UMW Saturday Circle

With several of our regular attendees away this weekend, we had a shorter meeting than we would normally.

Among the items discussed: 

+Recycling program - continuing education (see Earth Day display in the Fellowship Hall) and collection of plastic at the parsonage. Reduce - Reuse - Recycle.

+April Mission Focus - Violence Against Native Women/ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women. This issue is at the intersection of UMW mission focus areas around Domestic violence, Gender justice, Economic justice, and Racial justice. Actions we can take include: 

#notinvisible and #mmiw on Twitter.
+Follow Murdered and Disappeared Native Women on Facebook and share.
+Follow Save Our Sisters: #MMIW Awareness on Facebook and share.
Follow Find Ashley Loring/Heavy Runner on Facebook and share - Ashley has been missing from the Blackfeet Reservation since June 2017.
+Encourage passage of Savanna's Act (S. 1942 and H.R. 4485). Jon Tester is a co-sponsor.