{"id":1391,"date":"2015-10-06T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1391"},"modified":"2021-12-09T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:51:39","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1391","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mission Statement<\/strong>: To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting<\/strong>: Sedalia Business Women holds a monthly general membership dinner meeting on the First Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at <b>The Shrine Multipurpose Building, <\/b>1375 Elm Hills Blvd,\u00a0Sedalia, MO. Guests and visitors are welcomed with advanced reservations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Meeting<\/strong>: See schedule in <a href=\"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=130\">Event Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friendship Luncheon<\/strong>: Friendship luncheons are every Wednesday at 11:30 at various local restaurants. Join other Sedalia Business Women friends for fun and fellowship. The schedule can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=36\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Club meetings begin with the Club Collect:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Club Collect<\/strong><br \/>\nKeep us, oh God, from pettiness;<br \/>\nLet us be large in thought, in word, in deed,<br \/>\nLet us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking<br \/>\nMay we put away all pretense and meet each other<br \/>\nFace to face \u2013without self-pity and without Prejudice.<br \/>\nMay we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.<br \/>\nTeach us to put into action our better impulses,<br \/>\nStraightforward and unafraid.<br \/>\nGrant that we may realize it is the little things<br \/>\nThat create differences, that in the big things<br \/>\nOf life we are at one.<br \/>\nAnd may we strive to touch and to know the great,<br \/>\nCommon human heart of us all, and,<br \/>\nOh, Lord God, let us forget not to be kind<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Mary Stewart<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meetings end with the Emblem Benediction:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emblem Benediction<\/strong><br \/>\nThis Emblem binds us all<br \/>\nIn one great sisterhood.<br \/>\nIt bids us heed our conscience call<br \/>\nFor nobler womanhood.<br \/>\nGod guide us when we wear<br \/>\nThis emblem o\u2019er our heart<br \/>\nAnd keep us true and always fair<br \/>\nGod bless us as we part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>: email us at email@sedaliabwm.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement: To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information. Meeting: Sedalia Business Women holds a monthly general membership dinner meeting on the First Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at The Shrine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1391\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sedaliabwm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}