Over Half a Million Dollars Given to Woman’s Missionary Union

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 vital missions work. Pictured are (left to right) David George, WMU Foundation president; Linda Cooper, WMU national president; Sandy Wisdom-Martin, WMU executive director-treasurer; and James Wright, WMU Foundation board chair.

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.

The foundation presented national WMU with grants totaling $512,354 from 14 different funds and endowments during the entity’s board meeting Jan. 13. The funds will support a wide variety of WMU ministries and projects from women’s leadership development to WMU ministries like WorldCrafts and Christian Women’s Job Corps.

WMU Foundation announced it plans to give more over the course of 2019. David George, WMU Foundation president, said gifts like those are why the foundation exists.

“Since the inception of the WMU Foundation in 1995, our objective has been to provide financial support to all of Woman’s Missionary Union and her missions effort,” he said.

Dellanna O’Brien, former national WMU executive director, started the foundation with a clear purpose, George said — to be a “significant supplement” to national WMU’s funding in addition to supporting state WMU organizations, offering scholarships for children of missionaries and giving to other missions-related causes.

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Source: Baptist Press