May Friendship Day planned for May 6

The Church Women United Celebration called May Friendship Day is an annual event nationwide. This year it is scheduled on May 6 at First United Methodist Church, located at 115 Third St. S.E., beginning at 9:30 a.m. for coffee and breakfast snacks. Women and men from all faith congregations and other interested individuals are invited. The church is handicap accessible.

The theme, “Living Our Friendship, Passing on the Key,” centers around passing on “the key” and living friendships with each other. Looking at women in the Bible, like Miriam and the three women at the tomb, who actively and fearlessly shared that “key,” the good news, with their friends, people continue their mission still today.

The Fellowship of the Least Coin collection (a penny in the U.S.) is part of the May Friendship Day Celebration. When collected from women around the globe, the coins amount to many thousands of dollars and are spent in grants to alleviate women’s hardships and thus promote reconciliation and peace in the world. An offering is also taken for Safe Shelter to help with the needs of people in unsafe situations in their own homes. Over the past 70 years, Church Women United has been able to survive because of the many women who have shared their beliefs, their desire to create peace in communities, and their insistence to create equality for all women. Women continue to share their friendship by coming together to celebrate each other, to welcome and increase the number of those new to the movement and to remember those who have gone before.

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