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Important Announcements:
The H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People’s Empowerment) Network

 

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What is the H.O.P.E. Network?
H.O.P.E (Helping Other People’s Empowerment) Network.
 
Purpose of the H.O.P.E Network:
 
The purpose of the H.O.P.E. Network is to raise funds for the building and maintenance of the Elnora P. Hamb Women’s Missionary Council Library and Conference Center.
 
The Aim of the H.O.P.E. Network
 
The aim of the H.O.P.E. Network is to lift our families out of poverty by education; sharing their gifts, talents and skills to become self-sufficient; to help train our ministers for greater service; and provide computers labs and a library to service the community.
 
Location:
 
The location of the Elnora P. Hamb Women’s Missionary Council Library and Conference Center will be on the campus of the Breeding-Montgomery Bible College in Nigeria.
 
Building Information
 
The building will consist of two stories.
  • The second floor will have 32 sleeping units for 16 women and 16 men, and a library.
  • The first floor will have computer labs, classrooms, a conference room, and cafeteria.
 
The estimated building cost is $100,000.00
 
What you can do to help the H.O.P.E. Network:
 
We are requesting: 
  • For each Region to furnish one room in the Elnora P. Hamb Women’s Missionary Council Library and Conference.
  • For each missionary to pay $5 towards the project.  Please send or give $5 to the Region President.  The target date for the Region President to report funds is the 2008 Annual CME Convocation.
  • For donations for the following items to purchase:
    • Tables, chairs and books
    • Computers and computer desks
 
YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!
 
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Contact Mrs. Hilda Murphy – Buie Secretary if you'd to purchase the 2008 Calendar. They will make wonderful Christmas presents. Mrs. Hilda Buie can be reached by telephone at: 229-758-5523.

Please do not miss this opportunity to purchase this historical document!

 
      
   CME BISHOPS PREPARE FOR WORLD AIDS DAY
WITH PUBLIC HIV TEST
 
Challenge African Americans to Test 1 Million by World AIDS Day 2008
By Alyssa Shepherd Moore

CME College of Bishops and Women's Missionary Council President show members how easy it is to take an HIV Test.  Photo by Marty Frierson.

 
Las Vegas, NV – During their national conference in Las Vegas, the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church College of Bishops and the Women's Missionary Council President showed church members how easy it is to take an HIV Test by demonstrating the test themselves.  In preparation for World AIDS Day (December 1, 2007) the national leadership of the CME Church is challenging their 800,000 members, as well as African Americans nationwide, to join the “1 in a Million” campaign, a call-to-action for 1 million Black Americans to get screened for HIV by December 1, 2008 (World AIDS Day).
 
AIDS is the leading cause of death for Black women aged 25-34 years old and according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are over 260,000 people in the U.S. infected with HIV who don’t know they are infected.
 
The CME Church, a historically African American Christian denomination, met in Las Vegas for their 21st Annual Convocation and will celebrate their 137th anniversary in December 2007. The CME Church shares a common doctrinal history and heritage with other Methodist and Wesleyan bodies.  It claims more than 800,000 members across the United States, and has missions and sister churches, schools and health clinics in Haiti, Jamaica, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria.  Spiritual and executive administrative leadership of the CME Church is provided by its College of Bishops, which consists of ten active and three retired Bishops. Each active Bishop presides over a geographical area known as an Episcopal District. The CEO and senior Bishop, William H. Graves of Memphis, Tennessee, has led in this initiative of HIV awareness throughout the community.
 
In the convention center of the hotel, Chris Reynolds, Disease Investigation Intervention Specialist II from the Southern Nevada Health District administered the test to the CME College of Bishops and the Missionary Society President to show how easy and painless it is to test for HIV; and to draw attention to the high rate of HIV/AIDS in Black communities across this country.   Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr., Chair of the CME College of Bishops, stated that, “It is urgent for the Black church to take the leadership in the HIV/AIDS testing initiative throughout our nation.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Elnora P. Hamb, CME Women's Missionary Council President demonstrates HIV Test. Photo by Marty Frierson.

 
Dr. Elnora P. Hamb, the CME Women's Missionary Council
President, is spearheading the HIV outreach along with
National Health Coordinator Rudine Phelps under the
direction of Balm in Gilead.  Their foot soldiers are 10
regional health coordinators who represent each of the
10 CME Episcopal Districts. 
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                  World AIDS Day (WAD) Kit

                  Episcopal Health Coordinators

 
 
 
Officers for 2007-2011 
 
President:  Dr. Elnora P. Hamb
Vice President:  Mrs. Princess Pegues
Recording Secretary:  Mrs. Daisy Banks
Assistant Secretary:  Ms. Theresa Duhart
Editor: Ms. Rita Washington 
Treasurer:  Mrs. Emogene Crittenden 
Immediate Past President: Dr. Judith E. Grant
President Emeritus:  Dr. Sylvia M. Faulk
Patron Bishop:  Bishop Lawrence L. Reddick, III
Episcopal Past Patron: Bishop Nathiel L. Linsey
 
DIVISION LEADERS AND DEPARTMENT SECRETARIES
Division I - Structure:  Mrs. Jacqueline Scott
Rossie T. Hollis:  Ms. Heidi Faulk
Mattie E. Coleman:  Mrs. Deresser Armstrong 
Phyllis H. Bedford:  Mrs. Loretta Helton  
Organization & Promotion:  Mrs. Hilda M. Buie  
Pauline B. Grant Status of Women:  Mrs. Bettye J. Brown-Cooper   
 
Division II - Program: Mrs. Gladys Stern
Literature & Publication: Mrs. Laura Anderson-Holloway
Spiritual Life and Message:  Mrs. Catherine Jewel-Gill 
Missionary Education:  Mrs. Christine Buchanan  
Secretary, Fine Arts:  Mrs. L. Geraldine Smith   
 
Division II I - Service & Outreach:  Mrs. Kimberly Harris 
Overseas Mission: Mrs. Lola Strayhorn  
Hunger & Meals for Millions:  Mrs. Wardner E.Polk
 
Committee Chairpersons: 
Annual Conference Presidents:  Mrs. Ira Scott Benson
Constitution & By-Laws:  Ms. Susie Owens
Finance:  Mrs. Carol Ferrell
Nominations:  Mrs. Donna Mayes 
Credentials:  Mrs. Fay Walker 
Life Memvership:  Mrs. Sarah Farris
Resolutions:  Ms. Velma Lois Jones
Compilation and Statistics:  Mrs. Evelyn Gosey
 
Commissions:
Christian Social Relations:  Mrs. Theonis K. Guyton  
Health Initiative:  Mrs. Rudine Phelps 
Communications:  Ms. Rita Washington 
Education:  Mrs. Princess Pegues  
Historical: Dr. Sylvia Faulk
Public Relations Secretary:  Ms. Vanessa Church
 
Affiliate Organizations:
American Bible: Mrs. Alice Addison
National Council of Negro Women: Dr. BesterBonner
Church Women United: Dr. Marie Sweet
World Federation of Methodist & Uniting Church Women: Mrs. Belvia J. Strickland
Bread for the Word:  Mrs. Annie Brown   
 
Episcopal Missionary Institute Directors  
First: Mrs. Jacqueline I. Scott 
Second: Mrs.Ida Suggs 
Third: Mrs. Fay L. Walker 
Fourth: Mrs. Anner Gatewood 
Fifth: Mrs. Edith Bryant
Sixth: Mrs. Jacqueline F. Henry 
Seventh: Mrs. G.Bernice Richardson 
Eighth: Mrs. Sue Alexander 
Ninth:  Mrs. Renee Woodruff 
Tenth:  Mrs. Umoh NKanaga Mike

Quadrennial Theme:  "Christian Missionaries: A Light of Hope in a Troubled World"

 

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Last updated:  05/03/2008