Summer camps overall have experienced great challenges to operate in recent years. Costs to run a camp have increased and a variety of distractions in the culture have sometimes hampered attendance. But there are also signs of life. We reported on Camp Moses Merrill in Nebraska recently. Camp Bentley in Berthold, N.D., has also just […]
A $3,100 Matthew 25 grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) enabled Burien (Wash.) Community Church to continue its After School Tutoring program during the 2015-16 academic year. The program is conducted in partnership with Gregory Heights Elementary School, located across the street from the church. Ten students in the fall and 10 in the […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/28/16)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) and American Baptist Foundation (ABF) are pleased to announce recipients of a total of $538,129 in grants from the Virginia and Gordon Palmer Jr. Trust, as awarded by ABF during ABHMS’ 2016 grant cycle: Cumberland Associations, American Baptist Churches (ABC) of Maine Judson Memorial Church, […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/28/16)—American Baptist Churches USA seeks nominations for the Luke Mowbray Ecumenical Award, which recognizes an individual for outstanding ecumenical work at the local, state, national or international level, either as a volunteer or paid professional. This award will be presented at the American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) 2017 Biennial Mission Summit, June […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/27/16)—The American Baptist Historical Society is accepting nominations for the George D. Younger Award for Excellence in Local or Regional American Baptist History. The deadline is May 1, 2017. If your church has had an historical celebration in the last couple of years, please consider sharing your event with the other […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/27/16)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) and American Baptist Foundation (ABF) are pleased to announce recipients of a total of $538,129 in grants from the Virginia and Gordon Palmer Jr. Trust, as awarded by ABF during ABHMS’ 2016 grant cycle: Cumberland Associations, American Baptist Churches (ABC) of Maine Judson Memorial Church, […]
A $2,500 Matthew 25 Grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) helped First Baptist Church of Everett, Wash., serve 6,600 meals to people in need so far this year as part of its 16-year-old Friday Night Outreach initiative. “In the year 2000 God laid on my heart the idea of starting an outreach to the […]
A $5,000 Matthew 25 Grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is feeding 100 high school students at the Furaha Boarding School in an impoverished community in East Africa’s Nairobi, Kenya. The school serves children from the Huruma community, where 500,000 people live in a two-square-mile locale. “Sixty percent of the children are orphaned and […]
Each year on September 21, the World Council of Churches calls churches and parishes to observe the International Day of Prayer for Peace. September 21 is also the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Peace. As it approaches, the World Council of Churches invites people to offer prayers for peace. Observances of the peace prayer day began […]
Rev. Jason Apicella is the part-time co-pastor at Asylum Avenue Baptist Church in Hartford, Conn., where he has been preaching monthly for the past two years. When he doesn’t have preaching commitments of his own, he attends Federated Church of Christ in Brooklyn, Conn., where his wife, Mary, serves as the pastor. He recently completed […]
