Our meeting began with 14 ladies in attendance. The program for the evening involved packaging the Church World Service Mission Kits.

For several years our UMW unit has been able to provide quite a few of these kits that are used to provide supplies to those needing them around the world. Kits are made up of specific items needed for hygiene, for school supplies, and for baby care.

During the course of this year our ladies have been collecting the items for each kit in the hope of being able to increase the number of kits we can provide. This year we managed to complete at total of 42 kits; 13 health kits, 14 baby kits, and 15 school kits. Way to go, ladies!

During our business meeting plans were finalized for the annual Mother~Daughter Tea which will be held on Saturday, May 2nd from 2 to 4 PM. We hope that our church ladies, whatever their age, will come share this time of fun and fellowship.

No regularly scheduled meeting will take place in May so we’ll plan to gather again for our June meeting at Poochie’s home on Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:30 PM. As we always do to celebrate another successful year of the UMW, we’ll enjoy a potluck supper followed by a short business meeting, including election of officers for the fall season. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Tea!

Shalom,  Margo

Our meeting began with 12 ladies in attendance. Barbara Bailey shared Devotions by reading a poem entitled Rainbows and Papayas: A Lenten Devotion. She also gave an overview of the article’s author, Lyda Pierce, a missionary who served for 20 years in Central America.

Poochie then presented our program for the evening which spoke about the subject of “Luck”.  She led us in a thought-provoking exercise where we wrote down ways in which we felt we were “lucky”. It was surprising to find that many of us had very similar ideas on how we felt we were “lucky”; and many ladies felt themselves “lucky” to be involved with our UMW.

Our business meeting was conducted while we enjoyed refreshments provided by Ann Burk and Marie Phelps. Marie had made an inventory of the items we’ve collected this year for the Church World Service kits which will be assembled at our April meeting. Our goal is to produce more kits that had been done the previous year. The inventory allowed us to determine which specific items are still needed to complete the number of kits to reach our goal.

Plans are underway for our annual Mother/Daughter Tea which is scheduled to take place at 2:00 PM on Saturday, May 2nd this year. Janet LaGrange has again offered to coordinate this event, with Poochie helping with activities. As time goes by, more details will be available about what items will be needed to make this a fun event for our members and guests.  Any woman in the church is invited to attend.

Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1st at 7:00 PM in Fellowship Hall. After a brief business meeting, we’ll begin to assemble the CWS kits. Barbara Bailey and Linda Kriss will provide refreshments.

Shalom, Margo