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NABF Annual Meeting 2022

This year's North American Baptist Fellowship Annual Meeting will be hosted in Falls Church, VA at the BWA Headquarters. We are excited to be able to gather in person after two years, but will also be offering the option of virtual...

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NABF Disaster Relief Network

Dear All, Last week we hosted a meeting online of the NABF Disaster Relief Network. Our aim in our disaster relief work within the NABF is threefold: Highlight the good disaster relief and recovery work that is being done within the NABF...

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Congratulations Simmons College!

We're excited to announce that Simmons College of Kentucky has received a gift of $10,000,000 from the Brown-Forman Corporation of Louisville. Simmons College of Kentucky is Louisville's only HBCU. It is affiliated with the National...

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Spring Meeting of the NABF Creation Care Network

Dear Friends, The Spring Meeting of the NABF Creation Care Network is happening tomorrow at 2pm Eastern on Zoom. #creationcare Join with other Baptists from across North America as we share upcoming events, project ideas, or just cares...

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Easter Greetings 2022

This Holy Week, as we mark the Passion of Christ, let us hold the Hope of Christ's Resurrection as we remember the many places in the world and in our own lives and neighbourhoods where see death and destruction. May we live into the hope...

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Annual Meeting 2022: Katharine Hayhoe

We are pleased to announce that Katharine Hayhoe will be joining us as one of our keynote speakers for this year's NABF Annual Meeting. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who studies climate change, one of the most pressing...

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The Baptist World Alliance in Ukraine

We join with Baptists, Christians, and people from all walks of life around the globe to pray for those involved in the current invasion in Ukraine. The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) has offered updates, ways to pray, and also ways to give...

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

May we mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with thoughtful respect and reflection on the challenge and struggle for racial reconciliation in all that we say, and more importantly, do together.  This Baptist pastor and civil rights leader...

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Greetings for the New Year

Warm greetings of hope for you this New Year from the NABF. May you hear and see the surprising work of God's Spirit in the coming season. https://youtu.be/-kGlZOfJd7I Jeremy Bell, NABF General Secretary

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Christmas Greetings 2021

https://youtu.be/EiAScmm3GjE Warm greetings to you and yours this Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Click below to view warm greetings from the General Secretary, Jeremy BellNorth American Baptist Fellowship

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Save the Date: NABF 2022 Annual Meeting

We are excited to announce that the dates and location for next year's North American Baptist Fellowship Annual Meeting has been set. We will be gathering in a hybrid model, with those who are able to attend in person hosted alongside...

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Baptist-Catholic Conversations

This month delegates from the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) met both virtually and in person in Durham, North Carolina for phase three of a five phase set of intentional...

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A New Disaster Phenomenon

Essential to know; Important to Respond Around the world, we are familiar with the brutal and destructive power of earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes. This summer, whole towns have been destroyed by forest fires: Lytton and Monte Lake...

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A Focus on Thanksgiving

A very Happy American Thanksgiving to you all. I would like to pause with you and remember the many things that have caused and continue to cause us deep and prayerful concern: the ongoing Covid crisis, economic disparity, reconciliation...

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A Day to Remember

Today, November 22nd, is a major day in history regardless of who you are. It is well known as the day in 1963 that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th U.S. President, was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. On the same day Aldous Leonard...

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A Reflection on Remembering

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the Twin Towers tomorrow, we take time to reflect on the enormity of that atrocity and the pain, suffering, and death that occurred then and since. I include an article from Brian...

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Christian Nationalism Panel

https://vimeo.com/596661740 Panelists: Dr. Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry (Campbell University) [moderator] Rev. Dr. Preston Clegg, Pastor, Second Baptist Church – Little Rock, Arkansas...

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Hurricane Ida

Dear friends and colleagues, So many of us know and are close to many who have experienced the effect of hurricane Ida, as it has unfolded in these recent days. Our own NABF President Samuel Tolbert and his family had just finished...

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