ABW Maine

Providing Opportunities for women to:

  • become and develop as God's person
  • build God's faith Community
  • serve God's world

Core Values

Our ministry is based on certain non-negotiable values that form a foundation and criteria for all that we do.

  • We provide Christ-centered ministries.
  • We strive for excellence in all we do.
  • We practice faithful stewardship.
  • We practice faithful stewardship
  • We are relevant for women today.
  • We assure that our diversity as a denomination is represented in our ministries.
  • We affirm and encourage the use of spiritual gifts.
  • We recognize the worth of all women and girls.
  • We value our American Baptist family relationships.
  • We work to provide solutions for the social justice challenges and opportunities facing women and girls.

Purpose

As servant leaders, we serve American Baptist churches by encouraging existing vital ministries with women and girls and empowering churches to build such ministries.

Vision

Every American Baptist church shall have a vital women's ministry program that empowers women and girls to become and develop as God's person, build God's faith community, and serve God's world.

The ABW Community

All ABW churches are encouraged to have an active womens group
Association Meetings; Zoom Meetings; Spring Rally; Summer conference.
Visit https://abwomensministries.org/ for webinars and resources
1.Mission Focus 2021: COVID19

COVID-19 has forever changed the world, and to continue to support communities, organizations must change with it. As the number of those impacted by COVID-19 grows, goods become scarce, and unemployment rises, the need for spiritual support and guidance has become more pressing than ever..

Learn more here: Mission Focus
2.Ministry

American Baptist Women's Ministries celebrates a wide variety of ministries and missions across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Bible study, worship, spiritual development, hands-on mission and mission education...all of that and more takes place each day in the name of Christ.

Learn more: Mission Focus
3.2021-2023 Ministry Focus: Let the Walls Fall Down

Let the Walls Fall Down is personal and corporate, causing us to search our lives, our spaces, and especially our hearts to remove walls and barriers that we have erected. It gives us new opportunities for application in our ministries..

Learn more here:Let the Walls Fall Down
4.Beloved Community

American Baptist Women's Ministries is uniquely poised to help spread God's vision of being beloved community in this day and time. Information, ideas, and inspiration for how to be a beloved community in your women's and girls' ministries.

Learn more here:Beloved Community

2022 State Project

The Massachusetts Baptist Multicultural Ministry advocates, celebrates, and empowers new Americans." Massachusetts Multicultural Ministry

Susan Call 2021 Conference Speaker

Author of "A Search for Purple Cows, A True Story of Hope". No matter how difficult our struggles, God is bigger. Susan Call

Conference Workship

Bea Violette dramatization and discussion of Bethsheba. 2 Samuel 11.