The New Baptist Covenant is holding a summit in Atlanta now. Dr. Priscilla E. Eppinger, ABHS’s Executive Director, will bring greetings to the gathering on Thursday morning. New Baptist Covenant was started in 2007 by President Jimmy Carter, who brought together prominent leaders from across the Baptist family. These leaders represented more than 30 Baptist organizations and over 20 million people. He challenged them to explore new opportunities for fellowship and cooperation. From this effort, a ministry of action named the New Baptist Covenant was born, uniting Baptists and renewing the pursuit of unity and justice on the local and national scale.
New Baptist Covenant churches, who are working together for racial justice and reconciliation, are not the first Baptists to come together with this goal. In the 1890s black and white Baptist churches worked together to sponsor New Era Baptist Institutes to train leaders in the black churches.
Dr. Deborah Van Broekhoven, ABHS’s immediate past Executive Director, will give a lecture on the New Era Baptist Institutes on Friday, September 30, at 7 p.m. in the Atlanta Administration and Conference Center, 2930 Flowers Road South, Atlanta.
For more information about this lecture, see our Post on August 26. For more information on the current meeting, Google New Baptist Covenant.
The photo shows Rev. Alyssa Aldape, Rev. Heather Mustain sharing the Lord’s Supper, courtesy of the New Baptist Covenant.
