The information was taken from the UMW Prayer Calendar, so if you use your P.C. daily, you can easily keep up with the observances. However, if you need a concise resource, I think this will help. By staying in touch with what's coming "next month," you can prepare handouts or articles for your Unit.
Notice that January is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. I think you will still have time to contact Homeland Security, ICE Headquarters and Refuge City: 781-733-8430 or send an e-mail to refugecity@refuge-city.org, which are detailed in the information below.
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Monthly
Calendar of Observances (daily dates not yet available)
According
to UMW Prayer Calendar
Ideas for Social Action Emphases 2014
(Events
listed in right column are staged by Texas or NTC UMW)
January
NTC Spiritual Life Retreat, Jan. 10-11
Texas
Legislative Event, Jan. 26-28
Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Human Relations Day
February Black History Month
UMW and Charter for Racial Justice
Racial Justice Event
March National Women’s History Month
World Day of Prayer
International Women’s Day
One Great Hour of Sharing
April National Child Abuse Prevention Month UMW Assembly, Apr. 25-27
May
National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
National Day of Prayer
United Methodist Heritage Day and Aldersgate Day
Peace with Justice Sunday
June NTC UMC Annual Conference, June 1-3
World Day against Child Labor
July NTC
UMW Mission U and weekend U
August
International Day of World’s Indigenous People
September
International Day of Prayer for Peace
October Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
NTC UMW Annual Conference/Celebration
World Food Day
United Nations Day
November Native American Heritage Month
December
World AIDS Day
International Human Rights Day
International Migrants Day
NTC
UMW 2014 Annual Mission Project:
“Get
to Know Our National Mission Institutions”
Further information from Debra Oldham, NTC E&I Mission Coordinator;
Further information from Debra Oldham, NTC E&I Mission Coordinator;
12919
FM 981, Blue Ridge TX 75424
RESOURCES
This list provides agency information that you may
find useful for yourself and also to gather material to distribute among your
Unit membership and church women. It is not by any means an exhaustive list.
Most of the publications listed here are available from the agency, without
charge.
Human
Trafficking:
Racial
Justice:
UMW publication “The United Methodist Women Racial
Justice Time Line”
UMW Publication “Charter for Racial Justice”
Children’s
Advocacy:
Children’s Advocacy Center
for your county
Darkness to Light,
an international nonprofit committed to educating communities on ways to
Hunger:
Church World Service
has all kinds of materials—from text-like brochures to placemats, many of which
are free: www.churchworldservice.org.
Stop Hunger Now
is an international hunger-relief organization and is an Advance Project of the
UMC, #982795; www.stophungernow.org;
local contact is Billy Taylor, community development director DFW, btaylor@stophungernow.org.
Social
issues:
Information about issues that are being addressed—or
that need to be addressed—by our Texas legislature can be found at Texas Impact.org
on-line. Most of you are familiar with this faith-based agency that leads our
annual Legislative Event in Austin. They have up-to-date information on all social
issues in Texas and many resources, including knowledgeable speakers.
512-472-3903; www.texasimpact.com.
International
Day of Prayer for Peace: There is always a
great deal of information online about this observance, specific facts as well
as prayers written for the day. Just type the title in your browser.
SOCIAL
PRINCIPLES OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:
booklet available from Cokesbury. There is a charge for this small book but it
is an excellent tool for individual reference and group study with official
text and teaching exercises plus Our Social Creed. (I have prepared an
abbreviated piece that is available on my blog.)
WHY
SHOULD I GET INVOLVED IN SOCIAL ISSUES?
Brochure available from UMW Mission
Resource Center.
UNIVERSAL
DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
UNIVERSAL
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD.
Both of these declarations can be found through the University
of Minnesota human rights store on-line:
https://hrstore.law.umn.edu/catalog/. And both can be purchased in packets of 50 (passport size) for around $15. (The text of Rights of the Child can be found on-line by typing the title into the browser window. This document isn’t prohibitively long and could be reformatted for a single page.)
https://hrstore.law.umn.edu/catalog/. And both can be purchased in packets of 50 (passport size) for around $15. (The text of Rights of the Child can be found on-line by typing the title into the browser window. This document isn’t prohibitively long and could be reformatted for a single page.)
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