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WMU
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WMUWestern Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
WMUWoman's Missionary Union (Southern Baptist Convention)
WMUWorld Maritime University (Malmö, Sweden)
WMUWaste Management Unit
WMUWing Management Utilities (Civil Air Patrol)
WMUWireless Metering Unit
WMUWinfield Mt. Union (school district; Iowa)


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A-1 in the Woman's Missionary Union in the early twentieth century had two designations: (1) A-1 met that the WMU organization had met certain goals and were thus classified as "A-1 ;" (2) An "A-1 fully-graded WMU" was a church organization that had all the age-level WMU program (Woman's Missionary Society, Young Woman's Auxiliary, Royal Ambassadors; Girls' Auxiliary, and Sunbeams).
Two separate, competent studies devote fourteen pages to the activity of women in the church; one details the more traditional Woman's Missionary Union and one focuses on the less familiar, yet significantly expanding, roles of women as members and leaders of church committees and the diaconate and as ordained members of the professional church staff.
Southern Baptists were able to create this joint funding effort because the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), auxiliary to the SBC, had already developed a centralized national organization and could effectively organize church members on the local level to support the new CR Early Missions Efforts Baptists' early funding efforts began with the organization of the Baptist Missionary Society in England in 1792, which supported William Carey.
 
 
 
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