Missions Discipleship
Age-Level GroupsWMU takes place in age-level missions discipleship groups and through churchwide involvement. Adults usually meet monthly in small groups and have resources to encourage them in missions discipleship. Preschoolers, children, and students have weekly resources to encourage their spiritual growth and missions involvement. All age-levels include hands-on missions projects.
Churchwide involvement includes doing missions locally and globally. They help support missions in church, association, state, North America, and around the world through tithes and offerings. People learn about missions so they can pray more specifically for missions, understand how they support missions efforts, and find new ways they can do missions and tell others about Jesus. Learn more about churchwide involvement here.
Families on Mission is an approach to encourage a family group to do missions. It helps the family to be involved in missions as a unit so that parents can model for their children the importance of missions discipleship and how to carry out missions in their day to day lives. Ideas for Families on Mission can be found here.
WMU takes place in age-level missions discipleship groups and through churchwide involvement.
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Contact Jess Archer in the state WMU® office to share about your new start. If you are not sure what group(s) you need she can help you to know the options and provide samples of the curriculum for you and your church to preview.
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Visit the New to WMU page on the national WMU website. Fill out the form to get information for the group(s) you are planning to start.
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Talk with your pastor, church staff, and others who would be interested in missions discipleship. Share with them what you have learned about WMU’s holistic approach to missions discipleship and how there are options to involve the whole church in missions.
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Order curriculum, and other items you will need to begin. See What Basic Resources Do I Need? to help you begin.
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Enlist leadership and answer the primary questions of who, what, when and where your groups will take place. Send in the Leadership Card with your leaders names to the state and association offices so they can receive information. Find a time for your new leadership to receive training. Your state and association office can assist you.
Getting Started
Age-Level Groups
WMU® provides missions education from the beginning of life. Parents or caregivers are a vital part of preschool missions education. Through their preschoolers involvement, they have the opportunity to know about the missions areas and missionaries their preschoolers are studying, to receive suggestions for activities to reinforce missions learning in the home, and to better understand their preschooler’s growth and development.
Preschool Consultant - Cindy Skelton, 803-227-6208 or email
MISSIONS FRIENDS
Birth to Age 5, Girls & Boys
Missions discipleship for children in grades 1st-6th is offered by Woman’s Missionary Union® through Girls in Action®, Children in Action®, and Royal Ambassadors®. South Carolina Baptist Convention supports Royal Ambassadors, a missions discipleship group for boys in grades 1-6. South Carolina WMU supports Girls in Action and Children in Action through training, consultations, specialists, and summer camp experiences.
Children’s Consultant - Cindy Skelton, 803-227-6208 or email
Developing students in their faith helps them to build an unshakeable foundation as they move into adulthood. WMU® offers several organizations for students that will not only teach them biblical truths but how to put those truths into action. Students learn how to be involved in missions in their community and around the world.
Students Consultant - Lauren Morris, 803-227-6209 or email
WMU® offers opportunities to be involved in missions for life that continue throughout adulthood. There are several options for involvement in missions as an adult.
Adult Consultant - Hannah Smith, 803-227-6201 or email
