WOMEN’S HOME & OVERSEAS MISSIONARY SOCIETY is the oldest and largest organization of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. In 1880, the Society was formed in response to an overseas church-planting venture by the denomination. More than 130 years later, the Society is involved in the diverse cultures of West, Central and South Africa, England, India, Guyana, Surinam and the Caribbean island, with its flagship overseas mission church started in 1878 in Brewerville, Liberia West Africa.
WOMEN’S HOME & OVERSEAS MISSIONARY SOCIETY is involved in some of the most diversified cultures of missions at home and overseas covering landscape as diverse as West, Central and South Africa, England, India, Guyana, and the Caribbean Islands. With our missionary sisters around the globe, our hope is that the Spirit of Christ will inspire a deeper appreciation to God’s entire plan of reconciliation.
We join together to become better equipped to witness and disciple to others.
In this new season of mission ministry for the WOMEN’S HOME & OVERSEAS MISSIONARY SOCIETY, it is our time to fight for social justice, raise awareness for environmental stewardship, provide transformative service, and minister with agape love. Our quadrennial theme mandates that our priority is to carry out the Great Commission, which calls us to make disciples for Christ. We must be willing to “Go” to all nations; we must be willing to leave our comfort zones; and we must be willing to help those who may not look like us, talk like us, dress like us, or smell like us. Our theme further challenges us to expand our mission ministry to not only care for people, but to care for God’s earth. We must have a concern for the water that renews us; we must have a concern for the cleanliness and healthiness of the food that nourishes us; and we must have a concern for the condition of the air that sustains us. Thus, we will initiate ministries that will impact all areas of life: spiritually, financially, mentally, physically, and environmentally.
Our ministries must be intentional, yet impactful. When we intentionally feed the hungry, are we doing enough and ministering long enough to make an impact on hunger statistics? When we clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless, are we making an impact on poverty in the world? When we consider gender equality in the workplace, or consider how to make our cities and communities safer places to live, are we trying to make an impact not just locally, but globally, as well?
We must be ever mindful that The A.M.E. Zion Church is a global church, and no matter where we are, the missionaries of the Women’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society must reflect that #MissionsMatter.
TBD – To Be Determined
Pastor G.L. Young, D. Min- C. C. (c), MA, BA
Director – Women’s Home & Overseas Missionary Society (W. H. O. M. S)
Missionary Ministry
GYoung@sczion.org
(831) 295-3473″
