Association Money Advice Days [Various Dates]
Crucible: Creating Church on the Margins [Various dates]
Amsterdam 400 [Friday 24 July - Sunday 26 July]
Rural Churches’ Day [Thursday 8 October]
Life in Technicolour [Various dates]
Children and Family Workers’ Day [Wednesday 14 October]
Church Planters' Day [Monday 19 October]
Evangelists’ Day [Thursday 5 November]
Association Money Advice Days
Various Dates
The Mission Department is organising a number of regional events to enable churches to support and help those facing financial problems. These seminars will be led by representatives from Stewardship and Community Money Advice and will include the following topics:
Cost: £20 per person
Dates and Venues
5 September (closing date for bookings 24 August)
Green Lane Baptist Church, Walsall WS2 8NX. Click here for details and a booking form.
19 September (closing date for bookings 9 September)
Grange Road Baptist Church, Darlington DL1 5NH. Click here for details and booking form
17 October (closing date for bookings 5 October)
Sawley Baptist Church, Long Eaton NG10 3AN. Check back later for details.
7 November (closing date for bookings 26 October)
Stoke Green, Ipswich IP2 8RE. Click here for details and booking form
7 November
North Western Baptist Association – Venue tbc. Contact Jonathan Boyers for information and booking.
Further dates to be added later in the year – check back for details, or contact your association
Crucible: Creating Church on the Margins
Various Dates
Crucible is a training programme which has developed as the result of a partnership between Workshop, Urban Expression and the ALOVE initiative of The Salvation Army which aims to equip Christians to create church on the margins. There are three intensive training weekends each year which take place at the International Mission Centre (IMC) in Birmingham. Cost is £50 for one, £100 for two and £130 for all three weekends. Trainers include Juliet Kilpin, who has recently left the BUGB Mission Department to work with Urban Expression and has a wealth of experience in the area of church planting. There are still places left on the third weekend (5-6 July 2008) of the 2007/2008 cycle with further dates as follows:
Dates for 2008/09
Weekend 3: 4-5 July 2009 - Emerging church
You can view the flyer by clicking here.
Further details are available from the Urban Expression web site by clicking here.
Amsterdam 400
Friday 24 July - Sunday 26 July
An unique opportunity for Baptist visitors not only to meet with friends and learn more about European Baptist life in general but also to get more closely acquainted with the rich and colorful story of the Dutch Baptists.
You can view the flyer by clicking here.
Register at www.amsterdam400.org before 30 June. Discount price still available until 15 June.
Rural Churches’ Day
Thursday 8 October - 10:30 - 15:30
The Baptist Union has the third largest church representation in rural communities. The Mission Department is hosting this day for ministers and those in leadership roles in rural churches (eg deacons, moderators, etc). Speaker for the day will be Barry Osborne, a Congregational Minister with considerable experience in rural ministry and mission, and key to setting up the UK’s Rural Evangelism Network. He is the author of Rural Evangelism in the 21st Century. Val Pyper, minister of Little Kimble Baptist Church will also share her experiences of ministry in a rural setting.
Cost for the day is £30 including lunch.
Venue: Kings Park Conference Centre, Northampton
For more details and a booking form, click here, or contact the Mission Department on 01235 517713 or email mission@baptist.org.uk
Please note that the closing date for bookings is Friday 25 September.
Life in Technicolour
Various Dates
Connexion, a support network for those married to Baptists in Ministry, Mission, Training and retirement, is organising a Conference open to you if you are married to a Baptist Minister or Missionary, if your spouse is in training or has retired from ministry. It is also open to those who have been widowed. In addition to the bible studies and main teaching sessions, there will be times of worship and prayer, fellowship and fun and a “Concert”. You don’t have to be a member of Connexion to come.
Dates for 2009
Weekend: Friday 9th-Sunday 11th October, 2009
Cost: £135.00; this includes a non-refundable deposit of £30 payable on booking.
You can view the flyer by clicking here.
For more information, click here.
Children and Family Workers’ Day
Wednesday 14 October, 2009
‘Help! I’m a Children’s and Family Worker!’ - this day is for Children’s and Family workers employed by churches and is being organised by the Mission Department in conjunction with Rachel Shackleton from Spurgeon’s Childcare.
For more details, please contact the Mission Department at mission@baptist.org.uk
West Midlands – venue tbc
Church Planters’ Day
Monday 19 October – 10:45 – 15:15
This day at Baptist House, hosted by the Incarnate Network and Mission Department, is for people involved in or thinking about church planting, or investing in a new mission opportunity.
Cost for the day is £15 including lunch.
For more details and a booking form, click here, or contact the Mission Department on 01235 517713 or email mission@baptist.org.uk
Please note that the closing date for bookings is Monday 5 October.
Click here for more information.
Evangelists’ Day
Thursday 5 November – 10:45 – 15:15
This day at Baptist House, hosted by the Mission Department, is for people working as evangelists or with responsibility for evangelism in the local church. The speaker will be the Revd Dr Roger Standing (Tutor in Mission, Evangelism and Pioneer Ministry at Spurgeon’s College) and there will be opportunity to offer mutual support, share experiences and resources. This is a repeat of the successful day held in May.
Cost for the day is £15 including lunch.
For more details and a booking form, click here, or contact the Mission Department on 01235 517713 or email mission@baptist.org.uk
Please note that the closing date for bookings is Friday 23 October.
Click here for more information.