PHOENIX (BP)–Wanda S. Lee, executive director/treasurer of Woman’s Missionary Union, announced the creation of the Dr. Martha Myers GA Alumnae of Distinction Award during WMU’s annual meeting and missions celebration June 15-16 in Phoenix.
The award is named in honor of Myers, one of the IMB field personnel killed in a Yemen hospital in December 2002. “Dr. Martha,” as her friends called her, received her call to missions as a GA.
The award will be given annually to a GA Alumnae who exhibits a missions lifestyle, has dramatically influenced the lives of others through missions, ministry, and/or civic duty and is a good role model for girls. The first award will be presented at the WMU annual meeting in 2004.
“She was obedient to God’s call and lived out her convictions in Yemen,” Lee said. “While on the field, she demonstrated Christ’s love as she pushed back boundaries and offered the Yemeni people a better life through improved health care. We are grateful to the Myers family for allowing us to honor Dr. Martha in this way.”
Mitzi Gibbs Eaker, WMU’s national consultant for Girls in Action, said, “As GA celebrates 90 years of encouraging girls to do their part in carrying out God’s plan and serving others through missions, we are delighted to name this award after Dr. Martha who so clearly demonstrated a missions lifestyle.”
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