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From the Jan./Feb. 2026 issue of response magazine.

Happy New Year and greetings in Faith, Hope, and Love! I thank God that each of us is gifted to see 2026, a new year to continue serving and loving God and our neighbor. If 2025 taught me anything with so many disruptions, shifts, and unfathomable changes it is that God is with me and you. Amid my most difficult days, I could trust that God was with me. I hope that is your testimony as well.
From the Jan./Feb. 2026 issue of response magazine.

Assembly Event Welcomes Elizbeth Eckford
You may not know her by name, but you will more than likely recognize her high school photo. Elizabeth Eckford’s family did not have a phone, so she was the only one of a group of brave Black students who didn’t get the phone call that would have told her that, for her safety, she should not come to school on that first day of attempted desegregation at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sept. 4, 1957.
From the Jan./Feb. 2026 issue of response magazine.

National Mission Institutions continue United Women in Faith's Legacy. These community-based ministries have offered education, housing, health care, and other essential services for well over a century. While their names, models, and leadership structures have evolved, their mission has remained steady: to be a faithful, responsive presence in the lives of those they serve.
From the Jan./Feb. 2026 issue of response magazine.

Remembering Home Missioner Helen Ryde (Sept. 11, 1965-Sept. 2, 2025)
United Women in Faith member Home Missioner Helen Ryde (they/them) left an indelible mark on United Women in Faith, the Order and Office of Deaconess and Home Missioner, the entire United Methodist Church, and beyond.
From the Jan./Feb. 2026 issue of response magazine.

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From the Nov./Dec. 2025 issue of response magazine.

The Sand Creek Massacre is not just Cheyenne and Arapaho history, it is Methodist history. From the Nov./Dec. 2025 issue of response magazine.

The cultural tendencies of this time invite us to flit quickly from one story to another, sampling information and taking in various soundbites—both social and spiritual. It is as though we have been tacitly instructed never to dive too deep and to click quickly past anything that doesn’t automatically arrest our attention. Amid the mental clutter of so many neon-bright attention grabbers, the choice to read a book in full, slowly and carefully, or, as the Reading Program suggests, to read at least 5+ books in such a manner annually, seems practically countercultural—and maybe that’s exactly what we need. From the Nov./Dec. 2025 issue of response magazine.

Sally Vonner's Responsively Yours column from the Nov./Dec. 2025 issue of response magazine.

Sixteen deaconesses and home missioners from the United States gathered with diaconal ministers from around the world in Tanzania in July for a week of inspiration and the consecration of 15 new deaconesses and home missioners. From the Nov./Dec. 2025 issue of response magazine.