Zimbabwe festival will close WCC's Ecumenical Decade for Women Zimbabwe festival will close WCC's Ecumenical Decade for Women Produced by United Methodist News Service, official news agency of the United Methodist Church, with offices in Nashville, Tenn., New York, and Washington. For the past 10 years, women around the world have both affirmed and struggled with their relationships with community, country and church through participation in the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. It will occur just before the WCC's Eighth Assembly there. The delegation list had not been finalized as of early March. Dauway, an executive with the Women's Division, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, is the only U.S. representative on the Decade Festival's 15-member planning committee.
Ongoing action is necessary because the work of the decade sometimes fell solely on women.
So there's still more work to be done. Each region will create a Bible study on each of the four themes. A hearing on violence against women in the church, including testimonies from survivors, is planned. Dauway credited both the creativity and passion of the planning committee members and the enthusiasm of local hosts in the organization of the event. For general questions about The United Methodist Church, please call InfoServ at 1.800.251.8140.