Saturday Break-out Sessions 11:00-11:50 (Please pre-select the session you are likely to attend; this helps with planning for session leaders. Click HERE for the survey to select your choice.) Following the 10:00 am plenary session, setting the foundation of our discussions about collaborative ministry, participants will have a choice to attend one of the following […]
EARLY SATURDAY MORNING OPTIONS OCT 13 – 8:45-9:45 am American Baptist Women’s Ministries – ANNUAL MEETING – The American Baptist Women’s Ministries of WI will be holding its annual October meeting. The officers will be reporting on the year’s events and the planning for next spring’s retreat. In addition, we will be having guest speakers […]
Ministry Partner Exposure Tour Vans depart from Pilgrim Rest Parking Lot at 1:00 PM Expected return time to Pilgrim Rest between 5-5:30 PM Join in on this exposure tour to Milwaukee-based ministry partners Housing Ministries, Milwaukee Christian Center, and Project Focal Point. Learn about the ministries and how they are impacting their communities and explore […]
Interfaith Friendship in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Lessons past and present Annual Gathering Pre-event: A Learning Opportunity Offered by CENTRAL Wisconsin Seminary Site 9:30 AM – 12 NOON @ Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church [3456 N. 38th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin] Come to a moderated panel discussion and an intertextual study on “Interfaith Friendship.” Drawing […]
Many are aware that the American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) has announced a multi-year initiative, “Rebuilding, Restoring, and Renewing Puerto Rico,” a region of the American Baptist Churches USA that has been devastatingly affected by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria in the late summer of 2017. Their goal is to raise $1 million for […]
On February 11, 2017, CENTRAL Wisconsin held a Story Telling event, hosted by Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church. These stories were the culmination of work for a course taught at the seminary in the Fall of 2016 and Winter 2017. We now have these stories gathered together and linked here on YouTube. Here’s the whole […]
The Region office will be closed: Tuesday, August 29th for an offsite staff event Monday, September 4th for the Labor Day holiday
“Trees and Fruits” John Jones IV Associate Regional Minister—Education “You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear […]
by Carolyn Dugan Associate Regional Minister—Camping “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place…” Psalm 8:3 ESV “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers […]
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