For 125 years, Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) has focused on a singular purpose of engaging churches in missions, Wanda S. Lee, executive director of national WMU, told messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston.
“Throughout our history, addressing critical needs facing each generation has also been a part of our work,” Lee said. “From hunger to AIDS to violence and more, WMU has tried to raise the level of awareness of each issue within the church while offering suggestions for how Christians should respond.”
Over the past three years, WMU has focused attention and provided resources to help churches address various aspects of human exploitation, such as bullying, human trafficking and exploiting the environment.
This year, Lee said WMU is focusing on “one of the most significant issues related to human exploitation that is affecting our families and churches … the issue of pornography.”
In partnership with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and Jay Dennis, pastor of First Baptist Church at the Mall, Lakeland, Fla., WMU launched the Join One Million Men in the War Against Pornography campaign at the meeting in Houston.
“Through this campaign, we are calling out 1 million men to live free of pornography and challenging 1 million women to commit to pray for their spouses, sons and friends as we work together to combat this evil that is destroying our families and invading our churches,” Lee said.
As a church-based initiative, the campaign includes several resources produced by New Hope Publishers, including books, prayer booklets and a DVD planning guide.
“You may be thinking, ‘Why is WMU tackling such a difficult issue?’” Lee said. “And my response would be, ‘If not WMU, then who?’ Paul challenges us in Ephesians 4:1 to ‘walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.’”
(Baptist Press)
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