ISBC WMU Meeting

 WMU “Souper”

September 15 Meeting

 

at Debbie Fink’s home (carpool 11:45 from Worship Center parking lot) at 12:00. Speaker: Lisa Moor – missionary work in Tanzania. Special luncheon meeting!! Questions: contact Martha Rhoton- rhotonm@hotmail.com. Come hungry for food, fellowship, prayer, and learning about missions.  

WELCOME

to

Indian Springs Baptist Church

Women's Missionary Union

Mission Statement: We pray for and give to missions, learn and teach about missions, do missions, develop spiritually toward a missional lifestyle, and support the mission work of our church and denomination.

Please read the following information to learn what we do and how we do it to serve Him. Included are our mission opportunities, meetings, projects, contact people for different projects and responsibilities, and a full description of what WMU is can be found in the blog entitled “What is

WMU, you say?”

Enjoy, be blessed, and join us in a missional lifestyle!!!

Mission Events:

• Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions ( GOTM ) Emphasis: September
• Lottie Moon Christmas Offering ( LMCO ) Emphasis: December 
• Mission Time in AWANA the first Wednesday in each month
• Operation Christmas Child ( OCC) Shoebox Ministry- Info coming
• Shoebox Packing trip to Boone
• Lottie Moon Christmas Ornaments
• Card Ministry/ Dolls
• Baptist Collegiate Ministries ( BCM ) at ETSU Campus: Coffee/Pop Tart Cart- Debbie Fink
• BCM Cookies for Move-in Day
• BCM Fall Meal
• BCM Spring Meal
• BCM Dinner Meal: Youth schedule and supply food and we serve- TBA
• Gibsontown Support: Supplies brought to each meeting/ Desserts for Christmas and Easter Worship meetings
• We are always blessed with many more ways to serve the Lord, so keep paying attention to the church bulletin/announcements and this Web Page. Always feel free to contact any WMU member to get additional information. 

WELCOME
                      to

Mission Statement: We pray for and give to missions, learn and teach about missions, do missions, develop spiritually toward a missional lifestyle, and support the mission work of our church and denomination.

Please read the following information to learn what we do and how we do it to serve Him. Included are our mission opportunities, meetings, projects, contact people for different projects and responsibilities, and a full description of what WMU is can be found in the blog entitled “What is

WMU, you say?”

Enjoy, be blessed, and join us in a missional lifestyle!!!

WMU Six-Month Schedule- 2019
Meetings: ( all meetings are at Hill Road Campus )

• September 19: CHANGE BACK TO DAY MEETINGS- 1:30 at CLC
• October 17- 1:30 at CLC
• No November Meeting
• December 5- Christmas Covered-dish Dinner- CLC at 6:00

September: Golden Offering for Tennessee Missionaries- September 4- 16 ( Promotion )

December: Lottie Moon Christmas Offering- December 2- 16 ( Ornaments and promotion )

"Missions Mosaic" Magazines available

Special Projects:

• Mission Time: AWANAS (HR) the first Wednesday, KidzLife (GW) the second Wednesday
• Gibsontown: Donations made at monthly meetings
• Baptist Collegiate Ministries at ETSU: Coffee/Pop Tart Cart- ongoing/ Fall Lunch: Monday, October 8/ Special Tuesday night meal with youth serving, TBA/ Spring meal: TBA
• Fall Festival at Glenwood
• Trunk at Trunk or Treat at Hill Road- October 31
• School supplies purchased for ISES in August
• Samaritan's Purse Shoebox Ministry: Kickoff in August and ongoing until collection
• Trip to Boone for Shoebox packing: TBA

Officers/ Responsibilities

Director:   Martha Rhoton ( rhotonm@hotmail.com )

·       Meetings: Schedule, church bulletin info, dates on webpage

·       Mission Study: Foreign, Home, State

·       AWANA/TeamKID Programs:

·       Church Calendar

·       Special Missions Offerings: Golden/LMCO/AAEO

·       Order Subscriptions

·       Order  Special Mission Supplies: Golden/LMCO/AAEO

·       Finances

·       Website Team Leader

·       Review/Help construct/ Etc. Memos for bulletin from other teams ( if needed )

·       Direct Special projects

·       Youth Liaison

·       Gibsontown Liaison

·       Update of WMU Projects/Activities

Secretary/ Treasurer:   Kathy Tilley

·       Take minutes at each meeting

·       Prepare and e-mail minutes after each meeting

·       Keep money collected and records of transactions

·       Take up money each meeting

·       Pay designated item

Program Support: Rita Strauser

·       Programs for each meeting

·       Special missionary speaker

   

Prayer Support: Doris Pressley

·       Pray for missionaries having birthdays meeting day

Activities/ Projects Leaders:

Carolyn Cook:

·       ETSU  Baptist Collegiate Ministries- Fall meal

·       Lottie Moon Handouts

·       Co-director with Rita for Missionary Birthday Party ( Spring )

·       WMU Directory

·       WMU Notebooks

Rita Strauser:

·       Cards/ Goody Bags for members on Mission Trips

·       Co-director with Carolyn for Missionary Birthday Party ( Spring )

·       WMU T-Shirts

·       Assistant Mission Time Programs- Cubbies

·       Assistant International Mission Study

Kathy Tilley:

·       Mission Support Crafts: Sewing kits, etc.

·       School Supplies

·       Boone Shoebox Packing

·       Tent for Fall Festival at Glenwood

·       Trunk or Treat Fall Festival at Hill Road

Susan Cox:

·       Foam paper dolls for mission trips

·       Foam paper dolls for hospitals

·       Cards for WMU & Staff Birthdays ,etc.

Ann Fentress:

·       Scripture wallets

Debbie Fink:

·       Shoebox Ministry

·       BCM Coffee Cart, Spring Meal, and Night Meal (?)

What IS WMU, you say?

It was 1888. A group of ladies decided that not only did they want to pray for missionaries, but they wanted to help them with their physical needs!! May in Richmond, Virginia, is beautiful, and these ladies were ready to get things going! They were very Baptist about this and organized a committee- the Executive Committee of the Woman's Mission Societies, Auxilary to Southern Baptist Convention. They knew how to do it right! They adopted a constitution, elected officers, chose Baltimore, Maryland, as the headquarters, and got Annie Armstrong as their first treasurer. You have to keep those financial records straight, you know. Annie was on fire! Not only did she write many, many letters to get support to send to home missionaries, she collected clothes in barrels and sent them to American Indian children. Boots on the ground. With the Lord's many blessings and direction, we've come a long way, baby!! Headquarters are now in Birmingham, Alabama, and WMU is the largest Protestant missions organization for women in the world. Yes, I said the WORLD. There are over 1,000,000 of us!! What do we do? I'm glad you asked. Here is what Indian Springs Baptist Church WMU does..........

　

WMU Purpose:

• To learn about missions
• To pray for and give to missions
• To develop spiritually toward a missions lifestyle
• To do missions
• To support the mission work of our church and denomination

When do we meet, you ask?

• Hill Road WMU meets the third Thursday in each month.
• Glenwood Women on Missions meets the first Tuesday in each month.

(Check bulletin or ISBC calendar for times and locations. Come join us! )

What projects do we do? (You are asking all the right questions.)

• Activities:
• Monthly meetings to study/pray for missionaries
• Monthly Mission Time in AWANA and TEAM Kids programs 
• Supporting schooling for a child in Honduras through God of Second Chances
• Gibsontown Ministries
• Organizing donations for Pure Water/Pure Love for drinkable water for missionaries and communities 
• Meals to ETSU Baptist Collegiate Ministries twice a year
• Birthday celebration for missionary birthdays
• Special focus on Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions
• Special focus on Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions
• Special focus on Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions
• North American Mission Study
• International Mission Study
• Support of Youth Mission Trips- Prayer cards, prayer for individuals, and survival kits
• Organize school supplies collection in July
• Special projects as needs arise
• Prayer support for various areas

Want to know MORE? (You're GOOOOOOD.)
Contact Indian Springs Baptist Church WMU at isbcwmu@isbc.org.
　
　
　
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28: 29-30

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