Fields United Methodist Women is an organized group of thirty-seven members with great support from the church family. The group meets once a month except during July and August, and months of special events such as dinners.

The first concern is the pledge to missions. All pledged money given by members is used for this purpose and other mission projects as listed on attached budget.

Another priority is meeting the needs of others both in and out of the church membership. An attempt is made to remember all church folks at the time of illness or bereavement. The United Methodist Women plans and provides for all social activities within the church unless some other group is sponsoring an event. The UMW also assists with any projects of the church.

The group uses all United Methodist program materials, books, special programs and supports all district, conference and national projects. There are two subscriptions to Response magazine.

We have met the requirements for a Six-Star Unit for this year since we gave to the six areas of undesignated giving and received a certificate for this. The six areas are World Thank Offering, Gifts in Memory, Gift to Mission, Special Mission Recognition, Pledge to Mission and Candle Burning. We also qualified for a Silver Mission Unit Today certificate for meeting certain criteria set up by the district and conference. We are grateful to all the church family for their support in helping us achieve these honors.

This year marked the tenth consecutive year we have selected monthly Mission Honorees. A gift is sent to missions each month in honor of a member of the congregation to recognize his/her contribution to the life of the church.
We sponsored “Children’s Sabbath” on October 21st. Children, young people and lay members led the worship. The service was a “kick-off” for our sponsorship of the church’s mission project for Lighthouse Children’s Center at Furnace Church. We have been participating in their Santa project for families in need for several years and are adding an ongoing aluminum recycling project as well as the support by donations from our church and individual members.

The primary source of income for carrying out the district and local mission projects, other than the pledge, is sponsoring two dinners, one in September and one in February and serving the retired teachers dinner in May.

Activities are as follows:
Sent remembrances to ill or bereaved
Presented gifts to honorees on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day
Paid membership to district
Served Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper - February
Observed Call to Prayer and Self-Denial in February
Paid pledge to district to date ($510.51)
Send used postage stamps and Campbell labels for mission projects
Participated in Candle Burning Project for district
Continued to collect Blackstone Offering (10 cents per member per month)
Hosted dinner for the graduates
Presented devotional books to one college graduate and one high school graduate
Sent 13 sewing kits to Annual Conference
Sent $20 memorial gifts for deceased church members
Sent $25 donation for Weekday Religious Education dinner
Provided $100 for Fields Children’s Fund
Provided $100 for Fields Youth
Assisted with Food for Friends program sponsored by Ministerial Association with food and workers
Made available $200 for Minister’s Discretionary Fund
Sponsored Fall Dinner and Bazaar with proceeds going to mission projects
Sponsored church wide project for Jones Ministry in Ecuador
Supported children’s ministry by donating to Gus the Bus Reading Program
Assisted Girl Scout Troops collecting food for Page One
The church and UMW have taken as a project the Lighthouse Children’s Center at Furnace United Methodist.

Sent fifty dollars to each of the following projects:

St. Andrew’s Potato Project
Camp Overlook
Kingsway Ministries
Lighthouse Children’s Center
Henry Fork

The following activities will be completed by the end of the year:

Send gifts to shut-ins at Christmas
Send gifts to Western State for Christmas
Send donations to United Methodist Family Services
Thank Offering program in November
Send $200 donation to Page One
Send $50 donation to Choices
Send $50 donation to Red Bird Mission

Final financial report will be available after end of year.


Lena Kite
President