Every great launch, whether of a mighty ocean liner, a new car model, or a ground-breaking Apple product is greeted with great anticipation and fanfare. That’s why the heavens filled with angels on Christmas Eve. All heaven and earth, all creation had been waiting on tiptoe for this moment: the launch of God’s effort to […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/22/14)—Judson Press, the publishing arm of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, has selected Church on Purpose: Reinventing Discipleship, Community, & Justice edited by Adam L. Bond and Laura Mariko Cheifetz as the “ABC Reads” title for 2015. ABC Reads is a denomination-wide emphasis designed to bring together American Baptists through the […]
The ABCUSA Committee on Christian Unity and Interfaith Relations will be sponsoring a peace-building tour April 15-26, 2015 (April 15 to 30, 2015, with Jordan extension), in partnership with the Church of the Brethren and the Progressive National Baptist Convention. This visit will introduce participants to the complex issues at play in this region that so desperately […]
On December 20, 2014, churches were sent a letter about a change in United Mission Designations (UMD) as found on the current mission support receipt. The United Mission Designations category is being eliminated, effective with the January 2015 receipts. This action was voted on by the Covenanting Partners in accordance with the guidelines of our Common Budget […]
Churches and organizations are invited to submit their own stories. Entries are due by May 1, 2015. Grants totaling $5,000 will be given to the top stories, and these will be celebrated at the Biennial Mission Summit in Kansas City in June 2015. The stories may be shared in either video or written (with photos) […]
