Woman's Missionary Union Auxiliary To Southern Baptist Convention

Christian Religious Program: The purpose of Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) is making disciples of Jesus who live on mission. WMU seeks to cultivate the characteristics of a missional person-one who learns about missions, prays for missions, supports missions, does missions and tells others about Jesus. Avenues for missions involvement include missions discipleship, compassion ministries and leadership development. Missions Discipleship-From preschoolers through adults, WMU helps inform, inspire, and involve members of WMU age-level groups in missions. In 2024-25, WMU created and distributed 8 subscription items, including periodicals and resources kits, with an average circulation of approximately 89,068. WMU encourages greater missions involvement and nurtures all ages in missions discipleship through channels such as publications, products, resources, videos, blog posts, and more. In 2025, we built and launched a new wmu.com and overhauled our fulfillment system to better serve customers and increase engagement. Ongoing missions discipleship through WMU develops believers who understand God's mission in the world, leading to devoted Christians who are passionate about sharing the love of Christ with others. Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions-In 2024, WMU helped raise $207.2 million-the highest total in the offering's 136-year history-for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Since initiating the first offering in 1888, WMU has helped raise more than $5.8 billion through this effort. The offering represents more than half of IMB's total annual support. Every penny given to the offering goes directly to support missionaries, including housing, training, education, and healthcare. Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions - In 2025, WMU helped raise $71.2 million-the second-highest amount given-for missions work in North America through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. Since 1907, when official reporting began for the home missions offering started by WMU, receipts total more than $2.3 billion through 2025. All of the funds raised through this offering go directly to NAMB to support field personnel and supplies nearly half of their total annual revenue. Compassion Ministries-WMU offers a variety of ways to be involved in hands-on missions efforts through ministries such as Pure Water, Pure Love; Christian Job Corps; World Crafts; and Project HELPSM: Mental Health. Both our domestic and international reach continue to grow through these ministries as lives are transformed. We have more than 90 Christian Women's Job Corps/Christian Men's Job Corps sites across the US, as well as CWJC sites in South Africa, Uganda, and Mexico. Christian Job Corps sites offer classes, resources, mentoring, Bible study, and more as participants gain self-confidence, purpose, direction, and hope for the future. World Crafts helps develop sustainable, fair-trade businesses by partnering with artisan groups worldwide and bringing their handcrafted products to market. These partnerships empower artisans to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of their communities, often providing safe, dignified employment for women at risk of exploitation, including those who have escaped human trafficking. With renewed leadership in product development, World Crafts is entering a season of growth-expanding artisan partnerships, field testing new designs, and preparing to launch new products from new and existing groups. This strategy advances our mission to create sustainable income opportunities and connect more customers to products with purpose. Project HELP is an initiative of WMU that identifies a critical issue, seeks to raise the level of awareness of that issue, and provides practical approaches anyone can implement to open the door for meeting needs and sharing the gospel. Since 2022, WMU has provided resources to address the issue of mental health, including an online course entitled Mental Health: The Church's Response, training in Mental Health First Aid, a book entitled Joyful Sorrow, articles, blogs posts and more. Missionary housing is an additional ministry of WMU in which we administer housing for Southern Baptist missionaries while they are on stateside assignment. We maintain a database of nearly 700 houses made available by churches, associations, and individuals and make this information available to missionaries on a secure website. Leadership Development-WMU offers a variety of opportunities for discovering and expanding one's leadership skills and spiritual gifts through online courses, print and digital resources, and in-person trainings. WMU's Christian Women's Leadership Center (CWLC) is one approach to leadership development in which online courses are self-paced and on demand. Joining the line-up of CWLC courses related to missional foundations, this year we introduced two new courses: The Story of Missions and Spiritual Disciplines. We also revised a course related to CWLC leadership foundations entitled Women Leaders of the Past. Two new courses were launched to further engage leaders in missions discipleship. They are RA: An Overview and Counter-Culture for Students. In addition, two online courses were created exclusively for our board members to help them understand their role and responsibilities.