Oklahoma City Chapter

CHURCH WOMEN UNITED

Volume 60 Issue 1 March 2013

GREETINGS AND HAPPY NEW YEARS “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1

PRAYING FOR OUR NATION

March 2, 2013

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:

Welcome to 2013! We are preparing for our new year with the Oklahoma City Unit of Church Women United with three celebrations.

Our first celebration with be Day of Prayer on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at Redeemer Lutheran, 1524 NE Grand Blvd, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where we will be sharing prayers for our Nation. Please come and share with us and bring a friend to help us grow our unit. Our next celebration will be May Friendship Day and our theme will be “Swinging Wide the Doors of Hospitality” held on Saturday, May 4, 2013. Our third and last celebration will be World Community Day held on Saturday, November 2, 2013 and our theme will be “Walking Through Doors of Opportunity”. Please pray about hosting one of these celebrations at your church.

In order to make Oklahoma City Unit of Church Women United successful we need your full cooperation. We are trying to reach as many women as we possible can, so we are trying something new by having our Celebrations on Saturdays instead of Fridays, hopefully to attract more women and younger women. This organization is desperately in need of younger women to mentor for the future growth of Oklahoma City’s Unit. Please invite your daughters, granddaughters, nieces and neighbors to experience this wonderful time of celebration.

We reinstated the Newsletter to keep you aware of our celebrations; however, we need your help on spreading the word. If you are interested in hosting a celebration, have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me at 405-424-1018. Thank you and looking forward to a wonder year of Celebrations!!

Linda Richardson

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CWU OKLAHOMA CITY CHAPTER Supports

SOAR OICA (Supporting Offenders Achieving Reintegration) (Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy) Phyllis Byerly, Coordinator Linda Terrell, Executive Director 337 S.E. 46th Street 3909 N. Classen Blvd, Suite 101 Oklahoma City, OK 73129 Oklahoma City, OK 73118 405-632-7574 405-236-5437 www.oica.org

SOAR needs the use of church vans or buses, drivers and some OICA needs your participation and donations on behalf of volunteers to help transport children to visit their incarcerated children, youth and families. mothers.

Church Women United is a racially, culturally, and theologically inclusive ecumenical Christian women’s movement, celebrating unity in diversity and working for a world of peace and justice. Founded in 1941, Church Women United (CWU) is:

 a movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic Orthodox and other Christian women;  biblically based, shared Christian faith;  organized into more than 1,200 local and state units working for peace and justice in the and ;  supported by constituents in state and local units and denominational women’s organizations;  impassioned by the Holy Spirit to act on behalf of women and children throughout the world; and  recognized as a non-governmental organization by the United Nations.

CHURCH WOMEN UNITED ANNUAL SUPPORT FORM

Church or Individual Name Telephone Email

Address/City/State Zip Code

Enclosed is $______toward Church Women United of Greater Oklahoma City for 2010. Make checks payable to: GREATER OKC CWU

MAIL TO: Loma Sullivan, Treasurer, 4020 NW 30 St., Oklahoma City, OK 73112

PLEASE ALLOW YOUR CHURCH TO HOST A CELEBRATION SERVICE OR ANNUAL MEETING.

Church Contact Name Telephone Email

Permission is granted for use of any and/or all material in this newsletter for your local church publications for the purpose of information only. CHURCH WOMEN UNITED OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY Officers and Board Members December 2013

OFFICE NAME PHONE TERM ENDS EMAIL CHURCH

President Linda Richardson 405-424-1018 Grace Lutheran, ELCA 2013 [email protected] Secretary Loretta Tilden 405-427-3661 St. Mark Lutheran, 2013 [email protected] ELCA Treasurer Loma Sullivan Disciples of Christ 2013 [email protected] Nominations Committee: 2013 Naomi Walker 405-741-0599 St. Mary’s CME

Appointed Officers: Newspaper Editor Sandra Harris-Johnson 405-412-6750 Church on the Rock [email protected]

DENOMINATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

AME Joy Mennonite Sadie Mast Baptist Missionary Baptist CME Melvina Fortune Missouri Synod Lutheran Community of Christ Karen Buntin Presbyterian Barbara Robinson Christian (Disciples of Christ) Jane Vogt Progressive Baptist Episcopal ELCA Evangelical Lutheran Loretta Tilden Southern Baptist Friends Karen Spalding Full Gospel United Methodist Lucille Hodges Please consider being a representative for your denomination. Call Linda Richardson for more details at 405-424-1018.

THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CHURCHES FOR THEIR ANNUAL SUPPORT

CWU OKLAHOMA CITY CHAPTER Supporters

New Covenant Christian Church St. Marks Lutheran Church Crown Heights Christian Church Southminster Presbyterian Church Ridgecrest St. Mary’s C.M.E. Church Society of Friends Church St. Matthews United Methodist Church St. Mark’s United Methodist New Hope Christian Church Putnam City United Methodist Church

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CHURCH WOMEN UNITED OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY

P.O. BOX 194

OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73101

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Celebrations Schedule Save The Dates

DAY OF PRAYER  May 4, 2013 – May Friendship Day 9:00 a.m. Saturday, March 2, 2013  July 13, 2013 – Human Rights Redeemer Lutheran

1524 NE Grand Blvd  November 2, 2013 – World Community Day Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73117

Ecumenical Missions

Conference June 9 – June 12, 2013 Mount Sequoyah Fayetteville, AR 72701 800-760-8126

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