Giving of our time, our resources and our money is part of who we are as women organized for mission. Hester Williams, a former slave, led Methodist women in the South in raising funds for education for freed women. Belle Bennett saw the need for women to be trained for missionary service. She traveled 20,000 miles and wrote 3,000 letters to raise money to establish Scarritt Training and Bible School in 1891. Responding to the needs of women, children and youth, United Methodist Women in 1999 continue to give for mission.
Members give their prayers, talents, time and money.
Then imagine yourself as one of these women. It is rather that the Spirit is the active missionary, and the faithful church is the place where the Spirit is enabled to complete the Spirit's work. There is a vast difference in these two statements. God has given us the gift of sharing in God's mission in the world by witnessing to God's acts in the past and in the present. Giving is being in mission.