in your calling.
Be unbent and take your authority.
Be unbent and be free of your timidity.
Be unbent and serve.
Be unbent and stop among those who tried to push you down and say, "Here I am, Lord. Send me."
Do not let the weight of oppression or patriarchal privilege or rejection or gender roles or s*xism or racism tell you to stay in your place.
Don't let any construction of human imprisonment limit who God has called you to be.
United Women in Faith, be unbent today.
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Bishop LaTrelle Easterling is the Episcopal servant and leader of the Baltimore Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church.

07/11/2022

Tuesday, the first photos from the Webb Telescope of far away galaxies and solar systems will be revealed.
Just like the forerunners of United Methodist Women, who sent their first missionaries into the world, women have set the pace. Long before the Webb Telescope was conceived and launched into space, women were pioneers in space exploration.
Go online and learn about one such role-breaking lady.

From to , Williamina Fleming devoted her life to studying and discovering stars and other space phenomena.

01/23/2022

Changes coming for UMW. Stay tuned!
"There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens."
Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV

12/07/2021

Lock's UMW is sponsoring the annual collection for veterans at the Tennessee Veterans Home.
For the next two weeks we are gathering travel-size toiletry items for delivery the week of Christmas.

In relation to that ministry, donations for the Fisher House to assist the families of patients at the VA York Campus who stay there may be included. They prefer family-size hygiene and kitchen and laundry supplies.

You may bring your donations to church on Sunday Dec 12 and December 19th.
Cash donations also accepted.
Monetary donations will be used to purchase gift cards.

12/04/2021

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery and is the second largest criminal industry in the World. Check out this video below to learn a new signal used to identify someone who is in need of help.

United Methodist Women Social Policy Statement on Human Trafficking says: "Human trafficking is a crime fueled by global poverty, inadequate education and opportunity, ethnic discrimination and societal inequity between men and women and by the demand for cheap labor and cheap s*x. It is a crime that transcends cultures, class and geography."

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - A missing 16-year-old from Asheville used a hand signal that she learned from TikTok to get herself to safety.

10/22/2021

Sat., October 23 is the DEA's National Drug Takeback Day.
Did you know- poison control centers report one of the leading causes of fatalities in children under the age of 6 is accidental overdose from ingestion of medications, vitamins, or dietary supplements?
Did you know- it may not be safe to flush your old medications down a toilet, as some substances can be harmful to the environment and potentially our drinking water?
The safest way to dispose of unused and expired medications is through Takeback programs like this.

Help keep your old medications from falling into the wrong hands.
So, what's in your drug cabinet?

DEA Take Back public service announcement reminding communities about the upcoming National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 23, 2021. For more inf...

10/01/2021

United Methodist Men and the YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee collaborated to develop the AMENDing Through Faith program whose goal is to change harmful attitudes about women. Read more below.

An eight-week course offered to United Methodist men contradicts the s*xist attitudes that can lead to domestic violence. Jim Patterson reports for UM News.

09/17/2021

Faith Talks are monthly conversations with United Methodist Women hosted by Jennifer R Farmer, Spotlight PR.
Each conversation explores themes and resources that empower us to put faith, hope and love into action.
Faith Talks: Grieving Those We've Lost (ft. Dr. Chioma Oruh and Dr. Cari Jackson) •

No matter who you are or where you are from, you are bound to experience grief. Certainly, some peop

09/01/2021

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matt 19:14)

Our faith teaches us that children and youth are especially cherished by God. We take that Biblical principle seriously as United Methodist Women members and friends: we commit ourselves to put faith, hope and love into action for children and youth.

As parents, students and educators prepare to go back to school, it is incumbent on school districts and community groups to partner to address learning loss, trauma and depression that skyrocketed while schools were shuttered — alongside other traumatic experiences, outside of schools, that too often shape the lives of young people.

It is no secret that once students fall behind, no one wins. Children become more susceptible to expressing their frustration in counter-productive ways; and getting back on track becomes a Herculean task. Educators, school districts, all of us must respond with patience, not punishment.

-- Emily Jones is the Executive for Racial Justice at United Methodist Women.

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05/25/2021

Response Moment for May 2021

A Place to Turn: by Mary Beth Couda
(Response May/June 2021)

United Methodist Women-supported national mission institutions bend with challenges but do not break remaining reliable sources of help and hope for their communities.
For a few months this past year, every day the mail delivered hundreds of masks from all over the country to Cornerstone Family Ministries in Tampa, Florida. More than 10,000 mostly hand-sewn masks were donated to Cornerstone this past winter to help keep its community safe from the spread of Covid-19. True to form, United Methodist Women members were the first to give to the historic United Methodist Women-supported national mission institution.
Cornerstone supports 150 small child-care centers with a mission to nourish young bodies, develop young minds, and connect children to the body of Christ, providing hope in times of trouble.
Across the country, United Mediodist Women members are in sisterhood and solidarity with national mission institutions. Cornerstone is one of the approximately 90 centers that United Methodist Women members support through gifts of money and time.
For more than a century, many of these former settlement houses and community centers founded by United Methodist Women predecessors have served as safe havens, places for a volunteer or deaconess to serve as the one "who helps the needy, who cares for the distressed and orphan," as Mrs. George Robinson, Secretary of the Deaconess Department of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, put it in 1899.
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Mary Beth Coudal is a writer and teacher in New York City.