Hosanna! Hallelujah! Hosanna in the highest! Easter joy overflows as we celebrate Christ’s resurrection, filling our hearts and strengthening our faith. As believers we live in the Easter paradox of hope: life has triumphed but death surrounds us; sin is vanquished but its sting still poisons our days. Every time we offer or are offered […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/28/13)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) encourages American Baptists to participate in “Faith Advocacy Day and Rally for Comprehensive Immigration Reform” 8:00 am-5:00 pm on Wednesday, April 10, in Washington, D.C. The schedule is as follows: 8:00 am registration and breakfast at the United Methodist Building, 100 Maryland Ave. NE; 8:30 am advocacy […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/27/13)—After having spent 35 years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ministering the love of Jesus and God’s healing power and wholeness, Dr. Daniel E. Fountain, MD, age 82, passed to his eternal reward on February 12, 2013. Fountain will be remembered as a true health practitioner, with a passion […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/27/13)—Dan Brockway has been awarded the ABCUSA Theological Fellowship for 2013 by the Emerging Theologians Task Force for American Baptist Churches USA. Brockway is a Ph.D. at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, focusing in Systematic Theology with a minor in Theology and Culture, expecting to graduate in 2015. The purpose […]
It has been a long winter for most of the country. Spring has come in fits and starts this year. Winter reluctantly surrenders her icy grip over creation. But spring is irrepressible. Crocuses and daffodils push through the snow, heralds that the darkness of winter is ending as new life erupts. Our observance of Easter […]
Each Wednesday throughout the season of Lent in 2013, a reflection including bible verses and prayer suggestions is available on the ABCUSA website. The following reflection is posted on March 27, 2013, for Holy Week. Psalm 70 (NRSV) 1 Be pleased, O God, to deliver me. O Lord, make haste to help me! 2 […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/ 26/13)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries announces the release of the newest volume in the G.I.R.L.S. discipleship resource series. Who Am I? Grades 3-5 contains four session plans to help young girls explore issues of identity. The four sessions address: understanding that God has created them with individual worth and purpose; their […]
The reflection below was written by Rev. Carol Sutton. This is part of a new featured series, “Proud to be an American Baptist.” Check the ABCUSA website and other publications in the near future to see more stories! View the archive and learn why others are proud to be American Baptist by clicking here. Like […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/22/13)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries announces that the Rev. Barbara Jim-George of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, will be honored as the 2013 recipient of the Shine the Light Award. The Shine the Light Award, established by American Baptist Women’s Ministries, ABCUSA, recognizes a woman or a women’s ministry group […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/ 22 /13)—The Burmese army continues to use chemical weapons, heavy artillery and jet fighter planes to bomb civilian villages in the Kachin State in northern Myanmar (Burma) causing heavy casualties and great hardship on the people, despite a cease fire order by Myanmar’s president. Moved by these atrocities, the Board […]
