United Women in Faith (UMW)

UWF of First United Methodist Church, Los Alamos

Here is the latest New Mexico Conference Word Sower Newsletter 
Word Sower Summer 2023

Mission u – July 28-20, 2023 at Sacramento Camp and Assembly Center.
Missionu Registration Form 2023v1 (1)

CREATE & DISCOVER- Meet on second Thursday of each month

Meet on the second Thursday of the month at 7:15 p.m.      Location: TBA

We will be taking a summer break June, July, and August. 

All Book Up – September 

Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Our new reading year will begin with Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. Bluet is the last of the Kentucky Blues—real-life people born with blue skin in the dusty hills of Troublesome Creek. In 1936, nearly twenty years old and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for “respectability” and a marriage bed. Instead, she joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading materials to the poor hill communities.

Along her dangerous route, Bluet confronts many who are distrustful of her blue skin. Not everyone is so keen on Bluet’s family or the library project, and the impoverished country folk are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town.

Inspired by the real and historical blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the dedicated Pack Horse library service, Kim Michele Richardson provides an authentic Appalachian voice to a story of hope and heartbreak, raw courage and strength, and one woman’s chances beyond the dark woods of Troublesome Creek.

Mesa Public Library has a book, both Hoopla ebooks and audio books, mp3 book, and the Kindle book.  Both the  Kindle and the book are available in the United Women in Faith library.  We’ll discuss the book on Wednesday, September 13 at 10 a.m.

Enjoy your summer reading!

When: Second Wednesday at 10 (every two months with summer break)

Where: Friendship Center or Join us on Zoom.

MARTHA CIRCLE  – Meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month

Annual Summer Ladies “Brunch Potluck Picnice” – June 27th at 10:30 a.m. at the North Mesa Picnic Area 

Learn more information about United Women of Faith by scanning the QR code to the right or go to uwfaith.org.

“Our work is not just about service, it’s about worship, it’s about standing up, stepping up making our voices heard.”

—Harriett Jane Olson, Chief Executive Report, October 2013