(Editor’s note: October is Cooperative Program Month. October 6 is a great Sunday to celebrate the remarkable effectiveness of Southern Baptists’ regular, systematic, unified funding stream for missions. Illinois’ own Sandy Wisdom-Martin has a wonderfully crafty idea for helping kids learn about CP on the first Sunday of the month, or any Sunday.) I don’t […]
Testimony from a coalminer’s daughter
(Editor’s note: At the recent Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield, Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) national executive director-treasurer Sandy Wisdom-Martin shared her story of missions legacy and learning set by her father and the small Illinois Baptist church where she grew up. This column is taken from the transcript of her message. Miners always filled the […]
16,514 reasons to be grateful
Editor’s note: October is Cooperative Program Emphasis Month in the Southern Baptist Convention. I tried to think about the very first time I benefitted from gifts to the Cooperative Program. The best I can calculate, it’s been 16,514 days. I attended my first WMU missions camp sponsored by my Baptist state convention more than 45 […]
Gaining altitude — WMU celebrates 135 years of SBC missions
According to an insect identification database, 647 types of bugs and insects are found in Alabama. Some downright scare me. I looked at images of each until I located the entry most resembling the flying insect I watched from a chair on my back deck. I believe it was a common whitetail skimmer dragonfly that […]
How SBC missions have been influenced by Annie Armstrong
A few years ago, I read the SBC president at the time was considering different gavels for presiding at the SBC Annual Meeting. One of the options under consideration was the Armstrong gavel. I sent him an email with this message: This weekend I did a bit of reading on Annie Armstrong and was inspired […]