“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.
Creely Wilson, Tennessee WMU’s first state coordinator for Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC), died July 18. She was 92.
The Christian Women’s Job Corps of Tyler, Texas, has supplied four WMU scholarships to help women move forward in their lives and further their education.
Woman’s Missonary Union Foundation grants help Christian Women’s Job Corps sites expand their reach, deepen their impact.
Giselle Gonzalez-Rivera is a mother of three in her late 30s. With the help of Christian Women’s Job Corps and the Woman’s Missionary Union, she is also a licensed practical nurse.
