Research by Topic: healing-communities
DONATE TO HURRICANE IRMA RELIEF
Published September 8, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/8/17)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) urges American Baptists to pray for and donate One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) funds to those in the path of Hurricane Irma, a Category 5-turned-Category 4 storm that has affected the Caribbean islands, rendering approximately 1 million people in Puerto Rico without power. Media outlets are […]
Filed under: healing-communities, disaster-response, disaster-relief-ministries, one-great-hour-of-sharing, hurricane-irma, diaster-relief
American Baptist Home Mission Societies calls on Congress to protect ‘Dreamers’
Published September 7, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 9/7/17)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) calls for bipartisan congressional action to immediately pass legislation that will protect childhood immigrants living in the United States of America and urges U.S. President Donald J. Trump to advocate for such legislation and to sign it into law. On Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017—as the […]
Filed under: healing-communities, jeffrey-haggray, DACA, dreamers
DONATE TO HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF
Published August 31, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/28/17)—American Baptists are urged to lift up those affected in both Texas and Louisiana by Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that made landfall Friday on the Texas coast. Bringing 130 mph winds and an unprecedented amount of torrential rainfall in some areas, the hurricane has resulted in flooding, power outages, […]
Filed under: disaster-response-ministries, healing-communities, disaster-response, jeffrey-haggray, disaster-relief-ministries, one-great-hour-of-sharing, hurricane-harvey
American Baptist Home Mission Societies decries Charlottesville violence
Published August 14, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 8/14/17)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) denounces and condemns—in the strongest manner possible—the violent and deadly demonstration led by a host of white supremacist organizations and individuals in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. The human toll of three lives lost senselessly and more than two dozen individuals injured stains our American stature […]
Filed under: healing-communities, jeffrey-haggray
In Oklahoma’s sweltering summer, ABHMS volunteers get bitten by ‘mission bug’
Published July 25, 2017Debby Menzel drove for two days from Ohio to get to Muskogee, Okla., for American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ first volunteer work week at Murrow Indian Children’s Home and Bacone College.
Filed under: bacone-college, mobilizing-volunteers, murrow-indian-children's-home, healing-communities
ABHMS convenes first aligned action network meeting
Published June 6, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 6/6/17)—Forty-six of American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) new and historic partners from churches, campus and community ministries in Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington participated in ABHMS’ first aligned action network meeting on May 17 at Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore. A new ABHMS strategy for accomplishing mission, aligned action […]
Filed under: lisa-harris-lee, healing-communities, aligned-action-networks, linfield-college
UPDATE: ABHMS joins other faith-based investors in urging ExxonMobil to address climate change
Published May 31, 2017UPDATE (ABNS 6/1/17): American Baptist Home Mission Societies recognizes a historic moment in shareholder engagement that occurred yesterday at ExxonMobil’s annual meeting. The climate change proposal co-filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) received 62 percent of the vote. Institutional investors supported the proposal, helping the vote to exceed the 50 […]
Filed under: healing-communities, socially-responsible-investment, interfaith-center-on-corporate-responsibility, socially-responsible-investing
Join in making American Baptist biking history in Portland
Published May 15, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (5-15-17)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies will co-sponsor “American Baptists Bike” in partnership with the Rev. G. Travis Norvell, pastor of Minneapolis’ Judson Memorial Baptist Church, at the 2017 Biennial Mission Summit in Portland, Ore. The half-mile bike ride—at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, June 30—will offer Mission Summit attendees a healthy, fun way […]
Filed under: biennial-mission-summit, healing-communities, mission-summit, biennial
ABHMS’ Turner-Triplett receives honorary degree
Published May 9, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 5/9/17)—The Rev. Dr. Marilyn P. Turner-Triplett, founding director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ (ABHMS) Rizpah’s Children initiative, has received an honorary doctorate of divinity degree from Alderson Broaddus University, Philippi, W.Va. The honor was bestowed Saturday at the university’s 146th Commencement, for which Turner-Triplett provided the keynote address. “I want […]
Filed under: marilyn-turner, healing-communities, rizpahs-children, missional-life-and-leadership
Judson Press to publish book by Baptist World Alliance general secretary, CEO
Published May 8, 2017VALLEY FORGE, PA (5/8/17)—Judson Press, the publishing arm of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS), will publish “From Fragmentation to Wholeness: Race, Ethnicity, and Communion” by Dr. Neville Callam, educator, theologian, ecumenist, pastor, and general secretary and CEO of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). The book examines the impact race and ethnicity often have in […]
Filed under: healing-communities, jeffrey-haggray, baptist-world-alliance, judson-press
