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2025 Mission Get-Together Highlights
What JOY it was to gather together to worship, learn, pray, fellowship, laugh, open God's Word, hear powerful testimonies, blow joy noise makers, share with one another, and have so much fun together!!!
What joy celebrating all that God is doing in and through churches across the state of Tennessee...and through so many WMU groups!
Click here for highlights of the meeting from the Baptist & Reflector.
"Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the Gospel of God but our lives as well." 1 Thessalonians 2:8
STATS FROM THE WEEKEND
ATTENDANCE: 512 participants, staff, volunteers, personnel & exhibitors
MINISTRY PROJECT: Over 9,300 items, $1,100 gift cards, and $60 in cash were donated for Pregnancy Resource Centers across the state.
SILENT AUCTION/LEGACY DISPLAY: $6,316 was given to the Tennessee N Touch Endowment through the Silent Auction and the "Jesus, Others, & Ewe" Legacy Display sponsored by the Tennessee WMU Endowment Promotion Team.
MISSIONS OFFERING: Participants contributed $13,005, with 10% allocated to the Tennessee N Touch Endowment and 90% to the Amy Hood Adoption Endowment.
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Tennessee WMU Annual Meeting
The Tennessee WMU 137th Annual Meeting was held on April 5th, 2025, during the Missions Get-Together Saturday morning general session, at First Baptist Church, Dickson. The meeting included highlights of the work of Tennessee WMU and the state leaders were elected. Click here for the Executive Director's Annual Report.
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Pictured from left to right: The 2025-2026 Tennessee WMU officers from left, president Ramona Hicks, Julia Binford, Kim Griffin, Anna Huggins, Judy Lusk, Rebecca Lee Riddle, Emolyn Lambert, with executive director-treasurer Vickie Anderson. (Not pictured, Linda Rader recording secretary.)
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| Mental Health First Aid Training
Tennessee WMU is collaborating with churches, associations, and other ministries in 2025 to host adult and youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training events across the state as part of our emphasis on the critical issue of mental health.
- MHFA is a skills-based training that teaches participants to identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use challenges.
- Each MHFA training requires a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30 participants.
- The registration cost for participants is $10 per person, which covers lunch.
- The Tennessee Department of Health provides instructors through community partners who are trained to lead youth and adult MHFA.
- If your church, association, or ministry is interested in hosting a MHFA training event, contact Vickie Anderson at vanderson@tnbaptist.org or 615-371-7918
For more information or to register for a youth or adult MHFA training event, click here.
More training opportunities will be added throughout the year.
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| Great Commission Conversations: Send Denver/Front Range
May 15, 2025
6:00 PM CST
Join us the third Thursday night of each month for a Great Commission Conversation via Zoom at 6:00 pm CST as we hear from international, North American, and state missionaries. The conversations via video conference will last 30-45 minutes. After the live video conference meeting, a recorded version of the meeting will be placed online for others to view.
On May 15th, we will hear from Send Denver/Front Range church planters Preston Dunn, Bryson McGuire, and Adam Pellham.
Register Here to participate.
Upcoming 2025 Great Commission Conversations via Zoom at 6:00 pm CST
- June 19 - IMB Missionary
- July 17 – NAMB Missionary
- August 21 – Tennessee Missions
- September 18 – Tennessee Mission
- October 16 – Send Denver/Front Range – NAMB Church Planter
To view previous Great Commission Conversation video recordings, click here.
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| WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting in Dallas!
Sunday, June 8
12:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Omni Dallas Hotel in the Dallas Ballroom
Registration is $20 per person and includes*:
- Missions Celebration and Idea Rodeo experience
- It Became to Me a Joy by Connie Dixon
- Custom WMU bag
*NOTE: You must pre-register by May 23, 2025, to receive a book and bag at the event.
Registration is required. For more information on registration, click here.
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| Christian Job Corps National Certification Training
Level 1 Training
Date: June 20-21, 2025
Location: TBMB Church Support Center, Franklin
Cost: $100
The Level 1 two-day training equips prospective site coordinators to plan, develop, operate and evaluate a Christian Women’s Job Corps/Christian Men’s Job Corps ministry. This training is the beginning point of a CWJC/CMJC leader’s journey.
Click here for more information and to register.
Level 2 Training
Date: July 25-26, 2025
Location: TBMB Church Support Center, Franklin
Cost: $100
The goal of Level 2 two-day training is to better equip an active CWJC/CMJC site coordinator to operate and evaluate a ministry site through a more in-depth exploration of key leadership and organizational issues. Attendance at NCT Level 2 is open to those individuals with at least 12 months of involvement in a CWJC/CMJC site since the completion of Level 1.
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| 2025 Denver Mission Trip
Tennessee WMU began a prayer advocacy partnership with Send Denver in 2014 with a desire to engage Tennessee Baptists in prayer for Denver. This has primarily been done by recruiting prayer partners, sending prayer walking mission teams to Denver, and hosting video conference meetings to hear from and pray for Denver church planters.
In 2025, Tennessee WMU is sending a Prayer Walking Mission Team to Denver September 11-15. The team will prayer walk, encourage church planters, and assist in community engagement activities.
Team members must fill out a Mission Volunteer Application, a Release Form, and a Health Form.
Age requirement: 18 years old or older.
Team Member costs will include:
- Airfare to/from Denver-Team members book and pay for their own flights.
- $150-200 for transportation in Denver and encouragement/ministry activities with missionaries.
- Lodging for four nights.
- Meals – travel meals and meals in Denver.
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Children's Missions Day - September 21, 2025
Start planning now for this year's Children's Missions Day on September 21, 2025. Information about CMD 2025 will be released in June.
Children’s Missions Day is motivational!
- Children’s Missions Day is a great way to get the children in your church motivated and engaged in mission action in their own community. They are joining thousands of other children across North America to minister to people in their own community with the love of Jesus.
- Imagine the impact the church of Jesus Christ could have in North America if children everywhere lead their entire church family to minister in their communities!
Children’s Missions Day is easy!
- Children’s Missions Day is easy to implement. All the tools you need for planning and promotion are in a CMD leader guide. The guide includes project ideas, learning activities, and promotional tools for your CMD event.
Children’s Missions Day works!
- Through Children’s Missions Day, God has used children to make a real difference in their communities.
- We encourage churches to research the needs in their community and find ways children can meet those specific needs. We anticipate that many more lives will be impacted as children reach out in their communities with the love of Jesus.
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| Resources and Opportunities
Resources
- Visit the Tennessee WMU Resources page on our website for KMX: To the Rescue missions event for children, Great Commission Conversation videos, prayer walking resource, and more.
- Use the NAMB prayer calendar as a guide to pray for NAMB's missionaries, church planters and chaplains. Use this IMB prayer calendar to help you pray for the least reached.
- Download the Christian Job Corps monthly prayer calendar to help you pray for this ministry.
- Churches, friends, and other supporters: Show your love for the kids in our care by participating in the Mother's Day Offering this year. Order your supplies from Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes by clicking here. Show your love for adult homes by participating in the Father's Day Offering. Order supplies from Tennessee Baptist Adult Homes by clicking here.
Ministry Opportunities
- Tennessee WMU is partnering with Baptist Collegiate Ministries to collect snack foods to help reach students. Click here for more information on locating and contacting your local BCM.
- WMU’s Compassion Ministry of Pure Water, Pure Love provides vital water resources around the world. Your gift to Pure Water, Pure Love supports its three-fold mission: to supply missionaries with water filters, to provide the people they serve with clean water resources, and to supply missions teams with water filters for use on short-term mission trips.
Click here for a printable flyer.
Donate now or send checks made payable to WMU, clearly marked for Pure Water, Pure Love to:
PWPL, c/o WMU, PO Box 830010, Birmingham, AL 35283-0010
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