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South Carolinian elected
Women's Division president

     NASHVILLE, Tenn. --  Sara Shingler, a retired nurse from
South Carolina, has been elected to a four-year term as president
of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries' Women's
Division.
     The election came during the organizational and orientation
meeting of the 50-member division at Scarritt-Bennett Center here
Sept. 6-8. 
     Shingler taught nursing at Spartanburg (S.C) Regional
Hospital and she is a former president of the South Carolina
Medical Association Alliance. She is a member of Trinity United
Methodist Church and has been active in local, district,
conference and national church activities for 42 years. In 1980-
84, she served as president of the South Carolina Conference
United Methodist Women.
     With an annual budget of more than $20 million, the Women's
Division provides financial support for global Christian mission.
It serves as the national policy-making group for United Methodist
Women, an organization that has approximately 1.2 million members
in 25,000 local units.
     The Women's Division emphasizes mission education, Christian
social responsibility and spiritual growth. As it works to build a
community among women, it also champions causes for the oppressed
and dispossessed, and for children and youth.
     Other officers elected were: vice president, Gloria
Blacklock, Vergennes, Ill.; secretary, Alyce Teemer, Chicago,
Ill.; vice president and chairperson of the Section of Christian
Social Responsibility, Christine Keels, Randallstown, Md.; vice
president and chairperson of the Section of Finance, Jane A.
Bucher, Park City, Ky.; vice president and chairperson of the
Section of Membership and Organizational Development, Lucy P.
Burciaga, El Paso, Texas.
     Shingler has been a member of the Women's Division governing
body since 1992 and has served on the division's executive
committee and as a member of the executive committee of the
section on mission and membership development.   
     She also was a member of the churchwide Board of Church and
Society for eight years and was chairman of that board's Infant
Formula Task Force in 1988-92.
     With a special interest in children, she was a founding
member and for four years chairwoman of the South Carolina Child
Protection Advisory Committee. She was also a founding member of
the Spartanburg (S.C.) County Children's Shelter.      
     She has been a delegate to four United Methodist general and
jurisdictional conferences and is currently a trustee of Claflin
College, Orangeburg, S.C.
     Division members will meet next in conjunction with the
entire Board of Global Ministries, Oct 9-18 in New York.
     The 50 directors of the Women's Division include 40 women
elected through the quadrennial jurisdictional conferences
nominating process, five jurisdiction presidents of United
Methodist Women organizations and five additional women elected by
Disciplinary mandate.

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NOTE TO EDITORS:  UMNS sent a story dated July 30, giving you the
names of people from your annual conference elected to serve on
churchwide agencies. However, that list did not include additional
members elected here to assure representation by gender, race,
age, geography, church size and expertise.
 
Additional members:

Genie Bank, Western New York Annual Conference
Gloria Blacklock, Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference
Diane Boxil, California-Nevada Annual Conference
Doris B. Brown, Louisiana Annual Conference
Jean Rogers Davis, Yellowstone Annual Conference
Mary Gates, Minnesota Annual Conference
Mee Sue Park,  California-Pacific Annual Conference
Doris B. Paul, North Georgia Annual Conference
Mary A. Poindexter, Mississippi Annual Conference
Jerry Ruth Williams, Missouri East Conference

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