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Mission Link – August 2020

Get the August 2020 Mission Link newsletter from El Camino Real District United Methodist Women!

Note that due to limitations of Shelter-in-Place, there was no printed version of this newsletter distributed by mail.  If you know of someone who usually receives their copy by mail, please share this online version with them, or help them obtain a printed copy.

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Sept. 5, 2020: UMW Virtual Breakfast Session

CA/NV UMW Breakfast at Annual Conference
CA/NV UMW Breakfast at Annual Conference: Click image to register

For the first time ever, CA/NV United Methodist are hosting their Annual Conference Session breakfast as a virtual event!  Because it’s virtual (online), we are able to include several deaconess sisters telling their inspirational stories, rich in diversity and ethnicity.  Register and plan to attend, with your favorite breakfast treat at hand.

Saturday, September 5, 2020
10:00am PDT to 11:30am PDT
Zoom meeting 

Click here to download informational flyer with more details

Guest speakers include:

  • Megan Hale – Executive for the Office of Deaconess and Home Missioner, part of National Office of UMW
  • Ellen R Dizon – Deaconess in the Philippines
  • Heidi Caban-Santiago – Deaconess in Training, and Director of Social Services and Bereavement Services at Circle of LIfe Community Hospice
  • Selena Ruth Smith – Deaconess, firefighter, and EMT
  • Katherine O. Kim – Retired Deaconess who served with Senior Ministry at Korean UMC of Santa Clara Valley

Local group reports requested by Sept. 8

It’s that time of year again!  So that we can prepare for the District UMW Annual Celebration (Oct. 24), and provide the reports to our CA/NV Conference UMW counterparts, please be sure your local group/unit has sent these reports by September 8:

  1. 5 Star Giving – your Treasurer should send the remittance form and any contributions through Sept. 1, 2020, to District UMW Treasurer Debbie Ow. More info…
  2. Reading Program – if women from your local group have participated in the UMW Reading Program, please send a report with their name, church name, and the list of titles read.  More info… 
  3. Mission Today – send the report of the activities your local group has done toward the 2019/2020 Mission Today program.  More info… 
  4. Charter for Racial Justice – send the report of the activities your local group has done toward the Charter for Racial Justice.  More info…
  5. Saints – send the list of those from your local group who have passed away since your September 2019 report.
  6. Directory updates – if there have been changes in your local group’s leadership during 2020, or if you already have identified leaders for 2021, please send us their names with mailing address and email.

Please send all reports (except 5 Star Giving) by email to president@ecrduwf.org.

If email is not possible, please send by US Postal Service to:
Good Samaritan UMC
Attn:  Carolyn Bircher
19624 Homestead Road
Cupertino, CA   95014