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Most popular regional news stories in 2017

Cafés and pubs; cancer, courage and compassion; and two Baptist ministers marrying - these were the most read regional news stories of 2017


 

“We’re not a café church. We are church”
The Table, Cardiff: the story of how a Baptist church dispensed with its Sunday gathering to do church in a new way
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Hope rises from cancer despair
Cancer-stricken Baptist minister experiences burst of creativity resulting in a series of songs about God and faith
Andrew Gardiner223


Baptist church on Songs of Praise
A Baptist church whose minister has cancer was featured on Songs of Praise
Andre Gardiner Songs of Praise


Cirencester church opens new building  
A bumper crowd was in attendance to mark the official opening of the new Cirencester Baptist Church building
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Two Baptist ministers marry in Cardiff
And 19 more ministers in attendance as the two Revds tie the knot
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Presidency for science loving minister
David Gregory - or Dr Dave who runs a Messy Science Lab - will be our Union's President in 2018-19
Dave Gregory at CRE223


Baptist minister to open micropub
St Canna's will be a meeting point for people in the community and the "diametric opposite” of “plastic” chain pubs
James Karran223


The Turning - first annual review
Organisers of a street mission which began in Reading and became known as The Turning have revealed that more than 7000 people in the UK have responded to the gospel in the last year
The Turning223


‘Quiet, strong, courageous faith’
Tributes have been paid to the Revd Barbara Stanford MBE, a longtime minister at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, who has died aged 81
Barbara Stanford223


'The time for compassion had come'
Why Baptists in Manchester built a hostel for marginalised foreign students instead of a new church
Linton House223
Baptist Times, 26/12/2017
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Sharing Jesus, digitally 
A church in Wales has used the digital space to share Jesus – and has seen dozens of people make a profession of faith
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Churches on the frontline 
Never before in the last 100 years have their leaders faced such a huge challenge, Dr Kang-San Tan, General Director of BMS World Mission, told an online meeting of the Gwent Baptist Association
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The authentic welcome was attractive
How students have grown in faith at Penrallt Baptist Church – despite it being in pastoral vacancy.
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A long history, but ready for 21st century life
It’s been 200 years since that first little group began and today Bethel Baptist Church is still as vibrant and lively as it always has been
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Justice and the coastlands waiting for law 
Baptists in Swansea are increasingly partnering a law clinic which offers free advice. Minister Chris Lewis takes up the story
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Baptist church receives funding boost 
Hengoed Baptist Church in Caerphilly receives a National Churches Trust grant to better serve its local community
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