Are you an American Baptist woman concerned about Christian-Muslim relations? Would you appreciate the chance to personally relate to Muslim women who share that concern? You’re invited to participate May 8-12 in a “Virtual Mission Encounter” offered by American Baptist Women’s Ministries (ABWM). Through daily activities and evening conference calls with special guests you can […]
Over the two months prior to Easter, reflections will be shared from Regional Executives from American Baptist regions through the 2017 season of Lent. For the fifth Sunday of Lent, a reflection is provided by Rev. Yvonne B. Carter, Executive Minister of the Cleveland Baptist Association. Click here to view the reflection posted for Ash […]
Curtis Ramsey-Lucas, 49, of Hyattsville, Md. serves American Baptist Home Mission Societies as executive editor of Christian Citizen magazine and has been involved for many years in advocacy ministry in Washington, D.C. He coordinates the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition, a program of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). A member of University Baptist […]
The documents below are related to the Business Meeting at the 2017 Biennial Mission Summit and the Board of General Ministries meetings occuring prior to the Biennial Mission Summit in Portland, Oregon. The Board of General Ministries meets from Tuesday, June 27-Thursday, June 29, and the Biennial Mission Summit dates are June 30-July 2, 2017. […]
Originally introduced in 2015, an American Baptist Churches resource, “Pastoral, Prophetic, Practical, and Personal,” remains available for free download in both English and Spanish. This resource includes four sessions grounded in Scripture, with discussion questions and activities; also included are personal stories of persons in the U.S. and in Central America, stories that help users of the […]
American Baptists are invited to join together in prayer with American Baptist Churches USA partner Christian Churches Together (CCT), as they invite churches to be in prayer through the end of March over how churches and our country can address the moral issue of poverty. See the full Call to Prayer, below, or download a […]
Over the two months prior to Easter, reflections will be shared from Regional Executives from American Baptist regions through the 2017 season of Lent. For the fourth Sunday of Lent, a reflection is provided by Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Chetti, Executive Minister/CEO of the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, Southwest & Hawaii. Click here […]
For a few moments Rev. Mang Sonna could not believe what he was hearing one morning last October as he sat in on the business meeting for the American Baptist Churches of the Central Region. Sonna, executive director of the 105-year-old Bethel Neighborhood Center in Kansas City, Kans., had been publicizing that the center was […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/20/17)—Why are most churches still segregated by race and culture? Is it possible to build intercultural churches? What are the challenges, strategies, and possibilities for ministry in an intercultural context? Editors Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Jann Aldredge-Clanton explore these questions and more in Intercultural Ministry: Hope for a Changing World. Intercultural […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/20/17)—Judson Press is pleased to announce Through Her Eyes: Bible Studies on Women in Scripture has been recognized as a finalist in the 19th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Born in a seminary class, the concept for Through Her Eyes comes from coursework at Palmer Theological Seminary where […]
