VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 10/2/12)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) urges all users of its current website to complete a brief online survey to provide feedback to be used in developing a new website. Respondents can also choose to receive a free gift. The 12-question survey should take a maximum of 15 minutes to complete. It […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 10/1/12)—Rev. Dr. Sumner M. Grant announced his retirement from The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board (MMBB) on September 21, 2012. Grant will serve as executive director of MMBB until a successor is named. Executive director since 1998, Grant initially joined MMBB’s staff as assistant treasurer; in 1993 he was elected treasurer. […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/26/12)—Some say social media is for the young, but that hasn’t kept 188-year-old Judson Press from becoming fully engaged. No stranger to Facebook, Twitter, author blog tours, webinars, and podcasts, on October 1, 2012, Judson Press will officially enter the blogosphere with JudsOnline, its new blog. This daily blog is intended […]
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 […]
