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      <title>Prayers</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Be Sent (reflecting on John 20:19-23) by Mike Sherburn</description>
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      <title>Resources</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A selection of helpful resources</description>
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      <title>Slow Wisdom in the Baptist Church</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Are you looking for a way to help your church in discernment? Consider using the Slow Wisdom video course, writes Ruth Moriarty
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      <title>Entwined – Life with Jesus in a changing climate</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Holy Spirit is drawing people with a heart for climate justice towards Jesus, writes Dave Gregory, convenor of the Baptist Union Environment Network</description>
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      <title>“Young people are wanting to engage and ask questions”</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Churches in Salisbury, Wiltshire, were surprised – and delighted – when 100 participants signed up for their Youth Alpha Course. Interview with Hannah Giles</description>
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      <title>Connecting in coastal communities</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Barney Barron introduces Coastal Expression, a network helping to bring together those ministering on the margins in our coastal towns</description>
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      <title>“We have a common belief and love for God we would love to share with others”</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Harefield Baptist Church, Middlesex by minister Val Pyper</description>
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      <title>Making room for people to belong</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ian Pethick reflects on his first term as a Baptist intern at Buckland Road Baptist Church in Poole</description>
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      <title>“Putting a smile on the face of the building”</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Camberley Baptist Church, by minsters Richard and Fran Bellingham</description>
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      <title>“He is a light for these people here”</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Lisa Isaac shares the story of Golau Baptist Church in Llanelli, tracing its beginnings as a small youth group to a newly constituted, Home Mission-supported church that meets in unconventional spaces</description>
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      <title>Planting a Baptist Church in the West Midlands</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How a consistent, pastoral presence has led to the gospel taking root. Interview with Mark Francis-Green</description>
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      <title>“People are desperate and don’t need entertainment; they need Jesus”</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rye Lane Chapel has seen lives transformed in its community through a combination of evangelism and responding to local needs. Pastor Phil Woolley shares the church’s story</description>
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      <title>Connecting with food - and at Christmas</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A weekly community meal at New Mill Baptist Church in Tring helps to alleviate loneliness – and a farm animal event at Christmas has become a community attraction. By Jackie Buie</description>
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      <title>“It’s helped with our discernment” Westvale Community Church</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Interview with Miranda Odysseos-Beaumont, minister of Westvale Community Church</description>
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      <title>“A more missional attitude” Ewhurst Baptist Church</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Minister Ben Scadden on missional developments at Ewhurst Baptist Church</description>
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      <title>How can we be more effective together for the kingdom?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How one Association is partnering with its churches in mission</description>
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      <title>Resisting the secularising drift of social action</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I believe that social action projects should not accept the common ‘secularising drift’ that occurs within so much church-based social action, writes Jon Kuhrt</description>
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      <title>Dwelling, Discerning and Exploring</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We’re in a new context, a change of era – and that means discerning where God is moving in our neighbourhoods, and then taking risks to join in, says Roy Searle</description>
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      <title>Evangelism in the everyday life of mission</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Everyone, Everywhere initiative is discovering a renewed desire to recover confidence in sharing faith and forming new Christian communities.</description>
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      <title>Baptist Together Mission Forum</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The purpose of Mission Forum is to maintain a national perspective on mission across the Baptist family and be a place for collaborative listening and action. We seek to discern what God is doing at the grassroots and reflect this back across the movement</description>
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      <title>Walking Worthy</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Introducing his theme, incoming President Alex Afriyie highlights three ways we can ‘walk worthy’ of our calling to represent Jesus in
the UK today</description>
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      <title>Fulfilling Jesus' Great Commandment and Great Commission in our Places</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>There is no secret formula, writes General Secretary Lynn Green, but here are some important aspects when it comes to participating in God’s mission</description>
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