Research by Topic: equipping-disciples
ABHMS Children in Poverty grant-recipient church operates successful feeding ministry
Published April 21, 2016April 27 is deadline for 2016 grant applications Heritage Baptist Church, Annapolis, Md., has been nourishing children and families with healthy food through its “Blessings in a Backpack” ministry since 2009. And American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) has been happy to play a part by supporting the ministry though a Justice for Children Initiative […]
Filed under: justice-for-children, children-in-poverty, healing-communities, equipping-disciples
ABHMS, IM, regional executives participate in historic joint trip to Philippines
Published April 21, 2016As part of a delegation of American Baptist leaders engaging for the first time in a cooperative 10-day visit to the Philippines, Victoria Goff, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) national coordinator of Volunteer and Disaster Response Ministries, shared her disaster-response expertise with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (CPBC), an American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) sister organization.
Filed under: healing-communities, equipping-disciples, asian-ministries, victoria-goff
ABHMS plays role in God’s plan begun more than a century ago
Published April 20, 2016When Sang Fen became a pastor in the Chin state of Burma more than a century ago, neither he nor the American Baptist missionaries that inspired him could have known that God’s plan would come full circle in 21st-century America with Sang Fen’s grandson, Chan Hnin Thui. American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS)—related denominationally […]
Filed under: healing-communities, equipping-disciples, developing-leaders
Pastor’s installation offers nod to ABHMS history, growth
Published April 20, 2016ABHMS’ Rev. Florence Li with the Rev. Dr. Henrietta Carter, senior pastor of Mariners’ Temple Baptist Church; the Rev. Dr. Lai Fan Wong, newly installed pastor at New York Chinese Baptist Church; and the Rev. Wanda D. Brown, ministerial team member at Mariners’ Temple. The installation of the Rev. Dr. Lai Fan Wong as pastor […]
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ABHMS helps to preserve 57-year-old American Baptist-affiliated venue
Published April 20, 2016Redwood Glen maintenance crew members Andrew Gonsalves and Isaac Coleman inspect a water tank at the camp. Redwood Glen Executive Director Larry Rice and board member Wyman Chinn prepare for a well to be drilled. American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) is doing its part to preserve a breathtaking Christian venue in which to conduct […]
Filed under: equipping-disciples, healing-communities
Attendee: ‘Space for Grace’ experience ‘completely unexpected’ but ‘helpful’
Published April 19, 2016The Rev. Dominique Atchison, associate minister of Brown Memorial Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., left American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) recent “Space for Grace” gathering in Los Angeles personally strengthened in her walk with God and her relationships with other American Baptists. “I love that they provided space every day for different kinds of people—introverts […]
Filed under: healing-communities, equipping-disciples, developing-leaders
Ministries
Published January 18, 2016Filed under: ministries, equipping-disciples, developing-leaders
Learning about ‘call’ during ‘Space for Grace’
Published December 15, 2015“God knows who you are and calls you anyway—or in spite of it,” said the Rev. Dr. Adam Bond during his leadership of the Learning Experience “When God Calls Us in the Midst of a Crisis,” presented as part of American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ recent Space for Grace gathering in Los Angeles. Assistant professor of Historical Studies and American Baptist liaison at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, Bond’s session drew participants from as far away as Alaska and spoke especially to those plagued by self-doubt.
Filed under: Space for Grace, equipping-disciples, developing-leaders
ABHMS to launch ‘America for Christ Offering 2016’ in January
Published December 14, 2015VALLEY FORGE, PA (12/14/15)—On Jan. 1, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) will launch the “America for Christ Offering 2016,” seeking to raise $1,250,000 to support American Baptist mission and ministry across the United States and Puerto Rico. This year’s theme—“Discipleship: Becoming More Like Christ”—is inspired by Ephesians 2:10: “For we are what he has […]
Filed under: America-for-Christ, equipping-disciples, eddie-cruz
Meet the ABHMS 2015 Ministry Award recipients
Published December 13, 2015Committed to encouraging life in Christ, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) seeks to affirm and celebrate those who answer the call to discipleship, community and justice, extending the grace of God to others across our nation and world. Therefore, every two years, ABHMS’ board of directors seeks nominations for national ministry awards that recognize […]
Filed under: 2015 Ministry Awards, equipping-disciples, developing-leaders
