OMS MISSION STATEMENT
“By God’s grace, OMS International exists to establish responsible, Christ- centered churches among the nations.”
Bill and Judy Wilder serve as regional directors for the Mid-South region of OMS International. They promote the worldwide work of OMS, serving as missionary recruiters, raising prayer and financial support and partnering to place missionary speakers in churches, Sunday school classes, homes and Bible schools. They also capably share from their own experiences in Russia and other countries.
After being in business for 30 years, God called Bill and Judy to go to Russia in 1994, where they trained Russian schoolteachers in a Christian morals and ethics curriculum and initiated neighborhood Bible studies. In addition, Bill served as team leader for the city of Ivanovo. After returning from Russia, Bill and Judy felt that God was leading them into full-time mission work. They became full-time missionaries in 1995.
Upon returning to the United States, Bill and Judy served for three years at the OMS headquarters in Greenwood, Indiana, where Bill functioned as assistant to the president, and Judy worked in women’s ministries. For the last 10 years, they have served as OMS regional directors in North Carolina and Virginia. They have visited several OMS fields, including China, Haiti, South Africa and Mozambique. Bill and Judy reside in Greensboro, North Carolina.
While being involved in all phases of OMS ministries, Bill and Judy have felt a special calling to help raise scholarship support for the OMS seminary in Moscow, Russia.
“The church in Russia has suffered the most severe and sustained persecution of any nation in recent history. All deaths in the gulags (prison camps) between 1920 and 1990 are reckoned at 20 million, and further 16 million died en route to them-many were Christian. It is reckoned that 200,000 Christian leaders were martyred, and a further 500,000 imprisoned." ―Operation World
Bill and Judy can be reached at williamwilder@bellsouth.net or 336/288-7694.
Missionary ID #801994
