WOMEN OF WORTH MINISTRY / WIDOWS MINISTRY
Ministries offering encouragement and support for widows.

May 22-24, 2025
Registration Is Now Open



Women of Worth Director: Jean Carney
For further information,
email ladies@upci.org or call 636-229-7895

Widows Ministry Director: Kelly Middleton
For further information,
email ladies@upci.org or call 636-229-7895
Woman of Worth Blog Posts
10 Commandments of Great Nutrition
10 Commandments of Great Nutrition by Walter Bortz, MD 1. Thou shalt never skip breakfast 2. Thou shalt eat every three to four hours. 3. Thou shalt always eat a carbohydrate with a protein. 4. Thou shalt double your fiber. 5. Thou shalt believe your mother was right: eat your fruits and vegetables. 6. Thou […]

The Seven Wonders of the World
The Seven Wonders of the World A group of students was asked to list what they thought were the present “Seven Wonders of the World.” Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes: 1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids 2. India’s Taj Mahal 3. Grand Canyon 4. Panama Canal 5. Empire State Building 6. […]

HOW MANY STEPS A DAY?
How Many Steps a Day? How many steps a day are enough? The recommendations for healthy adults (according to science-based information) are: Fewer than 5,000 steps/day is a sedentary lifestyle index. Start here if you’re new to walking, and make incremental improvements over weeks and months. 5,000 – 7,499 steps/day is typical of daily […]

Move On with Your Life
Move On with Your Life by Dr. Polly Cooper Brown Moving on is a phrase often used to encourage acceptance of the current reality. In your situation, you no longer have the life you once had with your husband. Moving on may mean giving up your expectations that life will be similar to what […]
Widows Ministry Blog Posts
Gifts of Grief
We awoke early that peaceful Saturday morning. Snow was moving into the area. We had an appointment to see a digital mini grand piano for our living room. Butfive minutes after we had purchased the new piano, Tom fell dead in the seller’s front yard. “Oh Jesus, I speak life,” was my heart’s cry in […]
Relax: It’s Just Grief
For most of the service Dianne had cried. Not a “shoulders heaving, ugly face wailing” kind of cry, rather a “shallow breathing, clinched jaw, trying to hold it in while the pain bubbles upward and out the eye sockets” kind of cry. The dismissal announcement was made, and the congregants went about their normal post-church […]
Missed Flights and Divine Appointments
Settling into my seat, I closed my eyes and tried to breathe through the pain within my chest. Somewhere over the Atlantic on the flight from Munich to Raleigh, North Carolina, it had hit my heart afresh that my late husband would not be waiting at the airport when my flight arrived in Saint Louis. […]