UCW
Purpose of U.C.W.
To
unite all the women of the Congregation for the total mission of the church and
to provide a medium through which they may express their loyalty and devotion to
Jesus Christ in Christian witness, study, fellowship and service.
Aurora United Church currently has three active U.C.W. units. All women of the
church are welcome to attend any of the units for their program or to become
members. Monthly meetings consist of programs, short worship and social time and
often include guest speakers or outings. We invite you to come and meet us at
one of our meetings in the Founders’ room at the Church or attend one of our
group activities. To find out what the current month’s program is please call
the unit leader or check the church bulletin or newsletter.
Our
Units:
Seekers Unit
1st Monday of the
month at 1.30 p.m.
Call Yvonne Speck at 773-3280
Or Myrtle Truax at 895-8502
Wellspring Unit
2nd Tuesday of the
month at 1.00 p.m.
Call Marg Thiffault at 727-9008
Grace Unit
2nd Tuesday of the
month at 7.00 p.m.
Call
Paula Hanna 905-727-2584
Or Linda Hodgins
905-853-4527
Our Executive for
2010
Past President:
Nina Whalen and Doreen Hiltz
President: Paula Hanna and Pat Innes
Vice
President: open
Treasurer: Mary Cragg
Ass’t
Treasurer: Beth Humfries
Finance: Pat Innes
Secretary: Mary Smith
Social: Debra Wilson
Friendship: Mary Cragg
Supply and Social Aid: TBA
Christmas Stockings: Paula Hanna, Heather Sedore
Rummage Sale:
Fall
Event:
Some of our current works include:
► We hold a spring and fall
Rummage sale each year, providing outreach to the community by offering seasonal
clothing for sale at very low prices and also donate the monies raised to many
local and regional agencies.
► Many woman of the U.C.W.
participate in the main fund-raiser of the church, known as the Fall Event — by
crafting, baking, sewing, acting as chairs for individual sections of the event, setting up, cleaning up, selling,
working in the kitchen and so on to make it the success it is. This year we will
be having it in November with a new look!
► Approximately 300 Christmas
stockings were sewn and delivered to men, women, children and infants in York
Region.
Our congregational families fill
these stockings.
►We take an offering at each of
our monthly meetings for “Fellowship of the Least Coin”. This is an
international ecumenical movement of prayer for peace and justice. Each month we
donate our least coin as do others around the world with their least coin. The
money raised is used to respond to the human need around the world, and the
individual prayers offered by FLC participants create a strong force in the
global struggle for peace and reconciliation.
► Our Friendship Coordinator
sends out hundreds of cards a year to keep in touch with our AUC families and
UCW members in their time of need or time of celebration.
► UCW members also participate
in other outreach projects such as:
·
Collecting
Campbell’s soup labels
·
Pop tabs for
wheelchairs
·
Prescription
eyeglasses and non prescription sunglasses along with eye glass cases for the
Lions Club
·
Postage stamps for
The Leprosy Mission
·
Collection of
Dominion and Sobey’s grocery tapes
·
Collection of
small toiletries
►We participate in monthly, York
Presbyterial U.C.W meetings.
►We also participate in the
World Day of Prayer Service and are on a rotation to host it with other churches
in the Region. Mark your calendar!
► Within our own church we hold
a biennial U.C.W Sunday Service which is put on by our members and features a
U.C.W. choir.
.
Organizations
UCW will be supporting in 2008
·
M & S
Fund
·
A.U.C. Property
Committee
·
Community Home
Assistance to Seniors (C.H.A.T.S.)
·
Transitional and
Supportive Housing Services of York Region
· Welcoming Arms
·
Friends of
Shopping Bag Ladies (416 Centre)
·
Aurora Food
Pantry
·
Women’s Centre
of York Region
·
Girls Inc. of
York Region
·
Treasures
·
Sparrow Lake
Camp
·
Camp Big
Canoe
·
Hospice
King-Aurora
·
L’Arche
Daybreak
·
Rose of
Sharon
·
MATCH
International Centre
·
Gideon
Society
·
Camping
Opportunities Fund
·
York Region
Street Outreach
·
Sleeping
Children around the World
·
Sandgate Women’s
Shelter
·
Habitat for
Humanity
· York Child Development
& Family Services
(Georgina
Island)
· Yellow Brick House
·
Grandmothers to
Grandmothers (Stephen Lewis Foundation)
·
Inn from the
Cold
If you would
like more information about the U.C.W.,
go to the United
Church of Canada link below:
http://www.united-church.ca/ucw/vision.shtm |
