Description
As part of American Baptist Churches USA, American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) answers Gods call to live out Christian faith and transform individuals, congregations and communities through developing Christ-centered leaders, networks and programs committed to witness and evangelism, social justice, discipleship and mission work across the United States and Puerto Rico.
Missionaries of all types?pastors and lay leaders; chaplains and pastoral counselors; refugee sponsors; directors of neighborhood action program Christian centers; volunteers; Sunday school teachers; and new church planters?partner with ABHMS daily to minister to those in need emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually. These mission partners are on the front lines of faith, bringing Gods love to those who need it most: families struggling with poverty, senior citizens suffering with illness and loneliness, children and youth flailing without guidance, former prisoners trying to re-enter society; and immigrants and refugees striving to fit into a new culture, to name a few.
The work of ABHMS reaches from Alabama to Alaska, Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico, and so much furtherto the deepest parts of the human heart.
History
Todays American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) hails from the roots of a number of Baptist organizations founded in the 19th century. One of them, The American Baptist Home Mission Society, was established in 1832 to preach the gospel, establish churches and support ministry among the unchurched and destitute. That same year the society sent 50 missionaries across the eastern and central United States to spread Gods Good News, and American Baptists have been winning souls for Christ, planting churchesalong with schools, childrens homes, urban ministry centers and nursing homesand speaking out for justice ever since.