New Summer Issue of ABCUSA Connections Now Online
Click HERE to view the newly released Late Summer 2016 issue of ABCUSA Connections. Or, click the image below to read the full story.
Click HERE to view the newly released Late Summer 2016 issue of ABCUSA Connections. Or, click the image below to read the full story.
A $3,000 Matthew 25 Grant has been making it possible for the Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry (GACM) in Philadelphia and its partner Second Baptist Church of Germantown to feed hundreds of disadvantaged families each Thursday. “Between May and October 2015 our ministry distributed 4.35 tons of food to 546 households,” reports Eileen A. Jones, GACM […]
The blog below was written by Rev. Dr. C. Jeff Woods, associate general secretary for Regional Ministries, American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA). Woods also serves in the role of the Mission Table Facilitator. Learn what is happening in the denomination as a result of the American Baptist Churches Mission Table, which met in Valley Forge, Penn., […]
General Secretary Emeritus A. Roy Medley and other American Baptist representatives traveled to participate in the Baptist World Alliance Annual Gathering in Vancouver, Canada from July 4-9, 2015. The blog below was written by Medley. The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is a fellowship of 228 conventions and unions in 121 countries and territories comprising 42 million members in 177,000 churches. […]
Thanks to a $500 Matthew 25 grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) a small Youngstown, Ohio, congregation was able to recently distribute food, clothing, hygiene kits and other items to people homeless or in need “living under the bridge” in their community. Fifteen volunteers from Calvary Baptist Church in Youngstown were the voices, hands […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 7/20/16)—Susan Gillies, interim general secretary, American Baptist Churches USA, invites all American Baptists to join in special prayer for these troubled times throughout the remainder of this summer. Please pray upon rising and retiring each day, seeking God’s grace for healing and wholeness throughout this country and the world. Pray for […]
This message was recorded by Susan Gillies, Interim General Secretary for American Baptist Churches USA. Gillies began serving as Interim on January 1, 2016, and will serve in the position until a new General Secretary is named.
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 7/15/16)—In less than a month, our nation has been riddled with acts of unspeakable violence. On June 12, 2016, forty-nine people were killed and fifty-three more wounded in an Orlando nightclub. More recently, two men – Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile of Falcon Heights, Minn. – were […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 07/13/16)—In a historic celebration before a gathering of hundreds of mission supporters, the Rev. Sharon T. Koh of Los Angeles, Calif., was installed as executive director-elect of American Baptist International Ministries (IM). She began her service as executive director-elect on July 1, 2016, and will assume the role of executive director […]
“My time in Taize in June was a profound experience both spiritually and interculturally,” explains Rev. Judith Fackenthal, president of American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) and pastor of Garfield Park Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Ind. Before going to Taize I thought it was all about contemplative music and prayer practice,” Fackenthal says. “The root of […]