The documents below are related to the Business Meeting at the 2017 Biennial Mission Summit and the Board of General Ministries meetings occuring prior to the Biennial Mission Summit in Portland, Oregon. The Board of General Ministries meets from Tuesday, June 27-Thursday, June 29, and the Biennial Mission Summit dates are June 30-July 2, 2017. […]
Originally introduced in 2015, an American Baptist Churches resource, “Pastoral, Prophetic, Practical, and Personal,” remains available for free download in both English and Spanish. This resource includes four sessions grounded in Scripture, with discussion questions and activities; also included are personal stories of persons in the U.S. and in Central America, stories that help users of the […]
American Baptists are invited to join together in prayer with American Baptist Churches USA partner Christian Churches Together (CCT), as they invite churches to be in prayer through the end of March over how churches and our country can address the moral issue of poverty. See the full Call to Prayer, below, or download a […]
Over the two months prior to Easter, reflections will be shared from Regional Executives from American Baptist regions through the 2017 season of Lent. For the fourth Sunday of Lent, a reflection is provided by Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Chetti, Executive Minister/CEO of the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, Southwest & Hawaii. Click here […]
For a few moments Rev. Mang Sonna could not believe what he was hearing one morning last October as he sat in on the business meeting for the American Baptist Churches of the Central Region. Sonna, executive director of the 105-year-old Bethel Neighborhood Center in Kansas City, Kans., had been publicizing that the center was […]
Over the next two months prior to Easter, reflections will be shared from Regional Executives from American Baptist regions through the 2017 season of Lent. For the third Sunday of Lent, a reflection is provided by Rev. Soozi Whitten Ford, Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky. Click here to view […]
Individual registration is open for the Biennial Mission Summit, June 30-July 2, 2017, to be held in Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Convention Center. Early Registration closes today, March 15, 2017, and Individual Registration closes on June 15, 2017. When individuals register by the Early Registration deadline, they will pay a lower rate at registration. Registration […]
The Diaper Depot ministry at First Baptist Church in Scottsbluff, Neb., is growing dynamically. The initiative in 2016 received a $1,500 Matthew 25 Grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA). The outreach has received altogether $10,000 in Matthew 25 funds. Parents and grandparents alike know that diapers are costly. Since April of 2016 First Baptist Church has […]
“Good News Shoes” in Noblesville, Ind., is a project of Calvary Baptist Church that aims to put shoes on the feet of children in need each Fall as the weather turns cold. The initiative is in keeping with Luke: 15:22 – “when the prodigal son returned, his father commanded … ‘put shoes on his feet’…” […]
Over the next two months prior to Easter, reflections will be shared from Regional Executives from American Baptist regions through the 2017 season of Lent. For the second Sunday of Lent, a reflection is provided by Dr. David Carrico, Executive Minister of the West Virginia Baptist Convention. Click here to view the reflection posted for […]
