news of the gospel. As

believers/missionaries,

we are also equipped

with the power of the

Holy Spirit and gifts that

can be used in carrying

out and expanding the

greater works of Jesus

Christ. Missionaries!

Wake up to our Mission

Statement: ―We are

called to strengthen our

faith and sent to contin-

ue the ministry of Jesus

Christ by service and

witness in the world.‖

Dear Heavenly Father,

thank you for the oppor-

tunity and for equipping

us to be servants willing

to wake up and arise to

our surroundings and to

make this ―The Year of

Greater Works.‖

Submitted by: Sister,

Dessie Dantzler

Fifth District Missionary Prayer Team Leader

MARCH 2017

Wake UP!

―Verily, verily, I

say unto you He

that believeth on

me, the works

that I do shall he

do also; and

greater works

than these shall

he do; because I

go unto my Fa-

ther.” John 14: 12

(KJV)

Wake up, Wake up!

In the natural sense,

we know that when

we are asleep we are

unaware of our sur-

roundings. So, it is

with us in our spiritual

walk. We seem to be

asleep to any aware-

ness that all around

us is political unrest,

and also many who

are in emotional tur-

moil from being

abused and battered.

Still there are others

who are hurting and

in pain, hungry and

homeless; sick and

cast away; and an un-

thinkable number that

lack salvation. Surely,

we must adhere to the

scripture in Romans

13:11 which says: ―And

do this, understanding

the present time. The

hour has come for you

to wake up from your

slumber, because our

salvation is nearer now

than when we first be-

lieved.‖

We must wake up to

the greater works to

which we have been

called to do in John

14:12. Jesus is not

saying that we are go-

ing to do greater works

in terms of greater mi-

raculous works than he

did. But, ―through the

power of the indwelling

and infilling of the Holy

Spirit,‖ we can do

greater works in terms

of quantity and extent

of works, in our local

and global ministries.

Jesus equipped and

mandated his disciples

to go throughout the

world to do good works

and spread the good

M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T :

―We are called to strengthen our faith and sent to continue the min-istry of Jesus Christ by service and witness in the world.‖

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Let Us Pray 1

Supervisor Alexia Fugh 2

Advisor’s Message 3

California Conference YPD 4

Missouri Conference Angel

Tree Project 5

Mission Madness III 6

Midwest Conference

Prayer Breakfast Area

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Daniel Fast Consecrate Yourself Rev. Charles Dorsey

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What is your Passion?

Wanda Griffin, PNW WMS 8

Wake Up! Manage Your

Finances—Dr. Kaye Lindsey 9

Missouri Conference WMS &

YPD Activities 10

First AME, Pasadena WMS

Go Red Campaign 11

First AME, Las Vegas WMS

Go Red Campaign 12

Connectional Ex. Bd. Louis-

ville KY 12

Sarah’s Song Newsletter

5th Episcopal District

African Methodist Episcopal Church

“WAKE UP”

THE YEAR OF GREATER WORKS

March 2017 Volume 2 Issue II

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Supervisor: Mrs. Alexia B. Fugh

Supervisor Alexia Fugh has challenged the

Fifth Episcopal District Women’s Missionary

THEME:

―WAKEUP!!!‖ THE YEAR OF GREATER WORKS

Conference Year 2016-2017

The Year of Lent

Themes:

1. Advent: Expectant Waiting and Preparation

2. Lent: Purification by Weaning Ourselves from Sin and Selfishness through Self-Denial and

Prayer (Daniel Fast during the Lenten season.

3. Be-attitudes: The Eight Declarations of Blessedness Spoken by Jesus a the Beginning of

the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3-11)

4. Decalogue: The Ten Commandments

5. Forgiveness: The Action or Process of Forgiving or Being Forgiven (not pretentious)

6. Resurrection: Firmly Believing that God Wants Us with Him FOREVER (people without

HOPE have the resurrection as a

missing link in their lives)

THIS YEAR’S COLOR: BLUE

LOGO: WATER – FREE FLOWING:

CLEANSING/REFRESHING

RAINBOW:

HOPE / GOD’S PROMISE

Alexia B. Fugh,

Supervisor of Missions

5th Episcopal District AME Church

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From the desk of Mrs. Beverly Thomas Fifth Episcopal District Advisor to the Supervisor March 3, 2017 World Day of Prayer Service Hosted by Tanner Chapel A.M.E, Phoenix Sarah E. Tanner Women's Missionary Society Rev. Minnie Wharry, WMS President Desert/Mountain Conference

Sis Jo-Anne Parker, Life Member and Member of CWU served as our Coordinator. Theme "Am I Being Unfair to You"? On this beautiful morning a wonderful group of Christian women joined together to celebrate "World Day of Prayer" 2017. The ladies were provided continental breakfast by the Sarah E. Tanner Women's Missionary Society. We began our service with an opening song, "Come to the Circle" - Mr. Shaylon Richardson served as our musician for the day. Shaylon was a member of the YPD and member of the mu-sic department at Tanner Chapel before accepting the position of Minister of Music at our Sister Church Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church. We were greeted by CWU Representatives and then heard from the women of the Philippines seeking economic justice. The word became alive as Sister Eula Saxon Dean read Matthew 20:1-16. The Solidarity Commitment prayer was led by Sis. Beverly Thomas, Advisor to the Supervisor A special thank you to Sis. Sandra Harrison for decorations and preparing each person a bag of rice in remembrance of our Philippine sisters. Shout out to Murph Community - Sis. Calvina Washington. A great time was had by all.

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CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE YPD

The California Conference YPD lead by President Jocelyn Igle-hart, has been on the move. We first started our Conference Year with the WMS/YPD Leadership Retreat held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fairfield, CA. The Retreat was very well attend-ed. YPD Director, Advisors and Conference & Local Officers participated in various workshops. Our next event was our All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast, which was held at St. An-drews AME Church in Sacramento. It was our first official fund-raiser and we did very well. After the pancake breakfast, we concentrated on our MLK Jr. Make it a Day on Not off where each YPD group did something for the community for that day. Our Souper Bowl of Caring is always a great success with all of our churches collecting money at the end of their services and donating it for a good cause. The CCYPD choir was invited to sing at our Founders Day program where they showed up and showed out. We just finished with our Jam4Jesus Concert which was very well attended. We had a very special guest, professional dancer Kida the Great winner of "So You Think You Can Dance" TV Show along with Sacramento's Grant High School Drumline. There was Praise Dancing, Spoken Word and Singing. It was a spirit filled day. To God be the Glory.

Karen Marshall CCYPD Director

Alice Johnson, WMS President

"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet."

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THE MISSOURI CONFERENCE WMS/YPD

ANGLE TREE MINISTRY MISSION PROJECT

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA

WMS AND YPD DELIVERED CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES during the Annual Breakfast with Santa Mission Project. Phyllis Jackson , 3rd Vice President and Theresa Poole spearheaded this Mission Project. Fun for all.

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Mission Madness III Estimated value for Mission Madness III $46,355

Hathaway Sycamore Child & Family Services Los Angeles Office On Nov. 1, 2005, Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services became one of the largest private pro-viders of children’s mental-health services in Los Angeles County. Donated clothing, backpacks with school supplies, gift cards with an estimated value of $11,000. Teen Project Freehab - The Teen Project's Freehab is the ONLY free drug treatment center that is dedicated to homeless youth in Los Angeles. Donated towel sets, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, chil-dren’s books, undergarments, gift cards with an estimated value of $5,815. Purposely Chosen - Our mission to help displaced teen moms keep their babies. We accomplish this mission by providing a safe haven for displaced and at-risk youth; particularly homeless, runaways, and abandoned pregnant and/or parenting adolescent girls, ages 12-18. Donated baby items, such as diapers, bottles, clothing, hand decorated teddy bears, blankets, hand sewn nursing covers, and formula with an es-timated value of $19,000. Cal State Program March Mountain High School - Infant and Toddler Program - Donated children’s books with an estimated value of $1,000. Youth Justice Coalition - The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination. Donated male/female hygiene kits, men and women’s clothing, (for interviews), gifts with an estimated value of $3,540. Donated $6,000 ($1,000 per Conference) to a rural church in each Conference designated by Con-ference WMS President.

Mission Madness III.

Supervisor Fugh and

Advisor Thomas Rock-

ing the WMS Rocks T-

Shirts

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The Midwest Conference Women’s Missionary Society

Kansas, Nebraska and Northern Missouri

The Midwest Conference Women’s Mis-sionary Society held its 2nd Annual “Areas Prayer Breakfast” simultaneously on Sat-urday, February 18, 2017, between 9:00 a.m. and 12 Noon. The General Theme was “A Chosen People, Praying and Stay-ing Together.” I Peter 2:9. Each Area was given the option to build their theme from the General Theme. With five (5) events

being held at the same time the Conference President, Nedra Locke attended the Lola Forbes Area Breakfast held at Ebenezer AMEC in Kansas City, Missouri where Patricia Fullard, the YWI, Frances Paul and Gail Walton were Co-Chairpersons. Also in at-tendance was Rev. Brenda Hayes (Ebenezer), Rev. Gary Charles (Power of Faith) and our Conn. Historian/Statistician, Frances Co-field. The Lorene Z. Cole Area Breakfast was held at Willis Chapel AMEC, Kansas City, Missouri where Joan Hampton, Bridgette Isaiah and Susan Smith were Co-Chairpersons. Rev. Clifton N. St. James (Willis Chapel), Rev. V. Gordon Glenn (Ward Chapel) and Rev. Donald Morrison (Moriah Walker) at-tended the breakfast. The Bryant/Brown Area was held at Bethel AMEC, Leavenworth, Kansas where Carolyn Kyser and Lois Johnson were Co-Chairpersons. Rev. Samuel Kyser was in attendance. The Nao-mi Shaw/Parks Area was held at Gilbert Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri where Jewel Gilkes and Wyndolyn Smith were Co-Chairpersons. The Sarah Allen Area was held at Grant Chapel AMEC, Wichita, Kansas where Mary Hough served as chairperson. The pictures are from the Lola Forbes, Lorene Z. Cole and Bryant/Brown Areas.

In the month of March there will be three (3) Prayer Breakfasts to be held, namely The Jamesina Evans Area, Kansas City, Kansas, the Mary Frizzell Area, Omaha, Nebraska and Part II of Lorene Z. Cole Area, Booneville, Missouri.

A special “Thank You” to the Presidents of each Local Society, Pastors, members and all attendees for making our “Annual Ar-eas Prayer Breakfast” a SUCCESS. Thank you to President Nedra Locke for her God sent vision and leadership. Submitted by Donnita St. James, General Chairperson

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Nearly 600 5th District WMS/YPD AME Folks will fast for 40 days...for holiness and transformation...starting March 1, 2017— Why not you? Your Church? Your Family? - Join Us! 7 year Edition of Devotional and Reflection Jour-

nal. Interested? email danielfast4me@gmail.com . Website: https://consecrateyourself.blogspot.com

What is Your Passion?

I often hear Supervisor Fugh ask the question, “What is your passion?

The Urban Dictionary defines passion this way: Passion is when you put more

energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm

or excitement, passion is ambition that is materialized into action to put as

much heart, mind body and soul into something as is possible.

As I began to ponder on this question for myself I was reminded of a conversa-

tion that I had with my pastor. I was going on and on about someone in my life

as he patiently listened to my ranting. Then after I was finished he looked at me

and calmly said, ―well you are churchy also‖. I immediately became defensive and asked what he meant

by that. I couldn’t imagine what he would say because he had only been newly assigned to the church for

just a couple of months.

He began to tell me that he noticed that I was really passionate about the missionaries. He now had my

attention and began to share more of what he had noticed.

From a very young age I had a passion (didn’t know the word at that time) for what I called the ―underdog‖.

There was a family that lived on my block and didn’t have as much as others and some of the other chil-

dren poked fun at the children. I was so hurt and could not believe how cruel these children where. After

school I would bring two of the children into my home (my mother was at work) and feed them my share of

dinner that my mother had prepared for my sister and I. I would wash their clothes and bathe them and

then send them home. I never told my mother what I did.

I do have passion for what I do as a missionary; I want to give God my best, I want to put more energy into

my work than what is required. God gave His best, his only Son for me so I want to work on giving my best

back to Him.

Wanda Griffin

PNWC WMS

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Wake Up! Manage your Finances Retire When You Want! "Whatever you do work at it with all of your heart as working for the Lord, not for human mas-

ters." "Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward." Colossians 3:23-24 Missionaries, I believe we need a Wake Up in managing our finances. I was thinking the other day about various attitudes of people towards Budgeting, Savings, and building a retirement/emergency fund and a Debt-to-Income Ratio (monthly debts divided by gross monthly income = Ratio). The first area of focus is to develop a budget. The success of the budgeting process requires us to frequent-ly write down every expense and evaluate our debt-to-income. The development of a budget allows us to live comfortably within our means. The key to financial security is to start early and to start immediately. Debt free is our primary goal. Budgeting is Our first step

1. Determine your income

2. Identify all of your expenses

3. Compare your debt-to-income (DTI) for your DTI Ratio

4. A good measurement of your (DTI) is between 33% and 36%

5. If your debts are more than your income it is imperative that you look for ways to spend less Step 2 Savings 1. I believe a reasonable goal for savings is 10% to 15% of your gross / net.

(It is your call)

2. There are several recommended types of saving vehicles available: 401 K, Traditional IRAS, Roth IRA, Mutual Funds, Tax Shelter Annuities- just to name a few… (I suggest consulting a Financial Planner to evaluate your personal financial portfolio). 3. Generally, it is recommended that you have an emergency fund that covers six (6) months of expenses

TIPS Review your Credit Report every SIX months

Resist wasteful spending habits (shop wisely)

Evaluate your budget on a consistent basis

Compare debt-to-income

Determine where your money is going daily/monthly

Plan for purchases i.e. Use cash and limit use of credit cards Once you start tracking how much money you spend each month you will begin to see areas in your spend-ing where you can cutback and better allocate your funds.

IT IS NOT HOW MUCH YOU MAKE: BUT HOW MUCH YOU SAVE! "I can do all things through Christ who gives us strength " Philippians 4:13

Yours in Christ, Dr Kaye Lindsey First Lady Los Angeles South/Las Vegas District

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Missouri Conference WMS

Dorothy Powell, Conference President

The Missouri Conference Women’s Missionary Society started the New Conference Year with their 4

th Annual Prayer Break-

fast. The Theme ―Capture the Vision‖ The Beatitudes of Je-sus, ―The Living Water‖ Matthew 5:1-12. Participants read each of the Beatitudes and elaborated on the Scripture. After each Beatitude was read the water poured into the vase rep-resented those who were blessed and redeemed by Christ to bring greater light into the world in service to mankind. Both WMS and YPD’ers participated in the service. Lady Arvella Strong, Co-Chair and Stephanie Alexander, 1

st Vice President

planned and implemented the Service. Evangelist Charley Johnson, Praise Dancer. Prayer Breakfast was held as St. John AMEC St. Louis

WMS/YPD HOMELESS MISSION PROJECT

Dorothy Powell, Missouri Conference WMS President

Michelle Franklin, YPD Director

The Missouri Conference and YPD traveled to the downtown area in St. Louis Missouri in an effort to distribute over 100 bags of personal items, toiletries, toothbrushes, toothpaste washcloths and snack as a combined Mission Project to the Homeless Men and /Women living in a downtown St. Louis Area. The total effort was a great experience.

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Laura Terry, Local President

The First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Pasadena’s, Olivia Wilson Women Missionary Society, kicked off its 2nd Annual American Heart Association’s Go Red Campaign This year’s theme was ―Know Your Figures‖. A questionnaire was distributed with questions about individuals’ family health history. The American Heart Association’s campaign this year was to get people talking about their vital statistics as a means of personal heart care.

For the past two years the women of OWWMS have invited its members to donate their loose change as a means of collecting funds for their annual donation to the American Heart Association. The loose change money drives ends with a parking lot ―Tail Gate‖. American Heart Association Literature on wellness and healthy food or drinks is provided to everyone who attends.

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Southern California: www.sccwms.com

California Conference: www.ccwms.org

Midwest: www.midwestwms.com

Desert Mountain— www.desertmtnwms.org

5th Episcopal District—www.amec5th.net

Fifth District WMS/YPD - www.fifthdistrictwms-ypd.org

Contact Information

Lessie Thompson—Editor

310-532-5290 email: speles13@aol.com

310-429-6830 (c)

The Lillie M. Walker Women’s Missionary Society, of First AME Church, Las Vegas, NV wearing red in sup-port of the Go Red Campaign which brings awareness about heart disease in women. Information about heart disease was provided to the members of the congregation. All were asked to wear Red on Sunday, February 5, 2017. Jennifer Booker, Local President.

The Fifth Episcopal District

was assigned the West End

School Louisville KY

The Connectional WMS Execu-

tive Board and Service day—

Louisville Ky. West End School

is a free, private, boarding, col-

lege preparatory school for boys

from Pre-K to Eighth Grade. The

school strives to address all of the issues

boys in the community face by creating for its

students an environment of high expectations

and personal responsibility. Through the

school's rigorous academic and personal stand-

ards, students are encouraged to attain the

highest possible level of scholarship, character

and intellectual growth. Missionaries will take

part in reading and helping the students

with their class assignments.