Being Baptist Together - Key Role Nominations

 

We are a movement of local churches supported by regional associations, colleges and specialist teams.  We all contribute to the non-hierarchical governance structure of Baptist Union of Great Britain, which aims to ensure the highest level of involvement among and accountability to members.  Part of our governance structure includes Council and Trustees.   As we journey together the task of ensuring a diversity of voices are heard in some of our structures falls, in part, to the Key Roles Nominations Team. Take a moment to listen to Barbara Carpenter, the moderator of the Key Role Nominations Team, as she lays out her heart and hope for being Baptists Together.  Take a moment to listen to God and pray with us.

A letter from the Revd Barbara Carpenter, moderator of the Key Role Nominations Team - 4 August 2025

Thank you so much for your interest in finding out more about the Key Roles Nominations Team (KRNT) and the work that we share in on behalf of the whole Baptist family.  From time to time roles that are key to the working of our lives across BUGB become vacant  and the KRNT are tasked with discerning together, on behalf of us all, the women and men who God is calling to these roles.  We prayerfully meet with and talk with those who come forward to share in that discernment process, and then we take those names to the Baptist Union Council for their shared discernment too.
 
I took up the role as Moderator of the KRNT in October 2024 and I have been keen from the outset to emphasise that, although we as a Team are called on to share in the discernment process, it isn’t simply our responsibility to seek out potential candidates for roles.  We are all members of the Union’s churches, Associations and Colleges and as such we need to be attentive to God when our key roles are advertised, having our eyes and ears, hearts and minds open to see those who God might be calling to those roles.  Then if God puts someone’s name on your heart, talk to them and encourage them to have a no commitment, exploratory conversation with myself or a member of the Team to find out more. 
 
We are especially keen that our Trustee Board, Council etc. have the people with the right gifts and skills serving on them, but also that they fully reflect the diversity of our Union.  So please can I encourage you to join with me and my fellow KRNT members in sharing in this part of our life together. 
 
Thank you again for stopping by, and I look forward to some fruitful conversations in the days ahead.