TEXAS WMU PRESIDENTS SUPPORT EFFECTIVENESS/EFFICIENCY PLAN

Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas exists to support Baptist mission enterprises through prayer, through giving to mission offerings and through missions education.

When we hear of a plan designed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of a Baptist entity (in this case, the Baptist General Convention of Texas, as well as the ministries of local Texas Baptist churches and associations), we examine the plan closely for its effect on Southern Baptist missions.

After scrutinizing the recommendations of the Effectiveness and Efficiency Committee of the BGCT, we enthusiastically endorse its adoption by the messengers to this year’s annual meeting.

Why?

This plan recognizes the Texas mission field, and at the same time encourages the expansion of partnership missions, which has proven to be an especially effective method of doing missionary work and promoting missions education.

This plan should enhance support for all Southern Baptist mission endeavors as it continues the approach approved in the 1994 BGCT annual meeting in Amarillo… encouraging church-directed cooperative giving.

This plan also makes the visionary recommendation that the BGCT explore the possibility of becoming a member organization of the Baptist World Alliance. Another excellent suggestion is to network with missionary-sending organizations to train “lay envoys” sent out to teach, reach, and preach on international mission fields where they work and live. Both of these recommendations will strengthen the effectiveness of our mission efforts.

Missions has always been the heartbeat of Baptists. A desire for effective and efficient mission work is what gave birth to our conventions. This plan continues the primacy of missions for Texas Baptists. We endorse its passage.

Jeane Law, 1996 to present Ophelia Humphrey,

1964–’68 Mauriece Johnston, 1972–’76, 1980–’84

Amelia Bishop, 1984–’88

Mary Humphries, 1992–’96

Huis Coy Egge, 1976–’80

October 1997