Talk:American Baptist Churches USA

message: 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)
thread_title: Headquartered where?

message: 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)
replies: text: Feel free to find a reliable source to cite, and add it. —Angr 07:21, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Controversies 

message: The result was merge. -- HrafnTalkStalk(P) 10:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Split Over Homosexuality  

message: 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)
replies: text: Good luck with that! 143.85.18.26 (talk) 19:42, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting to join the church in USA 

message: 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." --doncram 16:26, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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. --doncram 02:47, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  is this church, or a predecessor, the one with Crow Indian mission church in Lodge Grass, Montana?  

message: 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)
thread_title:  Rapid Changes across Christian denomination articles by Nathan B2