“We want to help you keep the Great Commission front and center,” Sandy Wisdom-Martin told messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.
This year’s WMU celebration at the Omni Dallas Hotel June 8 featured the theme “Let the Nations Be Glad,” based on Psalm 67:4: “May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the people with equity and guide the nations of the earth.”
WMU Foundation President Peggy Darby shares about the kingdom impact of 30 years of investments.
Evelyn Tully of Illinois was honored with the 2025 Rosalie Hunt Devoted Patron Award tonight (June 7) during the WMU Foundation’s 30th Anniversary celebration event.
“We want this to be more than event,” said Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of national WMU. “We pray those gathered to depart inspired and challenged to intentionally make disciples of Jesus who live on mission.”
Eden Gilbreath of Stallings Memorial Baptist Church in Salisbury, North Carolina and Carolyn Harrell of Calvary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have been named as this year’s national Acteens panelists.
Christian Women’s Job Corps/Christian Men’s Job Corps — also known as Christian Job Corps — “equips women and men, in a Christian context, for life and employment,” according to the WMU website.
Southern Baptist churches, groups and entities sent thousands of panels made of craft sticks to WMU in recent months. Now, WMU staff and volunteers have turned them into a big houseboat to show how the Cooperative Program works.
Described by people across the nation as “the neatest project ever” and “amazing,” missions advocates are watching and waiting intently this week — and also relieved it is only a model (no one is going to live in the craft stick houseboat).
National Woman’s Missionary Union is building a craft stick houseboat to help teach children about the Cooperative Program.
