WMU






Sister Ruby Appling God's Gift to PMBC

Last year for the Lottie Moon Christmas offering Park Memorial received the "Cartersville Challenge" for the year 2008. This award recognizes churches for giving between  $25.00 and $50.00 per capita based on the average Sunday morning Worship attendance.
The 6,150 churches that met the "Cartersville Challenge" are only 13.6% of the 45,000 Southern Baptist Churches. Yet this group of churches gave $37,006,859.65 or 26% of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Cartersville Church, in Georgia, is where Lottie Moon accepted God's call to step out of her comfort zone and take the Gospel to the Chinese people, whose ways were very different from her own. Just as Lottie's home church supported her, your generous giving provides support for over 5,200 Southern Baptist Missionaries who labor for the harvest in places you may never see, but will have a part in changing for eternity. This year's  2009 Lottie Moon Goal is $175,000,000.  If you have a heart for missions, your designated donation will go directly to the foreign mission field.  Thanks for your generous gift. Sister Ruby Appling

Women’s Missionary Union (WMU)

 

The Tasks of Woman’s Missionary Union:
• pray for and give to missions • do missions • learn about missions
• develop spiritually toward a missions lifestyle
• participate in the work of the church and the denomination

Permanent WMU Watchword: "For we are labourers together with God"
(1 Corinthians 3:9 KJV).

Mission Statement: Women’s Missionary Union challenges Christian believers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God.

Officers of Park Memorial Baptist's WMU:
Director: Ruby Appling
Facilitator: Amanda Fletcher

Outreach Programs of PMBC WMU
Projects include:

• Sunday Fellowship Meals  
• Community Service Projects
• (Joy Fellowship Mission )
• (Open Door)
• 
  Ministry in the church and community
  
  Mission Offerings:
  The women’s efforts to raise money for the two mission boards are known today as the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. The Christmas offering originated in 1888 and was named for Lottie Moon in 1918. The Easter offering originated in 1895 and was named for Annie Armstrong in 1934. The two offerings remained women’s offerings until 1956, when WMU agreed to promote the offerings churchwide. By the end of 1998, WMU had helped lead Southern Baptists to contribute nearly $2.5 billion to the two offerings.

History of WMU:
In 1888, a handful of women dedicated to the cause of missions founded Woman’s Missionary Union. Since that time, WMU has become the largest Protestant organization for women in the world, with a membership of approximately 1 million. WMU also was the first and remains the largest body of organized laity in the Southern Baptist Convention.

From the beginning, WMU’s main purpose has been to educate and involve women, girls, and preschoolers in the cause of Christian missions. It accomplishes these purposes primarily through age-level organizations.  Unity Baptist Church participates in the following programs:

• Women on Mission, for women 18 and up
• Team Kids, for 1st through 6th grade
• Mission Friends, for preschool girls and boys.

  WMU supports these organizations through age-appropriate magazines and/or products.

  WMU offers many ministry opportunities and short-term volunteer missions opportunities.

   

  WMU’s governing body is made up of state WMU presidents who are elected by members of church WMU organizations when they gather for their state’s WMU annual meeting. These state presidents become vice presidents on the national level and function as the organization’s Executive Board. The WMU national president, elected annually by WMU members attending the national WMU annual meeting, serves as chair of the board.

  Financially, WMU supports its work through the sale of magazines and products and from investments. National WMU receives no funds from the Southern Baptist Convention’s unified budget, the Cooperative Program.

  Financial support of missionaries has always been a priority for women involved in WMU. When the women founded the national organization in 1888, one of their first items of business was to accept the request to raise money for the two mission boards. Within the first year, the women contributed over $30,700 to the two entities.