Sandy Wisdom-Martin, who has served since 2016 as executive director of national Woman’sMissionary Union, recently marked the milestone of 11,111 days involved in vocational ministry. (WMU photo) By Trennis Henderson BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—As Sandy Wisdom-Martin approaches her fifth anniversary as executive director/treasurer of national Woman’s Missionary Union, she seldom experiences a “typical” day. With extensive travel, […]
A group of campers enjoy activities on the small lake at the Pinnacle Retreat Center. The mental image painted in a recent article about the Pinnacle Retreat Center near Clayton, Georgia, is one of breathtaking beauty. Butterflies flittering on a warm summer breeze. Songbirds calling to one another from towering pines and leafy oaks. Geese […]
Fun and games are a apart of the Camp Pinnacle experience, along with Bible studies and spiritual reflection. By Roger Alford CLAYTON, Ga. – Butterflies flitter on a warm summer’s breeze. Songbirds call to one another from towering pines and leafy oaks. Geese float lazily on a glassy pond, sending tiny ripples across the otherwise […]
Kadmiel Kumar, a deacon at First Baptist Church in Duluth, poses with a $25,000 check provided through the National WMU’s humanitarian fund. By Roger Alford DULUTH, Ga. – The National Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation moved rapidly to help Georgia churches get oxygen concentrators to COVID-19 victims in India, which has been ravaged by the deadly […]
Sandy Wisdom-Martin (left) executive director-treasurer for the National Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU), presents Linda Cooper, outgoing WMU president, with a gift of letters written to her during the June 13, 2021, WMU meeting at First Baptist Church in Nashville. Photo by Abby Duren Diana Chandler NASHVILLE (BP) — Connie Dixon of New Mexico was elected […]
Irma Moss vividly remembers five or six Communist soldiers invading her family’s home in Cuba and whisking her father off to jail in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. That was more than sixty years ago. It was a traumatic, life-changing experience for the frightened eight-year-old girl and her family. Moss’s life journey eventually led […]
By Roger Alford MONROE, Ga. – There’s no mistaking Lauren Sullens’ enthusiasm for getting the Gospel to the nations. That’s why, as the new president of the Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union of Georgia, Sullens plans to herald the Cooperative Program, which has been described as perhaps the greatest evangelistic initiative in modern church history. “If […]
Current personnel at national WMU stands at approximately 40 staff members.
Doris Opoku is the president of the New England WMU. TRENNIS HENDERSON/WMU By Trennis Henderson/WMU LEOMINSTER, Mass. — When Doris Opoku and her family immigrated to the United States from Ghana in 2008, they had no idea what ministry opportunities God had in store for them. Since that time, in addition to becoming U.S. citizens, […]
Photo courtesy of Google Maps By Julie Walters BIRMINGHAM — In response to a decline in sales due to COVID-19, national WMU announced Aug. 5 it is offering a voluntary retirement plan to staff. “We have worked incredibly hard over the past several years to ‘right size’ our organization based on revenue projections,” said Sandy […]
“When they have time to study their Bible, it changes them spiritually.”
“It makes me feel like one day I’ll be a missionary.”