Page 6 Mission Voice October 209
Rock on, Dortha Mae!

Dortha Mae Olsen will be ROCKING on October 11 at
Loose Park in KCMO to assist Church Women United in
supporting a Crop Walk to help fight hunger and poverty
around the world, including the US. Contact her at: 8755
Chestnut Circle, No. 405, KCMO, 64131-2867 if you’d like
to be one of her sponsors.
Missouri Conference
United Methodist Women
were saddened to learn
about the death of Mai
Gray’s husband this sum-
Pictured left to right are: Alice Ellison, Rev. Dr. Laurice Valentine, mer. During Cooperative
Audrey Newton, Karen McCoy and Bobbie Faulkner, unit President.
School of Christian Mis-
St. James United Methodist Women Help Local
sion, those who attended
Children Get Ready for School
were invited to sign Gift in
Memory cards to honor the
-Alice Ellison
life of Rev. C. Jarrett Gray.
The St. James UMW unit in Kansas City, shown above, re-
cently participated in a mission outreach project. The unit
purchased school uniforms for families within the KC metro
area who could not afford their children's required uni-
forms. They donated the new uniform pieces of clothing to
the Mutual Help organization, a division of The Family Reminder for All Secretaries
-Nettie Cherrington, Secretary
Conservancy, a local social service agency that distributes
uniforms.
O Lord, you have searched me and you know me…when I

sit and when I rise…my thoughts…my going out and my
The St. James United Methodist Women donated a total of
lying down...all my ways…before a word is on my tongue
53 articles of clothing!
you know it completely. Psalm 139: 1-4


Here are the items donated:
A quilt is like our life in the Lord. The one part of the

quilt that never varies is the backing. It is a plain piece of
14 Long Sleeve Light Blue Shirts (size 10, 12, 14)
fabric, with all the stitches showing through. You have to
3 Long Sleeve White Shirts (size M)
have a backing to finish a quilt.
5 Long Sleeve Light Brown Shirts (size XL adult,

L adult, M adult)
It has been a great year, but there is still lots to do. Please
2 Short Sleeve White Shirts (size S)
be sure to elect your local officers early and send your
6 Short Sleeve Light Blue Blouses (size girls 5)
lists to your district secretaries so that they can include
6 Khaki Pants (size boys 4, 14, 12 husky, 20)
your unit’s updated information in the new directory. It is
6 Navy Pants (size boys 5, 6, 7, 8 girls 12)
so important to have a correct listing of all officers. Dis-
4 Black Shorts (size teen 3, 9, 13 Jr)
trict secretaries, we need your completed lists no later than
2 Navy Skirts (size girls 18)
December 1.
5 Sweaters

Ever wanted to let everyone know you’re a member of the
Let us all be like the backing of a quilt and be sure to send
UMW? At www.umwmission.org, choose “Resources” and
in all those reports and lists of officers as soon as possible
then “United Methodist Women t-shirt”. Decal patterns that
so that our duties will, like a quilt, be finished.
feature the UMW logo and say “United Methodist Women”

in either French / Spanish / English or Korean / Spanish /
Let us be challenged to offer to Jesus our talents, no mat-
English are available. The web page has complete instruc-
ter how small we feel they are. Let us not deprive our-
tions for adding the decal to a t-shirt.
selves, or others of seeing Jesus bless and use them.

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