2025 Southeast District United Women in Faith
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President Brenda Bowman​
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Our Units
Auburn First
Covenant Dothan
Dothan First
Ozark First
St. Luke
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District Superintendent
Dr. Sterling Boykin​
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(L-R) Troy student Jackson Biddle, director Sheryl Palmer, UWFaith members Debbie Bracewell, Allyson Turnbull, Ruth Lovelace, Laurel Akin.
On October 9, members of St. Luke United Women in Faith in Enterprise provided dinner for the students at the Wesley Foundation at Troy University. The students are invited every Thursday for a free meal and a time of learning and fellowship.
The UWFaith members served spaghetti, salad, homemade breadsticks, cookies, and enjoyed meeting the students and the director, Rev. Sheryl Palmer. Wesley Foundations are a United Methodist student ministry and a significant factor in identifying future leaders.
United Women In Faith Confronting History, Learning, and Growing
Heartbreaking, overwhelming, powerful, eye-opening—these are some of the responses members of the St. Luke United Women in Faith shared after visiting two of the Legacy Sites of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery on October 23rd.
The Legacy Museum takes visitors on a journey through 400 years of American history, much of which is not told in most history classes. For example, many of the women were unaware of Alabama’s convict leasing system, which allowed the state to force prisoners to work in dangerous conditions for no pay—basically a form of slavery long after slavery was abolished. Many of them were imprisoned on minor or manufactured charges. A similar system continues now, although some prisoners do earn a small amount of money.
Following the visit to the museum, the group went to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-ace site on the Alabama River. A path took us through the park, which told the history of slavery through works of art and 170-year-old buildings that had housed slaves on plantations, as well as the displacement of Native Americans.
As Bryan Stevenson says, when you visit the Legacy Sites, “you’re going to hear (and I would add see) some things that are challenging, and uncomfortable. But that’s part of how we grow.”