Women’s Missionary Union / People Enjoying People (WMU/PEP)
The WMU/PEP group meets the third Friday of each month at the church at 1:30 p.m.  The WMU Director is Sharon Schesvold.  We discuss missionaries and unique opportunities and challenges they face.  One of our ladies reminds us about MKs (missionary kids), especially those who are living outside the United States, emphasizing the difficulties and cultural differences with which they are confronted.  Another member may explain the history of a certain hymn, while someone else gives a devotion.  We support the Pray, Give, Go emphasis of our church and denomination.  Monthly, we distribute copies of Missouri Prayer Ways to more than 50 men and women in our congregation who are praying specifically for missionaries with Missouri ties.  We have been sponsoring a campaign to collect toiletry articles for the Baptist Home for the Aged in Chillicothe for the past four years.  Certainly, one of our most important tasks is to keep missions and missions efforts before the church.  We facilitate the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions, the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering, and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.  And although we have yet to actually go on a missions trip outside the United States, we will work with our newly formed Missions Committee to facilitate such a venture.

WMU will have their next meeting on Friday, February 15, 1:30 p.m. at the church.  All ladies are invited and your children are welcome.

Remember our new ministry, Shepherds Home, with our Campbell and related labels.  There is a box in the foyer.

WMU Vision Statement
WMU challenges Christian believers to understand and be radically involved in the mission of God.

WMU Core Values (basic beliefs):

We believe that Jesus Christ, Son of God, gave His life a sacrifice for the salvation of all people of the world, fulfilling God's plan for the ages as revealed in the Bible, God's Holy Word.

All of our other core values stem from this first one.

We embrace the strategic role of prayer and giving for missionaries and missions needs. We accept the biblical mandate to respond to human need with actions modeled by Jesus Christ and with the message of God's redemptive plan. We uphold the foundational principles of the priesthood of every believer and the autonomy and uniqueness of each local church in carrying out the Great Commission. We partner with other Great Commission Christians to lead a lost world to Christ. We accept responsibility for developing and equipping missions leaders. We accept responsibility for nurturing preschoolers, children, youth, and adults in missions. We recognize the role of family in discipleship and missions development. We recognize the giftedness of women and girls and accept the responsibility to help them use their gifts in serving Christ.

WMU's five strategic principles of missions:

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

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