VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/8/16)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries announces a virtual mission encounter, May 8-12, 2017, “See Me As I Am,” on Baptist-Muslim Dialogue. This virtual mission encounter offers women the opportunity gain tools and inspiration for effective interfaith dialogue and understand more clearly the need to create Beloved Community. Bishop Desmond Tutu has said, […]
Ngun Hlel Tial, 16, is a high school junior and an active member of Carson Chin Baptist Church in West Allis, Wis. A violin player and tennis athlete, Ngun is a member of her school’s Key Club, a student-led service organization of Kiwanis International. Through the key club, Ngun completed more than 70 hours of […]
This Advent season, five Regional Executives of American Baptist regions will provide reflections focusing on “What Christmas Means to Me.” Each reflection will be posted prior to the Sundays in Advent, along with Christmas Sunday. For the third Sunday of Advent, Dr. Charles Revis, executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of the Northwest, reflects […]
Barbara Jarrett remembers the American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) denominational Mission Center from age 12, when her Dad, Austin Wilson, brought her next door to pick apples in a neighboring orchard. Wilson headed ABCUSA’s mail and addressograph center in those days and worked in the building 28 years. Marilyn Tyson recalls the Mission Center when […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/5/16)—As the United States observes the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) lifts up the other side of this story as a lesson of racial injustice important to remember as well. More than 120,000 Japanese immigrants and their children, born citizens of the […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (12/5/16)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) is delighted to announce the national launch of its exciting “In Support of Excellence” (ISOE) financial-empowerment initiative for pastors and lay leaders. Too many high-capacity pastors are suffering in silence, as they are both woefully undercompensated and squeezed by crushing personal debt. ABHMS is committed to […]
The roots of RMMO go back to the mid-1930s, when American Baptist congregations received a Communion Fellowship Offering on the first Sunday of each month to support retired ministers, missionaries, their widowed spouses and elderly clergy within their churches. In 1977, American Baptist Churches USA launched the Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering (RMMO) to continue […]
This Advent season, five Regional Executives of American Baptist regions will provide reflections focusing on “What Christmas Means to Me.” Each reflection will be posted prior to the Sundays in Advent, along with Christmas Sunday. For the second Sunday of Advent, Rev. Dr. James M. Harrison, executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of the […]
Reminder: The deadline for recommending candidates for the position of General Secretary is Tuesday, December 6. Please see the announcement below for additional information or to make a recommendation. The General Secretary Search Committee for American Baptist Churches has met face to face and by conference call to prayerfully discern the way forward in the […]
November 29, 2016 is #GIVINGTUESDAY! Have you thought about who you will support? Join us in ministry as we serve as the hands and feet of Christ. Please prayerfully consider how God’s presence can be enhanced by your present to God’s Church through ABCUSA on #GIVINGTUESDAY and throughout the year! Give now at: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/abcusa If […]
