VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/3/13)—December 1-17, 2013, seventeen American Baptist women are traveling in Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand on a mission encounter co-sponsored by American Baptist Women’s Ministries and International Ministries. While there, they are participating in the 200th Anniversary Judson Celebration, meeting women’s ministry leaders, and visiting historical Judson sites as well as today’s […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/27/13)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) Executive Director Dr. Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins III and Associate Executive Director of Missional Life and Leadership the Rev. Dr. Marilyn P. Turner participated in the New Baptist Covenant Summit on Nov. 21 and 22 in Atlanta. Baptist leaders from several U.S. regions and diverse traditions […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/27/13)—At the board of directors meeting of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) November 18-20, members unanimously re-elected officers Dr. Clifford Johnson, president; Lois Chiles, vice president, and Wendy Hagn, secretary. The board also unanimously affirmed calling the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., as […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/22/13)—The board of trustees of Andover Newton Theological School, the oldest theological school and the first formal graduate institution in the United States, announced on Thursday the appointment of the Rev. Martin Copenhaver as the seminary’s next president. Copenhaver will assume the post on June 1, 2014, succeeding the Rev. Dr. […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/22/13)—“This was an historic, precedent-setting trip from start to finish!” said Ann and Bruce Borquist, of their recent teaching trip to Myanmar—a visit made more significant by the Myanmar Baptist Convention’s recent request to renew and expand its partnership with American Baptist International Ministries (IM). The Borquists—IM missionaries who currently serve […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/21/13)—Rev. Dr. A. Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), was installed as Chair of the National Council of Churches (NCC) Governing Board on Monday, November 18, 2013, during a service at the Lutheran Center in Chicago, Illinois. Medley has been serving the NCC as president-elect for the […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/21/13)—”The atmosphere was like nothing that I have experienced in ABC!” said Rev. Dr. Don Ng, senior pastor of San Francisco’s First Chinese Baptist Church, on the reunion of former staff of Educational Ministries (EM). Ng, who served on the EM staff for 20 years and is now president-elect of American […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/20/13)—On November 14-16, 2013, McAfee School of Theology of Mercer University partnered with the American Baptist Historical Society, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist History and Heritage Society, Baptist Women in Ministry and the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board to produce a three-day event featuring missions experts and practitioners from across Baptist […]

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/20/13)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries is hosting two national events in 2014: an intergenerational retreat and a cruise. “A Time to Serve: Deepening Relationships,” the intergenerational retreat, will be at the Green Lake Conference Center in Green Lake, Wisconsin, from Saturday, July 26, through Tuesday, July 29. Early bird registration fees are in […]