United Methodist Women

Celebrating and empowering women in Congo

United Methodist leaders roll out microcredit opportunities and training to help women and girls persevere during COVID-19 and conflict in the region.

Local Church

Oretha Goyanvator receives a certificate during training led by United Methodist Women in Monrovia, Liberia. As part of the new Village Saving Scheme program, participants learned to make soap, detergent and sanitary pads to help them earn and save money during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by E Julu Swen, UM News.

Empowering women in Liberia amid COVID-19

UMW project teaches women to make soaps and sanitary pads to generate income and provide needed products in rural villages.

Local Church

The Rev. Frances Helen Foley Guest speaks at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., after receiving a distinguished alumni award in June 2002. The three and a half years she spent in a Japanese prison camp with her missionary parents helped shape her ministry. File photo by Kenneth J. Guest.

For this pastor, storytelling became a ministry

The late Rev. Frances Helen Guest used her early experience in a Japanese prison camp to create a lifetime ministry promoting peace and justice.

Local Church

A member of United Methodist Women learns to make cloth menstrual pads at the group’s annual gathering in Camphor Mission, Liberia. The women have launched a new program to make reusable sanitary pads locally, so that girls from rural areas don’t have to miss school during their menstrual cycles. Photo by Michael Boegley, The United Methodist Church in Liberia communications department.

UMW project helps rural girls stay in school

United Methodist Women in Liberia has launched a program to make reusable sanitary pads so that girls don’t have to miss school during their menstrual cycles.

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