Birmingham Baptist Bunker Medbery was recently elected to the board of trustees of the WMU Foundation, along with Joy Phillips Fenner.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Medbery earned a bachelor of science degree with honors and is an inductee of Omicron Delta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He is a senior vice president and wealth advisor with Morgan Stanley, and has been a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange since 1983.
With commitment to leadership in Baptist life, Medbery has been a Sunday School teacher, Discipleship leader or RA leader since 1978. An active member of Shades Crest Baptist Church, he has served on numerous committees, including the minister of music search committee, and served as chairman of the financial stewardship committee (1997-1999) and church council (2000-2001).
Medbery has two children in college; his daughter, Rachel, attends Emory University and son, Trey, attends the University of Georgia.
Joy Fenner is a native of Avinger, Texas, and attended Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas, and East Texas Baptist College in Marshall, Texas.
After seven years as Girls’ Auxiliary director with Texas WMU, she and her husband, Charlie, served as missionaries to Japan 1967-1980. From 1981 till 2001, she was executive director treasurer of WMU of Texas. Though retired, she is the current intentional interim executive director-treasurer of Tennessee WMU.
Established in 1995, the WMU Foundation is a separate 501©(3) nonprofit corporation that provides services to those who desire to provide donations to WMU, the largest Protestant women’s missions organization in the world.
Other Alabama Baptists serving on the WMU Foundation’s board of directors are Crawford Taylor, a member of Vestavia Hills Baptist Church. Taylor serves as chairman of the investment committee.
David George serves as president of the WMU Foundation.
The Foundation is governed by a self-perpetuating board of trustees, which consists of up to 21 professional and business persons. WMU’s executive director-treasurer and national president serve as ex-officio trustees.
The WMU Foundation, with headquarters in Birmingham, manages nearly 100 different endowments and funds.
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