CHURCH WOMEN UNITED OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD

On January 27, 2006, at its Human Rights Celebration Worship Program held at St. John’s Congregational Church, Church Women United of Greater Springfield presented its Human Rights Award to Attorney Marjorie J. Hurst “for (her) leadership service as a mentor and social activist on human rights and human development, an advocate for peace and justice with no boundaries of political system, country, cultural background or religion.”

Founded in 1941, Church Women United (CWU) is a national volunteer-based, Christian-faith based, ecumenical women’s movement initiated and carried out by volunteer women in the United States and Puerto Rico. It is a movement that brings together women of diverse races, cultures and traditions in closer Christian fellowship, prayer, advocacy, and action for peace with justice in the world. CWU engages twenty-five million women representing twenty-six supporting denominations and participating individual Christian women. n