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Thanks to all who made our 100th anniversary year a success!
We look forward to this new year with YOU in a new century!
See you on May 4th and May 5th at World Day of Prayer!
Click HERE for Anniversary Report!
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What is Church Women United? |
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CWU is a racially, culturally and theologically inclusive Christian women’s movement, celebrating unity in diversity and working for a world of peace and justice. CWU represents over 25 million Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women.
LOCALLY: On February 26, 1910, 26 women representing 20 churches in Erie met in the home of Mrs. Allis, hoping to form a federation to include all missionary interests in the city of Erie. They did so under the leadership of Miss Sarah A. Reed as first President and named themselves the Women's Missionary Federation. Over the years, the federation changed in name until in 1973 when it was known as the Department of United Church Women of the Erie Council of Churches became the Erie Local Unit of Church Women United.
NATIONALLY: From December 11-13, 1941, 100 women from three interdenominational women's groups met in Atlantic City, NJ to form the United Council of Church Women (UCCW). That Council represented women from seventy Protestant denominations who had been involved with the Council of Women for Home Missions, the Committee on Women's Work of the Foreign Missions Conference, and the National Council of Federated Church Women. UCCW began as a movement of prayer, action and advocacy by Christian women to express their unity of Jesus Christ.
Click here to visit the National Church Women United website
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World Day of Prayer
Friday, March 4th at 1:00 PM
Saturday, March 5th at 1:00 PM
San Juan United Methodist Church
1430 Buffalo Road ~ Erie
Women, men and children in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer on Friday, March 4, 2011. In Erie, join Church Women United in this year’s worship service written by the women of Chile for families in need worldwide.
Invite your friends, family and communities of faith to join in prayer and song to support women’s worldwide ecumenical ministries toward justice, peace, healing and wholeness.
World Day of Prayer was founded on the idea that prayer and action are inseparable in the service of God’s kingdom, so let us reach out our hands and hearts to touch the lives of sisters and brothers in Chile and around the world. |
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