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  • Missions: Her driving force amid life's highs & lows
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Thursday, March 14, 2019 (9 days ago)

    Photo by Pam Henderson/WMU
    BENTON, Ark. (BP) -- Missions has been pivotal to Diana Lewis' life for almost as long as she can remember.

    As a member of Girls Auxiliary (now Girls in Action) during her grade school years, she recalls the life-changing influence of Muriel Smith, her GA leader at Elmdale Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark. Read More

  • WMU Foundation: $512,354 to support nat'l WMU work
    by Grace Thornton, posted Thursday, February 28, 2019 (23 days ago)

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- WMU Foundation recently gave more than half a million dollars to national Woman's Missionary Union, a gift earmarked to help the organization carry on its missions work. Read More

  • Jobs program shows women 'who they are in God's eyes'
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Monday, February 11, 2019 (one month ago)

    WMU photo by Pam Henderson
    PARAGOULD, Ark. (BP) -- Intent on living up to its name, Future & Hope Christian Women's Job Corps typically equips 10 to 12 women during in-depth 10-week sessions on such practical life skills as computer skills, money management, parenting and healthy relationships blended with weekly Bible studies and mentoring.

    Amanda*, a Future & Hope CWJC participant who has been on her own since age 15, is now a 24-year-old mom with three young sons who currently live in foster care. Candidly sharing her motivation for joining the program in Paragould, Ark., she said, "I came here to try to get my kids back … but I need a foundation before I can get them back." Read More

  • Diaper Lady & Diaper Man aid moms & families in Ky.
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Thursday, December 20, 2018 (3 months ago)

    WMU photo by Pam Henderson
    JENKINS, Ky. (BP) -- Bessie and Lester McPeek are known throughout eastern Kentucky as the Diaper Lady and Diaper Man. They wouldn't want it any other way.

    The McPeeks, married for 24 years, started a unique diaper distribution and parent education ministry in Jenkins, Ky., in 2001. Since then, they have given away more than 2 million diapers to single moms, unemployed families and others in the economically troubled region who are struggling to make ends meet.

    As the area's once-thriving coal mines have gone out of business over the years, many ... Read More

  • Dining room table: where her missions passion began
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Tuesday, December 18, 2018 (3 months ago)

    Photo by Pam Henderson/WMU
    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- "I learned missions at my dining room table," Joy Bolton often has said, recounting that "my mother and dad were passionate about missions."

    Not surprisingly, Bolton has been a missions leader, participant and advocate throughout her ministry career. Following her recent retirement as executive director of Kentucky Woman's Missionary Union after 19-plus years, she will serve in a volunteer consulting role with national WMU as lead strategist for churchwide and associational WMU.

    Bolton's WMU career harkens back to the summer of 1978 when she served as national WMU's first summer intern after graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Read More

  • Cancer fails to derail her work with hurting people
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Tuesday, October 23, 2018 (5 months ago)

    DALLAS (BP) -- Since being diagnosed with cancer in 2010, a key question Becky Ellison seeks to live by is: "If I had one more minute and I wanted to live it like God wanted me to live it, what would that look like?"

    For Ellison, part of that answer involves those who lead two key ministries to hurting people across Texas -- Christian Women's Job Corps and Christian Men's Job Corps.

    Ellison, who holds bachelor's and master's degrees in social work from Baylor University, has been involved in CWJC/CMJC ministries for 14 years. She began serving as a contract consultant with Woman's Missionary Union of Texas in 2008. Six years later -- and four years after her diagnosis -- she was invited to serve as the state WMU's full-time CWJC/CMJC strategist, consulting with 56 ministry sites throughout Texas. Read More

  • Nursing fellowship, at 35th anniv., elects new leader

    by Trennis Henderson, WMU National Correspondent, posted Friday, September 14, 2018 (6 months ago)

    Photo by Pam Henderson/WMU
    TALLADEGA, Ala. (BP) -- Launching a new era of leadership while celebrating 35 years of ministry, Baptist Nursing Fellowship has elected Lori Spikes as the new BNF executive director.

    Spikes, a longtime Southern Baptist International Mission Board missionary to Chile, is a registered nurse with 40 years of experience in various settings. She currently serves as a volunteer triage nurse at Mission First, a primary care clinic for low-income uninsured individuals and families in Jackson, Miss.

    Baptist Nursing Fellowship, a ministry partner with national WMU (Woman's Missionary Union), was established in 1983. It provides continuing education, missions opportunities and fellowship for Baptist nurses serving in the U.S. and on mission fields around the world. Read More

  • Christian Women's Job Corps grad comes full circle
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Thursday, August 30, 2018 (6 months ago)

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    TALLADEGA, Ala. (BP) -- When Margaret Roland talks about the life-changing impact of Christian Women's Job Corps, she speaks from personal experience.

    Roland, a CWJC site coordinator in Florence, Ala., previously was a CWJC participant seeking to gain practical skills to better equip her for life.

    She was among more than 130 women and men who gathered for training and fellowship at the Aug. 1-3 Christian Women's Job Corps/Christian Men's Job Corps National Meeting hosted by national WMU (Woman's Missionary Union) at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega, Ala. Read More

  • South African: CWJC is 'roadmap' for helping people
    by Trennis Henderson/WMU national correspondent, posted Thursday, August 30, 2018 (6 months ago)

    TALLADEGA, Ala. (BP) -- Why travel from South Africa to attend a ministry training conference in Alabama? For Patricia Ihlenfeldt, the answer is succinct: "to be encouraged and refocused and reenergized."

    Ihlenfeldt, from the Baptist Union of Southern Africa, is director of its Women's Department. She was among 130-plus leaders and staff members at 2018 Christian Women's Job Corps/Christian Men's Job Corps National Meeting at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega, Ala. Read More