“To walk with youth in their journey to know Christ by creating an environment in which youth can experience Christian communion to hear the gospel to know God’s love and to respond in faith by loving and serving others…for in all of this we are making disciples of Jesus Christ.
The organized unit of United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose purpose is:
The Purpose is adopted by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church as the official mission statement of United Methodist Women. Out of the Purpose are four mission foci:
Each foci relates to the mission initiatives and priorities of United Methodist Women and the Women’s Division.
Our entire program focuses on mission. Our mission initiatives include:
United Methodist Women provides opportunities and resources to grow spiritually, to become more deeply rooted in Christ, and to put faith into action.
These include:
United Methodist Women equips women and girls around the world to be leaders in communities, agencies, governments, and churches.
The Women's Division provides and supports leadership development of its members to give women of all racial, ethnic, language and economic groups the opportunity to realize their full potential and to participate in the life of the church and society. We offer leadership development, training, and resources for:
United Methodist Women provides educational experiences that lead to personal change in order to transform the world.
Mission needs to be carried out with education, preparation, action and advocacy, and mutual learning and partnerships.
Financially
United Methodist Women-supported programs and projects are possible because of individual women's gifts to mission through "Mission Giving." Mission Giving allows United Methodist Women to respond where the need is the greatest and to work in partnership with organizations doing similar work.
Close to $20 million comes from United Methodist Women members annually to the Women's Division to support mission programs and projects throughout the U.S. and around the world. These gifts do not include another $5 million collected and used by local member units.
The Women’s Division’s volunteer board of directors disburse the funds received through Mission Giving by responding to emerging needs and explore historical, new and experimental mission programs with women and children.
For Members
United Methodist Women is committed to finding new ways to invite and involve women in our 140-year-old organization with over 800,000 members. At all levels of the organization, United Methodist Women works to:
UMW Online, the United Methodist Women's social network, connects members to each other and to opportunities for participation through United Methodist Women.
United Methodist Women interprets the biblical passage from Luke 4:18 as both a model and a mandate for Christian social action and advocacy: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
United Methodist Women continues its advocacy work on peace and justice, education, racial justice, immigrant rights, the environment, economic justice, women's health, the rights of children, human rights, and farm workers' rights, to name a few. Read United Methodist Women’s stances on issues.
In all advocacy efforts United Methodist Women supports its work with a scriptural basis and adheres to the denominational mandates in the Book of Discipline and Book of Resolutions of The United Methodist Church.
United Methodist Women works in partnership with coalitions on many justice issues to extend its reach.
The ministry of men in the local church is defined as a core group of men, partnering with their pastor, to invite and initiate spiritual growth opportunities for all men of the church. Everyone has different gifts, graces and areas of interest. Therefore, opportunities for participation would include diverse ministries of the church, such as prayer groups, missions, Bible studies, retreats, workshops/seminars, small groups in the Wesleyan tradition, leading and participating on committees, teaching Sunday school classes, youth ministries, scouting, mentoring and assisting in leading worship service. The focus is not inward, concentrating only on those who attend a set meeting, but outward to all men, assisting them to engage the process of spiritual growth.
Our mission is to support spiritual growth among men, helping men to mature as disciples as they encourage spiritual formation in others.
Our goal is to empower the ministry of Jesus Christ through men within the congregations of the UMC.
Our pathway is a lifelong commitment to spiritual growth to maturity as Christ followers. Our spiritual formation is marked by spiritual reproduction, as our faith passes on in others.
The GCUMM can serve local churches by training and equipping leaders. With that in mind, the GCUMM has developed a new leadership training experience called Men’s Ministry Specialist. Men’s Ministry Specialist (MMS) is a leadership-development position for laity or clergy who are called by God to the ministry of Jesus Christ through men. A MMS serves the UMC as a resource, promoter, communicator, and connector within and beyond the congregation. He equips and motivates leaders for effective men’s ministry through training, inspiration, and assistance.
United Methodist Men would like to train at least 1,000 Men’s Ministry Specialists to serve local churches. This would mean that there would be about two MMS per conference. Each specialist in a given conference would work with local churches in that conference to create and sustain a thriving ministry for men in the church.
