HARBOR DISTRICT UNITED METHODIST WOMEN

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1 HARBOR DISTRICT UNITED METHODIST WOMEN April 2017 President s Message Happy Spring United Methodist Women, I hope that all of you are enjoying this beautiful spring weather and experienced a truly blessed Easter experience. As you know the 2017 Quadrennial Theme is FOLLOW. Jesus summons us to follow in his footsteps and to grow spiritually. The past two weekends I have been afforded wonderful opportunities to grow spiritually through UMW and the United Methodist Church. Two weekends ago the UMW Conference Leadership Team held their meeting in Asheville at the Brook- Howell Home, a retirement home for United Methodist deaconesses and missionaries. Brooks-Howell is owned and supported by UMW of the United Methodist Church. Recently the community has been expanded to include local residents from Western North Carolina, clergy and spouses, and service personnel from other denominations. The majority of the individuals living at Brooks-Howell have spent a lifetime in ministry and have wonderful stories to share. I want to share with you the first paragraph of their spring newsletter. You may not know this but weekly, someone at Brooks- Howell Home receives a card from a UMW circle or unit from across the US. Whether it s a staff person or resident, who is called, served and stilling serving, we are remembered by UMW as they read about us, pray for us, and celebrate us through the UMW Prayer Calendar. These women and men are so active and involved. When you visit Asheville, don t miss an opportunity to visit Brooks-Howell Home. My second weekend to follow was the Saturday after Good Friday. This is the day that we often ask in the church what should we be doing. Back in January, Bishop Ward preached at a joint worship service for UMC and AMEZ churches. The event to build relationships and service was held at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church as part of the first community Care Day Event. This event included food item distribution, serving of a meal, information/assistance tables with representatives from various local agencies/organizations and activities for kids. I can t say enough for the generous, caring people that I worked with on Saturday. God offers us so many avenues to follow. (Continued on p. 8) He has shown you, O Mortal, what is good and what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 NIV Inside this issue: 8Treasurer s Notes 2 Secretary s Report 2 Around the District 3 Spiritual Day Apart Flyer 4 Spiritual Day Apart Registration Be Just. Be Green 6 Membership Nurture & 6 Missionu 2017Registration 7 Book Review May-August Calendar 9 The Purpose of United Methodist Women The organized unit of United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose PURPOSE is To know God 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. 5

2 P A G E 2 Treasurer s Notes Greetings from your treasurer, We had a good first quarter and Harbor District submitted $ to missions. We sent in $ to Pledge to Missions, $400 to Special Mission Recognition, $260 to Gift in Mission, $90 to Gift in Memory, $ to World Thank Offering, $35.38 to Candle burning, $ to A Penny and a Prayer, $260 to Love Offering, $497 to A Call to Prayer and Self Denial, and $20 to the Legacy Fund. If I received your remittance after March 1, then it will be applied to the 2 nd quarter. We have already collected $ so far for 2 nd quarter. Please encourage your members to become 7-Star members. This can be accomplished easily by spreading your monies over the seven H A R B O R T I D I N G S different areas. All 2 nd quarter monies are due by June 3, Please let me know if you have any questions. Also, if you have not received your Special Mission Recognition Pins, please let me know. Also, if you need any Mission Cards, I will be glad to mail them to you. Thanks for all that you do to make us such a great district. Janice Robbins 48 Morgan Wood Estates Drive, Elizabethtown, NC janice28337@ gmail.com. Secretary s Report The days are longer, the evenings are warmer, and we see new greenery breaking out Easter season of newness and hope is upon us! By now all Church Units have received a 2017 Harbor District directory. Please refer to our website also for viewing the directory where you may find updates or corrections to the directory. If any Unit officers change, please submit the form found on page 91 of the 2017 directory. If contact information changes you may this information to me. Contact phone numbers and address are important in order to receive timely notices and event information. Thank you all for making our 2017 Harbor District directory a reliable resource Mary Greene binney@carolina.net He said to them Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19

3 A P R I L 2017 P A G E 3 Evergreen UMW Host Brunch for the Cerro Gordo, Chadbourn and Fair Bluff UNWs Easter Sunday at Trinity UMC, Elizabethtown

4 P A G E 4 H A R B O R T I D I N G S HARBOR DISTRICT UNITED METHODIST WOMEN SPIRITUAL DAY APART WESLEY MEMORIAL UMC, 1401 S. College Road Wilmington, NC May 6, 2017 Registration begins at 9:30 am Come and be blessed by the program to be given by Rev. Jaye White s our speaker for the Spiritual Event on May 6, 2017 This is a great opportunity for the Harbor District, as she brings us a great message entitled Generosity of Thought, Word and Deed. Child care will be provided if needed. Breakfast items will be available. Program begins at 10:00 A.M. Lunch will be served by the UMW of Wesley Memorial UMC. A donation will be accepted to cover the cost of lunch. Please register by April 22 nd if possible. You can find the registration form on the following website: Click on Harbor District and go to the FORMS tab. Please send your registration to: Kitsey H. Farrior 507 N. Duplin St. Wallace, NC Or to: farriork@embarqmail.com

5 A P R I L 2017 Page 5 HARBOR DISTRICT UMW SPIRITUAL DAY APART Saturday, May 6, 2017 WESLEY MEMORIAL UMC, 1401 S. COLLEGE ROAD Wilmington, NC Church Sub-district Contact Person Phone Attendees names: Child care will be available (must be preregistered by April 20. Child care needed for: Child Age Parent Child Age Parent Child Age Parent There are no fees to attend Spiritual Day apart. A donation will be accepted to cover cost for lunch. Please return this form by April 22, 2017 to: Kitsey H. Farrior, 507 N. Duplin St., Wallace, NC 28466

6 Page 6 United Methodist Women s national office has made climate justice one of its four social justice priorities. To welcome and support environmental justice advocates like you, we work to provide practical, theologically sound tools to guide and inspire your work. The tools were developed to delve through deep intersectional injustices between gender, racial, economic and climate injustice. The Climate Justice Simulation Experience is one of these tools. You can register and download at The Climate Justice Simulation Experience is a role-playing exercise to help us understand some of the concerns of an environmentally degraded community. Using the Carbon Footprint Calculator (on epa.gov) you can measure your personal or family carbon footprint with and see what you can do to reduce it. H A R B O R T I D I N G S Become a be just. be green. advocate! Signup at (From Membership Nurture & Outreach The Samaritan woman we know simply as the woman at the well in John 4 boldly stepped out to invite her community to Christ. She lived at the fringes of her community. She would go to the well to draw water when no one else was there. When she heard the good news that this was the Messiah who was speaking to her, she proclaimed this good news in the city so boldly that they all followed the woman they had once ostracized to meet Jesus. The woman at the well went outside of her comfort zone to invite others to meet Jesus. We, too, can reach outside of our comfortable groups of friends to invite others to join United Methodist Women a place to nurture faith, experience community and engage in mission. United Methodist Women is the official women s organization of The United Methodist Church. Its membership is voluntary and open to all women committed to and engaged in mission who affirm the Purpose. Membership in The United Methodist Church is not required. Membership shall be open to any woman who indicates her desire to belong and to participate in the global mission of the Church through United Methodist Women. The pastor (s) shall be an ex-officio member of the local unit and of its executive committee (The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, 2016, 256.5). By seeking to build a community of women committed to mission, United Methodist Women is expanding programs and concepts of mission to reach every local United Methodist Church. ( taken from the UMW Handbook found at Below are some ideas from various sources ( for building membership. 1.Young women--choose a mentor for each who invites one person, picks her up, introduces her, asks her to help serve refreshments, asks her for ideas. This could lead to forming a new circle that meets the needs of younger women. Continued from p. 8)

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8 (Continued from cover President s Message) Hopefully I will be seeing you on Saturday, May 6 th at Wesley Memorial UMC for HDUMW Spiritual Enrichment Day. Susie Lupton slluptonnc@aol.com Miss Brenda and the Loveladies: A Heartwarming True Story of Grace, God, and Gumption by Brenda Spahn and Irene Zutell For Brenda Spahn wealth was a lifestyle until a brush with the law threatened to send her to prison. In those dark moments, Brenda made a promise to God. This is the story of Brenda s journey from rags to riches to redemption. It s the story of the first unlikely year of her Whole Way House" and of the extraordinary lives of the first seven women who came to call her Miss Brenda. It s a story that testifies to the power of faith and how God changes hearts every day. Brenda Spahn is founder and executive director of the Lovelady Center, the largest and most successful nonprofit transitional center for women in the country. It now serves 450 women and children every day. By Nancy Lee Page (Continued from p. 6 Mission Nurture and Outreach) 2. Invite women to a "Fun Night." Play games. One group suggested having a bag that contained a funny outfit for each to wear. Or, "Come As You Are/ Were When Called Party. Take a pictures of each. Give each a list of upcoming events and other material. 3. Provide new Member or Prospective Member Packet s with a program date book, a bookmark, information about the Reading Program, Joys of Membership, information about some of the local, national, and global missions supported, other material from UMW Resources. Give small gift to members who bring a prospective member as a guest (bookmark, candle, flowers). 4. "Mission Moments" by UMW members at Sunday Worship Service 5. Back of Pew Card or Bookmark with dates, time of meetings; contact name and phone number. Sue Teachey, Membership, Nurture & Outreach Phone: knott1@embarqmail.com

9 We re on the Web: We re on Facebook: to-girlfriend-harbor-district-united- Methodist CALENDAR OF EVENTS HARBOR DISTRICT UNITED METHODIST WOMEN May-September 2017 May 5 Church Women United Fellowship Day Migrant Kits - TBA 6 HDUMW Spiritual Enrichment Day Wesley Memorial, Wilmington, NC President Vice President Secretary Treasurer 2017 Mission Team Susie Lupton slluptonnc@aol.com Martha Worsley Mary Greene Janice Robbins Mission Coordinators Education & Interpretation Beverly Justice Membership Nurture & Outreach Sue Teachey Social Action Vacant Spiritual Growth Kitsey Farrior Secretary of Program Resources Jo Wainwright Nominations, Chair Vacant Communications Bescye Burnett Women in Mission Vacant Archives & History, Chair Nancy Gooding 39 & Under Vacant Conference Representative JoAnn Barbour Sub District Leaders Northwest-Marcia Miller Northeast Marjorie Brown Southwest - Debbie Sellars Southeast Ann Carter Janet Shew Dallace Grady Nominating Committee Sherry Mewborn Lib Pearsall If you are interested in filling any of our vacant positions, please contact a member of the nominating committee. June NCCUMC Annual Conference Greenville, NC July 15 HDUMW Finance 2018 Budget/Leadership Team Mtg 10 AM Mission u Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC August 5-6 Conference Limitless Methodist Building, Garner, NC 15 Local unit reports due to District President & Mission Coordinators 15 Harbor Tidings Newsletter article due to Bescye Burnett 19 NCCUMW Finance Committee Meeting Hollands UMC, Garner, NC September 1 District reports due to Conference President & Mission Coordinators 9 NCCUMW LDSHP Team Meeting 9:30 AM, Methodist Building, Garner Mother-Child Retreat Camp Rockfish HDUMW 2018 LDSHP Team Planning Retreat Ocean Isle Beach HARBOR TIDINGS North Carolina Conference Harbor District United Methodist Women