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Updated: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:14:08 +0100
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Huge growth in foodbanks
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Church-led foodbanks doubled the number of people they fed over the last 12 months. Nearly 129,000 adults and children were fed in the 2011-12 financial year, compared with 61,500 for 2010-11, accord...

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Five loaves and two fish - a Baptist Assembly day conference for small churches
More than 145 people came to the Emmanuel Centre for the Assembly day conference specifically for the smaller churches i...
God's plan 'still on course' for the UK - Pastor Agu Irukwu
Baptists have left the Baptist Assembly in London with a message of hope for the future. In the closing celebration...
Assembly's opportunity to speak about the future
Recapturing the radical spirit of the early Baptists by supporting pioneering ministries was among the range of opinions...

Leading stories
Church festival encouragement
A church was buoyed when it held a festival for the first time and more than 200 people flocked thro...
The continuing legacy of a Baptist who helped end the slave trade
A courageous Jamaican Baptist who played a crucial role in  initiating the end of the slave tra...
Dissenting descendants - Church from Scratch
Church from Scratch (CFS), a highly distinctive Baptist church, was the topic of a presentation duri...
Big Society opportunities
Steve Chalke presented a compelling vision of what church can offer in the Big Society, writes Jonat...
Children have a role in the church - today, not just the future
Children at the Baptist Assembly went back in time to explore what church is all about - then zoomed...

Feature
Reel church - exploring spirituality through film
Film offers one way of relating spiritual matters to popular culture - and it might just be forming the beginnings of a new missional church in H...
Adventures on a tall ship
In April The Baptist Times booked a tall ship for five days - and invited 40 youngsters to sail it. It was the adventure of a lifetime, reports W...

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London Olympics - another Pentecost
With every nation about to come to the UK for the 2012 Olympics, Israel Olofinjana draws parallels with the day of Pentecost in Acts As we count down towards the Olympics and prepare to host the wo...
The power of love
At the end of the day, whatever a girl’s background or upbringing, all we can ever hope for them is they know love, writes Girls’ Brigade team leader Sally Claydon ‘Dear God, please help me to ...
Marking the Jubilee
It is time to separate the civil function of the monarch which relates to all UK citizens with any religious functions which are recognised only by some of them, says Nigel Wright   We are abou...
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Book review: There Are No Strong People By Jeff Lucas
"If you are a little squeamish, skip the next few paragraphs" - so writes Jeff Lucas towards the end of his latest book about Samson. Some might suggest he place this "health warning" at the beginning...
Book Review: Building Bridges, Crossing Cultures – A Life Shaped by India and by Inner City Birmingham:  Memoirs of a Physicist, Missionary and Minister
I was given this as a present - not the sort of book I'd usually read (I tend to avoid both autobiography and religion) but I know the author well so had no option. I was pleased to have been persuade...
Book Review: Stand Up and Deliver, A Nervous Rookie on the Comedy Circuit
Reading Andy Kind’s book can be likened to a mammoth session at the Hammersmith Apollo where one liners pour out with machine gun like rapidity from a succession of stand up comedians. Using this hi...
 

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