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UPDATE 7/25/2020:
Thank you for your patience as we collected all receipts, finished negotiating cancellation fees with hotels and reconciled financial reporting for all 5 Jurisdiction Teams. We are happy to announce that all 5 Jurisdiction Teams are able to offer FULL REFUNDS of your registration fees. The Jurisdiction Presidents and teams decided that donations to Mission Giving should remain. Any additional optional fees for added programming or resources will be refunded per Jurisdiction.
The Western Jurisdiction included Ubuntu and/or t-shirts as additional options. If you signed for any of these options, you will see that fee included the in total refund amount. Please look for a refund check in the mail or cancellation of your credit card charge by the end of August 2020. If you have questions about your refund, please contact your Jurisdiction Team representative.
We hope you consider holding this refund as a “savings” account towards attending Assembly 2022 in Orlando, Florida, where the 2020 Jurisdiction Team work will be recognized. We understand that attendance will only be possible if a vaccine for COVID-19 is in place. We are praying it will be so.
We are grateful for your continued patience during this unique time in the history of our country and the history of United Methodist Women. We pray that you, all your family and all our UMW sisters stay safe and healthy during this health crisis. This has been and will remain our first priority.
Blessings,
UMW 2020 Jurisdiction Teams
This year has become a year unlike any other in our lifetime. We know you are making all manner of decisions about what can proceed as hoped and expected and what must be cancelled or postponed, and each of these hard decisions brings with it its own grief. It is with great concern for the health and wellness of our membership that we have decided to cancel the Jurisdiction Events for 2020 and not reschedule them into 2021. Since 80 percent of registrants fall in the “at risk” category of 60-plus it is impossible to guarantee everyone’s safety until a vaccine has been successfully implemented across our country and beyond.
This decision was reached after much discernment, discussion, and prayer. Please know that it is because we want our membership safe during this pandemic, the leadership of the board and each Jurisdiction came together to arrive at this decision.
Please join us by showing support for your Jurisdiction teams as, yet another set of plans is disrupted during this anxious time, when the most marginalized persons are at such egregious risk.
Much time was invested by the 5 Jurisdiction teams over the past 4 years planning details and working with members and staff to make sure all five events were great celebrations of the 150th anniversary. The creative efforts of each team and the hundreds of volunteer hours created bonds of friendship that will never be broken. We are heart sick at missing this time to come together in celebration, study, and planning for the next quadrennium. There will be time allotted to celebrate the work of these amazing teams at the next Assembly.
Stay safe and stay in love with God.
Sincerely,
Shannon Priddy
National president
Judi Nibbelink
Western Jurisdiction president
Betty Helms
Southeastern Jurisdiction president
Denise Snyder
Northeastern Jurisdiction president
Rita L. Smith
North Central Jurisdiction president
Charlotte Morrow
South Central Jurisdiction president
Thank you for your patience as we collected all receipts, finished negotiating cancellation fees with hotels and reconciled financial reporting for all 5 Jurisdiction Teams. We are happy to announce that all 5 Jurisdiction Teams are able to offer FULL REFUNDS of your registration fees. The Jurisdiction Presidents and teams decided that donations to Mission Giving should remain. Any additional optional fees for added programming or resources will be refunded per Jurisdiction.
The Western Jurisdiction included Ubuntu and/or t-shirts as additional options. If you signed for any of these options, you will see that fee included the in total refund amount. Please look for a refund check in the mail or cancellation of your credit card charge by the end of August 2020. If you have questions about your refund, please contact your Jurisdiction Team representative.
We hope you consider holding this refund as a “savings” account towards attending Assembly 2022 in Orlando, Florida, where the 2020 Jurisdiction Team work will be recognized. We understand that attendance will only be possible if a vaccine for COVID-19 is in place. We are praying it will be so.
We are grateful for your continued patience during this unique time in the history of our country and the history of United Methodist Women. We pray that you, all your family and all our UMW sisters stay safe and healthy during this health crisis. This has been and will remain our first priority.
Blessings,
UMW 2020 Jurisdiction Teams
This year has become a year unlike any other in our lifetime. We know you are making all manner of decisions about what can proceed as hoped and expected and what must be cancelled or postponed, and each of these hard decisions brings with it its own grief. It is with great concern for the health and wellness of our membership that we have decided to cancel the Jurisdiction Events for 2020 and not reschedule them into 2021. Since 80 percent of registrants fall in the “at risk” category of 60-plus it is impossible to guarantee everyone’s safety until a vaccine has been successfully implemented across our country and beyond.
This decision was reached after much discernment, discussion, and prayer. Please know that it is because we want our membership safe during this pandemic, the leadership of the board and each Jurisdiction came together to arrive at this decision.
Please join us by showing support for your Jurisdiction teams as, yet another set of plans is disrupted during this anxious time, when the most marginalized persons are at such egregious risk.
Much time was invested by the 5 Jurisdiction teams over the past 4 years planning details and working with members and staff to make sure all five events were great celebrations of the 150th anniversary. The creative efforts of each team and the hundreds of volunteer hours created bonds of friendship that will never be broken. We are heart sick at missing this time to come together in celebration, study, and planning for the next quadrennium. There will be time allotted to celebrate the work of these amazing teams at the next Assembly.
Stay safe and stay in love with God.
Sincerely,
Shannon Priddy
National president
Judi Nibbelink
Western Jurisdiction president
Betty Helms
Southeastern Jurisdiction president
Denise Snyder
Northeastern Jurisdiction president
Rita L. Smith
North Central Jurisdiction president
Charlotte Morrow
South Central Jurisdiction president
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