Baptist Assembly 2015

Reports, photos, blogs and tweets from the 2015 Baptist Assembly in Peterborough

Stories

Baptist Assembly 2015 opens

President Jenni Entrican's address

iOpener Prayer Session - Led by the young people in the Innovation programme

It all starts with God - Closing Celebration

Baptist Union Market Place sessions (including AGM)

The BMS World Mission AGM

Communion in community - The Big Picnic

What sort of ministry matters? - the Market Place session introducing the Ministries Review Ignite

Children at the Baptist Assembly

Inspiring stories - BMS World Mission staff shared three ways BMS is transforming lives around the world

Politics, and staying involved - The recent resource “Love Your Neighbour – Think Pray Vote” caught the imagination. Phil Jump reflects on where the church might go next following the Public Issues Market Place session

Market Place: Word and World

Market Place: 21st Century Disciples

Market Place: Mission and Ministry

Photos

Baptist Assembly 2015 - a Baptist Union Flickr album

Blogs on the Assembly

Small (Baptist) World - Catriona Gorton
BUGB / BMS Baptist Assembly 2015 - Neil Brighton

#bap15 - your tweets

Stop expecting our communities to come to us and get involved in what your community is doing #bap15
— Neil Boulton (@whatanumptee) May 16, 2015

Thoughts on @Baptistassembly after time to reflect: some great content, some good innovations, but too rushed #bap15
— Phil Palmer (@Philinthemiddle) May 17, 2015

Back from #BAP15. Definitely a fan of the new "assembly light" and the way it managed to be genuinely all age.
— Beth Allison-Glenny (@BethjAllison) May 16, 2015

If I were to give constructive feedback? A timetable with what different sessions included and longer AGMs (did I really say that?!) #bap15
— Beth Allison-Glenny (@BethjAllison) May 16, 2015

@gemmadunning I greatly enjoyed the day, a real family time with the young people strolling on and off the platform like they owned it!
— Wokingham Baptist (@WokinghamBap) May 18, 2015

Home after the long drive back to Devon. Good times @baptistassembly Great catching up with friends. #bap15 #JesusisLord
— Joe Haward (@HawardJoe) May 16, 2015

@baptistassembly I loved the fact that I wished both @baptistuniongb and @BMSWorldMission AGMs had been longer! #bap15
— Andrew Openshaw (@andjope) May 16, 2015

Post Tweet

'Tireless in his advocacy for the neediest'

Tributes have been paid to British Baptist Paul Montacute, who has died in Virginia, USA after a long illness

Training a new generation of Baptist pioneers

Sally Mann provides an update on a partnership project between Baptists Together and Spurgeon’s College to create a suite of new units to train missional leaders and pioneers

'Easiest evangelism now even easier'

The popular website www.christianity.org.uk has relaunched with a brand new look for 2020 – and every church has been encouraged to link it

New partnership for NBC and The Light Project

Northern Baptist College and The Light Project College begin new partnership to form evangelists and pioneers as nationally accredited Baptist ministers

Reaching the places other Christians can’t reach

Ros Bayes reports on the first Disability Inclusion in our Churches event, hosted by Through the Roof - which featured a particularly powerful testimony

Who is God calling to be the President of our Union?

With a Presidential election upon us, Richard Wilson explores how we might go about discerning which candidate to vote for

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