In Remembrance 2022

CENTRAL NORTH

Friendship, Porter

    Susanne Belisle

    Dealie Gideon

    Dorothy McClain

    Kathryn McMillan

    Vivian Victor

John Wesley

    Nancy Kuhn

Lakewood

    Sudi Hamilton

    Hilarie Miller

    Amy Windsor

Rose Hill

     Janice Burns

NORTH DISTRICT

Concordia/Zion UM, Marshall

     Arletha Clough

Ebenezer UMC, Marshall

     Regina Beasley

     Jean Jordon

     Jo Etta Gray

     Mildred Mason

     Mary L. Taylor

     Nicole Williams

1st UMC, DeKalb

     Jody Gay

1st UMC, Jefferson

     Sis Owens

     Daisy Campbell

     Sue Swanson

     Freda Sullivan

     Mary McWilliams

     Norma Horn

     Lila Mapps

     Pat Taylor

1st UMC, Longview

     Ruth Flemister

     Betty Miller

Hardy Memorial UMC, Texarkana

     Barbara Bell

     Joyce Bell

     Linda Strickland

     Suzanne Wyner

Wesley UMC, Marshall

     Arnola Zabokrtsky

Winterfield UMC, Longview

     Evelyn Smith

     Frankie Herrin

EAST DISTRICT

Carthage

     Burke Tuey Davis

     Ann Thigpen

Crockett

     Elizabeth Bailey

     Aileen Bankhead

     Adelyn Duke

     Kathryn Rhodes

Jasper

     Belle Hall

     Bessie Hodges

     Shelly McDaniel

     Hazel Powell

     Mary Walker

Nacogdoches

     Mary Hicks

St. Paul’s

     Rachel Anderson

     Dorothy Clagett

     Sonja Guillory

     Mary Beth Hagood

     Dottie Johnson

     Carolyn Rouse

     Barbara Theis

     Edith Arnold

     Jane Czeschin

     Berta Plowman

     Marlene Yoder

SOUTHWEST

BARBARA ANOIL

PAT BELL

RITA BELL

MARCIE BUTCHER

JEAN WALT CARLSON

SUE CRONAN

BEVERLY JEAN DEERHAKE

NORMA EVANS

JO HALBERT

MIA HALL

SARA JAMES

JENNINE JOCHEC

BARBARA LEFLAR

VIVA PENNINGTON

LENA PINCKNEY

REBECCA RENCHER

MARY J. SCHARNBERG

SANDRA (SANDY) SMITH-WOODLOCK

JEAN SYPERT

Recognizing Beverly Rankin

READING PROGRAM

 

I want to recognize Beverly Rankin as continuing in the Reading Program. For the year 2020, she has read all 48 books listed. A certificate of completion will be mailed to her since no in person meetings are scheduled. Please congratulate her on this completed goal.

 

Lana Bowsher,

Program Resources Coordinator

Young Experience out SCJ in Oklahoma City

South Central Jurisdiction Experience

By Kennidi Bowsher

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The Young Women’s Group at SCJ

When my grandmother, Lana asked me to go with her to Oklahoma for the South Central Jurisdiction, I didn’t know what to expect. For past year I have been helping her with the Texas Conference doing her job, so I go to work with her most of the time. This was the first time I was going with her to a United Methodist Women event that I wasn’t helping her work. I was offered a scholarship from the Texas Conference to attend, which made it more daunting to me.

Most of the UMW events I have attended, I am the youngest and even though I love all the ladies I would love to see younger women my age. A few days before the event I received an email that there is going to be a room for Young Women and a special table for us. I am outgoing for most part but meeting new people can be scary for me but the first night I went into the young women room and met some lovely ladies. I also found out I was not the youngest but the oldest. We laughed and talked about things and I heard stories from older women about their Missions around the world and it just amazed me. Stories that I will take with me forever and never forget. The event made me bond with some wonderful ladies and to see there are younger women then me so into UMW.

Also, while there I got to attend a tour of some places that UMW money goes to help facilities operate in OKC. Went to a boys home where they help aged out boys of foster care, went to mental disability house, WIC clinic and a dental practice that helps the poor get their teeth fixed. It was so amazing walking into these places to see the changes they were doing for the people of OKC who need it. It was so touching and moving for me to meet some of these people and see how happy they were to have these places to get help.

Over all my experience at SCJ was the best and I am really looking forward to attending again in four years and I look forward to more young people attending and enjoying the event as I did.