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 […]
