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How can your Ministry Benifit from Membership with ABCRM?
Scroll down this webpage to see the many resourses and ways your ministry can partner with ABCRM. We would love to have an in person conversation with you and your leadership team.
Contact our office at 303-988-3900
What does ABCRM and ABC-USA Belevie?
Where can I learn about who is leading ABCRM and what churches are affiliated?
Welcome, We are delighted that you are considering joining the ABCRM Family of affiliated churches. From our beginnings, we Baptists were always independent local churches. As our movement grew, we quickly realized the importance of partnership while maintaining our autonomy. Baptists have partnered over many things, from the ordination of clergy to mission to planting new churches. Baptist partnerships have built historic educational institutions, hospitals and homes for elderly and impoverished.
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As you explore partnership with American Baptist churches of the Rocky Mountains, look at ABC-USA and the extended family of ABC, Including American Baptist Women, American Baptist Home Mission Societies, International Ministries, MMBB, and American Baptist Foundation.
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In Christ,
Rev. Dr. Steve Van Ostran
Executive Minister
ABCRM exists to encourage and support the local church as it seeks to Be Christ in their community and the world.
Ministry and Mission Coaches
ABCRM has dedicated and professional staff to walk with you though the joys and difficulties of Ministry. Our Ministry and Mission coaches, and Pastor to Pastors are availible to meet regularly with clergy and church leaders though the various stages in the life cycle of the church. Our staff is here to support your ministry.
Fellowship with other Clergy and Leaders
ABCRM Offers a variety of annual events throughout the year that allow for pastoral training and for continued relationship building with fellow ABCRM clergy and leaders from the Rocky Mountain Region. These events range from our flagship event, the Annual Gathering, to our spring clergy retreat, webinars, single day training opportunities, leadership development co-horts (Giant Leadership) and clergy appreciation events.
Ministerial Leadership Committee
ABCRM values the ministry of its professional church leaders and will strive to provide support for them through mentoring, educational opportunities, and pastoral support in maintaining healthy congregations.
​American Baptist Process
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Historically, Baptists have followed the practice of setting apart certain individuals for special roles as leaders of local churches, as missionaries, and chaplains. This act is called ordination. As Baptists, only local churches ordain ministers, but their ordination is recognized at the national or regional level. American Baptist Churches USA recognize various pathways to the recognition of ordination. In the ABCRM, a special committee called the Ministerial Leadership Committee (MLC) helps guide candidates through the ordination process.
Youth Programs
Camping Programs
We offer Faith Based summer camping through our two camps Front Range Camping (Colorado) and Camp WYOBA (Wyoming). We maintain our commitment to making faith based camps accessable to all youth who desire to attend and have generous tuition rates as well as availible scholarships for your youth to attend camp. Check out our camp websites
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Regional Youth Gatherings
Every two years (even years) ABCRM participates in the Mountains and Praries Youth Confrence that brings together muliple regions of ABC-USA togert to provide an opportunity for faith formation, leadership development, fun and fellowship for High School Students.
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Resourses for ministry
As a member of ABCRM you have access to many opportunitys for Grants and Schoalrships and tools for mnistry that include use for youth ministry. ABCRM also offers all youth leaders access to continuing education tools and resourses like Right Now Media that are great for teaching the next generation of beleivers.
Local, National and Global Mission Engagement
We are a missionary people. Spreading of the Good News of Jesus Christ through mission efforts locally and around the world is deeply embedded in our DNA. Jesus’ command to take the Gospel to the entire world (Matt. 28:19-20) and the early Church’s example of taking their faith from Jerusalem, Judah, to the uttermost parts of the world in Acts are key to our life together.​
ABCRM seeks to empower churches to engage in mission activities and support in their community, in our nation, and around the world. Internationally, we support work through missionaries and local partner groups through International Ministries. Within the United States we partner with American Baptist Home Mission Societies, chaplains in hospitals and the military, and various other groups who empower us to serve as the hands and feet of Jesus in the United States of America. Locally, we partner with food pantries, homeless shelters, ministries to immigrants, ministries to the disabled and aging, and hundreds of other organizations. We are a missionary people.
Avenues for financial partnership that fit your ministry priorities
Support American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains
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Direct Support for ABCRM: We invite you to join us in supporting the ministries of American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains. Your contributions enable us to serve our community and fulfill our mission with love and compassion. We are sincerely grateful for your support and the impact it will have on our ministries. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of many
United Mission
A Simple yet intentional way that American Baptists contribute to a shared financial fund that is designed and used for mission and ministry that has an impact across the whole American Baptist family. With a large portion of United Mission funds contributing directly to the mission efforts and ministries of the 33 ABC regional entities, the Office of the General Secretary, and the Board of General Ministries, all of which are accountable to and informed by our member congregations, United Mission funding supports efforts on all levels of our denomination as well on our shared mission fields. Portions of United Mission also directly support services provided by our national ABC partners.
Global Servant Support
Founded in 1814, International Ministries (IM) has been sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ holistically with both words and actions in cross-cultural Christian mission that addresses the needs and inequities present in the communities we serve. Also known as the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, we are the oldest international Baptist mission agency in North America. Our multicultural leadership team and 120+ global servants are led by the wisdom of our 250+ international partners. Together we respond to the call of Jesus Christ, serving incarnationally and with humility in 70 countries. Our home office is located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
ABC-USA Annual Offerings
America For Christ
Your gifts to the America for Christ Offering impact thousands – through ministries with marginalized children, mission trips that transform lives torn asunder by hurricanes, resources that cultivate Christian leaders, chaplains who bring comfort to hospitals and nursing homes, and much more. Two-thirds of received offerings are
directed to the American Baptist Home Mission Societies and one-third are directed
to the ABC regional office of the giving church. This offering is promoted in February and March
One Great Hour of Sharing
One Great Hour of Sharing supports disaster relief, ministries to displaced persons, and development projects of the American Baptist Churches and its partners. The fund is administered by the World Relief Committee of the Board of General Ministries of American Baptist Churches USA. This offering is promoted in May and June.
Throughout the year, there may be special appeals for particular disasters. To designate your OGHS gift, make sure to indicate to which appeal you are responding, for example “OGHS – Ukraine Relief.” The World Relief Committee will disburse the undesignated gifts to domestic and global projects.
World Mission Offering
During the World Mission Offering, promoted in September and October, your church has the opportunity to join the transformational work God is doing around the world through International Ministries’ 120+ global servants and 250+ global partners. God can use your participation not only to change lives internationally, but also to deepen your own discipleship in Christ. You can take part in what the Holy Spirit is doing to bring God’s kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven.”
Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering
The Retired Ministers and Missionaries Offering is a long-standing tradition established in 1977 which supports ministers, missionaries and their widowed spouses who have devoted 15 or more years of their lives to service in ABCUSA. This offering is promoted in November and December.
ABCRM's Ministry Priorities
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New to ABCRM Resources and Documents
10 Facts Brochure / Folleto de 10 hechos
What is United Mission / Que es el Fondo Misionero-Unido
We are American Baptist / Nosotros somos bautista americano
ABCRM Church Alignment Process
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