Church Women United is a racially, culturally, theologically inclusive Christian women's movement celebrating unity in diversity and working for a world of peace and justice.
National Church Women United is an
ecumenical movement of Christian women active in over 1200 local and state
units.
Quadrennial Priorities
2021-2024
Justice and Righteousness
"The Lord God has told us what is right and
what he demands: 'See that justice is done, let mercy be your first
concern, and humbly obey your God.' ” Micah 6:8 CEV
Acting justly is
rooted in what is right as it relates to our relationship with God and
lived out in our relationship with each other and in our stewardship
over creation. God has shown us what is good and what is required to do
justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly (under God’s leadership). 4In
these days and times, the world has seen an increasingly public display
and demonstration of the many ways humans have found to harm one
another. Played out on a global scale from the highest of government
positions to the everyday-ness of what it means to be a neighbor, the
injustices of racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, unbridled capitalism,
and inequitable power have entrenched hatred and evil from our
foundational institutions to our interpersonal interactions. Church
Women United (CWU) has a special role to enact a distinct form of hope
into what could otherwise be seen as intractable despair.
CWU, as an organization and as a community of church
women, is poised to use its collective, regional, and local influence
and numbers to mobilize human, economic, legislative, and educational
capital for the focused purpose of cultivating mutual good for all human
beings – in other words – to bring about true justice as a foundation
for producing and protecting true peace.
The Action and Global
Concerns committee has found itself with a unique opportunity to create
anew an action plan to tackle some of what we’re calling, “momentum
points.” Momentum points are areas of content and strategy that lead to
building the momentum needed to dislodge the power of the status quo and
construct new ways of being for mutual human flourishing. Taking
seriously that no one organization can tackle all that needs to be
“fixed” in the world, we have constructed a template by which we can
methodically and intentionally address “momentum points” to garner the
greatest shifts toward justice; which can then be contextualized by
individual units who will work individually and in partnerships in their
areas. The following provides a template to be used as a guide toward
such work. May the blessings of God be with us and correct us as we do
the work of God in the world and become more and more who we’ve been
divinely created to be. Amen.
Singers Wanted
The Church Women United Ecumenical Choir needs singers to join our Choir
to sing for these upcoming events:
April 14,
2023 CWU Forum at Mt. Zion Baptist Church
8:30 am Choir
Practice
9:30 am to 11:30 am Program
May 5, 2023 CWU May Friendship Day
Celebration at First Congregational Church, UCC
8:30 am Choir
Practice
9:30-11:30 am Program
September 30, 2023 CWU State Assembly By Zoom
TBA Choir Practices June – September
TBA The Choir will record
the music for the Zoom meeting in advance of the September 30, 2023
meeting
Please R.S.V.P. your willingness to sing to:
Jenny Armstrong,
Director Church Women United Ecumenical Choir, jrgjra60@yahoo.com
Church Women United Forum
April 14, 2023 at 9:30 am
Topic: “The Power of Ecumenicalism: Working Together to Change our
World”
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
2019 Fisher St, Madison, WI 53713
Help Wanted
Church Women United Madison needs your help. We are seeking five Member
Church Clergy and five KEY WOMEN, to speak for 10 minutes each, on, “The
Power of Ecumenicalism: Working together to Change our World”, at our
annual Forum on April 14, 2023, at 9:30 am. If you would be willing to
serve as a speaker for this Forum, please contact:
Jenny
Armstrong, President
Church Women United Madison
1114 University
Bay Drive
Madison, WI 53705
Home Phone: (608) 233-1491
Cell
Phone: (608) 238-8424
E-Mail: jrgjra60@yahoo.com
CWU Madison
Phone: (608) 233-1491
CWU Madison Emails:
presidentcwumadison@gmail.com
Contact@ChurchWomenUnited-Madison.net
Ecumenicalism*
The Concise
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, defines ecumenism as “the organized
attempt to bring about cooperation and unity among Christians”.
On
the international level, the World Council of Churches and “Evangelicals
and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium”
are examples of ecumenism.
Ecumenism has also been defined more
broadly as: “a movement that promotes worldwide unity among all
religions through greater cooperation”.
The ecumenical movement
seeks to recover the apostolic* sense of the early church for “unity in
diversity” and it confronts the frustrations, difficulties, and ironies
of the modern pluralistic world. “It is a lively reassessment of the
historical, sources and destiny of what followers perceive to be the
one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church of Jesus Christ.” (Erickson,
Milliard J., The Concise Dictionary of Theology (Revised Edition),
Crossway Books, 2001.)
*Apostolic
(def. Adj. belonging or relating to the early followers of Jesus Christ
and to their teaching)(Synonyms: ecclesiastical, ministerial, monastic,
pastoral, rabbinical, pious, religious, doctrinal, metaphysical,
pontifical, priestly, canonical, churchly, cleric, ecclesiastic,
episcopal, holy, monkish, papal, parsonical).
Apostle n. Synonyms
(advocate, champion, proponent, supporter, pioneer, propagandist,
apologist, booster, adherent, advocator, backer, believer, campaigner,
crusader, espouser, expounder, friend, gospeler, gospeller, herald,
hierophant, paladin, protagonist, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman,
tub thumper, upholder, propagator, companion converter devotee, high
priest, messenger, true believer, devotee, white knight, witness,
defender, patron, sponsor, partisan, protector, missionary, enthusiast,
proposer, pleader, follower, ally…more)
Ecumenical (adjective)
promoting or relating to unity among the world’s Christian Churches or
more broadly the world’s religions. The power of Ecumenicalism is unity
for the purpose of doing good and promoting the doing of good in our
shared world.
*def. n. the doctrine of the Ecumenical
movement that promotes cooperation and better
Climate Justice
Bob Lindmeier spoke on Climate Justice, October 7 at Dale
Heights Presbyterian Church
Left: Community Leadership Award Presented to Ada Deer by Lynn McDonald
Right: 2022 2022 Valiant Woman Award Presented to Jenny Armstrong
by Gloria Carter