VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 2/29/12)—Registration is open for the 7-day World Mission Conference (WMC) sponsored by American Baptist International Ministries (IM) May 18-25, 2012 at the Green Lake Conference Center in Green Lake, WI. The 2012 conference, which will include a 3-day call retreat weekend (May 18-20), focuses on discerning God’s call to Christian service […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 2/29/12)—Franklin College recently received a $4.2 million bequest following settlement of the Effie Joan Behrens estate. Behrens, a longtime resident of Indianapolis and a Fort Wayne native, died Dec. 11, 2010. She had been a Franklin College trustee since 1991, actively engaged in the campus community and dedicated to enriching religious […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 2/29/12)—Through The Penny Project—begun regionally in 2007 by the children of First Baptist Church of New London, N.H., and launched nationally in 2009 by American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS)—American Baptists have collected more than 7 million pennies to support programs aimed at improving the lives of children living in poverty […]