"With God, nothing shall be impossible."


Weekly Advent Reflections from ABC Colleagues 
December 18, 2017

 Advent Week Three-

Waiting for Christ's Return
 
The first generation of Christians lived with the expectation that Jesus would return within their lifetime. The gospels and the various letters tell us Christians how we should live while we are waiting for Jesus to return.  P
eter challenges us to consider how this coming certain destruction of everything transitory should cause us to live. We need to live with the expectation that Jesus will return.

Read more from Rev. Malcolm Hamblett (Vermont)


Upcoming: Advent Four... Reflection by Ivan Marable (Board of Governors);   Christmas/Christmastide... Rev. Kate Harvey Jacobs, former Executive Director
 
SET INTENTIONS FOR YOUR PREACHING 
IN THE NEW YEAR!

"3 Steps to Easier Preaching" is the latest post on Rev. Margaret Marcuson's blog here .
 
 


TRANSITION UPDATES

Our offices are moving this week to our new home at the Baptist Church of West Chester in West Chester, PA.  We're grateful to Rev. Dave Braneky for his hospitality, and to the relocation team: Rev. Dr. Randy Harris, Rev. Doug Harris and Rev. Dee Dee Turlington. New phone and email contacts are in process of set-up.


Our new postal address is:

The Ministers Council of the American Baptist Churches USA
221 South High Street
West Chester, PA 19380
 
Our office will be closed December 16-January 6 for holiday break and transition.  
We can be reached after the new year at that address, and at
(610) 314-7837



STAFF
Our interim staff chapter will come to a close at year-end, and we extend our heartfelt gratitude to Rev. Jabulani McCalister and Rev. Dr. Randall Harris for seeing us through.  Committed members with significant board experience, they provided steady, faithful, humble hands at the wheel.  Going forward in January 2018, our office will be staffed by a new part-time position entitled Member Services Coordinator.  We've just finalized this job description. Please share it widely with colleagues in the Philadelphia area.

WEBSITE
We're chipping away at significant website improvements.  Have a resource you'd like to see shared there? Contact [email protected].  If you can't wait till it's finished, you're welcome to peek at
www.minist erscouncil.com.

It's a work i n progress, to be finished by January 1.


Learn more here. Registration deadline 1/19/18.


RECENT UPDATES

Learn more about our 2017-18 Discernment & Visions

Interim Operations Manager March-Nov. 2017


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