Winter 2012 - Wayland Baptist University Alumni Association

Wayland Mission Center
Dr. Richard Shaw
Director, Wayland
Mission Center
Upcoming Mission Trips:
w Kenya, January
w Michigan, spring break
w Brazil, May
w Turkey, June
w Kenya, July
w Eastern Europe, August
All of the Wayland
Mission Center’s
global missions are open
to WBU students and
others committed to sharing
the love of
Jesus Christ.
30 footprints
WMC focuses on local
missions; plans for 2013
Wayland Mission Center has
focused on local missions
through the fall of 2012.
Three mission groups, operating under the
auspices of the WMC, serve the Lord Jesus
through meeting the needs of the community
of Plainview.
Apostolos, now in its fifth year of community
ministry, partners Wayland students
with youth at risk from Plainview High
School. The collaborative effort, overseen
by two student co-directors, sees Wayland
mentors meet with their “little brothers”
and “little sisters” twice each week. Strong
relationships have been established, with
WBU students leading the way in helping
PHS students develop life skills and stronger
self-esteem, as they work to complete
their high school education. Mentors also
focus on helping high school youth learn of
Jesus Christ and His love for them.
Diakonia, also led by students, is ready
to launch a weekend food backpack program
with children attending Thunderbird
Elementary School. WBU students will pack
a weekend’s supply of ready-to-eat foods
for some of the most food-insecure folks in
Plainview. A large, anonymous donation to
the Wayland Mission Center, has allowed
Diakonia to purchase a large quantity of
food through the South Plains Food Bank
in Lubbock. Each Friday in the spring 2013
semester, Diakonia (which means “ministry”
in New Testament Greek) will minister
to children in the name of Jesus Christ.
The third student-led mission group,
Kerygma, meaning “proclamation of the
Gospel,” has been working in east Plainview,
in the area known as the “Barrio.”
Kerygma students have gone door-to-door,
sharing the love and story of Jesus Christ
with residents. Understanding that the
Gospel of Jesus Christ is about the whole
person and the whole community, mem-
bers have surveyed the residents of the
Barrio, discovering and recording people’s
needs.
The group was formed out of the
introductory religion course, “Introduction
to Christian Missions,” with students
expressing and then demonstrating their
obedience to God’s call to do missions
right where they are, to the residents of
Wayland’s Jerusalem—Plainview.
2013 will see global missions highlighted
with students, graduates, and West
Texas Christians joining in mission. In conjunction
with WBU’s Kenya Program, we
will lead teams to the east African nation in
January and July. In July a team composed
of the Youth Choir “Breath of Heaven”
and sponsors from First Baptist Church of
Plainview, and members from First Baptist
Church of Petersburg, is planning to lead a
youth conference in Kakamega, Kenya, of
Baptist youth from the Western Baptist Association
of Kenya. The July team will also
work in Limuru and among the Maasai.
Spring Break 2013 will see the return of
WBU students to the U.S. cities of Dearborn
and Detroit, Michigan.
Summer mission trips include WMC’s
third year to travel to Salvador and Torrinhas,
Brazil, working with pastors and
indigenous missionaries from the Igreza
Batista Metropolitana, in May. The first ever
trip to Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey, in June
will be highlighted by loving service to the
people of western Turkey, and the study
of the seven churches of the Revelation.
WMC’s sixth trip to the eastern European
countries of Macedonia, Kosova, and
Greece, will cap off the WMC’s summer
missions program in August.
All of the Wayland Mission Center’s
global missions are open to WBU students
and others committed to sharing the love
of Jesus Christ.