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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 continued on page 7

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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 on page 3

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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. We also honored past presidents from Co

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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

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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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t ball with Needs written on from the poverty even harder. These 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.

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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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