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NEW SOUTH DISTRICT FIVE STAR
SECRETARY

T GIVER
his will be my first year as

A
Secretary on the Leadership Team.
FIVE-STAR GIVER is an individual-man or woman, UMW member
I have previously served as the Vice
or non-UMW member, who gives to all five channels of Mission giving:
President and Chair of the
$40.00 to give someone special a Special Mission Recognition (SMR)
Committee on Nominations. I
Pin $ 5.00 Pledge to Mission $ 5.00 Gift to Mission card $ 5.00 Gift in
most recently served as Chair of
Memory card $ 5.00 World Thank Offering $60.00 Total amount paid
the Central Texas Conference
to local treasurer as a one-time gift.
Committee on Nominations. I
As a Five-Star Giver, I needed to decide on who that “someone special”
became a member of the
was for the SMR pin. My thought immediately came to the decision of
FUMC-Belton UMW in 2002 and
our Wellspring UMW Vice President, Tammy Walton. She has done an
Served as the President from
outstanding job as our VP and getting us involved in Mission around
2006-2015. I was born in McCook
Georgetown. So, during the South District UMW Annual Meeting at
Nebraska and attended Nebraska
Temple First UMC this year, I presented it to Tammy. A very dear friend
Wesleyan University, my first
experience with the Methodist

church. I Received my Masters in
Social Work from the University of

Nebraska. My working career was
broken up by my husband’s

assignments overseas in Thailand,

Laos, and Japan. My work focused
on adults, mentally and emotional

challenged. I retired from clinical
social work in 1996 when my

husband and I moved to Temple,
TX to be near family. My hope, as

secretary, is to keep good records
and share my love for all that

UMW has to offer our members. .