{"id":5370,"date":"2020-02-21T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:51:59","slug":"catchings-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/missiology\/2020\/02\/21\/catchings-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Catchings, Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listening To The Voices Of Women<\/h3>\n

From 1968 to 1988 Rose Catchings served as the first executive for international ministries with women and children for the General Board of Global Ministries, a position created to oversee United Methodist Women\u2019s international work after The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968.<\/p>\n

In the World Division\u2019s Oral History Project, Ms. Catchings talked about one of her first mission trips with a mostly male church delegation to a refugee camp near Kenya.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost refugees in the world are women and children, so I decided to leave the group and walk among the women for awhile. They said, \u2018If groups like yours would talk with women, we\u2019d tell you our priorities; but groups like yours always speak to men, and they don\u2019t know our priorities.\u2019 That shook me up. \u2026 A great deal of listening goes into this work, and it must be so.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo woman anywhere I went talked about her life without talking about children. \u2026 Women in \u2026 the forests, the villages, had a common need to develop their own potential so their societies could become better. \u2026 They say, \u2018I want better opportunities for my children. I need to know something more than what I now know.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201c[After that] I tried to take four or five women with me on each trip so that women in this country, [the United States], could hear what women in other countries were saying \u2026 so that women in this country could raise questions with women in the other countries \u2014 churchwomen to churchwomen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Please view more at\u00a0United Women in Faith<\/a>\u00a0(formerly known as United Methodist Women).\u00a0<\/span>United Women in Faith is the official organization for women within The United Methodist Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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