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UMW Reading Program

The UMW Reading Program is designed to help each woman set goals to read books that fall into the four Mission areas of emphasis:
   Education
   Spiritual Growth
   Social Action
   Nurturing for Community.

There are four Reading Program Plans:

Plan I - read 4 books each year, 1 from each category.  Books may be chosen from the current list or from lists from the 5 previous years.  Youth books are included.  In addition to reading the books, regular reading of Response is required.

Plan II - read 10 books each year, at least 2 from each category.  Books may be chosen from the current list or from lists from the 5 previous years.  Youth books are included.  In addition to reading the books, regular reading of Response and New World Outlook is required.

Plan III - read 15 books each year, 8 books with at least 2 from each category and 7 additional books from any category.  Books may be chosen from the current list or from lists from the 5 previous years.  Youth and children's books are included.  In addition to reading the books, regular reading of Response and New World Outlook is required.

Plan IV - read 20 books each year, 8 books with at least 2 from each category and 12 additional books from any category.  Books may be chosen from the current list or from lists from the 5 previous years.  Youth and children's books are included.  In addition to reading the books, regular reading of Response and New World Outlook is required.

    

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2007 Book Selections
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These selections are in our library.

NURTURING FOR COMMUNITY SELECTIONS:

Belonging by Lucinda Mosher
Giving Good Gifts: The Spiritual Journey of Parenthood by Goerge E. Conway

SPIRITUAL GROWTH SELECTIONS:
Awakening the Spirit, Inspiring the Soul: 30 Stories of Interspiritual Discovery, Brother Wayne Teasdale and Martha Howard, editors

SOCIAL ACTION SELECTIONS:
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
The Dispossessed..the Desterrados of Columbia by Alfredo Molano

SPIRITUAL GROWTH SELECTIONS:
Courageous Spirit: Voices from Women in Ministry, Pamela Hawkins, Marion Jackson and Susan Ruach, Editors
Faith & Feminism: A Holy Alliance by Helen L. Hunt
    

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2006 Book Selections

Here is a list of all the books you can read to complete your Reading Program.  The books that we have ordered and are in our library are shown in Green.  Get Going!

 

General Issue Study

Public Education: Isues and Challenges
Mary Grace Lyman

Georgraphic Study

India & Pakistan
Glory Dharmaraj

Spiritual Growth Study

Children of the Bible: Twelve Stories
Rev Linda Hollies, Stephanie and Maggie Biggs-Scribner

Education for Mission

Africa: Lord Hang Onto Me and Don't Let Go
Martha Oldham

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Zinran

Hearing God's Call: Ways of Discernment for Laity and Clergy
Ben Campbell Johnson

Madame Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter
Mari-Luci Jaramillo

Minding God's Business: TheStories of Women in Mission in The United Methodist Church
Megan Demarest Simpson and Robert Drew Simpson

My Indian Jatra: Half a Century Life in India
Frances Major

Rwanda: The Land God Forgot?
Meg Guillebaud

The Tears of My Soul
Sokreaksa S. Himm

William Shepard: Congo's African American Livingstone
William E. Phipps

Nurturing for Community

Ashes Transformed: Healing from Trauma
Tilda Norberg

Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Elva Trevino Hart

Battling Prostate Cancer: Getting from "Why Me" to "What Next"
Marvin A. McMickle

Beyond Green and Cornbread: Reflections on African American Christian Identity
Diane Givens Moffett

Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey
Mitchell Zuckoff

Dancing with Words: Storytelling as Legacy, Culture, and Faith
Ray Buckley

The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permission Parenting and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children
Robert Shaw, MD

If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians
Neenah Ellis, Editor

The Long Good Night: My Father's Journey Into Alzheimer's
Daphne Simpkins

O Lord, Hold our Hands: How a Church Thrives in a Multicultural World
Nibs Stroupe and Carolien Leach

The Practice of Loving Kindness: A Guide to Spiritual Fulfillment and Social Harmony
Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

Thriving Marriages: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Lasting Happiness
John Yzaguirre, PhD and Claire Frazier-Yzaguirre, MFT, M.Div.

When My Name was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in World War II
Linda Sue Park

Wither ThouGoest?  You've Got to Be Kidding! A Minister's Wife Speaks Out
Carolyn Gray Thornton

Women on War: An International Anthology ofWritings from Antiquity to the Present
Daniela Gioseffi

Social Action

The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans
Beth Shulman

Blood Done Sign my Name: A true Story
Timothy B. Tyson

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Thom Hartmann

Nature's Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth
Ed McGaa, Eagle Man

Race and Resistance: African Americans in the 21st Century
Herb Boyd, Editor

Shafted: Free Trade and America's Working Poor
Christine Ahn, Editor

Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
Derrick Bell

Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements
Janice Love

Spiritual Perspectives on America's Role as SuperPower
Skylight Paths, Editors

This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader
Joan Dye Gussow

To Educate is To Teach to Live: Women's Struggles Towards Higher Education
Barbara E. Campbell

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

Spiritual Growth

52 Hymn Story Devotions
Lucy Neeley Adams

101 Devotionals with Children
June Galle Krehbiel

Home is Always the Place you Just Left: A Memoir of Restless Longing and Persistent Grace
Betty Smartt Carter

Joshua's Bible: A Novel
Shelly Leanne

The Leading Women: Stories of the First Women Bishops of the United Methodist Church
Judity Craig, Editor

Living Sacrifices: For Those Dying to Rise to a Life Worth Giving
James Haywood Rolling, Jr.

Miriam, Mary & Me: Biblical Stories Retold for Children and Adults
Lois Miriam Wilson

Paths to Prayer: Finding Your Own Way to the Presence of God
Patricia D. Brown

Prairie Wisdom: Reflections on Life in the Dakotas
Michael J. Coyner

Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth
Andrew J. Weaver and Monica Furlong, Editors

Susanna Wesley: A Mother with a Difference
Dorothy Sampath Kumar

Thrive!: 7 Strategies for Extraordinary Living
Felicia T. Scott

Words of Fire, Spirit of Grace
R. Grace Imathiu

Children's Books - Education for Mission

The Goat Lady
Jane Bregoli

Children's Books - Nurturing for Community

My Name is Yoon
Helen Recorvits

Say Something
Peggy Moss

Welcome, Brown Bird
Mary Lyn Ray

Children's Books - Social Action

The Carpet Boy's Gift
Pegi Deitz Shea

Children's Books - Spiritual Growth

Am I Praying?
Jeannie St. John Taylor

God Gave Me
Wade Hudson

You Wouldn't Love Me if You Knew
Jeannie St. John Taylor

Youth Books - Education for Mission

Year of No Rain
Alice Mead

Youth Books - Nurturing for Community

Be Healthy! It's a Girl Thing: Food, Tisness and Feeling Great
Maris Jukes and Lilian Cheung

Bird
Angela Johnson

The Noonday Friends
Mary Stolz

See Jane Win for Girls: A Smart Girl's Guide to Success
Dr. Sylvia Rimm

Youth Books - Social Action

Linda Brown, You are Not Alone: The Brown V. Board of Education Decision
Joyce Carol Thomas

Over It: A Teen's Guide to Getting Beyong Obsessions with Food and Weight
Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee Roark

Youth Books - Spiritual Growth

Journey of Love: Essays to Help Teens Find God's Purpose for Relationships
Val J. Peter

Who Am I?: Exploring what It Means to Be a Child of God
Katherine Paterson

Youth Studies- General Issue Study

I Dream of a School: Mission Study on Public Eucation
Martha Bettis Gee

Youth Studies- Spiritual Growth Study

Children of the Bible
Craig Mitchell

 

 

    

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