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Neurodivergent Children in Ministry Online Discussion
May 30th 2024 , 7:00pm
Families with special needs children are often an unreached people group in the American church. Come along with Speaker Shannon Pannel MA, LPCC, NCC from Southeast Christian Counseling Center to discuss the following:
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Recognizing Dysregulation
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Strategies for Dysregulation
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Resources to advocate for those who come to your church, youth group, or camp.
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Please consider attending!!
Kind Regards,
Rev. Lauren Parliament
*A Zoom link will be sent before the online discussion
Hi there!
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Welcome to the next step of the American Baptist Churches of the Rockies initiative to support, equip, and encourage small-town and rural churches and bi-vocational pastors. If you have received this invitation, you are a part of this initiative!
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On June 15, we are hosting a webcast that will offer a chance to learn from and be in conversation with pastor and author Brad Roth. Brad is a seasoned pastor in rural churches, has studied rural churches and has written two books on the practice of ministry in out of the way places. His first book, “God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church” is readily accessible. He also has a new book called “Flyover Church” that is coming out later this year. He has most recently pastored Mennonite churches in Moundridge, Kansas and Hesston, Kansas.
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Here is what I would like you to do:
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Register yourself and some of your church folks early, It is a very minimal $10 cost.
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Encourage other pastors and leaders in your area to register. We want this to be a ministry of the ABCRM, but we want to be accessible to share this event with other congregations and churches.
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Consider whether you would like to be a part of the rural and small-town ministry team that we are starting. We want to establish a team of people with a heart for this kind of ministry that can work together, support each other, and build up other churches.
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Thanks for your ministry and partnership in the work of the gospel,
Clint Walker and Your ABCRM Staff
Race Relation Task Force
Grand Junction Pastors Training
August 20-21 2024
The American Baptist Churches Race Relations Task Force expresses heartfelt appreciation to pastors engaged in dialogues across Denver, Colorado Springs, and Wyoming. Grand Junction, CO is chosen for the final location of our inaugural trainings. Hosted by Pastor Dave DeMott at the First Baptist Church of Grand Junction. Participants will gain tools to navigate race relations. All pastors and leaders are warmly welcomed, with accommodations arranged in downtown Grand Junction for participants in this training. Register now and be part of this transformative journey toward understanding and reconciliation.
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Rev. Dr. Gina Jacobs-Strain Called as General Secretary of American Baptist Churches USA.
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 11/4/23)—The Board of General Ministries of American Baptist Churches USA has affirmed the call of the Rev. Dr. Gina Jacobs-Strain to be the next General Secretary of the denomination. Dr. Jacobs-Strain’s term of service will begin on February 1, 2024.
In announcing the call of Dr. Jacobs-Strain, ABCUSA President Jim Wolfe noted that Dr. Jacobs-Strain was the unanimous choice of the search committee. “The committee committed itself to prayer and the discernment of God’s will in this process. We believe Dr. Jacobs-Strain is the person that God has chosen to lead our denominational family. She has the academic background, professional and personal skills to lead this diverse family into the mission that God has prepared for us.”
