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

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

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

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A liturgy for the north

'Useful for churches and individuals to pray that everyone, everywhere in the north and beyond might have access to the gospel and a flourishing, authentic church expression.'

‘It shows just how widespread and relied upon this work is’

New research has highlighted the scale of church provision to local communities

Church hosts service of remembrance and repair as Jamaica pursues reparatory justice

New Park Road Baptist Church in South London hosted Carry Wi Story, Lest We Forget (400 Years), a service bringing together remembrance, worship and a commitment to justice and repair

Introducing Baptist Quarterly

'Interested in understanding the past, but it also wants to speak to the present.' A message from co-editors Sally Nelson and Andy Goodliff as the latest issue of the journal of the Baptist Historical Society is published

'The events surrounding the final weeks of Professor Arday’s life raise serious questions'

The Racial Justice Advocacy Forum (RJAF) has issued a statement following the death of Professor Jason Arday

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