VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/13/17)—Muriel Penn Jerigan started her new job at MMBB Financial Services (MMBB) on Oct. 30, 1967, unaware that she was on her way to establishing a 50-year record as the longest continuously-serving staff member in MMBB’s and American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) history. On Dec. 12, 2017, MMBB’s entire staff turned […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/11/17)—This month marks one year that The Christian Citizen—American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) acclaimed Christian witness print magazine—began publishing online, providing a 21st-century forum for American Baptists and other diverse voices to offer timely response to current events and contemporary issues in a format that’s fresh and easily accessible to […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/11/17)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) continued its commitment to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Monday by transferring One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) Emergency Disaster-relief funds, on behalf of American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), to the following entities on the island: $25,000 to the ABCUSA region Iglesias Bautista de Puerto Rico; […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/8/17)—Judson Press, the publishing arm of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, will publish Looking Back, Moving Forward: Wisdom from the Sankofa Institute for African American Pastoral Leadership edited by Dwight N. Hopkins, Professor of Theology, The University of Chicago Divinity School. Looking Back, Moving Forward is a collection of lectures from […]
Learn more about the Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering here. After pastoring for 39 years, Harold Kruger “doesn’t do the ‘Reverend’ now,” but still preaches occasionally at the United Baptist Church, in Saco, Maine. From his birthplace in Indiana, to Maine to Massachusetts and New York, and back to Maine again, Kruger has been preaching […]
SAN JUAN, PR (ABNS 12/1/17)—With eight suitcases packed with more than 400 pounds of batteries in tow, Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, executive director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS), and six staff members visited Puerto Rico this week to assess disaster-relief efforts following hurricanes Irma and Maria and discuss plans for moving into Phase II […]
A team working together around the challenge of stewardship in the 21st century has worked hard over the past eighteen months to put together “The Generosity Project,” a pilot program running from Sept. 2017 – Dec. 2018 which will work to provide stewardship resources and support to a cohort group of pastors from New England […]
