A Day to Celebrate United Methodist Women

March 23, 2019, is a very special day for United Methodist Women members. It is the day our organization will officially be 150 years old—a true day of celebration! It’s also a special Day of Giving during which members and supporters can give to the Legacy Fund Endowment Campaign to ensure our next 150 years in mission.One can only imagine what that small group of strong, determined women who met on March 23, 1869, at Tremont Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston would say now about what they started. I imagine they would be very pleased to see that the school, Isabella Thoburn College, and hospital, Clara Swain Hospital, founded by their first missionaries in India are still in operation today.I hope they’d smile to see God’s hands at work through United Methodist Women over the past 150 years. Their legacy lives on in the national mission institutions and colleges that Mission Giving supports today, in the impactful justice, mission and ministry work we continue to do to fulfill our Purpose, in the thousands of women in attendance at our last Assembly, all with the same shared passion for mission that they put into action so long ago.- - -This episode originally appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of response magazine.Visit UnitedMethodistWomen.org to find out more.