News and Upcoming Events
Christy Chermak Speaker At UMW General Meeting, September 26th
UMW is pleased to have Christy Chermak speak to us about her mission time in Haiti and Costa Rica. Christy has graciously agreed to come to Austin from Dallas for this presentation! She will be focusing on Haiti with an emphasis on women and children.
We will meet in the Wesley Room at noon on September 26th after the 11:00 service. Please bring a salad to share, and the hostesses, Lanelle Montgomery and Bobbye Meek, will provide the dessert and beverages. The program will follow immediately.
We welcome everyone--whether you are a UMW member or not, male or female. Childcare is provided with a 48 hour in advance reservation through the church office.
United Methodist Women 2010 Awards
Each year Lake Travis United Methodist Women selects a woman or women to be honored with their very highest award-the Mission Recognition Pin. Since UMW is outward focused, these recipients are women in our unit who have over some time been active in mission outreach, and the award is acknowledgment of their service. This year three women have received the Mission Recognition Pin.
Sharon Rush has served our unit in various offices, been one of the orginal framers of the Hallelujah benefits, has been our continuing unit secretary in addition to serving our church community with flu shots for several years. Sharon called at the beginning of planning for this year's benefit and offered to head up the dinner preparations so we could generate more profits. Sharon has chaired several other dinners recently that also were outreach or benefit efforts. This has dramatically increased our total net monies this year by 20% since we didn't need to pay a caterer or servers.
Debby Duplantis, our unit's membership chair, has served throughout the church as member at large of Administrative Council, as the council secretary for several years, served as Treasurer of UMW, and has always been on the Hallelujah benefit teams. Debby, with her husband, Bob, have also served as organizers of Great People. This year Debby, along with Stephanie Buscemi, organized and led the all church women's retreat. Debby also joined Sharon in the kitchen cooking and serving to increase this year's benefit results.
Patti Ruth became President a year ago this past January, and she has made multiple significant contributions to the Lake Travis UMW. Patti has added two Circles to the one we already had boosting membership dramatically. Patti has also revived a women’s retreat for the Church that was held at Canyon of the Eagles the past two years. Patti is the one who had the idea for “A Simple Supper” at Lenten time and the morning Wednesday Circle has been in charge of that. UMW also picked up the Family Advent Activity luncheon and program at the urging of Patti. As if this isn’t all enough, Patti is the one who has taken Hearts and Hallelujahs to new heights by steering and chairing this event into an evening fundraiser with a dinner-dance and silent auction. All proceeds go to local missions or charity organizations. This year alone $8500 was raised and is being distributed throughout the community.
UMW Annual Conference Luncheon
Education: A Hand Up
Speaker: Dr. Linda Villarreal
Executive Director of Regional Improvement of the Corpus Christi Education Service Center
June 3, 2010 at 12:15
American Bank Center, 1901 Shoreline Dr. Corpus Christi
Adults - $20, May 21-28 - $22
There will be no tickets sold after May 28, 2010
Make Checks payable to UMW and send to
Betty Bell, registrar
4522 Stonegate Way, Corpus Christi, TX 78411-4827
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