The Wayland Mission Center, in partnership with Baptist churches, associations, agencies, conventions, the global Baptist community, and the greater faith community, serves as a rallying point to encourage, educate, empower, equip, and inspire students and west Texas churches to be the presence of Christ throughout the world.
This vision statement of the Wayland Mission Center, adopted on October 15, 2009, articulates the purpose and motivation of this now three-year-old movement. We have stated seven goals for the WMC:
- Offer multiple short-term global mission opportunities to students and other mission volunteers.
- Promote the creation of a facility specifically designated as the Wayland Mission Center.
- Establish a web presence for informational and educational purposes.
- Develop an identity as a missions-sending university.
- Increase student involvement in missions by 10%.
- Work to increase funding and an endowment for WMC.
- Identify, recruit, establish, and nurture collaborative missional relationships.
Scripture serves as the foundation of all that we do in following the leadership of God’s Spirit at WMC:
After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb" (Revelation 7:9-10).
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matthew 28:18-20).
