West Union Baptist Association

08/12/2026

07/07/2026

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As another school year approaches, Immanuel Baptist Church is inviting educators from across Central Kentucky to pause, be encouraged and begin the year spiritually renewed.

03/24/2026

Make plans to attend now. You don't want to miss this special evening!

03/13/2026

The KentuckyWMU Missions Celebration & Annual Meeting is coming up, and you won’t want to miss it! 🙌

Secure your spot now and take advantage of early bird pricing—but hurry, it ends March 15! 🗓️

Let’s gather to celebrate missions, connect with friends, and be inspired for the year ahead. 💛

03/08/2026

🎁 WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 8
MORE THAN A GIFT

✨ There’s a group of people with a unique view of how God abundantly uses the Week of Prayer and Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. Those are the featured missionaries.

Jefferson and Carol Hernandez were profiled in 2024. Afterward, their church plant in Sterling, Virginia, more than doubled in size. “We heard from thousands of churches that were praying for us,” Jefferson says. “God answered those prayers in a big way.”

⛪ Churches all over North America also heard Josh and Beth Glymph’s ministry story and sent mission teams to Jacksonville, Florida, to help reach their community. “Now, we have more churches coming and working with us,” Josh says. “You can’t put a price tag on that.”

Thousands of encouragement cards and letters from church groups and individuals—“it felt like a tsunami”—landed in Matt and Ruth Lahey’s mailbox in St. John’s, Newfoundland. “We’re not alone,” Matt says. “Just knowing that fueled us to keep going in planting our church.”

👏 God is going above and beyond through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. You are a vital part. Your prayer for a missionary is more than a few spoken words. Your gift is much more than a gift.

➡️ PRAY FOR:

• North American missionaries to reach more lost people who need the hope and love of Christ.
• North American missionaries to have all the resources and encouragement they need to plant churches and meet needs.
• God to call and equip more missionaries to make Jesus known in North America.

03/08/2026

🇵🇷 WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 7
Meet Oscar and Wendy Ortiz
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

🎉 Their church plant is small. But their vision is big. When Oscar Ortiz started Iglesia Bautista Esperanza Eterna in Río Grande, Puerto Rico, he knew one new church would not be enough.

🚨“Here, there are 46,000 people and almost no gospel witness,” Oscar says. “We can’t wait until we have lots of people and resources. We need to plant more churches now.”

⚠️ Fortunately, Oscar and his wife, Wendy, have help. Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry arm, is sending volunteer mission teams to Loíza, a needy community where Oscar and Wendy hope to plant another new work. “Loíza is a spiritually dark place,” Wendy says, “but by serving the community, Send Relief is helping open doors for us there. They’re repairing homes and enabling us to build witnessing relationships.”

⛪ Now, a foundation is being laid for what will one day be a new church in Loíza. “We want to be a church plant that plants churches,” Oscar says. “And even though we’re small, now we’re seeing how God is able to do so much more with us than we can imagine.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:
📌 Send Relief teams to connect Oscar and Wendy to more people in Loíza who are open to hearing the gospel.
📌 God to raise up leaders in the church plant who can help start and grow a new work in Loíza.
📌 Doors to open in other nearby communities that need a gospel presence.

03/06/2026

‼️ WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 6
Meet Leon and Javon Every
Marrero, Louisiana

🚗 It was the parking lot that got their attention. Leon and Javon Every had been driving by the Baptist church on Ames Boulevard for years, but they’d never seen anything momentous happening there.

It wasn’t until one morning when they noticed a suddenly packed parking lot that their curiosity got the better of them.

“Out of the blue,” Javon says, “we said, ‘We should go to that church.’ So the next Sunday, we went. And the rest is history.”

✨ That new life at an old church was the result of God calling church planting missionaries Troy and Chanel Gause. They joined with the struggling congregation of what had been Ames Boulevard Baptist Church, and together, they birthed Cross Community Church to reach people like the Everys.

“The Everys were unchurched,” Troy says. “We got to know them and learned that even though they’d been together for 35 years, they weren’t married.”

💍 “They gave us a beautiful wedding, and we kept going back every Sunday,” Javon says.

“We brought our family, and seven of our kids and grandkids got saved. It’s amazing. I always wanted us all to follow Jesus, and this new church—this is how it happened.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:

📌 More of Leon and Javon’s family to hear the gospel and give their lives to Christ.
📌 God to draw more unchurched families from the surrounding community to the new church.
📌 Troy and Chanel to continue to faithfully represent Christ and His kingdom.

03/06/2026

✨ WEEK OF PRAYER DAY 5
Troy and Chanel Gause
Marrero, Louisiana

👉 Church business meetings are not normally fertile ground for happy accidents. But Ames Boulevard Baptist Church’s tiny remnant of elderly members unintentionally set a miracle in motion when they voted to hire Troy Gause to mow their grass.

🌱 “That’s how I got to know the church,” Troy says. “I started taking care of their property and learned how they’d dwindled down to just a few faithful members. They were probably just a couple months away from closing their doors.”

⛪ When longtime Ames members like Linda Morrow realized “Troy Gause, Landscaper” was also “Troy Gause, Church Planting Missionary,” they began to pray. “He’d just started a church but needed a place to meet,” she says.

“When we met, it was so clear God was putting us together to replant something new.” Now, the sign out front says Cross Community Church, and the name is not the only thing that’s changed. “There’s life back in this building,” Troy says, “Baptisms are happening, salvations are happening, and this church has been raised from the dead.”

➡️ PRAY FOR:
📌 Humility and understanding as members of Cross Community Church face change.
📌 The new believers Troy has baptized to grow in their faith.
📌 Growth and a gospel witness that the surrounding community will see and be drawn to.

03/06/2026

REACH is a two-day statewide gathering that equips and inspires Kentucky Baptist pastors and leaders to lead with greater passion for evangelism and missions. Featuring top voices from across the country, REACH is your chance to refuel, reconnect, and refocus your church on the Great Commission.