VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 07/15/2026)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) seeks nominations for the Edwin T. Dahlberg Peace Award to be announced at the 2027 American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) Biennial Mission Summit to be held June 10-13, 2027, in Rochester, New York.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (07/13/2026)—When Pastor Joshua arrived in the United States in 2013, he was overwhelmed. His immigration process was stressful. He was worried that his limited English vocabulary would make work difficult. “I remember my first time when I started to work in the kitchen when they asked me, spoon... I couldn’t understand,” he reminisced in a meeting with the American Baptist Home Mission Societies staff in June 2026.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 06/19/2026)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) and its publication, The Christian Citizen, received two DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards from the Religion Communicators Council (RCC). Rev. Dr. Anna Piela, editor of The Christian Citizen, received a third award. The 2026 honors, for works published in 2025, were awarded in April at a banquet during the council’s three-day annual convention in Cincinnati.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (06/16/2026)—Juneteenth is an important day on the American calendar because it reminds us that legal freedom does not always translate into lived reality. The holiday commemorates the moment when news of emancipation finally reached enslaved people in Texas—more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation—reminding us that rights promised on paper are not always realized in practice.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 06/01/2026)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) honored three widely admired leaders of the American Baptist family with National Treasure Awards during the Space for Grace & Spiritual Caregivers Conference, held April 21-23 in Cleveland, Ohio.

KING OF PRUSSIA, PA (ABNS 5/22/2026)—“Come as you are. Come, you weary. Bring your doubts and your scars.”

The invitation was sung before it was spoken.

On a crisp April morning in downtown Cleveland, hundreds of pastors, chaplains, pastoral counselors, seminarians, educators, and ministry leaders gathered for the 2026 Space for Grace & Spiritual Caregivers Conference, American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) signature national event.