We are women with a Purpose!

“United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose purpose is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative, supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.”

Mission Initiatives

The entire program and organization of United Methodist Women focuses on mission. Our mission initiatives include:

• Providing opportunities to grow spiritually
• Equipping women & girls to be leaders
• Providing transformative educational experiences
• Organizing for growth & flexibility
• Working for justice through service & advocacy 

Focus on Women, Children & Youth

From its beginning, United Methodist Women has focused on ministries with women, children, and youth.

Women

Women have been empowered by leadership education opportunities, mission education, the Reading Program, tools for advocacy and more. These opportunities allow women to act and 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

A special emphasis of United Methodist Women is children, because women care for children. 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 cares for them and advocates on their behalf. United Methodist Women commits to children 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.

Youth

United Methodist Women work with youth organizations globally and with programs and projects that support and empower youth. United Methodist Women also enables youth to be in mission by support of the US-2 program, the mission intern program and the Global Justice Volunteers program

A special emphasis of the organization has been to involve young women in all the ministries and leadership of United Methodist Women. A teen and college/university women consultative group helps direct the program of United Methodist Women to be more inclusive of younger women.

United Methodist Women at Brainerd

United Methodist Women at Brainerd is open to all women of the church.  We met in small groups we call Circles.  Some Circles meet in the daytime and some in the evening either at the Church or in homes. We support Mission and the Church in many ways:

• Sponsoring youth for mission trips and Resurrection
• Hosting back to school breakfast for the children at Family Way, as well as, donating backpacks and school supplies.
• We have collected books for two different elementary schools .
• We have served meals to the homeless.
• Countless fundraisers and Mission seminars.

These are just a few things we have been involved in.  The real blessing in being part of United Methodist Women is the sisterhood and comradery gained when working together.

We invite all women of Brainerd to be a part of United Methodist Women.