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Headquartered where?[edit]

Their "Contact Us"page lists Valley Forge, PA, as a mailing address, and King of Prussia, PA, as their "Location." Article shows both as location. Samatva (talk) 01:34, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled section[edit]

I will find the figures soon, but ABC-USA is not the second largest Baptist denomination in the United States. At least one, if not more, of the historicly African-American Baptist denominations is bigger. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jleeper (talk • contribs) 00:12, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I disagree..In the first Place the First Baptist Church of Zanesville, Ohio is the mother church of the Northern/American Baptist Convention...They have placques from the Convention confirming this...also there are black churches that belong to this group...including the Union Baptist Church of Zanesville, Ohio. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.129.210.119 (talk • contribs) 22:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Modern Controversies[edit]

Why no discussion of the differences in theology between regions and the recent departure of the Pacific South West? 76.95.97.189 (talk) 23:40, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to find a reliable source to cite, and add it. —An gr 07:21, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

The result was merge. -- Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 10:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Baptist Convention is merely the former name of American Baptist Churches USA. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 03:31, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support merge proposal. American Baptist Churches is also a former name, and already redirects here. —An gr 09:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Split Over Homosexuality[edit]

Split Over Homosexuality Issue

The Pacific Southwest region (ABCPSW), which included 300 church congregations in Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada, officially separated from the ABCUSA denomination by unanimous vote of the ABCPSW board on May 11, 2006. This decision was taken after an overwhelming majority of the church delegates voted in favor of withdrawal from the Covenant of Relationship with the ABCUSA on April 29, 2006. The split was based on what the region regarded as inactivity by the denomination in refusing to discipline congregations that have taken an inclusive position towards their homosexual members. The region noted that the denomination had declared same-sex relationships to be incompatible with Christianity. Yet, the denomination had allowed congregations that welcomed sexually active gays, lesbians and bisexuals to remain in the ABCUSA. A notable example was a lesbian pastor in Massachusetts, who united with her partner in a ceremony at her church and was elected President of the Ministers Council of Massachusetts and a member of the Ministers Council Senate of the ABCUSA.

www.religioustolerance.org/hom_abc.htm

"American Baptist churches to split over gay issue," Deseret News, Salt Lake City, 2005-SEP-24, at: http://findarticles.com/

Robert Marus, "American Baptist region withdraws, may trigger split in denomination," 2005-SEP-13, Associated Baptist Press, at: http://www.abpnews.com/

Gregory Tomlin, "Split among American Baptists over homosexuality is final," Baptist Press, 2006-MAY-18, at: http://www.bpnews.net/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cogpdm (talk • contribs) 13:26, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting to join the church in USA[edit]

i am fresh Graduate in one of the Bible school in Nigeria, i am interesting in joining your church and also want to work in your church as a minister of the gospel, i'm an evangelist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.71.148.151 (talk) 12:51, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

my name is Baboloki Johnson, i come from Botswana small country next to South Africa, i have started a small church in a village, i need your assisstace iterms of Bibles and books to other papers to be used to evangelise in the community my adress is Mr. Baboloki Johnson P O BOX 10748 Selebi Phikwe Botswana Southern Africa Africa your assisstance is highly appriciated — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.76.247.92 (talk) 13:33, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck with that! 143.85.18.26 (talk) 19:42, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

is this church, or a predecessor, the one with Crow Indian mission church in Lodge Grass, Montana?[edit]

Is this American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), or a predecessor, the church denomination which had a mission church and school in Lodge Grass, Montana, for Crow indians and perhaps other native americans? I ask because Montana historic site documentation for the Chivers Memorial Church states it was owned by the "National Ministries of American Baptists" (was a redlink) based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. That source is possibly incorrect about the proper name of the church denomination. I see here in this article that ABCUSA "maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania." --do ncr am 16:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Doncram: The Chivers Memorial Church is indeed connected to ABCUSA. "National Ministries of the American Baptists" was the name of the American Baptist Home Mission Society from 1972 to 2010. The Society is the missions organization of the ABCUSA. I've redirected the National Ministries red link to the ABHMS page. Ltwin (talk) 02:36, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! It would be good to have National Ministries of American Baptists and/or National Ministries of American Baptist Church USA show in bold somewhere in the ABHMS page, conveying that those are alternative/previous names, too, perhaps? But this is good already to help out readers at the Chivers Memorial Church page. --do ncr am 02:47, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rapid Changes across Christian denomination articles by Nathan B2[edit]

Nathan B2 has made changes to hundreds of articles about Christian denominations, replacing the term "Christian denomination" with "association of churches". The American Baptist Churches USA is definitely a denomination--a mainline Protestant denomination to be specific. Will someone monitor these rapid and undue changes? desmay (talk) 21:51, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]