Methodist Landmarks
Retreat center located in Nashville, TN.
What is Scarritt-Bennett?
First Native American Bishop elected in the denomination.
Who is Bishop David Wilson?
What is United Women in Faith?
Ecumenical center and headquarters for UWF located across from the United Nations in New York City.
What is Church Center for the United Nations?
First African American female elected in the South Central Jurisdiction.
Who is Bishop Dee Williamston?
This organization became the women's mission organization of the newly formed United Methodist Church in 1972.
What is United Methodist Women?
This general board is housed in a building directly across from the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is the General Board for Church and Society?
First female elected in the South Central Jurisdiction.
Who is Bishop Anne Shearer-Simpson?
Prior to receiving autonomy from the General Board of Global Ministries in 2012, United Women of Faith was part of what branch of GBGM.
What is Women's Division?
The General Board of Global Ministries is headquartered on what college campus.
What is Emory University?
First Hispanic male elected in the South Central Jurisdiction.
Who is Bishop Joel Martinez?
The uniting conference of the Methodist Church and United Evangelical Brethren Church that brought together these women's societies, Woman’s Society of Christian Service, Women’s Society of World Service, Christian Service Guild happened in this year.
What is 1968?
A former refuge space for immigrants in the early 1900s, it was turned into a space to house missionaries and other visiting groups until it was sold in the 2010s. It is named for the woman who spearheaded efforts to welcome and care for new immigrants to New York City.
What is Alma Matthews House?
First openly gay bishop elected in the denomination.
Who is Bishop Karen Oliveto?
Founded in 1869, this was the first name of United Women in Faith.
What is Women's Foreign Missionary Society?