Mothers' Union

Wedding Fayre

Mothers' Union stand at a Wedding Fayre

Sponsored Walk

A sponsored walk at Southwold raised over £1900 for MU projects

Melton branch renaming service

Members at the renaming service for Melton St Andrews branch

Quiet Day

Topics for reflection at the Quiet Day

Donations to the Women's Refuge

MU members donated craft items for the children in the Women's Refuge

Picnic in the Abbey Gardens

Mothers' Union picnic on Mary Sumner Day

Outreach projects

All of these items have been made by members in the North Suffolk Area - quilts and knitted hats for special care babies, twiddle muffs for dementia patients and hats for seafarers.

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Welcome to the Mothers' Union Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, Suffolk.

The Mothers' Union is a worldwide Christian organisation with over four million members in eighty three countries.  Our aim is to promote family life in its many forms.

Mothers' Union worldwide projects include: Emergency Relief Fund, Literacy and Development Programme, Family Life Programme, Worldwide Parenting Programme and Training Local Workers.

The work and projects undertaken by Mothers' Union members are underpinned by prayer.  There are many different forms that are used - prayer days, retreats, quiet days, the emergency prayer chain, prayer groups and the Wave of Prayer.

The Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Mothers' Union has around 990 members.

Our Diocese is linked with four overseas dioceses - Lake Malawi in Malawi, Byumba in Rwanda, Jalingo in Nigeria and Lucknow in India.