The First District Women’s Missionary & Educational Convention, (WMEC) is an auxiliary to the First District Association of Baptists in Kentucky, was established in 1893, with the following objectives and purposes:
To promote Christian Education through support of the District and its objective, Hopkinsville College of the Bible and other Baptist educational institutions deemed acceptable by the First District Association;
To provide scholarships to women from any church who holds active membership in the First District Association to attend Hopkinsville College of the Bible;
To promote home and foreign mission efforts;
To provide programs and fellowship opportunities that address the needs of women and youth.
Current Officers:
Recording Secretary - Sis. Jeanette Owen
Corresponding Secretary - Sis. Patricia Wilson
Financial Secretary - Sis. Barbara Moore
Treasurer - Sis. Florene Kendrick
Historian - Sis. Martha Holley
Chorister - Sis. Charlotte Waller
Pianist - Sis. Mary Vickie Scott
Asst. Pianist - Sis. Charlotte Waller
Youth Director - Sis. Donna Stafford
Asst. Youth Director - Sis. Victoria Pettus
President Emeritus - Sis. Cornelia Belle
The First District Women's Missionary & Educational Convention is the mother branch of the following:
Mission Circle Presidents:
Circle # 1 - Gwen Johnson
Circle #3 - Bettye Shelton
Circle #4 - Elizabeth Ann Cabell
Circle #5 - Debra Sivils
*District Youth Branch - 3 Active youth sessions which is associated within District Youth
*Ministers Wives & Widows Council: President Janet Flagg
**Hopkinsville College of the Bible Trustee Board and WMEC Liaisons: Sis. Flossie Foster and Sis. Austrea Arnold