The American Baptist Home Mission Society, established in New York City in 1832 to preach the gospel, establish churches and support ministry among the unchurched and destitute. That same year the society sent 50 missionaries across the eastern and central United States to spread God’s Good News, and American Baptists have been planting churches—as well as schools, children’s homes, hospitals and nursing homes—winning souls for Christ, and speaking out for social and economic justice ever since. In 1955, The American Baptist Home Mission Society and WABHMS merged their work; then in 1972, the societies began carrying out mission as National Ministries. In 2003, National Ministries added the denomination’s ministries of discipleship, education and publishing—including Judson Press—to its work when it absorbed Educational Ministries, which found its roots in the Baptist General Tract Society (founded in 1824) and the American Baptist Education Society (founded in 1888). On April 27, 2010, National Ministries reclaimed the organization’s historic names and began carrying out its ministries in the name of Jesus Christ as American Baptist Home Mission Societies.

From: https://abhms.org/about-us/history/