PBA Pastor and IM Global Consultant Seeks Support

PBA is inviting you to join in God’s Mission The PBA is proud to support one of our pastors in a new role with International Ministries (IM). Rev. Dr. Rodney Ragwan is a bi-vocational pastor of the North Wales Baptist church.  His work with IM can be supported through...

317th Annual Meeting

The 317th Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2024. To register click this link  

2024 Missiological Conversation

The 2024 Missiological Conversation with panelists and conversation with clergy colleagues will take place on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at the American Baptist Home Mission Societies Leadership and Mission Building.  Registration is now Open.  Click this link to register.

World Mission Offering 2023

Through International Ministries’ World Mission Offering (WMO), every September and October thousands across the country celebrate and give financial support to ministries that God is using to transform the world.  For more than two hundred years, International...

Hebrews 10:23-25

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and...

PBA Education Forums Video

PBA Education Forums 2018-2019 video This past summer the PBA put together a short video highlighting the educational events held during the 2018-2019 program year.  We invite you to view the video to learn more about the Philadelphia Baptist Association. To watch the...

PBA Intergenerational Ministers’ Support Groups

PBA Intergenerational Ministers’ Support Groups During the spring of 2000, Dr. McJunkin shared with me that because of the stresses of the pandemic on ministers, he wanted to provide group support for the ministers of the PBA community. The purpose of the group...

The 315th Anniversary Campaign

The Philadelphia Baptist Association’s 315th Anniversary Campaign The PBA is in the beginning of a fundraising campaign.  Over the next few months members of the board of directors, led by moderator, Rev. Maria L.H. Lewis and campaign chairperson Minister Marie Pogue,...

COVID-19 RESOURCES

The Philadelphia Baptist Association is gathering resources here to help churches and ​communities adapt to the changing needs of the world during this pandemic.

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MINISTRY NOTES

James McJunkin Jr. Blog

Questions of Faith and Responsibility

An excerpt from the pastoral letter of Rev. Dr. James E. McJunkin, Jr. Questions based on Luke 18: 1-9 Will we ignore the plight and the plea for justice from the most vulnerable in our society or will we help to bind the wounds? In what ways are we able to identify...

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Partnership Required!!

Some thirty-four years ago I answered the call to serve the churches of the Philadelphia Baptist Association (PBA). I was pleased to leave my home in Cleveland Ohio to staff the community outreach and public witness emphasis of the PBA. The ministry models that have...

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