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Women On Mission - February 2025

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Gathering Eggs...and Money
By Judith Edwards

Our early WMU mothers gathered eggs and sold them in order to financially support missions. WMU women today are still “gathering money” to share Christ with the world.

Looking Back
Can you picture those women in the early 1900s carefully dropping their egg money into mite boxes? Without their giving, neither mission board (today’s North American Mission Board and International Mission Board) would likely have survived the financial crises of those years. Their “mites” enabled the sending of missionaries when no other funders were available. Scholarships provided ministry training for hundreds of young women. Since the beginning of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program in 1925, WMU has been one of its strongest supporters. Yet when asked to become an SBC agency-which would mean receiving Cooperative Program funds-WMU’s executive board unanimously agreed to remain auxiliary to, but not supported by, the SBC. Since national WMU’s first offering for international missions in 1888-89 and its first offering for North American missions in 1895, women of Southern Baptist churches, followed by other members, have continually given essential financial support for both boards.

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Women On Mission - January 2025

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The Cooperative Program

The financial fuel for reaching every person for Jesus Christ in every town, every city, every state and nation.

More than 99 years ago, Southern Baptists realized the challenge of reaching a lost world was too great for the approach to missions they were taking.  Small congregations couldn’t adequately train leaders and send missionaries on their own.  A host of societies competed for funding, and missions efforts were badly fragmented.  A few leaders realized the churches needed to link up in a focused partnership. Together they could accomplish what chaotic competition was preventing. 

In 1925, Southern Baptists forged the Cooperative Program.  Individuals, churches, state conventions, and Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) entities began working together toward a common goal:  rescuing souls in danger by showing and sharing the gospel all around the world.  The unified budget mitigated competition and provided long-term stability for missions boards.

Even though we number more than 47,000 congregations, our churches working alone could not register the gains we see each year through our Cooperative Program efforts: 23,000 students trained in six seminaries, more than 1,100                     congregations started in North America, 886 people groups and 236 urban centers engaged overseas, and almost 1.4  million people in 53 countries helped with basic life essentials like food and clean water. 

When we join hands through the Cooperative Program, we are better able to obey Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples of all nations.”

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