VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/26/12)—Allen Temple Baptist Church, Oakland, Calif., launches its J. Alfred Smith Sr. Lecture Series Saturday, Oct. 13, with an inaugural lecture by world-renowned political activist and author the Rev. Dr. Allan A. Boesak. Tickets to the event—9 a.m.– noon in the church’s Family Life Center—are free. Boesak will focus on “Combative […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/20/12)—The governing board of the National Council of Churches (NCC), a partner organization of ABCUSA, met in New York City September 17 and 18, 2012, and approved a plan for re-envisioning and restructuring the NCC that includes a “new organizational structure and an implementation strategy to bring it to fruition.” The […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/20/12)—$7,000 in One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) funds has been released by American Baptist International Ministries (IM) to help Christians who are displaced by ethnic violence in western Assam, India. Hundreds of people forced to move to relief camps started to receive relief supplies on September 4-5, including bathing soap, […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/19/12)—February 2012 marked the beginning of a year-long bicentennial celebration of Ann and Adoniram Judson’s historic undertaking of the first overseas mission. To encourage all American Baptists to learn this incredible story of unwavering faith, Judson Press has named Bless God and Take Courage: The Judson History and Legacy the 2012–2013 […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/18/12)—“August 25, 2012 will forever be remembered as a day when American Baptist International Ministries (IM) entered into a covenant of partnership with the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship (CBF), a region of the Baptist World Alliance,” reported Eleazar Ziherambere, IM’s director of African American Mission. The covenant was signed at the Mid-Term […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/14/12)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) is proud to announce that Victoria Goff, ABHMS national coordinator of Volunteer and Disaster Response Ministries, has received a proclamation from the mayor of New Orleans for her years of service in coordinating volunteer clean-up and rebuilding efforts in the hurricane-ravaged city. Signed by Mayor […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/14/12)—Rev. Howard R. Moody, 91, Minister Emeritus of Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, which he pastored for 35 years, 1957-92, died September 12, 2012 according to Dr. Deborah L. Moody, M.D., his daughter. A compelling and articulate advocate for human rights causes often ignored by the religious community, Rev. Moody […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/13/12)—“It is truly a wonder of God that a church for English-speaking Christians would be formed in the capital of the Soviet Union in 1962 in the midst of the Cold War and in the same year as the Cuban missile crisis,” marveled Reid Trulson, American Baptist International Ministries (IM) executive […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/12/12)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) encourages American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) members to advocate for individuals with disabilities by asking political candidates a list of questions recently created by the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition (IDAC). Appropriate for all candidates pursuing federal, state and local office in 2012, the questions pertain […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/12/12)—American Baptist Churches USA General Secretary Rev. Dr. A. Roy Medley issued the following statement on September 12, 2012, following the violence in Libya and Cairo that led to the death of a U.S. Ambassador and three others: As American Baptists we have been in the forefront of building bridges of […]
