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Clarion  Fall 2010

 

                                                                                                     

 

                                                                                     The FINISH LINE Is In Sight!

 

 

 

 

                                    

Hello Memphis Conference United Methodist Women or Yoo Hooou!  Aunt Bee here hoping you’ve had a great year.  I’m looking forward to some fabulous Reading    Program Reports from the Districts.  Attention District SPRs— give those Local Units a call and be sure to get every one accounted for. . . let’s blow them out of the water!

 

Now that we have that taken care of—I received an excellent idea at Regional School.  How about starting a Children/Youth Reading Program in your units using the children and youth books found on the Reading Program list.  All you have to do is stock up your church library with a selection of books; hand out a form for the kids to keep up with the books read; and reward them at the end of the year with a certificate.  You may even want to have prizes for the most books read, etc.  The books may be read by the child/youth or the books can be read to them.  Their parents will love you, their teachers will love you and they will love you!  

 

I will be passing out more information on this exciting new aspect of the Reading      Program to the District SPRs at the Secretary of Program Resource training at Annual Day in Dresden on September 25.  Hope to see you all there.

                                                                            

                                                                             Blessings!  Donna Moore

                                                                             Conference SPR—The Book Lady

Thank you, Ann Willis—for all you’ve done.

The Memphis Conference Executive Team wants to send our most sincere condolences to the family of a woman we loved, deeply respected and admired as a member of our team.

 Ann Willis, the Social Action Coordinator,  passed away July 30, and that brought to an end a life lived with dignity and a quiet strength.

She was an example to her children; marching in the 1968 sanitation workers strike; getting involved when the civil rights movement came to Memphis. According to her daughter, Rosalyn, her mother hosted some of the people that came to town for the marches (hotels were still segregated at that time). Some of those included Henry Bellefonte and Lena Horne!

We know that whether she was marching, attending a meeting, or lending a compassionate ear, she did it with the love of Christ. She was the epitome of a United Methodist Woman; vital, intelligent and working to better the lives of people of all races, creeds and colors, and did all she could to show and share the love of Christ with everyone she met.  We would do well to follow this wonderful woman’s example.

 

Thank you, Ann. God bless you and keep you close to His Heart.

 

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