VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 1/9/14)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) announces that “Home Mission: ’Til the Work is Done”—formerly known as “Ecumenical Work Week”—has been slated for Aug. 3-9, 2014. The renaming of the yearly volunteer effort to rebuild New Orleans’ hurricane-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward is intended to spotlight the need for continued work and […]
The reflection below was written by Rev. Dr. Steve Van Ostran, Executive Minister of American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains and member of the planning team for Emerge, meeting in Orlando, Florida, from January 6-9, 2014. I am writing this from the Emerge Minister’s Conference in Orlando, Florida. Emerge is a dual-purpose conference designed on the […]
ORLANDO, FL (ABNS 1/7/14)—EMERGE: Baptist Witness in the 21st Century, a conference presented by American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), is meeting this week at the DoubleTree in Orlando, Florida. The conference marks the third time that the Orientation to American Baptist Life conference for new ministers and seminarians has joined together with the ABC Ministers […]
Below is a list of the new ABCUSA Officers, who are serving for the term running from January 1, 2014-December 31, 2015. The officers were elected at the Mission Summit/Biennial, June 21-23, 2013, in Overland Park, Kansas. Click on the names below to read their bios and learn more about each officer. ABCUSA President – […]
Bacone College is Oklahoma’s oldest continuing center of higher education and began in 1880. With the help of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Professor Almon C. Bacone, a missionary teacher, started a school in the Cherokee Baptist Mission at Tahlequah, Indian Territory. The only faculty member, Professor Bacone, enrolled three students and began his […]
The below blog was written by Patricia Hernandez, national director of Women in Ministry and Transition Ministries, ABCUSA. Blogs written by ABCUSA Leadership Team members will be published periodically on the website. Views expressed are the sole opinion of the author. (Want to submit a blog for publication? Email bridget.holmstrom@abc-usa.org.) What does it mean to […]
Luke 2:8-20 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 8 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/12/13)—The first ever ABC Mission Table met November 11-13 at the Green Lake Conference Center/American Baptist Assembly in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Summaries from the learnings at the Mission Table and Mission Summit Conversations are now posted online, arranged by topic, on the ABCUSA website. The Mission Table brought together representatives from […]
Today there are fewer hungry people in our country due to local American Baptist churches serving as the hands and feet of Christ with financial help from the Matthew 25 Grant. First Baptist Church of Clinton, Iowa, has had a brown bag ministry, in which lunches are packed and offered free to any member of […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/16/13)—In partnership with American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS), Multi-Region Corporation (MRC) and International Ministries (IM), American Baptist Foundation (ABF) is pleased to announce that the successful expansion of the Virginia and Gordon Palmer Trust Grant Program has resulted in the funding of greater than 50 ministry projects affiliated with our […]
