Julie Walters

ORLANDO – Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of WMU, SBC, began WMU’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention on June 10 by introducing Carolyn Fountain, who was elected president of the missions organization on June 7 during WMU’s Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting in Orlando. Fountain succeeds Connie Dixon who served as president for the past five years.

ORLANDO – Carolyn Fountain of Monroe, Louisiana, was elected the 25th president of WMU, SBC during the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting on June 7, 2026 in Orlando, Florida. She is the first African American woman to serve in this role, and succeeds Connie Dixon of Elida, New Mexico, who has served as president since 2021.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Connie Dixon, WMU president, has formed a search committee to seek the organization’s next executive director-treasurer following Sandy Wisdom-Martin’s Dec. 10 announcement of her intentions to retire by January 2027. Wisdom-Martin has devoted more than 35 years serving in Southern Baptist leadership roles with the past nine and a half leading national WMU. 

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Meant for the Mission, a two-year theme that will be woven throughout WMU curriculum beginning this fall, provided the backdrop for more than 20 different speakers who shared missions testimonies and illustrations of God’s faithfulness during WMU’s January board meeting, Jan. 10-12.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer of WMU, SBC, announced today she will retire in January 2027, which will mark 36 years of ministry service. Wisdom-Martin has led WMU since October 2016.

DALLAS – The historic and current role of Woman’s Missionary Union in supporting the Cooperative Program and its focus on evangelism and discipleship were highlighted in WMU’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention on June 11.  

DALLAS (BP) -- Gather your friends and celebrate God’s work around the world through His people at the WMU Missions Celebration just prior to the SBC Annual Meeting.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Despite a major winter storm that impacted travel across the country and brought a blanket of snow to Birmingham, approximately 180 missions leaders gathered for national WMU’s board meeting Jan. 11-13 in Alabama.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Eden Gilbreath of Stallings Memorial Baptist Church in Salisbury, N.C., and Carolyn Harrell of Calvary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., have been named as this year’s national Acteens panelists.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – The joy of working together for the glory of God was on display as a houseboat constructed of nearly 700,000 craft sticks floated on Lay Lake near Birmingham Nov. 7.