Baptist Union Of Great Britain Videos

 

 

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Just Imagine

Just Imagine

Filmed this autumn across the country, it features a diverse range of ordinary people like you and me from our churches. It shares the rich variety of ways our Baptist family is enabled to transform lives through Home Mission supported situations and your generous giving…and invites us to Just Imagine what more God could do if we did give more. To download, click here.


Baptist Life

Baptist Life Videos

List of videos mentioned in various editions of Baptist Life.

  • Give Youth a Chance
    The team from Hivings Free Church, Chesham talk about the impact of a Home Mission grant on their community. To download, click here.
  • Be the Centre
    The story of Finchampstead Baptist Church - how Home Mission and the wider Baptist family, especially the Baptist Union Corporation, played its part in helping this church to develop its crossingplaces and become the centre of its community. To download, click here.
  • There is a Light in the Valley
    Find out how God has transformed the life of a Welsh farmer and is calling people to serve him in Breconshire in this inspiring film. To download, click here.
  • Gray’s Baptist Church
    Grays Baptist Church is known as the ‘black bin bag’ church. Find out why in this short film. To download, click here.
  • Top 10 Tips for Welcome
    Watch a film about Top Ten Tips for Welcome featuring Mark Hope-Urwin, Director of Hospitality and Welcome at Birmingham Cathedral, as he believes we can learn a lot about welcome from the world of retail. To download, click here.
  • New Park Road Baptist Church
    See the French-speaking congregation in our special video. To download, click here.
  • Political Party Conference
    Watch video footage from a party conference prayer breakfast video. To download, click here.
  • Wallsend Baptist Church
    Check out Sarah and Wallsend Baptist Church’s story as she walks you around the neighbourhood. To download, click here.
  • Roselands Community Church
    Find out about what Roselands Community Church are doing to engage with their community in this video. To download, click here.

BUGB DVD

BUGB DVD 2011

  • Be the Centre
    The story of Finchampstead Baptist Church - how Home Mission and the wider Baptist family, especially the Baptist Union Corporation, played its part in helping this church to develop its crossingplaces and become the centre of its community. To download, click here.
  • Top 10 Tips for Buildings
    Linda Holder of the Baptist Union Corporation and Jim Gallagher from Finchampstead Baptist Church share their top 10 tips for Baptist churches considering a building project. To download, click here.

BUGB DVD 2010

It's the mission of all Christians to live out the gospel in our churches and in our daily lives. But in the real world, that's not always as straightforward as it seems. BUGB General Secretary Jonathan Edwards visits one such example of the complexities of real life in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria.

BUGB DVD 2009

Two thousand years ago Jesus said “Go” to his disciples – and he still does! The Baptist Union DVD this year explores this challenging theme through four very different stories.

  • Go...share your story
    In the 21st century, only about five people out of every hundred in the UK go to church each week. Is Britain leaving its faith behind? Is there still room for Christianity in people’s busy lives? To download, click here.
  • Go...and work together
    This short lively story shows what happened when a group of churches worked together with the help of their Baptist association and funding from Home Mission. To download, click here.
  • Go...into all the world
    Find out the inspiring story of one woman’s call into ministry and the challenges she now faces. To download, click here.
  • Go...and be baptised
    Watch Nigel Moore as he shares his moving testimony and witness his baptism. You will not be left untouched by this story. To download, click here.

Crossingplaces

Crossingplaces

Crossingplaces is a new initiative from the Mission Department. It is a challenge to all parts of the Baptist family to take the gospel to the places where we meet the non-church world.

We have already interviewed a number of people about the way in which they have been reaching their local community with the good news of Jesus, and you can view videos of these interviews below.

  • Resourcing crossingplaces
    Ian Bunce and Kathryn Morgan of the BUGB Mission Department explain the concept of crossingplaces - giving examples and references to resources from the Mission Department. To download, click here.
  • Barney Barron
    Barney Barron talks about developing Café Church on an estate in the south of England, and other initiatives to reach the local community. To download, click here.
  • Community Choir
    Mission Adviser Kathryn Morgan speaks to Alison John about the Community Choir which she set up for Christmas. To download, click here.
 
  • Community Connections
    Student minister Paul Burnish shares the story of Colne Avenue Baptist Church in Southampton as it has engaged with its local community. To download, click here.
  • Crossingplaces in Glendale
    In this video made for the Baptist Assembly 2011, Roy Searle speaks about planting the Christian gospel through crossingplaces in the remote rural region of Glendale. To download, click here.
  • Kathryn Bracewell
    Kathryn Bracewell explains how this city centre church in Oxford is using the area outside the building to engage with passers-by in imaginative and thought-provoking ways. To download, click here.
  • LeRoy Burke
    LeRoy Burke is minister of Battersea Chapel and talks about building relationships with members of the community by weekly visits to the local barber-shop. To download, click here.
  • Laurie Burn
    Baptist minister Laurie Burn shares the story of Totterdown Baptist Church in Bristol which has initiated a number of community projects advertised through the church's community newsletter. To download, click here.
  • Tracy Cotterell
    Tracy Cotterell of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity talks about encouraging Christians to be missionary disciples, making a difference where they are. To download, click here.
  • Graham Doel
    Graham Doel shares the story of the 'Sunday Night Project' begun by Morecambe Baptist Church in a local pub. To download, click here.
  • Wayne Dixon
    Wayne Dixon is a member of Slough Baptist Church and a Scripture Union Schools’ Worker. He shares the story of how the church has developed links with local schools through popular Christmas and Easter presentations. To download, click here. 
  • Peter Dominey
    Peter Dominey planted Church From Scratch in Essex seven years ago and is now looking to facilitate the planting of other churches. To download, click here.
  • Jonathan Edwards
    Jonathan Edwards encourages churches to support their local schools. To download, click here.
  • Jenni Entrican
    Jenni Entrican started an alternative style church called Jacob’s Well four years ago which aims to be relevant in the 21st century. The church has learned that a Christian life is about what we do every day. To download, click here.
  • Matthew Farrow
    Matthew Farrow is involved in chaplaincy at Whitemoor Prison, and has run Alpha courses at the prison. He shares stories of this witness behind closed doors. To download, click here.
  • Steve Gaunt
    Steve Gaunt is minister in a commuter village where the church’s efforts to build relationships with the community have developed and enabled a successful Sunday Brunch Church to be launched in October 2008. To download, click here.

Crossingplaces Continued

Crossingplaces Continued

  • Joe Haward
    Joe Haward is working at the Causeway to encourage Christians to meet with people in the places where they meet. He holds regular events in the local pub and breakfast café. To download, click here.
  • Ewen Huffman
    Ewen Huffman Minister of Winchester Baptist church talks about the ways in which his church has engaged with people in the city, including the Winchester Passion and Healing on the Streets projects. To download, click here.
  • David Hughes
    David Hughes, is the minister of three rural churches which run a community shop, combining practical everyday ministry with opportunities to witness to the community. To download, click here.
  • Penny Marsh
    Penny Marsh has planted a church in the London Docklands and is now working as South East Baptist Association Church Planter and developing church plants for the new Kent Thameside area. To download, click here.
  • Pete Paine
    Pete Paine works as an industrial and port chaplain at Great Yarmouth and shares stories of supporting those working in shipping and sailors coming to faith. To download, click here.
  • Mandy Smith
    Mandy Smith is a parish nurse who ministers to people using her nursing skills and Christian faith, and has seen people come to faith through the prayer she offers. To download, click here.
  • Liz Stacey
    Liz Stacey engages with third and fourth age seniors at Winchester Baptist Church and shares stories of older people coming to faith through this work. To download, click here.
  • Angie Tunstall
    Angie Tunstall explains how getting involved in the Big Lunch on 19 July 2009 helped to build a sense of community in her street. To download, click here.
  • Carolyn Urwin
    Carolyn Urwin, Minister of Wraysbury Baptist church talks about how the concept of crossingplaces will help to encourage this small congregation. To download, click here.
  • Sally Wingham
    Sally Wingham shares her story of coming to faith through contact with the Music Makers group for Carers and Toddlers at Cosham Baptist Church. To download, click here.
  • Stuart Wood
    Stuart Wood talks about Barnwell Baptist Church - the way in which it has been supported by St Andrew’s and the positive links he has had through chaplaincy at Cambridge United.  To download, click here.
  • American Interim Pastors Ministry
    Dennis and Brenda Greer, American Interim Pastors, share their experiences of ministry in a Baptist church in England for six months.  To download, click here.

Meditations-Incarnate-Other

Meditations

The first two are particularly appropriate for Advent and Christmas services, but can be used at other times of the year.

 This meditation is suitable for Easter and other times of year, and uses music by Lynn Eaton.  It captures the crossingplaces theme.

Incarnate

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