FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS

 The East Central District  annual meeting was held virtually on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Thanks to hard working officers they put together a very good meeting and calmly hung in when there was a problem. There were 8 churches and 48 people on the meeting. 

 Sorry, I didn't think to take pictures from my computer screen at first. Margarite Overs did the prayer calendar and it was about orphanages in China. She share pictures and stories of her two adopted grandchildren from China, and her knowledge of orphanages having worked in China for 5 years. 

 The program began with different people reading scripture from Geneses about the life of Joseph. It was followed with breakout groups. They had put us in groups of about 7 so we could have discussion. Our goals were to get to know each other, share scriptures we each had been emailed, think how it related to scripture from Geneses and how it applied to UMW. After a set amount of time we all came back together and each group shared. The main idea is as United Methodist Women we continue to have faith and spread the love of God through our actions even through a time such as this.  Know that God has a plan, continue going forward.

Churches and individuals were recognized for being 5 Star Units, Rainbow Givers, Mission Today Unit and for doing the UMW  Reading Program. Our Clermont unit and many of our members were recognized in each of these. Thanks to all of our leaders and all of our participation, keep up the good work. 

Anne Winn gave a  President's Award to  Janet Blume. A sapphire special recognition pin was presented to her for all the behind the scene work she does for our East Central District. Her work was definitely evident in the success of this meeting.

A memorial service was done with pictures of each member who has past away this year. There were a few more from our unit, but it started before I thought about taking the pictures, sorry to those I missed:  Muriel Arey and  Lee Ferman.

Marilyn Williams

Helen Newton

Jane McClintock

Dottie Foreman

Rosemary Yoder

The business meeting was then called to order by Anne Winn. The budget was reduced to $40,000 as requested by the conference. Nominations for officers were presented by Ladye Cox, after voting, they were installed.  Our unit's members are well represented on the District level with Janet Blume as secretary, Pat Harrell as Program Resources and Dottie Mathias on nominations.

Anne did an excellent job of keeping this meeting moving along and following the time schedule ending the meeting at 12:00.  A poll was taken and most enjoyed the program and liked having it done by Zoom. Thanks to all the work behind the scenes that went into making it a very successful ECD annual meeting.