As American Baptists, we are proud to be a part of a strong, vital, missional denomination. Being an American Baptist church means supporting ABC. When you give to United Mission, we all become United IN Mission – our ministry is made possible by givers like YOU! We are beginning a two-year focus on strengthening giving […]
Register today! Visit www.abcemerge.com YOU ARE INVITED! “Emerge: Baptist Witness in the 21st Century” combines a Ministers Conference and Orientation to American Baptist Life, where conferees will explore emergent themes in Baptist theology of the Holy Spirit, postmodern witness and third millennium mission, in this 200th anniversary year of the historic Judson mission to Burma. The […]
R.S.V.P. Requested! Rev. Donald Ng, Vice President of ABCUSA, invites all former staff members of American Baptist Educational Ministries to an “EM Staff Reunion Dinner” on November 16, 2013. Please click here to read Ng’s full invitation letter “When Educational Ministries completed its ministry in 2003, we knew that we had been part of a […]
Pastor Bob Ballance at Pine Street Church in Boulder (ABC Church) reports that groups from American Baptist Church in Fort Collins, Colorado, the First Baptist Church in Atchison, Kansas, and the church Balance pastors, Pine Street Church (formerly First Baptist Church) of Boulder, Colorado, have worked together in early relief efforts. Balance and others have […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/24/13)—The Wake Forest University School of Divinity has invited Rev. Christine Smith, Pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Wickliffe, Ohio, and author of Judson Press book Beyond the Stained Glass Ceiling: Equipping and Encouraging Female Pastors to participate in the Access and Equity for Women Clergy Conference, scheduled this fall in […]
Our hearts are saddened by the events that occurred in Nairobi, Kenya and Peshawar, Pakistan over the weekend. Please hold in prayer all of those injured in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, as well as the loved ones of those victims who were so senselessly killed. At least 62 people have been […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/20/13)—American Baptist Churches has released $10,000 in One Great Hour of Sharing disaster relief funds through American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) to American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains. Causing injuries, fatalities and billions of dollars in property damage, the flooding was a result of heavy rain that fell in […]
Our continued prayers are with those in Colorado struggling with recent flooding. Please hold in prayer all of those affected in some way in your prayers. A $10,000 One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) emergency relief grant was released to the American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains region. Your gifts designated to “OGHS Colorado Flooding” will help […]
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VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/18/13)—Twenty-nine men and women from a variety of backgrounds gathered this summer for an interactive, worship-filled three-day retreat designed to help them discern a call to global mission service. Questions were answered, calls were confirmed, and encouragement was offered to those wrestling with the life-changing decision to serve in cross-cultural Christian […]
