VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/30/16)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries has a long history of producing excellent resources for ministry with women and girls. Magazines such as On the Way with American Baptist Women and Vital Woman Magazine complemented print resources produced in English and Spanish for the two-year program theme, leadership development materials such as The […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/30/16)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries announces a virtual mission encounter, October 3-7, 2016, on “See…the Suffering: Drug Addiction.” Based on the 2016-2017 mission focus of the same name, the virtual mission encounter offers women the opportunity to raise their awareness about the critical problem of drug addiction and learn how their faith […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/30/16)—In response to recent natural disasters in Louisiana and Indiana, American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) Disaster Relief Office has distributed Emergency Disaster-relief grants from American Baptist Churches USA’s One Great Hour of Sharing funds. More specifically, $10,000 was released to American Baptist Churches of the South (ABCOTS) in response to […]
“Because 128 children in Westerly and Chariho (R.I.) are homeless you need to eat pancakes.” So reads a promotion by Harriet Lamont, who for two years has been working with other volunteers and the pastor of First Baptist Church in Cross Mills, R.I., to generate support for homeless families in crisis. The support vehicle? It’s […]
American Baptists are invited to register now for the New Baptist Covenant Summit. NBC Summit 2016 Journeying to Covenant Community: Baptists Working Together for Racial Justice and Reconciliation will be held September 14 – 16, 2016 in Atlanta, Ga. Summit speakers will include President Jimmy Carter, New Baptist Covenant Convener; Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon, Acting […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (8/29/16)—Desmond Hoffmeister, former Region Executive Minister for American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains and a parish pastor who was a dynamic, outspoken leader for justice and reconciliation in both his native South Africa and in his adopted U.S homeland, died early Saturday, August 20, in Granada Hills, Calif. He was 56. […]
Rev. Nungshitula “Atula” Jamir is the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Lowell, Mass. The holder of several academic degrees, Atula has taught at the Discipleship Bible College in India and served as a researcher for the International Bulletin of Missionary Research for the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Conn., prior to assuming […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (8/25/16)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) stands in solidarity with Murrow Indian Children’s Home as this century-old ministry exercises its right to refrain from lifting up a religious view that is not aligned with its own. The children’s home—devoted to caring for Native American children who have been victims of neglect or […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/25/16)—American Baptists are encouraged to attend “God and Guns: Millennial Faith Leaders Address Gun Violence” training Oct. 6 and 7 at The Riverside Church, New York City. American Baptist Home Mission Societies is a sponsor of the event that seeks to provide concrete tools for educating, engaging and mobilizing congregations to […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/24/16)—On Friday, July 23, 2016, at their national event for women and girls, “3D: Dwelling, Discovering, Discipling/Dedicando, Descubriendo, Discipulando,” in Washington, D.C., American Baptist Women’s Ministries held a worship service of biblical lament in recognition of the pain women and girls carry in their lives. With special references to the shooting […]
