By fall 2012, churches seeking age-level missions education materials can find one-stop shopping at national Woman’s Missionary Union.
WMU will reassume responsibility for producing resources for Royal Ambassadors—the missions program for boys that originated with the women’s missionary organization more than 100 years ago—and the Challengers program for teenage young men, effective next year.
Steve Heartsill, who has worked the past 10 years as design editor with WMU, has been named managing editor of RA and Challenger resources.
For now, churches will continue to order curriculum and supplemental resources from the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board. WMU will send renewal notices for curriculum beginning next May and will assume delivery with the September 2012 issues.
Currently, Texas Baptist Men also offers RA and Challengers leadership materials on its website at www.texasbaptistmen.org. Keith Mack, RA/ Challengers director for TBM, welcomed the news WMU will produce materials.
“In my opinion, this will strengthen the Royal Ambassadors and Challengers programs within the local churches,” he said. “We will be working with the national WMU staff as they begin working toward producing new materials for RAs and Challengers and will be sharing many of the tried and proven ideas that many of the men use to work with the boys and young men.”
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