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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“… I just wasn’t ready to let it not be a part of my life.”
SAVANNAH — Missions education and missions service remain at the heart of Georgia’s Woman’s Missionary Union existence, and those goals were front and center during the agency’s annual report to Convention messengers. State Missionary Beth Ann Williams, who oversees the ministry as Georgia WMU executive director, showcased the efforts by teens and women to tell […]
Former Georgia Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union presidents are lauding retiring National WMU Executive Director/Treasurer Wanda Lee for her 16 years of service at the woman’s auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention. A former Georgian, Lee announced her intentions to retire on Jan. 11 during her report at National WMU’s board meeting at Shocco Springs Conference […]