Research by Topic: volunteer-mobilization-ministries
Iglesia Bautista de Metropolis volunteers offer hope 1,682 miles from home
Published August 23, 2016Location is irrelevant when giving or receiving blessings. Perhaps that’s the reason that members of Iglesia Bautista de Metropolis, Carolina, Puerto Rico, found themselves doing mission 1,682 miles from their island home at the recent “Home Mission: ’Til the Work is Done” in New Orleans.
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Minister: ‘I wanted congregation to experience this wonderful mission’
Published August 23, 2016Profoundly affected by her 2015 volunteer experience at “Home Mission: ’Til the Work is Done” in New Orleans, the Rev. Carmen Jordan, minister of Mission and Outreach at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Rockford, Ill., returned in 2016 with a group of volunteers from her church.
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Highlights from recent New Orleans rebuilding effort
Published August 3, 2016Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. In response, ABHMS has been coordinating “Home Mission: ‘Til the Work is Done” in New Orleans since 2006. Highlights from the 2016 effort can be found on the “Home Mission: ‘Til the Work is Done” page.
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ABHMS seeks volunteers for various summer volunteer mission opportunities
Published June 15, 2016VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 6/15/16)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) seeks volunteers for a variety of summer mission opportunities that will transform lives and bolster communities across the United States. Louisiana Volunteers continue to make a difference in the lives of residents of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. Slated for July 31-Aug. 6, this year’s […]
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ABHMS, TABCOM hold annual ‘MissionAdventure’ in New Orleans
Published May 26, 2016With assistance from American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS), The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts (TABCOM) held its annual nine-day “MissionAdventure” in New Orleans in April. While ABHMS’ Volunteer Mobilization Ministries provided a stipend and spearheaded registration and leadership, 27 individuals—clergy as well as congregants—from nine TABCOM congregations lent muscle to such activities as painting, cleaning and weeding in an effort to restore areas ravaged by hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005.
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Passionaries Serving in New Orleans: The late Ward McClendon
Published April 20, 2016Perhaps Ward McClendon’s nicknames—“Mack” and “Uncle Joe”—were a testament to the fact that the long-time New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward resident was greatly loved and admired not only by his community but also the American Baptist volunteers who had been serving alongside him year after year to rebuild the area after hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit in 2005. A selfless man and inspiration to many, McClendon died as this story was being written.
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Passionaries Serving in New Orleans: Shiloh Baptist Church, Wilmington, Del.
Published April 20, 2016Mission outreach to New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward is an intergenerational effort at Shiloh Baptist Church, Wilmington, Del. For the past two years, parishioners ranging in age from 12 to 65 have served during American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ “Home Mission: ’Til the Work is Done.” And they’ll do it all again this August.
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Passionaries Serving in New Orleans: Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore.
Published April 20, 2016“Life-changing.” That’s how Linfield College students describe volunteering with American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) during “Home Mission: ’Til the Work is Done” in the Gulf Coast. When students reflect, it’s obvious they’ve emerged from the experience just as—if not more so—positively affected than those they served.
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Passionaries Serving in New Orleans: First Baptist Church of Hanson, Mass., and TABCOM
Published April 20, 2016In this 10th anniversary year of hurricanes Katrina and Rita’s destruction of the Gulf Coast, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) presents “Passionaries Serving in New Orleans,” a series about the volunteers and residents who have been faithfully rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward through ABHMS’ “Home Mission: ‘Til the Work is Done.”
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