
Affiliated Units
| India | Church of South India (CNI) Church of North India (CNI) Methodist Church in India |
| Myanmar | Methodist Church of Myanmar (Lower Myanmar) |
| Pakistan | Women’s Synodical Church of Pakistan |
| Sri Lanka | Methodist Church of Sri Lanka |
Area Officers
Norma Sarojini Nagendran was the Vice President of South Asia during the last quinquinium. Very early in life, at the Methodist Educational Institutions she was involved in Leadership roles in Sunday School, Youth Fellowship etc. She went on to serve the Church and the Methodist Women’s Fellowship and other Institutions including the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka as the Chairperson of the Women’s Unit. She was elected to the Highest Office of a Lay person, the Vice President of the Methodist Church, Sri Lanka in 1998.
Norma Sarojini is an Accountant by Profession and was the CEO of the Multi National Japanese Company, Marubeni Corporation in Colombo. Widely travelled on both Business and Church related Projects, as well as Social Visits, she is fluent in English, Tamil & Sinhala and can manage spoken Japanese.
Specific MDGs for the promotion of Gender Equality and Empower women, improving Maternal Heath, and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases have strengthened Margarette, professionally, to become a consecrated member of the Lower Myanmar Methodist Church. Margarette was raised in an inter-denominational Christian family to become a 57-year old grandmother of two. Her clinical background and Medico-Social Works for over two decades nurtured her to sympathise on the Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV-infected women which has lead her to head the Australian Government-funded Red Cross HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme. Meanwhile, her volunteering Consultations for the Non-Violence International, focusing on the helpless landmine victims has lead Myanmar, to be revealed both as ‘a user and producer country of Landmines’ to the rest of the world. Moreover, the devastating Cyclone NARGIS, which approx. took 150,000 lives in the Delt in 2008 gave birth to many concerned Religio-Humanitairan Relief and Recovery Workers overnight. All of these have now counted-in to give way for two more units to jointly focus on the MDGs through networking amongst denominational church women, contributing Myanmar to be an active South-Asian Country, to make a dedicated difference for the Glory of God.
