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1 ctivities for DULTS (continued) 1. Download the Two Spiritual Giants video found on the Resources page at, and purchase a small mirror for each attendee. s attendees arrive, give each a copy of the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide. sk each participant to share the name of someone who has greatly influenced his or her life. Show the video. Using the information from the video and the introduction in this study material, discuss ways that spiritual giant is a good descriptor for both Kathleen Mallory and Dr. Martha Myers. What impacted attendees most about each woman s life? sk each participant to read Day 8 of the prayer guide (the second Sunday highlighting Maggie Walker). sk participants to identify spiritual giants mentioned in this day s prayer emphasis. Lead in prayer, asking God to bless the ministries of each woman identified. Give a small mirror to each attendee. sk them to look into the mirrors at the person who God already uses and for whom He has great plans. sk them to pray boldly that they may be spiritual giants. Close the activity in prayer for all attending and for all who are touched by the Great Commission Ministries of labama WMU and the labama Baptist State Board of Missions. 2. Purchase five small beach balls or balloons, and write the name of one of the five areas of ministry supported by the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering (labama WMU, Disaster Relief, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Global Partnership Missions) on each ball or balloon. Download the descriptions of the five areas of ministry at. Have chairs arranged in a circle. Tell the group that this activity will focus on the five ministry areas that the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering helps support. Begin by passing one of the balls around the circle and asking participants to keep passing the ball as you talk. The goal is to keep the balls moving. Share a brief description of one of the ministries. While the first ball is still being passed, add another ball to pass, and share another ministry description. Repeat until all five balls are being passed around the group and all five ministry descriptions have been read. Discuss how difficult it would have been for one or two people to keep the balls moving. Remind participants that it takes all of us to fulfill God s plans for labama Baptists and that, as we all work and give together, God uses each of us to build His Kingdom. 3. Plan a meal for your group (or the whole church) that includes 5 menu items, including dessert, of course! Decorate tables with items that reflect the number 5, such as vases with 5 flowers, five candles, etc., and place an offering envelope at each place setting. Publicize your event, encouraging attendees in advance to be prepared, instead of paying for their meal, to give an offering to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering in multiples of 5. Before the meal is served, share briefly about the five ministries that the offering helps support. Download the descriptions of the five areas of ministry at and the three videos highlighting Maggie Walker, Tim Milner and Doug Vance (available early ugust). During the meal, show the three videos, and then direct each table to share testimonies with each other of ways they have or can be involved in one of these highlighted ministries. Conclude the event by praying for the five ministry areas that receive support from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering and then receiving the offering. 4. Choose one or two of the five ministry areas that receive support from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Enlist volunteers to learn more about this ministry and be prepared to share information at your meeting. During the meeting, after information about the ministry is shared, brainstorm ways that individuals are impacted. For example, with Disaster Relief, discuss ways your family would be affected by losing a home and possessions in a tornado. What would you eat? Where would you shower or wash clothes? How would you go about cleaning up? Who would take care of your children while you attempt to get government disaster assistance, new driver licenses, birth certificates, social security cards, etc.? How does Disaster Relief meet those needs? If you choose more than one ministry to highlight, repeat this process. Pray as a group for these ministries, for those touched by the ministries and in thanksgiving for the opportunity to be involved through volunteering and through giving to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. 5. t, download the map of labama highlighting Christian Women s Job Corps/Christian Men s Job Corps (CWJC/CMCJ) sites, and make one copy for each attendee. Using information from the Tuesday page of the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide and labamawmu.org/cwjc and wmu.com, discuss ways that CWJC and CMJC make a life-changing difference to women and men in need. Using the map, pray for each of the labama CWJC/CMJC sites and those to whom they minister. Discuss areas of the state with no representation. How can you help? If your church or association is in an area of our state without representation, pray about how you can be involved in beginning a site in your area. Close the meeting by thanking God for this ministry and the opportunity to be involved through volunteering, supporting a site and giving to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Remember to allow time during your gathering to distribute offering envelopes and collect and pray for the offering. Statewide Goal: $750,000 by Candace McIntosh, labama WMU Executive Director Welcome to the inaugural observance of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. The Week of Prayer for State Missions is a week set apart for labama Baptists to intentionally focus our prayers on missions efforts in our state that impact lives for Christ from here in our local communities to the farthest reaches of the globe. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering combines two previously-observed offerings, labama WMU s Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering and the labama Baptist Disaster Relief Offering, to create a consolidated giving opportunity that complements the Cooperative Program. This combined offering will continue to support the work of labama WMU and labama Baptist Disaster Relief but is expanded this year to include church planting, church revitalization and global partnership missions. WHERE WE VE BEEN The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering presents an historic journey for labama Baptists. Since 1906, labama WMU has collected an offering that benefits her work in our state, nation and world. lthough a focused offering was begun in 1906, it was not called the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering until The first offering under that name was collected in For 66 years, the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering supported the missions and ministries of labama WMU. In the most recent years, KMMO, as it came to be known, represented approximately 50 percent of the operating budget of labama WMU, with the remainder of the operating budget being provided by gifts given through the Cooperative Program. Following the devastating tornadoes that struck labama in 2011, labama Baptists saw the need to launch an annual state disaster relief offering to help ensure that funds would be available year round to assist disaster victims. The labama Baptist Disaster Relief Offering was approved by messengers to the 2011 meeting of the labama Baptist State Convention. Prior to that time, it labama Baptist Convention State Board of Missions wasn t unusual for a major hurricane or a tornado strike to empty reserve funds completely. Money collected through the offering helped purchase much-needed equipment and provided affected churches and individuals with assistance in the aftermath of disasters. WHERE WE RE Following an affirmative vote by the labama WMU Board of Trustees and the State Board of Missions in spring 2015, the membership of labama WMU voted in the summer of 2015 to support the creation of a new state missions offering. In November 2015, messengers to the meeting of the labama Baptist State Convention finalized that process as they unanimously approved the creation of the offering, named the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Now these two worthy offerings are combined and expanded to include other Great Commission Ministries, as well, under the umbrella of the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Funds are collected throughout the year, with a special emphasis coinciding with the Week of Prayer for State Missions held each September. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering will complement, not replace, vital Cooperative Program giving. THE NMESKES This year, as the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering transforms and expands into the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering, there is little doubt how honored, humbled and excited Miss Kathleen Mallory would be to see this day. We believe, because she was such a strong proponent of working together to raise awareness of and support for missions, she would embrace the idea of an expanded base of prayer and financial support for missions and ministry around the state and world. Kathleen Mallory was truly a spiritual giant. Known as The Sweetheart of labama Baptists, Miss Mallory was born in 1879 near Selma, la. More than a century later, she continues to inspire labama Baptists. L B W M U M Kathleen Mallory understood the urgency of the Great Commission and lived her life in selfless devotion to missions. lthough born into a wealthy and influential family, Miss Mallory chose a humble, frugal lifestyle which allowed her more money to give for missions. She was known for her deep devotion to prayer and sacrificial giving from the heart. Kathleen Mallory became corresponding secretary-treasurer of labama WMU in She then became executive secretary of National WMU in 1912, a position she held for the next 36 years. Her storied tenure at the helm of WMU, SBC is still the longest to date. Miss Mallory traveled by horse and buggy, car, train and ship as she promoted and supported missions worldwide. She sold the souvenirs of her travels to provide more financial support to missions efforts. Kathleen Mallory thought of prayer as a Christian s deepest joy and the highest form of Christian service. She had an endearing and unwavering commitment to the enlisting of prayer support and other resources for Southern Baptist missionaries around the world. Her sacrificial heart for missions is a powerful example even today. Kathleen Mallory joins another spiritual giant as the namesakes of the new state missions offering. Dr. Martha Myers grew up in Montgomery in an labama Baptist church where she felt the call to missions on her life as a young girl in G, WMU s missions education organization for girls. She stayed true to that calling through a life of service and faithful obedience to the Lord. s an adult, she used her intellect and skill as a physician to follow the Great Commission to the other side of the globe. Dr. Myers, or Dr. Martha as she was known, spent more than 25 years in the land she grew to consider the home of her heart, the country of Yemen. Though her medical practice was based in Your gifts help support the city of Jibla, Dr. Martha spent countless hours walking tirelessly from village to village where her vehicle couldn t go. Dr. Martha gave her life in pursuit of bringing the Gospel to the people of Yemen. In 2002, a member of al-qaida stormed the hospital in Jibla killing her and two other missionaries. Dr. Martha knew the dangers of her ministry setting and gave her life willingly for the cause of Christ. But more important than the death she died is the life she lived. Her dedication to the cause of Christ is an inspiration to all and an example of what it means to faithfully give of yourself so others may hear. These two spiritual giants leave a beautiful legacy of sacrificial giving and obedience and are fitting namesakes for the new state missions offering. Visit the Resources page at to view and download the Two Spiritual Giants video detailing the stories of Dr. Martha Myers and Miss Kathleen Mallory. WHERE WE RE GOING Through the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering, labama Baptists have the opportunity to support state missions like never before. labama Baptists are there on the frontlines of Great Commission ministry efforts on a daily basis. One of the more exciting aspects of this new adventure is the opportunity to learn more about state missions and to be able to pray more specifically for our state missionaries, labama WMU staff and the work God is accomplishing through these Great Commission Ministries in labama and beyond. s labama Baptists have done in countless years past, let s join together in fervent prayer and faithful giving as we embark on this historic journey into the new, exciting era of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. LBM WMU DISSTER RELIEF CHURCH PLNTING CHURCH REVITLIZTION GLOBL PRTNERSHIP MISSIONS

2 ctivities for DULTS (continued) 1. Download the Two Spiritual Giants video found on the Resources page at, and purchase a small mirror for each attendee. s attendees arrive, give each a copy of the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide. sk each participant to share the name of someone who has greatly influenced his or her life. Show the video. Using the information from the video and the introduction in this study material, discuss ways that spiritual giant is a good descriptor for both Kathleen Mallory and Dr. Martha Myers. What impacted attendees most about each woman s life? sk each participant to read Day 8 of the prayer guide (the second Sunday highlighting Maggie Walker). sk participants to identify spiritual giants mentioned in this day s prayer emphasis. Lead in prayer, asking God to bless the ministries of each woman identified. Give a small mirror to each attendee. sk them to look into the mirrors at the person who God already uses and for whom He has great plans. sk them to pray boldly that they may be spiritual giants. Close the activity in prayer for all attending and for all who are touched by the Great Commission Ministries of labama WMU and the labama Baptist State Board of Missions. 2. Purchase five small beach balls or balloons, and write the name of one of the five areas of ministry supported by the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering (labama WMU, Disaster Relief, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Global Partnership Missions) on each ball or balloon. Download the descriptions of the five areas of ministry at. Have chairs arranged in a circle. Tell the group that this activity will focus on the five ministry areas that the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering helps support. Begin by passing one of the balls around the circle and asking participants to keep passing the ball as you talk. The goal is to keep the balls moving. Share a brief description of one of the ministries. While the first ball is still being passed, add another ball to pass, and share another ministry description. Repeat until all five balls are being passed around the group and all five ministry descriptions have been read. Discuss how difficult it would have been for one or two people to keep the balls moving. Remind participants that it takes all of us to fulfill God s plans for labama Baptists and that, as we all work and give together, God uses each of us to build His Kingdom. 3. Plan a meal for your group (or the whole church) that includes 5 menu items, including dessert, of course! Decorate tables with items that reflect the number 5, such as vases with 5 flowers, five candles, etc., and place an offering envelope at each place setting. Publicize your event, encouraging attendees in advance to be prepared, instead of paying for their meal, to give an offering to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering in multiples of 5. Before the meal is served, share briefly about the five ministries that the offering helps support. Download the descriptions of the five areas of ministry at and the three videos highlighting Maggie Walker, Tim Milner and Doug Vance (available early ugust). During the meal, show the three videos, and then direct each table to share testimonies with each other of ways they have or can be involved in one of these highlighted ministries. Conclude the event by praying for the five ministry areas that receive support from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering and then receiving the offering. 4. Choose one or two of the five ministry areas that receive support from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Enlist volunteers to learn more about this ministry and be prepared to share information at your meeting. During the meeting, after information about the ministry is shared, brainstorm ways that individuals are impacted. For example, with Disaster Relief, discuss ways your family would be affected by losing a home and possessions in a tornado. What would you eat? Where would you shower or wash clothes? How would you go about cleaning up? Who would take care of your children while you attempt to get government disaster assistance, new driver licenses, birth certificates, social security cards, etc.? How does Disaster Relief meet those needs? If you choose more than one ministry to highlight, repeat this process. Pray as a group for these ministries, for those touched by the ministries and in thanksgiving for the opportunity to be involved through volunteering and through giving to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. 5. t, download the map of labama highlighting Christian Women s Job Corps/Christian Men s Job Corps (CWJC/CMCJ) sites, and make one copy for each attendee. Using information from the Tuesday page of the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide and labamawmu.org/cwjc and wmu.com, discuss ways that CWJC and CMJC make a life-changing difference to women and men in need. Using the map, pray for each of the labama CWJC/CMJC sites and those to whom they minister. Discuss areas of the state with no representation. How can you help? If your church or association is in an area of our state without representation, pray about how you can be involved in beginning a site in your area. Close the meeting by thanking God for this ministry and the opportunity to be involved through volunteering, supporting a site and giving to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Remember to allow time during your gathering to distribute offering envelopes and collect and pray for the offering. Statewide Goal: $750,000 by Candace McIntosh, labama WMU Executive Director Welcome to the inaugural observance of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. The Week of Prayer for State Missions is a week set apart for labama Baptists to intentionally focus our prayers on missions efforts in our state that impact lives for Christ from here in our local communities to the farthest reaches of the globe. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering combines two previously-observed offerings, labama WMU s Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering and the labama Baptist Disaster Relief Offering, to create a consolidated giving opportunity that complements the Cooperative Program. This combined offering will continue to support the work of labama WMU and labama Baptist Disaster Relief but is expanded this year to include church planting, church revitalization and global partnership missions. WHERE WE VE BEEN The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering presents an historic journey for labama Baptists. Since 1906, labama WMU has collected an offering that benefits her work in our state, nation and world. lthough a focused offering was begun in 1906, it was not called the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering until The first offering under that name was collected in For 66 years, the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering supported the missions and ministries of labama WMU. In the most recent years, KMMO, as it came to be known, represented approximately 50 percent of the operating budget of labama WMU, with the remainder of the operating budget being provided by gifts given through the Cooperative Program. Following the devastating tornadoes that struck labama in 2011, labama Baptists saw the need to launch an annual state disaster relief offering to help ensure that funds would be available year round to assist disaster victims. The labama Baptist Disaster Relief Offering was approved by messengers to the 2011 meeting of the labama Baptist State Convention. Prior to that time, it labama Baptist Convention State Board of Missions wasn t unusual for a major hurricane or a tornado strike to empty reserve funds completely. Money collected through the offering helped purchase much-needed equipment and provided affected churches and individuals with assistance in the aftermath of disasters. WHERE WE RE Following an affirmative vote by the labama WMU Board of Trustees and the State Board of Missions in spring 2015, the membership of labama WMU voted in the summer of 2015 to support the creation of a new state missions offering. In November 2015, messengers to the meeting of the labama Baptist State Convention finalized that process as they unanimously approved the creation of the offering, named the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Now these two worthy offerings are combined and expanded to include other Great Commission Ministries, as well, under the umbrella of the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Funds are collected throughout the year, with a special emphasis coinciding with the Week of Prayer for State Missions held each September. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering will complement, not replace, vital Cooperative Program giving. THE NMESKES This year, as the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering transforms and expands into the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering, there is little doubt how honored, humbled and excited Miss Kathleen Mallory would be to see this day. We believe, because she was such a strong proponent of working together to raise awareness of and support for missions, she would embrace the idea of an expanded base of prayer and financial support for missions and ministry around the state and world. Kathleen Mallory was truly a spiritual giant. Known as The Sweetheart of labama Baptists, Miss Mallory was born in 1879 near Selma, la. More than a century later, she continues to inspire labama Baptists. L B W M U M Kathleen Mallory understood the urgency of the Great Commission and lived her life in selfless devotion to missions. lthough born into a wealthy and influential family, Miss Mallory chose a humble, frugal lifestyle which allowed her more money to give for missions. She was known for her deep devotion to prayer and sacrificial giving from the heart. Kathleen Mallory became corresponding secretary-treasurer of labama WMU in She then became executive secretary of National WMU in 1912, a position she held for the next 36 years. Her storied tenure at the helm of WMU, SBC is still the longest to date. Miss Mallory traveled by horse and buggy, car, train and ship as she promoted and supported missions worldwide. She sold the souvenirs of her travels to provide more financial support to missions efforts. Kathleen Mallory thought of prayer as a Christian s deepest joy and the highest form of Christian service. She had an endearing and unwavering commitment to the enlisting of prayer support and other resources for Southern Baptist missionaries around the world. Her sacrificial heart for missions is a powerful example even today. Kathleen Mallory joins another spiritual giant as the namesakes of the new state missions offering. Dr. Martha Myers grew up in Montgomery in an labama Baptist church where she felt the call to missions on her life as a young girl in G, WMU s missions education organization for girls. She stayed true to that calling through a life of service and faithful obedience to the Lord. s an adult, she used her intellect and skill as a physician to follow the Great Commission to the other side of the globe. Dr. Myers, or Dr. Martha as she was known, spent more than 25 years in the land she grew to consider the home of her heart, the country of Yemen. Though her medical practice was based in Your gifts help support the city of Jibla, Dr. Martha spent countless hours walking tirelessly from village to village where her vehicle couldn t go. Dr. Martha gave her life in pursuit of bringing the Gospel to the people of Yemen. In 2002, a member of al-qaida stormed the hospital in Jibla killing her and two other missionaries. Dr. Martha knew the dangers of her ministry setting and gave her life willingly for the cause of Christ. But more important than the death she died is the life she lived. Her dedication to the cause of Christ is an inspiration to all and an example of what it means to faithfully give of yourself so others may hear. These two spiritual giants leave a beautiful legacy of sacrificial giving and obedience and are fitting namesakes for the new state missions offering. Visit the Resources page at to view and download the Two Spiritual Giants video detailing the stories of Dr. Martha Myers and Miss Kathleen Mallory. WHERE WE RE GOING Through the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering, labama Baptists have the opportunity to support state missions like never before. labama Baptists are there on the frontlines of Great Commission ministry efforts on a daily basis. One of the more exciting aspects of this new adventure is the opportunity to learn more about state missions and to be able to pray more specifically for our state missionaries, labama WMU staff and the work God is accomplishing through these Great Commission Ministries in labama and beyond. s labama Baptists have done in countless years past, let s join together in fervent prayer and faithful giving as we embark on this historic journey into the new, exciting era of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. LBM WMU DISSTER RELIEF CHURCH PLNTING CHURCH REVITLIZTION GLOBL PRTNERSHIP MISSIONS

3 Preparation for PSTORS & MISSIONS LEDERS BEGIN your preparations for the Week of Prayer and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering with a time of personal, concentrated prayer. Pray collectively as a leadership team when you begin making plans for your church s observance. Pray: 1. With thanksgiving for how God is using the Great Commission Ministries of labama WMU, labama Baptist Disaster Relief, Church Planting, Church Revitalization and Global Partnership Missions and for the faithful giving of labama Baptists. 2. For wisdom in guiding your church in the inaugural observance of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. 3. For the age-level missions leaders in your church. 4. For creativity about ways to celebrate, pray for and participate in the week of prayer and the offering. GTHER the missions leaders in your church (pastor, missions pastor, WMU director, etc.) for a time of planning. 1. Set a date for your observance. The suggested dates are Sept , If that week presents a conflict for your church, choose another. 2. Set your church s offering goal. The statewide goal is $750, Visit to explore the many resources available for the week of prayer and offering. 4. Determine ways to promote the week of prayer and offering in your church. Some options include: Utilizing one or more of the many videos available at during worship services Displaying posters throughout the church, distributing prayer guides and placing envelopes in pews Enlisting a State Missionary or labama WMU consultant to speak to your congregation Promoting on social media and in the church newsletter using graphics available at Using the activities in this study guide during missions gatherings like Mission Friends, G, R, cteens, Women on Mission, etc. or during other discipleship times. The following pages in this study guide contain suggested age-level activities for observing the Week of Prayer for State Missions and the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Feel free to customize your observance to meet the time constraints and other needs of your group. number of the activities could be used with other age levels, as well. Holding a special churchwide gathering for the week of prayer and offering observance. ORDER materials. long with promotional items for the offering, consider other resources that will coordinate with your age-level plans. Consult with your age-level leaders to determine their needs, and, if possible, submit one order for your church including requested materials for all age groups. See options for ordering free materials below. dditional resources are available at. FREE MTERILS ORDER FORM Please make an effort to place one order for your entire church. Church: ssociation: Name: Phone: ddress: City/State/Zip: ( ) QUNTITY ITEM QUNTITY ITEM Poster Daily Prayer Guide/Bulletin Insert Pew Envelope Remittance Envelope DVD (contains promo materials, videos, sermon helps, etc. ll DVD content is also available for download at ) Choose one of four ways to order free materials: 1. Order online at 2. Complete and mail this form to: labama WMU P.O. Box Montgomery, L Call or ext your order to dwatkins@alsbom.org

4 ctivities for PRESCHOOLERS s preschoolers arrive, let them build houses out of blocks. Leave the houses for later use with ctivity Download (from ) and assemble puppets of Miss Kathleen Mallory and Dr. Martha Myers. Show the puppet of Kathleen Mallory, and tell preschoolers about her, using the information on the back side of the puppet. Then show the puppet of Martha Myers, and do the same. Let preschoolers make their own puppets and color the portraits of Miss Mallory and Dr. Myers. 2. like & Different - Once finished making puppets, ask preschoolers for ways that Miss Mallory and Dr. Myers were alike. Then ask for ways they were different. Using a world map or globe, show labama, and remind preschoolers that both women lived in labama. Show the country of Yemen, where Dr. Martha Myers went to tell people about Jesus. Talk about how one lady told people about Jesus right here in labama and one went all the way around the world. Tell preschoolers we can be missionaries wherever we are. 3. Divide preschoolers into two groups. Let one group play with dolls and a medical kit. Say: Martha Myers was a missionary doctor who went to Yemen to help people and tell them about Jesus. Let the second group pretend that a storm came and blew some of the roofs off the houses they built. Provide toy tools, and let preschoolers work together to rebuild the houses. Show the Galatians 5:13 Bible thought graphic (available at ). Say: When storms come, we can help by the offering we give.we can give money to help more people learn about Jesus, too. Some of the money from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering helps labama WMU, so that we can keep learning about missionaries. The offering also helps labama Baptist Disaster Relief, so that we can make sure people get help when storms come. 4. Give each preschooler a tube of M&M candies with a Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering label (available at ), which includes a date for returning the offering. sk: Do you know what kind of candy this is? (M&Ms) Do you remember the name of the missions offering? (Myers-Mallory) Both those names begin with what letter? (M) Give each preschooler a label to place on the tube. Tell preschoolers that they get to have the M&Ms (be aware of any allergies). sk them to save the container after they eat the candy, and put money inside for the missions offering. Show one that you have prepared in advance. Show the Malachi 3:10 Bible thought graphic (available at ). Have a time of prayer for these ministries and the offering. 5. Tell preschoolers that the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering helps with church planting in labama. Church planting is when someone starts a brand new church. Just like when we plant a seed and help it grow, we start new churches and help them grow. Download (available at ), print and cut out pictures of the following things a brand new church might need: people, building, pastor, chairs/pews, money (for electricity, water), Bibles, music leader, invitations to invite people to church. Place the photos in a bag, and let preschoolers draw them out of the bag one by one. sk them to tell why each item is needed to begin a new church. Explain that many of those items require money, and some of that money comes from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering.

5 ctivities for CHILDREN 1. Show the Two Spiritual Giants video found at, and discuss the two spiritual giants featured. Explain what a spiritual giant is in a way children will understand. sk the children about people in their own lives who they believe are spiritual giants to them now. Use the Spiritual Giants for Children resource at to guide your discussion time, and allow children to put their thoughts down on paper. (Have one copy per child.) 2. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering is a special offering for Baptist ministries in the state of labama. Through their gifts, children can be a part of the work God is doing in the lives of people around the state and across the globe through people from our home state. View the You re There promotional video which highlights some of these ministries. Lead children in making their own personal labama bank (using labama Bank instructions and template at ). Encourage them to take the banks home, fill them and bring them back to be added to the church s offering. Pray together for God to use their gifts to support the ministries they have seen in the video. 3. Hang a large world map on the wall, and place 400 pieces of double-sided adhesive or glue dots on the land areas on the map. Spread out 400 pennies on the floor or a table. sk the children to help count the pennies. When finished counting, explain to the children that there are approximately 400 missionaries from labama who are telling people about Jesus in the United States and around the world. These missionaries often need help from us in our labama churches to assist them in their work. Help them understand that the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering helps us connect our churches with these missionaries through partnerships that give the missionaries immediate prayer support, ministry resources and help from short-term missions teams. Visit the Connect and Pray sections of 18C.org for further details on partnership efforts undergirded by the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Encourage each child to give at least 400 cents ($4) to the offering. 4. Being a part of this year s Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering means being part of history. Often we don t realize how special an experience is until later. s a leader, share with the children some first time experiences you have seen in your lifetime. Examples might include the first worship service in your new church building, driving for the first time, your first time meeting a missionary, the first time you got a pet, your first job as a teenager, etc. Print the First Time resource for children found at Myers-Malory.org (one copy for each child). In each of the categories, have each child draw or write about the first time they rode a bike or swam without floaties, their first day of school or the first time they did something scary that they loved, like riding a roller coaster. Have them share their experiences with the group. 5. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering will expand the number of people who are now giving to and praying for the ministry areas this offering will support. This means that more work can be supported. Illustrate this idea by giving each child five disposable cups (these can be small, paper cups). sk them to form their own towers with the cups, and discuss how tall and how wide their towers are. Now encourage them to work in groups of two to see how high and wide their buildings will become. Lastly, have the entire group bring all of their cups together to see how much higher and wider they can build when they are working together with all of their resources. Pray together for God to use all of our gifts together and remind us to keep praying for and encouraging each of the ministries represented.

6 ctivities for STUDENTS 1. Use masking tape to create a large, basic outline of labama on the floor of your room - large enough that your entire group fits comfortably inside (larger groups may divide up). Write the name of one of the five ministry areas supported by the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering (labama WMU, Disaster Relief, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Global Partnership Missions) on five beach balls. Beginning with a few students, have them try to keep one ball in the air, then two, then three, etc. dd more students whenever a ball drops until all students are participating in keeping the balls in the air. Discuss how difficult it was to juggle so many things successfully with only a few students and how much easier it became as more got involved. Tell students that the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering is a cooperative effort of labama Baptists to come alongside the State Board of Missions and support these vital Great Commission Ministries in labama. 2. Divide your students into groups of two, and have them sit on the ground back to back, linking elbows. When you say Go!, have them try to stand without unlinking their arms. Once they ve completed one round, have them link with a second group and then a third, etc. Discuss how much easier it was when they communicated rather than trying to do their own thing. Discuss the ministry of Church Revitalization (find a description at ) in labama and how communicating and working together are necessary things for any church that wants to thrive. 3. Gather a few garbage bags full of random recreational items (balls, Frisbees, pool noodles, etc.), and bring them to your gathering. Divide students into groups, and give them each a garbage bag, having them create their own game they think would be fun for children. Give them 10 minutes, and then play the games as a large group. Tell students that after a disaster strikes, labama Baptist Disaster Relief steps in to help people pick up the pieces of their lives. labama WMU s Temporary Child Care, a facet of disaster relief, helps children stay busy and cared for while parents are dealing with the aftermath and cleanup. Use this opportunity to share about labama Baptist Disaster Relief and how it impacts labama and the world. See the Monday and Saturday entries in the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide, and visit for a video highlighting labama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteer Doug Vance (available early ugust). 4. Take your group to a thrift store, and divide your students into groups of three or four. Give the groups 20 minutes to create a professional outfit with a budget of $15. Bring them back to the church where you ve arranged chairs on either side of a runway for a fashion show. sk them if the task was difficult, and explain that many people looking for jobs don t have professional clothing or the means to buy any. Using the description found at, introduce the ministry of Christian Women s Job Corps/Christian Men s Job Corps (CWJC/CMJC) and all the ways they help with job training and resources. To take this activity a step further, contact the nearest CWJC/CMJC site to ask if they have any opportunities for your group to volunteer. Have your students facilitate a professional clothing drive, and bring donated items with your group when you visit the site. labama CWJC/CMJC sites are listed at labamawmu.org. 5. Show the Two Spiritual Giants video found in the Resources section at, and have students write down ways they can follow the legacies of Dr. Martha Myers and Miss Kathleen Mallory by living their lives missionally no matter where the Lord has placed them. sk students to set a personal goal for giving to the offering and think of ways they can earn or save the money. Make sure they know when the offering will be collected. Conclude with a time of prayer for state missions and the offering.

7 ctivities for DULTS (continued) 1. Download the Two Spiritual Giants video found on the Resources page at, and purchase a small mirror for each attendee. s attendees arrive, give each a copy of the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide. sk each participant to share the name of someone who has greatly influenced his or her life. Show the video. Using the information from the video and the introduction in this study material, discuss ways that spiritual giant is a good descriptor for both Kathleen Mallory and Dr. Martha Myers. What impacted attendees most about each woman s life? sk each participant to read Day 8 of the prayer guide (the second Sunday highlighting Maggie Walker). sk participants to identify spiritual giants mentioned in this day s prayer emphasis. Lead in prayer, asking God to bless the ministries of each woman identified. Give a small mirror to each attendee. sk them to look into the mirrors at the person who God already uses and for whom He has great plans. sk them to pray boldly that they may be spiritual giants. Close the activity in prayer for all attending and for all who are touched by the Great Commission Ministries of labama WMU and the labama Baptist State Board of Missions. 2. Purchase five small beach balls or balloons, and write the name of one of the five areas of ministry supported by the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering (labama WMU, Disaster Relief, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Global Partnership Missions) on each ball or balloon. Download the descriptions of the five areas of ministry at. Have chairs arranged in a circle. Tell the group that this activity will focus on the five ministry areas that the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering helps support. Begin by passing one of the balls around the circle and asking participants to keep passing the ball as you talk. The goal is to keep the balls moving. Share a brief description of one of the ministries. While the first ball is still being passed, add another ball to pass, and share another ministry description. Repeat until all five balls are being passed around the group and all five ministry descriptions have been read. Discuss how difficult it would have been for one or two people to keep the balls moving. Remind participants that it takes all of us to fulfill God s plans for labama Baptists and that, as we all work and give together, God uses each of us to build His Kingdom. 3. Plan a meal for your group (or the whole church) that includes 5 menu items, including dessert, of course! Decorate tables with items that reflect the number 5, such as vases with 5 flowers, five candles, etc., and place an offering envelope at each place setting. Publicize your event, encouraging attendees in advance to be prepared, instead of paying for their meal, to give an offering to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering in multiples of 5. Before the meal is served, share briefly about the five ministries that the offering helps support. Download the descriptions of the five areas of ministry at and the three videos highlighting Maggie Walker, Tim Milner and Doug Vance (available early ugust). During the meal, show the three videos, and then direct each table to share testimonies with each other of ways they have or can be involved in one of these highlighted ministries. Conclude the event by praying for the five ministry areas that receive support from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering and then receiving the offering. 4. Choose one or two of the five ministry areas that receive support from the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Enlist volunteers to learn more about this ministry and be prepared to share information at your meeting. During the meeting, after information about the ministry is shared, brainstorm ways that individuals are impacted. For example, with Disaster Relief, discuss ways your family would be affected by losing a home and possessions in a tornado. What would you eat? Where would you shower or wash clothes? How would you go about cleaning up? Who would take care of your children while you attempt to get government disaster assistance, new driver licenses, birth certificates, social security cards, etc.? How does Disaster Relief meet those needs? If you choose more than one ministry to highlight, repeat this process. Pray as a group for these ministries, for those touched by the ministries and in thanksgiving for the opportunity to be involved through volunteering and through giving to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. 5. t, download the map of labama highlighting Christian Women s Job Corps/Christian Men s Job Corps (CWJC/CMJC) sites, and make one copy for each attendee. Using information from the Tuesday page of the Week of Prayer for State Missions prayer guide and labamawmu.org/cwjc and wmu.com, discuss ways that CWJC and CMJC make a life-changing difference to women and men in need. Using the map, pray for each of the labama CWJC/CMJC sites and those to whom they minister. Discuss areas of the state with no representation. How can you help? If your church or association is in an area of our state without representation, pray about how you can be involved in beginning a site in your area. Close the meeting by thanking God for this ministry and the opportunity to be involved through volunteering, supporting a site and giving to the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Remember to allow time during your gathering to distribute offering envelopes and collect and pray for the offering. Statewide Goal: $750,000 by Candace McIntosh, labama WMU Executive Director Welcome to the inaugural observance of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. The Week of Prayer for State Missions is a week set apart for labama Baptists to intentionally focus our prayers on missions efforts in our state that impact lives for Christ from here in our local communities to the farthest reaches of the globe. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering combines two previously-observed offerings, labama WMU s Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering and the labama Baptist Disaster Relief Offering, to create a consolidated giving opportunity that complements the Cooperative Program. This combined offering will continue to support the work of labama WMU and labama Baptist Disaster Relief but is expanded this year to include church planting, church revitalization and global partnership missions. WHERE WE VE BEEN The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering presents an historic journey for labama Baptists. Since 1906, labama WMU has collected an offering that benefits her work in our state, nation and world. lthough a focused offering was begun in 1906, it was not called the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering until The first offering under that name was collected in For 66 years, the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering supported the missions and ministries of labama WMU. In the most recent years, KMMO, as it came to be known, represented approximately 50 percent of the operating budget of labama WMU, with the remainder of the operating budget being provided by gifts given through the Cooperative Program. Following the devastating tornadoes that struck labama in 2011, labama Baptists saw the need to launch an annual state disaster relief offering to help ensure that funds would be available year round to assist disaster victims. The labama Baptist Disaster Relief Offering was approved by messengers to the 2011 meeting of the labama Baptist State Convention. Prior to that time, it labama Baptist Convention State Board of Missions wasn t unusual for a major hurricane or a tornado strike to empty reserve funds completely. Money collected through the offering helped purchase much-needed equipment and provided affected churches and individuals with assistance in the aftermath of disasters. WHERE WE RE Following an affirmative vote by the labama WMU Board of Trustees and the State Board of Missions in spring 2015, the membership of labama WMU voted in the summer of 2015 to support the creation of a new state missions offering. In November 2015, messengers to the meeting of the labama Baptist State Convention finalized that process as they unanimously approved the creation of the offering, named the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Now these two worthy offerings are combined and expanded to include other Great Commission Ministries, as well, under the umbrella of the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. Funds are collected throughout the year, with a special emphasis coinciding with the Week of Prayer for State Missions held each September. The Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering will complement, not replace, vital Cooperative Program giving. THE NMESKES This year, as the Kathleen Mallory Mission Offering transforms and expands into the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering, there is little doubt how honored, humbled and excited Miss Kathleen Mallory would be to see this day. We believe, because she was such a strong proponent of working together to raise awareness of and support for missions, she would embrace the idea of an expanded base of prayer and financial support for missions and ministry around the state and world. Kathleen Mallory was truly a spiritual giant. Known as The Sweetheart of labama Baptists, Miss Mallory was born in 1879 near Selma, la. More than a century later, she continues to inspire labama Baptists. L B W M U M Kathleen Mallory understood the urgency of the Great Commission and lived her life in selfless devotion to missions. lthough born into a wealthy and influential family, Miss Mallory chose a humble, frugal lifestyle which allowed her more money to give for missions. She was known for her deep devotion to prayer and sacrificial giving from the heart. Kathleen Mallory became corresponding secretary-treasurer of labama WMU in She then became executive secretary of National WMU in 1912, a position she held for the next 36 years. Her storied tenure at the helm of WMU, SBC is still the longest to date. Miss Mallory traveled by horse and buggy, car, train and ship as she promoted and supported missions worldwide. She sold the souvenirs of her travels to provide more financial support to missions efforts. Kathleen Mallory thought of prayer as a Christian s deepest joy and the highest form of Christian service. She had an endearing and unwavering commitment to the enlisting of prayer support and other resources for Southern Baptist missionaries around the world. Her sacrificial heart for missions is a powerful example even today. Kathleen Mallory joins another spiritual giant as the namesakes of the new state missions offering. Dr. Martha Myers grew up in Montgomery in an labama Baptist church where she felt the call to missions on her life as a young girl in G, WMU s missions education organization for girls. She stayed true to that calling through a life of service and faithful obedience to the Lord. s an adult, she used her intellect and skill as a physician to follow the Great Commission to the other side of the globe. Dr. Myers, or Dr. Martha as she was known, spent more than 25 years in the land she grew to consider the home of her heart, the country of Yemen. Though her medical practice was based in Your gifts help support the city of Jibla, Dr. Martha spent countless hours walking tirelessly from village to village where her vehicle couldn t go. Dr. Martha gave her life in pursuit of bringing the Gospel to the people of Yemen. In 2002, a member of al-qaida stormed the hospital in Jibla killing her and two other missionaries. Dr. Martha knew the dangers of her ministry setting and gave her life willingly for the cause of Christ. But more important than the death she died is the life she lived. Her dedication to the cause of Christ is an inspiration to all and an example of what it means to faithfully give of yourself so others may hear. These two spiritual giants leave a beautiful legacy of sacrificial giving and obedience and are fitting namesakes for the new state missions offering. Visit the Resources page at to view and download the Two Spiritual Giants video detailing the stories of Dr. Martha Myers and Miss Kathleen Mallory. WHERE WE RE GOING Through the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering, labama Baptists have the opportunity to support state missions like never before. labama Baptists are there on the frontlines of Great Commission ministry efforts on a daily basis. One of the more exciting aspects of this new adventure is the opportunity to learn more about state missions and to be able to pray more specifically for our state missionaries, labama WMU staff and the work God is accomplishing through these Great Commission Ministries in labama and beyond. s labama Baptists have done in countless years past, let s join together in fervent prayer and faithful giving as we embark on this historic journey into the new, exciting era of the Week of Prayer for State Missions and Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering. LBM WMU DISSTER RELIEF CHURCH PLNTING CHURCH REVITLIZTION GLOBL PRTNERSHIP MISSIONS