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

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 […]

10 Principles of Healthy Living
10 Principles of Healthy Living Breathe deeply. Drink water. Sleep peacefully. Eat nutritionally. Enjoy activity. Give and receive love. Be forgiving. Practice gratitude. Develop acceptance. Nurture your spiritual side.
Eat Right and Here’s How
Eat Right and Here’s How It’s all about balance – how much and what you eat and how much activity you get. With healthful habits, you may reduce your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain cancers. New dietary guidelines, based on science, from federal government expert committees will help you feel better […]
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. […]