Mothers' Union - Annual Review 2015

INTRODUCTION
“The Mothers’ Union in so many places is
an organisation that listens to the voices
of weeping. Whether it is in conflict-torn
countries across Africa, or in homes in England
where when the local football team loses
there is a 50% increase in domestic violence;
it is the Mothers’ Union that exists to speak of
those things that God has provided that bring
hope, help and a future.
“Since its founding 140 years ago by Mary Sumner with her
extraordinary vision to support family-life, there has never been a
time when the family did not need supporting, never a time when
the family was not a place that needed the light of Christ shining
within it to become what God has called it to be. And Mothers’
Union holds that treasure in its hands. It is amongst one of the
greatest, the most embedded, the most effective, the most widespread
women’s groups in the world, upholding through its work
the gospel of reconciliation that is so needed to transform the world
in which we live.”
March 2016
The Most Revd And Right Hon
the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby