VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/11/20)—The Rev. Perla Dirige Belo of Seattle, Wash., went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Dec. 5. From 1990 until retiring in 2003, she served as director of Asian Ministries for American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS), when it was known as National Ministries. She was married to Gasat Maza […]
You are invited to join MMBB Financial Services for a webinar on Dec 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM (Eastern Time). “Planning your Path to Retirement” will teach attendees how to set financial goals and discuss important financial considerations for retirement income planning. To Register: https://mmbb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MXioCewtS9aJpqFDBP8Llg
Throughout the 2020 Advent Season, we will be sharing an online devotional for prayer and contemplation on our website. We invite you to visit each week as we journey toward Bethlehem waiting with anticipation for the Messiah’s birth. The weekly devotionals will share reflections on this intentional anticipatory waiting time through the lens of the […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (12/2/20)—Is your congregation curious about creation care? Do you want to hear about the creation centered ministry American Baptists are engaged in? The Creation Justice Network announces the debut of its Creation Justice Congregations Conversation Series. Launched in June 2019, the Creation Justice Congregations program is designed to encourage and support congregations […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (12/1/20)—Judson Press, the publishing ministry of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, has named “River of Life, Feast of Grace: Baptism, Communion, and Discipleship” by the Rev. Dr. Jennifer W. Davidson as the “ABC Reads” book for 2021-2022. Every other year since 2006, in conjunction with the Biennial Mission Summit, ABC Reads highlights […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (12/2/20)—In June 2020, in response to public movements within the United States and abroad protesting against racial injustice, the CEO & Executive Director’s Council of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, also known as International Ministries (IM), issued a statement denouncing racism. The statement reiterated IM’s historical and present commitment to “stand […]
