LEAVE THE WMU ALONE: THEY ARE JUST ACTING BAPTIST
by David R. Currie,
coordinator

I grew up going to GA camp as a little boy with my mother serving as a sponsor. I went to WMU house parties in Waco. The WMU is why Baptists are mission minded and used to be mission focused, and still would be if this mess had not gotten us off the mission.

I got over being mad about all this several years ago. Personally I want to keep Texas free, support CBF as an individual, and ignore the SBC and what its leaders say and do. Nothing surprises me much anymore.

Foreign Mission Board President Jerry Rankin just ruined my day! And I am mad!

Paul Pressler never made me this mad. Paige Patterson never came close. I always figured they would get Russell Dilday sooner or later so that did not make me mad.

But Jerry Rankin has made me angry! Under the guise of “prayer” he writes 40,000 pastors, WMU directors, and other Southern Baptists and urges them to pray that the WMU will not respond to the wishes of local Southern Baptist churches who support CBF. He says CBF is competing for money from Baptist churches. This from a Foreign Mission Board that regularly works with other organizations that raise funds from Southern Baptist Churches, and the FMB even recently contributed $200,000 of your tithes to one of these organizations.

Leave the Woman’s Missionary Union alone. They are the reason the Foreign Mission Board has missionaries. They are a Baptist auxiliary doing what a Baptist auxiliary is supposed to do— respond to the mission needs and desires of local Baptist churches. Mercy, the WMU can sure get in trouble acting like Baptists in this day and time!

August/September 1995