United Methodist Women on Pinterest

Did you know there are UMW Pinterest boards? You can see everything from Reading Program books to Assembly pictures, articles on different topics, mission studies, church pot lucks, etc. If you are on Pinterest you can follow one or all of these boards to show up on your page.

In case you don't know, Pinterest is an online bulletin board where you can see what like-minded viewers are pinning and then save things that interest you to your own boards. It's easy to join with an email address and password of your choosing. If you just want to look at the UMW boards, you can follow this link:

http://www.pinterest.com/umwomen/

2015 Book List is Here!

My Listmania page on Amazon contains 40 new books with categories and whether formats include kindle and/or audio editions. Clicking on a book title will take you to a page with a description and reader reviews. Many of the books will open a sample for you to browse a few pages online. Click on the cover image if there is a "Look Inside" label on it.

UMW Reading Program Books 2015 List on Amazon
2015 Books at Mission Resources
2015 Books List on this site
Reading Program Catalogue 2015 Available for download or see a copy in the church library

We can read 2010 books through December, 2014. Jan 2015 starts a new reading year with books from 2011 to 2015.

New books list for 2013 is here

The Reading Program books list for 2013 has been published. There are also links in the sidebar on the left for options to view them:

2013 Books List - page on this site with categories and brief descriptions
Library Thing - See 2013 Reading Program collection
Mission Resource Center 2013 Reading Program
2013 Reading Program Catalog - Click link to download printable PDF
Amazon Listmania UMW Reading List 2013

Mission Study Topics 2012-2016

2012
Spiritual Growth:	Immigration in the Bible
Geographic:	Haiti
Issue Study:	Poverty
Youth:	Haiti
Children:	Poverty
2013
Spiritual Growth:	Living Sacramentally, Walking Justly
Geographic:	The Roma of Europe
Issue Study:	Poverty
Youth:	Migration
Children:	Migration
2014
Spiritual Growth:	How is it with Your Soul?
Geographic:	The Roma of Europe
Issue Study:	The Church and People with Disabilities
Youth:	Disabilities
Children:	Disabilities
2015
Spiritual Growth:	The Pursuit of Happiness
Geographic:	Latin America
Issue Study:	The Church and People with Disabilities
Youth:	Latin America
Children:	Latin America
2016
Spiritual Growth:	The Bible and Human Sexuality
Geographic:	Latin America
Issue Study:	Climate Justice
Youth:	Climate Justice
Children:	Climate Justice

Are you reading these publications?

Regular reading of Response and New World Outlook magazines is an important part of the UMW Reading Program Plans.

• Response is the official magazine of United Methodist Women. It tells the mission story of UMW and stirs readers to solidarity and action with women, youth and children of the world. The magazine carries a message of faith and hope, and a call to be a part of a more peaceful, just world, where all people are children of God. 

• New World Outlook is the Mission magazine of the United Methodist Church, a publication of the General Board of Global Ministries. This magazine connects local churches to mission work and suggests avenues for becoming involved in outreach, support, and even hands-on help.

 
Plan I: Regular reading of Response magazine.

Plan II, III, IV: Regular reading of Response and New World Outlook magazines. 

You can subscribe to these magazines if you wish to get your own copies in the mail. However, that isn't necessary to complete this part of your Reading Plan. A limited number of articles from the current issues of each magazine can be accessed at their websites. These magazines are also available in the church library.

Reading Program catalog moved to LibraryThing

A new cataloging site for Reading Program books has been launched at LibraryThing. It works better to organize the lists in groupings that can be sorted and searched easier than the Google Books library. It is a public site and can be viewed without you joining.

Books lists are entered into collections, including each of the UMW Reading Program categories. The books we have in our church library are in the "Your library" collection. "All collections" is the entire list of books that qualify for the current Reading Program Plans.

LibraryThing gives library-quality data for each book. Google Books previews can be accessed from the individual book pages if available.

A pull down menu opens the list of collections.

You can show books as a list or just the covers.

Tapping on column headings will sort under that heading. Tap again and the order will reverse. Other options for lists and pages are available by clicking many of the features on the site. You won't be making permanent changes, so go ahead and explore!

Search this site

You can now search by typing in the box at the top of the sidebar on the left. This will search all the pages on this site only. It will not take you elsewhere on the internet. The links listed under Other Sites are clickable and will take you away from this site. The search results are not perfect, but hopefully this new feature will help you locate the books and other info you are trying to find.

Some new links have also been added to the Other Sites list in the sidebar.

Find United Methodist Women on the Web

United Methodist Women website:
www.unitedmethodistwomen.org
This is our primary website. Here you will find the latest news and information about United Methodist Women members, programs and initiatives. You’ll also find promotional and educational items that can be downloaded as well as links to our other sites and our Mission Resource Center e-store.

UMWOnline Community:
www.umwonline.org
This is the social networking site for United Methodist Women. The new UMWOnline is more like Facebook and is the place to connect one on one with other United Methodist Women members. You will want to visit, set up your account, friend your sisters and begin networking for mission.

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/UMWomen
If you’re on Facebook, be sure to “like” United Methodist Women. Follow the link and sign up so that our regular posts will appear on your home page.

Twitter:
www.twitter.com/UMWomen
Do you tweet? So does United Methodist Women! Use the link to find our Twitter account @UMWomen. Follow us, tweet with us and become a part of the continuing conversation around faith, hope and love in action.

YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/UMWomen
Need a video for a presentation? You’ll find it on YouTube. Check out the video resources available by following the link. New videos are posted often!
  
Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/UMWomen
Need a photo for your newsletter or PowerPoint? Follow this link and you’ll find terrific images illustrating the work of United Methodist Women members.

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UMW Newspaper
www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/umwnews
Sign up for UMWNews or read it online. It’s Free! United Methodist Women News is a free 8-page newspaper highlighting recent events and issues happening within the organization and its members.

Books in our Church Library to read NOW while they still qualify

 

The current reading lists are 2008-2012, with titles from the 2007 reading list creditable until the end of December 2012.

2007

EM   The Kite Runner
EM   Standing Alone

SA   God in the Alley
SG   The Gift for All People
SG   Breakfast Epiphanies
SG   But Lord, I Was Happy Shallow
EM/Y   Facing the Lion
SA/Y   The Red Rose Box - Audiobook CDs
SA/Y   Kira-kira - Audiobook CDs
SG/Y   Dinner with a Perfect Stranger - Audiobook CDs

Read titles from 2006 by June 13 to qualify for the 2011-2012 Reading Program

2006

SA   Blood Done Sign My Name - Audiobook CDs
SA   The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

SG   Joshua's Bible - Audiobook CDs
SG   Miriam, Mary and Me

YOUR READING PROGRAM REPORT FORM IS DUE BY JUNE 13 AT THE UMW MEETING

THANKS FOR READING THIS YEAR!!

A new Leadership Development book for 2012 is added to our church library

THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him.

This is a remarkable true story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. It will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual's ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.

Preview pages are available for you to read.

Reading Plan Report Form

The printable form below can be downloaded to your computer as a PDF file or printed from here. Use the arrow at the bottom right to download. To print from this page, press the printer icon next to the down arrow. Set your printer for landscape mode.

Please fill out the form and submit to the Program Resources Secretary by July 1st.

Conference Loan December - January

 RESIST! Christian Dissent for the 21st Century 

2011 Social Action

**BONUS BOOK** Counts as 2 books in Social Action category

This collection of original essays by some of the leading Christian voices of our time issues a spirited call to resist systemic evils in the realm of politics, economic, and culture. Further balancing these analytic essays are prayers and pastoral responses that call us to open our hearts, to overcome borders, and to gather together in pursuit of peace.

Change the World 

2012 Leadership Development

Despite the church's place of prominence in American culture, misconceptions about the faith of Jesus Christ run rampant today. Christians are known more for exclusivity than for love, more for potlucks than for solving world hunger. It's time for churches to reconnect with the true message and mission of Jesus. Pastor Mike Slaughter challenges church leaders to look at the future of their congregations and make tough but necessary choices.

The Road of Lost Innocence 

2010 Social Action

A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at the age of twelve describes the brutality of the sex trade in Southeast Asia, the horrors she experienced until she escaped, and her role as an advocate for the victimized young women she left behind. She has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change. (Preview available)

Longing for Enough in a Culture of More 

2010 Spiritual Growth

These 25 brief, thoughtful meditations by Paul Escamilla are organized in five topics: The Good Book, The Good Life, the Good Work, The Good Society, and The Good Earth. A collection of thought-provoking essays and probing meditations explores the importance of escaping the lifestyle and attitudes of a "weighed-down" world, providing valuables tools for doing so.

Book of Discipline now online

The latest (updated 2012) UM Book of Discipline contains the laws, plan, polity, and process by which United Methodists govern themselves. General Conference, the denomination’s top legislative body, revises and approves the Book of Discipline every four years.

A free online version is now offered by Cokesbury. This book can be searched and read on screen in your internet browser. Some other versions listed in the sidebar on the right have a cost.

To view the online version, click on the cover for the book to open and turn the pages with arrow keys. A menu at the top of the screen lets you set different options for how it looks on screen layout and font size. Use ESC key to close the book and return to Cokesbury.

Latest info from UMW Online Community

The current reading lists are 2008-2012, with titles from the 2007 reading list creditable until the end of December 2012.

The Mission Studies are included in the Reading Program, however unlike the books they do not fit neatly into categories. They are created under these themes: spiritual growth, geographic, and issue. So in order to fit them nicely into the RP categories, we put geographic into EFM and issue into SA.

Large Print books will fall into a category even if they have not been designated as such. The content will determine where it fits.

Read these now for this year's Reading Plans

We have books from 2006 and 2007 that can only be counted if you read them now. These will qualify for the 2011-2012 Reading Program to be reported by July 1, 2012. See the Read Now list on my Google Books library page for book details. Let's make use of these while they can still be credited to our current reading.

EM  The Kite Runner
EM  Standing Alone
SA   God in the Alley
SA   Blood Done Sign My Name - Audiobook CDs
SA   The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
SG   Joshua's Bible - Audiobook CDs
SG   Miriam, Mary and Me
SG   Breakfast Epiphanies
SG   But Lord, I Was Happy Shallow
SA/Y  The Red Rose Box - Audiobook CDs
SA/Y  Kira-kira - Audiobook CDs
SG/Y  Dinner with a Perfect Stranger - Audiobook CDs

Two books are currently missing and there is no record of who has them. We hope they will be returned to the church library or else recorded as checked out by whoever has them.
EM/Y  Facing the Lion and
SG  A Gift for all People

More audiobooks for the church library

Two of these are from the Youth category, and therefore are shorter books. All three will qualify for the 2011-2012 Reading Program to be reported by July 1, 2012.

             

Blood Done Sign My Name  2006 Social Action
Mr. Tyson was 10 years old when violence and fear enveloped his town, and his father (Methodist pastor) pleaded for peace and justice. After 30 years, Tyson returns to Oxford, N.C. to make sense of a brutal murder and its repercussions in that town during the 1970s.

The Red Rose Box  2007 Social Action/Youth
On her tenth birthday, Leah Hopper receives a surprise gift: a traveling case decorated with red roses from her glamorous aunt Olivia. Filled with shiny jewelry, expensive soaps, silk bedclothes, and train tickets to visit Olivia in Los Angeles, the red rose box introduces Leah to a life she never knew was possible.

Kira-kira   2007 Social Action/Youth
When sisters Katie and Lynn and their family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the deep south of Georgia, it’s Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it’s Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when illness causes the family to start to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering – kira-kira – in the future. 

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