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   News & Notes from

   American Baptist Home Mission

   

      September 2015

 

Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior!












Dr. Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins III
Executive Director
American Baptist Home Mission Societies


New Ferguson violence points to need for 'Space for Grace' 
New violence in Ferguson, Mo., spotlights the urgency for serious conversations about race, religion, culture and class. Join those conversations at Space for Grace Nov. 4-7 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel.
 
 
 

Mission center group prays for peace
American Baptists gathered Aug. 6 at the Peace Pole at American Baptist Churches USA's Mission Center, Valley Forge, Pa., to pray and remember the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Youth put Mission Summit earnings toward mission trip
Youth from First Baptist Church, Olathe, Kan., helped to set up and tear down Judson Press' Mission Summit bookstore, putting their earnings toward a mission trip to Los Angeles. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
New series to feature Ministry Award recipients 
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ABHMS' latest online series introduces readers to recipients of the ABHMS 2015 Ministry Awards. Recipients share about their motivation as well as the impact and significance of their ministries. 
 
 
'Passionaries in New Orleans' construct labyrinth
as 10th-anniversary project
For the 10th anniversary year of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, volunteers constructed a 17-foot-diameter labyrinth in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward during "Home Mission: 'Til the Work is Done."
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sept. 15 is essay contest deadline
There's still time to enter the "Sisters of Scripture" essay contest, which is open to American Baptist women aged 17-35. Deadline is Sept.15. For more information, visit https://sistersofscripturemnw.wordpress.com/.  

 

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