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Deaconess Nazgul William 1968-2013 by Myka Kennedy Stephens
She was known for her smile and vivacious love of life. Her
laughter
was infectious, and when she danced you couldnt help but join
her. Deaconess Nazgul William, Naz to her friends, dedicated her
life to ministries of care and compassion and was looking forward
to sharing what she had learned about womens issues and gender
inequality in Asia having just completed a two-month course in the
Philippines.
Her life abruptly ended July 17, 2013, in Beijing, China. While
out for an afternoon walk near a shopping center, she was one of
two people stabbed by a young man in what was reported as a random
act of violence due to mental illness. She was visiting Beijing
after attending the World Diakonia conference in Berlin,
Germany.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Ms. William became the first Deaconess
Nazgul William led Bollywood-style exercise for participants
Pakistani deaconess of The in the 2010 Assembly of United Methodist
Women in St. Louis, Mo. United Methodist Church at her
commissioning in 2005. then its for your lifetime. on women and
society at From a young age she Her deaconess ministries St.
Scholastica Colleges felt Gods call to dedicate included working at
the Institute of Womens Studies her life to love, justice
Brooks-Howell Home in Manila, Philippines, in early and service.
Her call was in Asheville, N.C., and June 2013. As a participant
affirmed through encounters translating materials from in this
course, Ms. William she had with American the United Methodist
learned about issues missionaries to Pakistan and Womens Bible
Women facing women in Asia and later in the relationships she
Program into Urdu, the native the Pacific and developed built with
deaconesses in language of Pakistan. practical skills to address
the United States. Quoted in Most recently, she was gender concerns
on personal a 2006 issue of response on a leave of absence and
organizational levels. magazine, Ms. William from active service
while She was looking forward said of her call, I wanted she sought
additional to sharing her new skills to do something until the
educational and professional and knowledge through day I die. In
Pakistan, if development opportunities. workshops and volunteering
you say to someone, You She graduated from a two- with Chosen
Ministry in are my brother or sister, month intercultural course
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From the General Secretary
Helping create a vital church by Harriett Jane Olson
L ately The United Methodist Church has been talking about
vitality. As Ive mentioned in this space before, a study prior to
the 2012 General Conference found that vital congregations have
strong lay leadership. In congregations characterized by growth,
outreach and enthusiasm, more than 25 percent of members have held
Harriett Jane Olson a leadership role in the past five years.
United music. Worship for Methodist Women general meetings can
encourages leadership. offer different styles in How can we better
ensure different years. What a place for all at the table? new
styles can you try?
The study also found In vital congregations that vital
congregations laypersons tell their stories are characterized by
small of how their faith has groups and by specialized shaped them.
I know that ministry to children and United Methodist Women youth.
With our flexible members have stories to configurations, circles
sharemany of you have and mission studies for shared your stories
with children and youth, United me. Do you also share Methodist
Women already these stories with your looks like this in many
circles, units, districts and places. What can we do conferences?
Why are to deepen and broaden you a member of United this part of
our work? Methodist Women?
Worship in many Vital congregations styles exists among vital
include and value United congregations, but most Methodist Women.
specialize and do one Vital United Methodist style particularly
well. Our Women units support vital circles and local events
congregations. There is could be distinguished no need to be afraid
to by different spiritual change and grow. Lets practices as well
as experiment! Thats what different gathering times vital
congregations do! and demographics. One circle may accompany a
Harriett Jane Olson is general secretary and CEO of United
mission study with Taiz Methodist Women. worship and another
with contemporary Christian
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The Roma Overcoming a legacy of suffering
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Page top: A childrens choir sings during a worship service of
the United Methodist Roma congregation in Jabuka, Serbia. Above:
Roma girls who live in shipping containers that have been converted
into houses in Makis, a village outside of Belgrade, Serbia. These
Roma families were evicted from an urban squatter settlement in
2012 to make way for construction of new apartments and office
buildings.
By Paul Jeffrey
Last October German leaders dedicated a memorial in Berlin to
the hundreds of
thousands of Roma who were killed by Germany and its allies
between 1933 and 1945. The act came almost seven decades after the
end of World War II and years after the dedication of memorials to
Jews and homosexuals murdered by the Nazis. Nonetheless, the
monument finally acknowledges the suffering of the Roma and
underlines the urgent challenges faced by todays Roma as they
struggle with exclusion, separation and assimilation throughout
Europe.
As many as half a million Roma were shot, gassed or starved to
death under Nazi regimes, yet after the war Germany remained in
were legitimate actions against persons committing crimes, not
the result of policies driven by racial prejudice. Only in 1979 did
the West German Federal Parliament identify the Nazi persecution of
Roma as being racially motivated.
Violence against the Roma is escalating across Europe today. In
that context, the memorials dedication was better late than never.
Opening the memorial sends an important message to society that
anti-Roma sentiment is as unacceptable as anti-Semitism, said
Romani Rose, a leading Roma rights activist in Germany.
Who are the Roma?
A December article in the British journal Nature presented the
results of an extensive genetic sequencing study that
denial about what happened. indicates the Roma originated West
German officials ruled from the Dalits, the so-called measures
taken against untouchables caste in the Roma before 1943 continued
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continued from page 2 India. This reinforces earlier studies
linking elements of Romani, the Roma language, to Sanskrit words
and phrases. The researchers believe the descendants of todays Roma
began their westward exodus between 1001 and 1026, motivated by a
promise that theyd get a promotion in caste if they fought in wars
in what is today the Punjab region.
In the centuries after, most Roma continued westward, often
remaining a nomadic people until forced to stop by European
governments in the last century. As they wandered they took on
disparate identities and namesincluding Travelers, Gypsies,
Ashkali, Sinti and moreshifting their cultural identities in order
to survive, a process that continues today, as witnessed in the May
2013 response magazine article on Roma in Bulgaria, Who Is
Roma?
There are some 12 million Roma in Europe today, making them
the
regions largest ethnic as sex workers in other minority. Despite
the Berlin countries. Roma have been monuments suggestion that
systematically denied health remembering Roma suffering care, and
Roma women precludes it today, they have suffered from coercive
remain a people in motion. sterilization at the hands of Increasing
marginalization government health workers. and violence during the
past Right-wing political decade are pushing the parties in
Hungary, Slovakia, Roma to migrate to other the Czech Republic
and
There are some 12 million Roma in Europe today, making them the
regions largest ethnic minority.
lands, where theyre met with elsewhere have revived restrictive
labor laws, forced the hate speech of the eviction and expulsion.
Nazis to justify violent
From France to Finland, attacks against Roma Roma exercising
their right families and settlements. to travel in an expanded In
Italy and Russia, police European Union have been violence against
Roma, kicked out of their homes and especially Roma women, deported
or forcibly relocated has increased. Perpetrators to garbage dumps
or of anti-Roma violence enjoy inaccessible margins of large
widespread impunity. In cities. Roma families across the past four
years, the Europe are more likely to have Budapest-based European
their children segregated in Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) special
schools and their registered at least 48 violent daughters
trafficked to serve attacks against Roma in
Hungary, at least 40 attacks in the Czech Republic and at least
13 attacks in Slovakia, resulting in a combined total of at least
11 fatalities.
The attacks involved Molotov cocktails, hand grenades and guns,
police violence, arson attacks, mob violence and demonstrations.
Yet the ERRCs monitoring of 44 of these cases found no perpetrator
was punished in a vast majority of the cases. Indeed, the police
suspended investigations without identifying any suspects in nearly
one-third of the cases.
Mission studyon the Roma
United Methodist Women and others will come together to study
the Roma this year and next at hundreds of Mission u gatherings,
the next generation of United Methodist Womens Schools of Christian
Mission. As a resource for participants in the study, and as a
window onto the complex reality of the Roma in
todays Europe, the May 2013 issue of response looks at the daily
life and challenges of the Roma.
The July/August issue includes an article on the Roma in Berlin,
where the Roma genocide monument dedicated last year bears these
words from the poem Auschwitz, by Italian Roma poet Santino
Spinelli:
Sunken Face Extinct Eyes Cold Lips Silence One Torn Heart
Without Breath No Words No Tears.
The May 2013 and July/August 2013 issues of response are
available at www.umwmissionresources.com and complement the United
Methodist Women mission study The Roma, also available from United
Methodist Women Mission Resources.
Paul Jeffrey is a United Methodist missionary and senior
correspondent for response magazine. This article first appeared in
the May 2012 issue of response. Mr. Jeffrey blogs at
kairosphotos.com.
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Above: Two participants share a laugh during a basic literacy
class for Roma adults in the Zemun Polje neighborhood of Belgrade.
Below: Nevrigda Zitkova and her husband Arden Dasi, with two of
their children, lived under a bridge in a settlement in
Belgrade.
Above: Mirjava Memetovic holds her daughters Kristina (left) and
Laura, in front of their makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood
of Belgrade, Serbia. They were expelled in 2012 from the center of
Belgrade to make way for new buildings. Because Memetovic had no
identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native
village in the south of the country but soon returned as she had no
way
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to survive there. Right: Two Roma men meet with a traditional
greeting on the street in the Zemun Polje neighborhood of Belgrade,
Serbia.
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Honoring United Methodist Women Presidents United Methodist
Women in Redding, Calif., honor past presidents with an annual
luncheon and tribute booklet. by Pamela McCurdy
T his past April the United Methodist Women of First United
Methodist Church in Red-ding, Calif., honored our past presidents
at a luncheon, as
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Past presidents of First United Methodist of Redding: Jeanne
Banghart, Virginia Erickson and Terry Graves.
we do each year. This year, I penned a tribute, and we published
it in a gift booklet that we gave to each attending past president.
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Past presidents from Mt. Shasta. Left to right: Vera Kirsher,
June Fitzgerald, Karen Ronge (guest) and Barbara Ward. Ms. Ward
also served as the California-Nevada Conference President from
2005-2007.
United Methodist Women at Mt. Shasta United Methodist Church as
well.
We are so grateful for the gifts these ladies have given to
United Methodist Women and to each of us personally, and it was a
privilege to honor them.
HonoringOur Past Presidents: A Tribute Today we take a little
time to say thank you to all those ladies who so selflessly and
humbly became our United Methodist Women presidents.
Did they know what they were in for when we asked them to serve?
They were flattered to be chosen, but then reality descended and
strong prayers for guidance and wisdom, stamina and patience were
sent forth Help me not so much to be understood as to
understand.
And we were relentless: meetings, luncheons, agendas, phone
calls, questions, decisions, problems to solve, people to help,
places to be.
be there at the bazaar after which executive board would prepare
the lunch, and in between time she would counsel the nominating
committee and talk with the Special Mission Recognition folks and
prepare for budget discussions and
then excess funds distribution meeting, and did she really need
to spend Christmas with her family?
There was laughter to sustain them from United Methodist Women
members who do that so well, and, yes, some
unhappiness and tears to smooth over from hurt feelings and
misunderstandings. But they shouldered the problems and concerns,
the bad news, the losses, the celebrations of life as we all had
to, but they did it from just a bit closerit
was just a bit more personal, for the truth is, we are all more
personal to them, each and every one of us.
And so they are to us: Beloved Ladies. They were always there
for us, smiling and hugging and welcoming us every day, leading by
example in all those ways we have trouble putting into words. That
example we need so much ofa Christian woman with purpose, and
resolve, with commitment and faith in a God who is always and
forever goodness and Love.
So, thank you, with all our love and gratitude for making a
difference in our lives and in the world and showing us the United
Methodist Women way. We love you!
Pamela McCurdy is secretary of United Methodist Women at First
United Methodist Church in Redding, Calif.
From the other side Missionary Joy Prim experiences what its
like to be a teacher at United Methodist Womens Mission u. by Joy
Prim
I recently returned from my first ever Mission u with the
California-Pacific Conference United Methodist Women. Ive been to a
number of Schools of Christian Missions since I was young, but this
was my first school under
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Joy Prim (front row, second from left) and her class at
California-Pacific United Methodist Womens Mission u event at Biola
University in La Mirada, Calif.
conversations and sharing of experiences we were able to learn
from one another. The ladies really pushed me to think about what
it means for me to live sacramentally while walking justly in my
daily life. The book I taught was The Call: Living Sacramentally,
Walking Justly, a United Methodist Women mission study I suggest to
anyone, especially anyone trying to discern what Gods
the new name Mission u. Could she tell us This was my first one
on the
about this? West Coastall the others Did she know about that? I
had attended were on the Oh, didnt I mention those? But when
Susie
was president Well, we always do it
that way.
Of course, we still expected them to attend circle meetings and
show up to work at the thrift shop and
East Coast. This was also the first one for which I was a study
leader instead of just a student. I got to see the other side of
the classroom.
The Mission u was held at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif.,
a pretty campus with many brick buildings in southern California.
The
diversity of the people at Mission u reminded me of what a truly
diverse world we live in and how beautiful it can be, a world in
which first languages differ but the love
of Christ does not. This other side has been
a blessed, challenging and eye-opening experience. I facilitated
a class of mainly young adults, and through
call in her or his life may be. Through our conversa
tions on the topic we expanded our knowledge, struggled with
hard questions and realized that while we have different
viewpoints, its OK. As we recapped at the end of the class, we
tried to put into
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continued from page 4 I recently contributed an reminder to just
keep trying, tian community is united, good tired. It was a weekend
concrete ways how to live article to New World Outlook and always
smile. and Ms. Williams kindness, I wont soon forget, and a
sacramentally and walk justly, magazine about finding my My heart
still aches in love and dance will live on in weekend I am thankful
for. I realized how humbled I was voice through dance during many
ways, but I feel the lov- those who knew her. Even to be sitting in
the conver- my mission experience. I ing arms of God surrounding as
she has left earth, I know Joy Prim is a mission intern with
the
General Board of Global Ministries of sations with a diverse
group realized that the process me and holding me close. I there
are many dancing an-The United Methodist Church serving of ladies
who want to break of finding my voice started know the death of Ms.
Wil- gels in heaven. in Long Beach, Calif. This reflection
barriers and arent going to much earlier than my mission liam
may never make sense, My Mission u weekend originally appeared July
22, 2013, on stop until they do. in Hong Kong; it started with and
Im beginning to be OK helped me see life from many Ms. Prims blog:
joyprim.wordpress.
Through conversations a young deaconess and a with that, because
my Chris- angles. It left me tired, but a com. Reprinted with
permission. and plenaries I got to know some of the other United
Methodist Women members Leaving a legacy, giving back on various
district teams. I shared about some of the work I am a part of at
the Longtime United Methodist Women member makes a gift from her
Filipino Migrant Center in Long Beach, Calif., and had will to
support future generations of United Methodist Women. challenging
conversations. A quote from one of these by Sandy Wilder tion for
four years, which women sticks with me: To also means she served as
a walk Justly, you have to have United Method- director of Womens
Division Courage. ist Women has that quadrennium. I just Yet as I
celebrate the opened my eyes embraced United Method-weekend, my
heart reflects to so much, from personal ist Women and have done
back on previous Schools of spiritual growth to awareness
everything that I can to help Christian Mission, to a time of
community needs and other women to know about before I left the
country for worldwide needs. And not United Methodist Women my
mission service, when just worldwide needs but also and encourage
them, she Deaconess Nazgul William opportunities to get to know
said. This organization is was serving at Brooks-How- people
through all those for all womennot just the ell Home, a retirement
home programs that they bring to us educated or uneducated or for
United Methodist mis- and information that is made wealthy or poor.
Every womsionaries and deaconesses available to us: workshops, an
is offered the same opporin Asheville, N.C. Ms. Wil- Mission u, the
Assembly. tunity. United Methodist liam, a Pakistani deaconess, Im
not sure that I got any of Women is a total, inclusive blessed us
with her smile the informationnot even a group. Everyone is
welcome. and love for dance at many fourth of the information that
grandmother couldnt read or meetings. I had a burning Ms. Vsquez
knows every conference events. Each I knowthrough any other write,
but she was treasurer of desire to know more than woman has
something to time we saw each other she source than United
Methodist the womens group. She tied what I saw locally. I went to
contribute to the betterment would do her best to teach Women. Ilda
Vsquez says the offerings into the four cor- district events and
started of the world, even if she me the simple steps of her this
with certainty. And she ners of a handkerchief, one going to
conference events doesnt yet know it. United native dances, and
each time has decades of involvement corner for World Thank Offer-
and the School of Christian Methodist Women helps it seemed like
she had to go in United Methodist Women ing, another for gifts, and
so Mission. And then they asked women discover their gifts. back to
square one, but she to back up her conviction. on. She always gave
accurate me to be a district officer and The benefits that you
re-was always there, smiling, Ms. Vsquez, one of six treasurers
reports according president of the district and ceive from their
investment in bubbling over with Christs children, grew up in
Edcouch, to what was in each corner. finally a conference officer.
you are tremendous. United love ready to try yet again. in deep
South Texas, about Ms. Vsquezs mother, Elida After attending some
Methodist Women invested Just keep trying, Joy, and al- 10 miles
north of the border Gonzalez, had a sixth grade district events,
Ms. Vsquez a lot in me. How could I not ways smile, she encouraged
with Mexico. She attended education and was a migrant was
impressed. I knew that think that they would be in me. She lived
her life through Texas Womens University, worker, but she was ac-
the organization was a whole my will? Ms. Vsquez said. her faith in
pursuit of justice. and she met her husband tive in the Womens
Society lot more than I had thought, She decided to support the
I hadnt seen Ms. Wil- on a blind date over a Christ- of
Christian Service at the she said. I started subscrib- organization
that she loves liam in years when I got a mas break. They have been
church in Elsa, Ms. Vsquez ing to response and New through a gift
from her will.text from my mother July married for 49 years and
said. I saw Mother going to World Outlook and learning In regard to
her deci18: Have you heard about have a son and a daughter.
meetings, and then going for more, reading more. Then I sion, Ms.
Vsquez stated, the deaconess? Before A military family, the a day
or two somewhere with became active at the con- God has been in our
every responding to my mother I Vsquezes lived in Korea, the women.
My love for ference level. She told her decision weve made as got
on Facebook and saw Panama and all over the Mujeres Metodistas
Unidas husband, This is what Im a family. She knows God mutual
friends posting the United States. After Mr. (United Methodist
Women) going to pour myself into. helped direct her to United news.
Ms. William had died Vsquez retired from the came through Mother.
Ms. Vsquez has served Methodist Women and on in a random act of
extreme army, the family settled in Ms. Vsquez joined the at the
local, district, confer- into the future to ministry violence in
Beijing, China. It Weslaco, Texas, not far from local United
Methodist Wom- ence and national levels of with women, children and
shook my soulI wasnt sure where Mr. and Ms. Vsquez en after moving
to Weslaco. United Methodist Women. youth around the world. what to
do, how to respond had both grown up. The ladies embraced me She
was president of South-
Sandy Wilder (SWilder@ or what to think. I needed to Ms. Vsquez
was strongly and invited me to the meet- west Texas Conference for
unitedmethodistwomen.org) is a reflect, and I stepped away
influenced by her grand- ingsand Im still there! she four years and
president of major and planned giving consultant from my computer.
mother and her mother. My said. I didnt just go to the the South
Central Jurisdic- with United Methodist Women.
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Ilda Vsquez, a longtime United Methodist Women member, has
served at the local, district, conference and national levels and
will continue to serve by remembering United Methodist Women in her
will.
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One child at a time Youth at the Florida Conference Mission u
learn how Cornerstone Family Ministries helps end the cycle of
poverty.
by Cathy Capo Stone
I n the middle of the stage at Florida Southern College stood a
16-year-old girl wearing a nametag that said Poor Young Mom. She
was overwhelmed. She was trying to juggle too many balls and
nothing was working for her. Seventy-eight other 6-12th graders
watched. Some laughed. Some shouted their suggestions on how to
keep the balls in the air. Others felt sorry for her. Some got
bored and talked to one another, completely uninterested in her
predicament. The one child at a time. Above: Youth at the 2013
Florida Conference Mission girl became frustrated and The
16-year-old playing u in Lakeland, Fla., learn about the outreach
of
Cornerstone Family Ministries, a United Methodistalmost gave up.
And this Poor Young Mom was given Women supported National Mission
Institution. Left: was only a game. a ball with Poverty written
But for real poor young on it and another with Cathy Stone and
Kenya Monroe, childrens coordinator, at the Florida Conference
Mission u in July 2013.moms raising a child in Child written on it.
She
poverty it is not a game; for was asked to juggle both of them,
juggling life is hard the balls without stopping. more volunteers
also collected baby and breaking the cycle of Then she was given
another were recruited products for the Rosa
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Valdez Early Childhood youth attending the Florida it. Struggling
to keep the audience. They Learning Center. These Conference United
Method- three balls in the air, she interactions provided a wore
nametags ist Women Mission u were was offered a fourth ball that
read: great opportunity for the participating in a presentation by
Cornerstone Family Ministries, one of United Methodist Womens
National Mission Institutions.
The presentation depicted why and how Cornerstone Family
Ministries serves more than 28,000 young children living at or
below the poverty level through direct service and through a
sponsoring and mentoring program to more than 130 early childhood
centers throughout five counties in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area.
Throughout the presentation students learned statistics about
poverty and had a chance to see how Cornerstone nurtures bodies,
develops minds and fosters hope
with Opportunity written across itthe one thing that would help
her get out of poverty, a chance to go to college and/or get a good
joband she had no capacity to take the ball because none of the
other balls could be set aside.
Three other volunteers were recruited. One represented
Cornerstones Childrens Nutrition Connection, one represented
Cornerstones Childrens Early Education Connection (also known as
the Rosa Valdez Center) and the third represented Cornerstones
Childrens Faith Connection. Early Education Connection took the
Child ball and handled it with great care, making sure Poor
Young Moms child would have a safe place and the best early
childhood education while she went to school and/or work, and
Childrens Nutrition Connection took the Needs ball for her, making
sure that her child would have nutritious food every day. Now Poor
Young Mom could see the possibility of taking advantage of the
Opportunity, a key to helping break the cycle of poverty and
eventually allowing her to take back the Needs ball. More
important, her child would be equipped to do well in school and
break the cycle of poverty for his children.
Because Cornerstone serves so many children,
Volunteer, Donor, Church, Government Program, Youth Group. They
came up one by one and formed a circle around Poor Young Mom, and
they all shared in caring for Needs and Child by passing those
balls around the circle. What started out hard became easier with
the body of Christs help.
The organizers of the Florida Conferences Mission u wanted to
incorporate a meaningful mission opportunity and understanding of
the impact of one of Floridas National Mission Institutions into
Mission u. My visit as the executive director of Cornerstone was
one way this was accomplished. The students and members
students to learn about the plight of children in poverty on a
national and local level, and they had an opportunity to see how
United Methodist Women is engaging in mission. To find out more
about Cornerstone go to www. cornerstonefamilyministries. org or
e-mail at cstone@ cornerstonefm.org.
Cathy Capo Stone is the executive director of Cornerstone Family
Ministries in Tampa, Fla.
Your Mission Giving supports National Mission Institutions like
Cornerstone Family Ministries. To give, visit www.
unitedmethodistwomen. org/give.
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Deaconess Nazgul William 1968-2013 continued from page 1 Haiti,
where she promoted a womens prison ministry and micro-commodities
program.
Ms. William was a member of Christ Church United Methodist in
New York, N.Y., where she held the office of president of United
Methodist Women. She was also social action coordinator for the New
York Conference United Methodist Women.
She is preceded in death by her mother and father and
survived by a brother and seven sisters. She was close to the
Prudente family of New York, N.Y., who are assisting Ms. Williams
birth family with arrangements. Memorial services are being held in
Pakistan, New York, and at the Brooks-Howell Home in Asheville,
N.C.
Myka Kennedy Stephens is a United Methodist deaconess appointed
as an independent information professional in the Northern Illinois
Annual Conference.
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I have always loved to dance as it is one of the best ways I
express myself, Ms. William said. Her enthusiasm and love of Christ
was always reflected through her dance.
Naz William wears her deaconess stole at the World Diakonia 2013
in Berlin, Germany.
Ms. William dances at Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville,
Tenn., during the 2006 National Association of Deaconesses, Home
Missioners and Home Missionaries Convocation.
Naz William leads dancers in Berlin, Germany, during the July
2013 World Diakonia assembly.
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