American Baptist Women’s Ministries (ABWM) seeks to raise $10,000 by the end of February to support  Ministerios de Mujeres Bautistas de Puerto Rico (Baptist Women’s Ministries of Puerto Rico). In January, 6.4 and 5.9 magnitude earthquakes and subsequent tremors shook Puerto Rico leaving thousands of people homeless and in shelters. More than 2,000 people are displaced. The earthquakes in Puerto Rico on top of Hurricane Irma and Maria in 2017 have damaged parts of Puerto Rico’s infrastructure and access to basic provisions. Since the 2017 hurricanes, American Baptist Women’s Ministries collectively raised nearly $15,000 to support Ministerios de Mujeres Bautistas de Puerto Rico. To give or for more information, visit www.abwomensministries.org/abwmpuertorico. 

American Baptist Women’s Ministries is partnering with American Baptist Churches of New Jersey to bring Hi-eSTEAM, a spiritual formation and STEAM program to middle and high school girls in NJ, PA and NY.  The Hi-eSTEAM event will be held on April 18, 2020 at Baptist Camp Lebanon in Lebanon, NJ.  Girls from local churches and organizations will explore how their spiritual development and curiosity about STEAM connect and inform one another. They will spend the day being affirmed that they are created in God’s image while learning essential STEM skills such as coding and robotics. Register now Girls from local churches and organizations will explore how their spiritual development and curiosity about STEAM connect and inform one another. They will spend the day being affirmed that they are created in God’s image while learning essential STEM skills such as coding and robotics.  Register now http://www.abwomensministries.org/steamevents

When the month of February arrives we immediately think of Valentine’s Day, which is February 14^th.  It’s a day set aside to tell our loved ones just how much we care about them by giving them a special card, a box of chocolates, or a bouquet of flowers.  Did you know that February is also “Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month?”  The purpose is to inform teenagers about abusive relationships and how these relationships can affect their emotional and physical self.

American Baptist Women’s Ministries is hositing “Avenues to Wholeness”, a free winter webinar series through March 2020. These highly interactive webinars will help you to discover your natural abilities, strengths, gifts so you can achieve your full spiritual, personal and professional potential. The series features a variety of experts including Dr. Elizabeth Perryman, founder of Upstream Mindfulness LLC and Allison Lansky, Lead Senior Clinical Therapist at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. Topics range from mindfulness and Christian spirituality, emotional awareness as a tool to overcome addiction to finding wholeness after tragedy through the lens of a survivor of Hurricane Maria. This webinar series allow space and time for women to be honest and examine their intents, motives and desires for setting goals. Click here for more information.

American Baptist Women’s Ministries is pleased to introduce our new endowment fund: Bridges & Gateways Endowment. The Bridges & Gateways Endowment was established to provide current financial resources for today while securing long-term assets for the future.  The Bridges & Gateways Endowment will:

• Align our ministries with our endowment
•  Enable us to fully live our mission and vision
• Share our core values in our circles, associations, regionally, nationally, and beyond
• Deepen and broaden our programming and access to women, young women, and girls
•  Pursue relevant programming that persists and engages women within our denomination for decades
• Sustain and secure the future of AB Women’s Ministries: our singular focus on women's wellness and concerns positively impacts the wellbeing of our families, churches, communities and denomination