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Women and Mission

Since United Methodist Women's total program is mission, members are in mission with others in their own communities.  For more than 135 years, they have been empowered by leadership education opportunities, mission education, the Reading Program, tools for advocacy and more.  These opportunities allow women to act and advocate to empower women in the United States and abroad.

United Methodist Women also support programs and projects aimed at improving the special needs of women because of their refugee statuses, their immigration statuses, situations in which they are abused, their high illiteracy rate in some countries, their economic dependence, their educational disparities, and much more.

Children and Mission

A special emphasis of United Methodist Women is children, because women care for children.  It is our belief that if children are raised with safety, security, food, shelter, education, and basic human rights, these children will grow to be loving and secure adults.  United Methodist Women believe deeply in responding to Jesus' mandate to "care for the least of these."

Children often do not have a voice in this world, so United Methodist Women care for them and advocate on their behalf.  You see this commitment globally through community centers, educational opportunities for refugee children, homes for street children, advocacy against sexual exploitation and child labor, educational institutions and much more.  United Methodist Women are involved in more than 100 mission institutions and in more than 100 countries around the world.

Youth and Mission

United Methodist Women work with youth organizations globally and with programs and projects that support and empower youth.  In countries around the world, with United Methodist Women's support, youth are finding innovative ways to address the HIV/AIDs pandemic, build leadership skills, address political problems, work for peace and justice in their societies, and more.

United Methodist Women also enable youth to be in mission by support of the US-2 program, the mission intern program and the global justice program. 

A special emphasis of the organization has been to involve young women in all the ministries and leadership of United Methodist Women.  The Division has a teen and college/university women consultative group and internships for young women.  The consultative group meets on a yearly basis to direct the program of United Methodist Women so that it is inclusive of younger women.  Internships for young women include the Genie Bank internship that focuses on inviting and involving young women in the total life of United Methodist Women.