VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 6/30/15)—As featured preacher at American Baptist Churches USA’s (ABCUSA) 2015 Mission Summit plenary worship Sunday morning, American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) Executive Director Dr. Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins III delivered his farewell sermon to the greater denomination. Set to retire in October after 24 years of ministry with ABHMS, Wright-Riggins preached about […]

OVERLAND PARK, KS (ABNS 6/28/15)—During its June 22-24 meeting, the Board of Directors of American Baptist Home Mission Societies approved by common consent a letter of sympathy and solidarity to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston S.C., along with a gift of $9,000 for distribution to the families of the nine victims so senselessly murdered […]

OVERLAND PARK, KS (ABNS 6/28/15)—ABCUSA President Rev. Dr. Don Ng read a statement of the Board of General Ministries at the Sunday morning, June 28, business meeting at the American Baptist Churches Biennial Mission Summit, announcing an update on the General Secretary search process. Board of General Ministries Statement The General Secretary search activity has […]

OVERLAND PARK, KS (ABNS 6/26/15)—A new statement of vision and priorities to guide the work of American Baptist International Ministries (IM) during the next few years was unanimously approved by the IM Board of Directors gathered in Overland Park, Kansas on June 25. IM’s board and staff give thanks to God and those who have […]

OVERLAND PARK, KS (ABNS 6/25/15)—American Baptists from across the country and Puerto Rico have begun to arrive in Overland Park, Kansas, for the American Baptist Churches Biennial Mission Summit. The event follows board meetings of the program boards, highlighted by a joint board dinner and plenary session on Wednesday evening, June 24. Joint Board Event […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 6/25/15)—The American Baptist Churches of the South (ABCOTS) has announced that the Rev. Dr. James Mitchell Harrison, former President of ABCOTS (2011-2013), has been elected to serve the Region of the South as Regional Executive Minister.  The election occurred on Thursday, April 16, 2015, following the recommendation of the Search Committee, […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 6/25/15)—At its semiannual meeting yesterday, the Board of Directors of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) voted unanimously to call the Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, interim senior pastor of Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Roswell, Ga., to the position of executive director. He will lead the historic mission agency following the retirement […]