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Why do we celebrate Juneteenth?

Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day or Emancipation Day, is a U.S. holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans following the Civil War. While Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on January …

Image of Ukrainian woman and child from Hungarian Baptist Aid Ukraine relief after dam breach

On Tuesday, June 6, the vast and strategic Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine was breached, threatening hundreds of thousands of people across the region and potentially …

Kyle Witmer to succeed Leslie Turley as Area Director for Southeast Asia and Japan

On June 1, 2023, responsibility for leadership and support for the work of International Ministries (IM) in Southeast Asia and Japan will pass from current Area Director Rev. Leslie Turley …

Meet David Sagar

Rev. Dr. David Sagar (Dadhipogu Sagar) was born and grew up in Nellore, South India. Nellore was also the place where American Baptist missionaries first began Telugu mission work in 1840. …

Ruth M. Jones ABFMS – India & Thailand alumna, called home

Ruth M. Jones, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) alumna, passed to be with her Lord and Savior on May 4, 2023, Pasadena, California.  Ruth was 97 years old.  She …

Image of Global Servant to Mexico Jae Stockton Meet Global Servant Jae Stockton

It was at a 2007 church mission conference in North Carolina that Global Servant Jae Stockton found herself responding to God with the words, “Send me, Lord. Send me.” Born …