Every four years The United Methodist Church holds its General Conference, the top policymaking body for the denomination. From May 5-15, 2020, 862 delegates from around the world will gather in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to set denominational policy, revise church law, approve budgets for churchwide programs and adopt resolutions on current moral, social, public policy and economic issues.
In 2020 United Methodist Women will be bringing four pieces of legislation to be included in the Book of Resolutions on observing Children’s Sabbath, protecting the girl child, protecting voting rights and the status of women and realizing full human rights. We’ll also co-host a gathering for women delegates, consecrate deaconesses and home missioners, share resources in our display and lounge, host an action on climate justice, co-host a laity dinner and prayer space and sponsor a United Methodist Women Day. We will also be presenting delegates with pins handmade by a variety of Native American beaders, reminding the church of the presence of native people in our midst and continuing to live out the Act of Repentance that was part of the 2012 General Conference.
Members will also be in legislative committees and on the plenary floor as elected voting delegates from their annual conferences. And our members will praying from across the country and around the world
United Methodist Women is the only official women’s organization of The United Methodist Church. United Methodist Women is at General Conference—and in local churches and communities around the world—because the church cannot make disciples of Christ for the transformation of the world without women organized for mission.
Our foremothers left us a legacy of innovative mission, and we continue that legacy by being the organization the world needs today. Until poverty, violence, inequality, racism and preventable deaths cease, until women and children are no longer marginalized, until we live in a world in which all thrive, women need to be organized for mission. In the 21st century, the church and the world need United Methodist Women.
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