VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/11/2025)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) has selected twelve “best practice” congregations to form the inaugural cohort of the Nurturing Children Initiative (NCI), a five-year nationwide project supported by a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/11/2025)—A new missional effort is gaining momentum at American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) as the Church Starters Initiative (CSI) nurtures its first cohort of faith leaders working to build new and re-emerging congregations across the United States.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 12/05/2025)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) is pleased to announce that Rev. Ciarra Smith-Bond, senior pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, has been selected to receive the 2025 Beyond the Stained-Glass Ceiling Grant.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/14/2025)—Registration is now open for the 2026 Space for Grace & Spiritual Caregivers Conference, the signature national gathering of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS). The event, themed “Storytelling: Discovering Its Power for Faith Leaders Today,” will take place April 21–23 in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (11/14/2025)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ is hosting the second gathering in its new clergy wellness initiative, “You Are Not Alone: A Sanctuary for Clergy Wellness,” on Tuesday, November 19, 2025, at 2 p.m. ET. The online event, “Sanctuary for the Soul,” will be led by Dr. Yvonne Martinez Thorne, founder and CEO of Cultivating Wholeness Counseling Associates.

VALLEY FORGE, PA (10/31/2025)—The Storyteller Recruitment Committee of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) is calling storytellers of faith and imagination to submit requests to share their stories at Innovators Hall, a central feature of the upcoming Space for Grace & Spiritual Caregivers Conference, which will take place April 21–23, 2026, in Cleveland, Ohio.