
$2,500 Matthew 25 Grant Makes Serving 6,600 Meals to Needy Possible in Everett, Wash.
A $2,500 Matthew 25 Grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) helped First Baptist Church of Everett, Wash., serve 6,600 meals to people in

$5,000 Matthew 25 Grant to Kenya School Gives 100 Impoverished Boarding School Children Hope
A $5,000 Matthew 25 Grant from American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is feeding 100 high school students at the Furaha Boarding School in an

International Day of Prayer for Peace is September 21
Each year on September 21, the World Council of Churches calls churches and parishes to observe the International Day of Prayer for Peace. September

My Baptist Life: Jason Apicella
Rev. Jason Apicella is the part-time co-pastor at Asylum Avenue Baptist Church in Hartford, Conn., where he has been preaching monthly for the past

World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel
American Baptist churches have been invited by the ecumenical community to join in prayer during the week of September 18 for peace within Palestine

Matthew 25 Grant Helps Melrose, Mass. Church Serve 237 Families
A $1,000 Matthew 25 Grant from American Baptist Churches USA is enabling First Baptist Church in Melrose, Mass., to serve 237 families in need in a

ABHMS Publishes Special Online Edition of ‘The Christian Citizen’ in Response to Social Unrest
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/14/16)—In response to heightened tension, divisiveness, polarization, terrorism and violence across the United States,

Remembering 9/11: Memories
One of the most powerful recollections Susan Gillies has of 9/11 was a conversation she had with a distraught rancher. “I was Region Executive

Remembering 9/11: A Reflection
By Virginia Holmstrom Virginia Holmstrom is the executive director of American Baptist Women’s Ministries. September 11, 2001. I was three weeks into