Amy and her husband Mike served as missionaries in Mozambique and South Africa for 14 years with the IMB. She has two children, Timothy and Grace and is a certified music and ESL Teacher. Amy’s areas of expertise include international missions, prayer, Focus Week, missions involvement, parenting and Bible studies.

Rebecca is currently the Minister of Children and Education at Antioch Baptist Church in Mamers, NC. She received her Masters of Divinity from Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond. She was deeply impacted as a youth by Mission Friends, Girls in Action, and Acteens. She has traveled to Romania, Australia, South Africa, and to many states in the US as a missions volunteer.

Allison Markwood is a product of WMU! Thanks to GAs, Acteens, and Camp Mundo Vista, she looks for opportunities to be a missionary every day as a stay-at-home mom, part-time teacher, and freelance writer. She enjoys telling the story of WMU through marketing materials, social media, and the Tarheel Talk.

Amanda is a former social worker with a love for missions and equipping leaders for Kingdom service. Amanda’s areas of experience center around WMU FOCUS week, working with youth, leadership development, women’s retreats, prayer retreats, missions involvement, church-wide and associational leadership, and leading small groups. She and her husband Brian have three daughters and live in Sanford, NC

Ruby’s areas of expertise include Focus Week, women’s retreats, spiritual growth, international missions and BWNA, Baptist Women of North America. She served in Zambia, Africa as a career missionary for 12 years and has been on numerous mission trips to various places. Her passion is reaching the next generation of women leaders for missions.

Phyllis’ areas of expertise are women’s retreats, spiritual growth and church renewal. Phyllis and her husband Bob, served as Mission Service Corps (MSC) Missionaries for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina for 17 years and then for North American Mission Board 10 years. She has led retreats in Germany and Africa. Phyllis has also led women’s meetings in Hungary and in many states in the USA.

Duronda is a Missions Friends leader and the Women’s Ministry Director at her church. She regularly travels to South Africa and ministers to the Besotho people group.

Veronica currently leads a women’s ministry and a teen and children’s ministry. Her past ministry experience includes facilitating Bible studies for pregnant teens and the elderly in nursing homes, prison retreat volunteer, and missions involvement. She has also ministered to women recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.

Irma’s areas of expertise are mission trips, women’s retreats, Focus Week, churchwide missions involvement, working with children and youth, Project HELP refugees and missions encouragement. Irma has ministered through the North American Mission Board, and the International Mission Board. She and her husband founded a missions church.

Clara teaches an adult Sunday School class, leads a Women on Mission group, and serves as an Spanish translator at the Good Shepherd Medical Clinic. After 32 years in Chile as a missionary with the International Mission Board, she married a Baptist pastor and they continued doing missions together until his death in 2002. For several years she was a writer for the Spanish missions magazine and Missions Mosaic.

Dee Dee’s areas of expertise are Focus Weeks, women’s retreats, leadership conferences, mission studies, and Bible studies. She serves as her church’s WMU Director, has taught at all WMU age-levels, and has served on home and international mission trips.

Allison is a worship leader and small group leader in her local church. She enjoys ministering to youth and women. She has a heart for equipping teens to live out their faith. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, writing, and serving the local church. She desires to help point women of all ages directly to Scripture and apply what they’ve learned.

Kim Bounds is a middle school band and piano teacher in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County school district.  She has been a part of WMU from Mission Friends to Women on Mission Groups.  She has served as Acteens leader in her church. She has served on international mission trips to South Africa and India. She currently serves as VP of Development for WMU NC.

Margaret retired after serving on WMU NC staff for 20 years as the adult specialist. She serves as her church’s WMU director. Margaret has participated in mission trips, led Women’s Retreats, and been a speaker for churches and associations. Margaret currently serves as the national WMU Compassion Ministries Volunteer Advocate.

Mary Ellen’s areas of expertise include home missions, international missions, mission studies, women’s retreats, spiritual growth, Project HELP and ministering to refugees. She has been a National WMU Trainer for Christian Men and Women’s Job Corps and globally for BWA. She is also a writer.

Beverly’s areas of expertise include event speaking, prayer retreats, Focus Week and adult groups. She is the WMU Director at her church and an Associational Mission Involvement leader. She resides in Oak City and she incorporates missions events with her town’s events whenever possible.

Symphony is never seen without her hat and gloves and, of course, her multiple strands of “cultured pearls.” She’s been observing people for more than six decades and loves to share tips she’s learned along the way. Symphony Rose can do theme interpretation, WMU Focus Sundays, retreats and other events. She loves Jesus and missions.

Upon request, Paula can do a reenactment of Lottie Moon complete with costume, life story, and power point with “Old China” pictures. She has been on mission trips nationally and internationally. She has worked with children all her adult life and has entertained them with puppets and story telling. Her ministry experience includes WMU Director and adult Sunday School teacher.

Jeanette’s areas of expertise are home and international mission trips, women’s retreats and Focus Week. She is a former North American Mission Board missionary and retired ESL teacher. She has served in her church as a WMU Director and Acteens leader. She has led and participated in international trips and enjoys working with children and teaching adults of every culture.

Yvonne has served as associational WMU Leadership Team, WMU Director /Missions Leader/ WOM Leader in her local church, and is presently the Assistant WMU Director of Neuse Association. She founded Greater Pink Hill LLC where she promotes community service through different activities and groups. She has a heart for seniors and those in need.