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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/ 21 /13)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) encourages mission volunteers and those offering mission opportunities throughout the United States and Puerto Rico to connect via the ecumenical website MissionalNetworking.org. The purpose of the website, according to its home page, is “to connect missional faith communities with volunteers, resources, and one […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/20/13)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) announces its events for chaplains and pastoral counselors planned for the American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) Mission Summit/Biennial this summer in Overland Park/Kansas City, Kan., June 21-23, 2013. The Rev. John P. Oliver, D.Min., chief of Chaplain Service and supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education at […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/20/13)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries announces its 2013 Women’s Day, “A Time to Serve,” on Friday, June 21, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas, immediately preceding the Mission Summit/Biennial of American Baptist Churches USA. “A Time to Serve,” based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, will […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/19/13)—American Baptist International Ministries (IM) is pleased to introduce two new Directors who began their three-year term of service on January 1, 2013. Rev. Katherine (Kathy) Longhat, Muskogee, OK, is director for the Center for American Indians – Students of Promise at Bacone College in Muskogee, OK. She has served as […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/18/13)—When the Rev. Jim Steiner from the Summit Church in Boise, Idaho, met with International Ministries (IM) missionaries Mike and Jill Lowery about supporting them in their work, Steiner asked them, “What do you need to move ministry forward where you are?” In response, they told him about their need for electric […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/18/13)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries is hosting three concurrent events for women and girls this summer at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. The National Women’s Conference and the National Gathering for Girls will occur Saturday, July 27, through Thursday, August 1. The National Young Adult Women’s Conference will […]
