Let me first express my thanks for your participation in the State Missions Offering. I have been considering the role of the State Convention and its strategic position to serve our churches.
Why Support the State Missions Offering?
Because these priorities are unique to our mission.
Through this offering, the churches of our state partnership serve in these five critical priorities:
- Disaster Response Leadership
Ben Seamans and his team work to recruit, train, and deploy coordinated disaster relief teams representing MWBC Churches in crisis witness, demonstrating Christ’s love when communities need it most. - NextGen Empowerment
We equip churches with resources and training to reach, disciple, and develop the next generation of believers and leaders. - Strategic Mission Partnerships
We facilitate Acts 1:8 connections linking churches for missions impact from our region to the ends of the earth. - Leadership Development
Our statewide position enables us to host, facilitate, and connect people for leadership opportunities that strengthen pastoral and lay ministry across our region. - Missions Education
After decades of decline in nationwide mission education priority, we’re strategically reinvesting in missions education. Much of this can come through WMU partnerships, reigniting passion for national and global missions in local churches. - Pastoral Emergencies
Pastors will often tell their churches that crises will happen. They also happen to the pastor’s family. Providing just-in-time resources from our churches to respond has been a welcome relief.
These priorities require a coordinated response. Your state missions offering multiplies ministry impact for just the role the State Convention is poised to meet.
God bless our work in 2025-26.
Dr. Trey Turner