Post by JEM on Oct 7, 2012 23:56:42 GMT
PRAYING WITH BRITISH BAPTISTS
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Introduction. Scroll Down to requests.
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Baptists in Britain during 2012 are celebrating the establishment of the 1st Particular Baptist Church in England 400 years ago
The main distinguishing feature of a Baptist Church which is different from all the churches prior to 1850 is BELIEVERS BAPTISM. That is the baptism in a pool, lake. river or the sea of a Christian old enough to know what they are doing and make up their own mind, and decide to accept the challenge of Jesus Christ to follow in his footsteps and be baptised by total immersion
That was a feature of the Celtic Church from about AD 60 in Britain for the next 5 – 6 centuries before the arrival of Roman Catholic Mission to Kent The team that came were accommodated in a dis-used church building. They persuaded the non-Christian king of Kent to become a Catholic Christian, and after that gradually all the kingdoms of England became Roman Catholic, and the Celtic Church was snuffed out. The Latin Bible was imposed upon the Churches.
In the early days of the Reformation of the 15th - 16th centuries in England General Baptist Churches developed out of the Waldensian Churches of Europe and the Anabaptists of Germany. About 10 of those survive.
Josiah Wilkinson the 26 year old minister of Upper Meeting Baptist Church Saffron Walden attended in 1812 a meeting of Baptist Ministers held at a Baptist church vestry in an alley off Carter's Lane, Tooley Street, Southwark, about a mile from the Southern end of London Bridge.
This was the church that had set him apart to be a lay preacher and then a minister and the minister of this Church ordained him. Josiah had been associated there since boyhood and his Mum had been a member there for over 60 years.
The meeting was presided over by the Minister of that Church, Dr John Rippon. These ministers determined to form a Union of Particular Baptist Churches, the following year. So in 1813 that was done and they held their first assembly.
The General Baptist Union and the Particular Baptist Union merged later in the 19th century to become the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland and is now called BUGB
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Each Quarter the BUGB publish and circulate around the churches associated with it a magazine BAPTIST LIFE which can also be read online on
www.baptist.org.uk/BAPTISTLIFE
Each edition has a PRAYER GUIDE feature We urge all Baptists and like minded people to look this up online or obtain from a local Baptist Church a printed copy of the BAPTIST LIFE magazine. Here we just summarise the weekly Titles and associated websites and asking you to join in, find out more and join us in praying for the extensions of the Kingdom of God on Earth.
OCTOBER to DECEMBER PLEASE PRAY FOR
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SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 6
BAPTIST HOUSE the National Resource Centre at Didcot in Oxfordshire
OCTOBER 7 – 13
THE MISSING GENERATION a website and a November training day to generate useful conversation and help identify ways to attract more people aged 18 – 30 to faith and church.. Access www.missinggeneration.com
OCTOBER 14 – 20
THE BAPTIST COLLEGES training ministers. At Bristol, Manchester, London,Oxford, Cardiff and Aberdeen. Those who left in the Summer, those just beginning, undergraduates, postgraduates and tutors
OCTOBER 21 – 27
The BAPTIST ASSEMBLY in Scotland Oct 25 – 27 in Dundee.
Contact www.baptistassemblyinscotland.org
OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 3
The Regional Associations of Churches- working together
NOVEMBER 4 – 10
The Baptist Women's World Day of Prayer
www.baptist.org.uk/faith-a-unity-home.html
NOVEMBER 11 – 17
THE BAPTIST UNION COUNCIL gathers this week with important decisions to make that will impact on us all.
NOVEMBER 18 – 24
INTER FAITH WEEK www.interfaithweek.org
new resources are being prepared by the Mission Department to help our churches as a gospel people to respect, celebrate and associate with believers of other faiths. Also go to
www.baptist.org.uk/mission.html
NOVEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 1
The Regional Associations- Mediation. Prayer for the Regional Ministers [ the Baptist Bishops] who liaise between the churches and minister facilitating issues of reconciliation where breakdown in relationships occur.
DECEMBER 2 - 8
ADVENT including the GET IN THE PICTURE initiative go to www.getinthepicture.org.uk
prayer for all ministers and church leaders at this busy time for [patience, stamina and spiritual refreshment
DECEMBER 9 – 15
SEO Supporting Each Other for the development of the FUTURES PROCESS reorganising relations between churches, and for Church Clusters
DECEMBER 16 – 22
ASSOCIATIONS. Supporting Smaller Churches
DECEMBER 23 – 30
CHRISTMAS Let us put Christ the King at the centre of all we are and do. It his birth we celebrate even if this was in Marchesvan,the Roman month which associates with our October. Dec 25th is the Roman Festival of Brumalia, the feast of Mithras and the Festival of Nimrod the founder of Babylonia, and the world celebrates much as it has for 3500 years but we have a greater birth to celebrate
DECEMBER 31 – JANUARY 5 2013
Looking Back, Looking Forward. The Bicentenary of the Baptist Union
From the Baptist Magazine we are reminded by CHRIS DUFFETT President of the Baptist Union of the need to develop new means of reaching out to people who do not attend church.
Most people with a few exceptions are friendly courteous and kind, and not to be feared but encouraged. It is we generally who are scared to reach out to encounter and engage.
He invites us to his blog site www.baptist.org.uk/blogs/big-hearted.html
Communication in Churches is often a problem but communication to people who don't attend churches is greater. So “tabs” may be the answer. “tabs” is a full colour glossy 12 page magazine published by Tabernacle Baptist Church Penarth in South Wales, part of the South Wales Baptist Association. It is an attractive non-threatening way of sharing our faith and amongst other places is delivered street by street house to house through their letter boxes To view a copy of it go to www.baptist.org.uk/baptistlife
THE BAPTIST TIMES
was for many decades the weekly newspaper of the British Baptists
but it closed down in 2011.
But it reopened On-line in April 2012 and we are invited to check it out on www.baptisttimes.co.uk
THE BAPTIST ASSEMBLY
3-6 MAY 2013 will take place at the Norbreck Hotel Blackpool
Find out more at www.baptistassembly.org.uk
SAFFRON WALDEN BAPTIST CHURCH in Essex is a member of the
EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION of BUGB [ www.easternbaptist.org.uk ]
which is made up of the former county associations of Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk each of who still produces a Quarterly Call to Prayer Guide involving all the member churches
This is just a list of the Essex Baptist Churches
being prayed for from October to December 2012
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You may obtain a copy of it with details of the prayer request from
Mrs Alison Horncastle
alisonhorncastle@virginmedia.com
0208 592 4908
OCT 7
Saffron Walden Baptist Church . Moderator Rev Pat Heap
www.sw-bc.org
Shoeburyness & Thorpe Bay Baptist Church. Rev David Mayne
www.shoeburybaptistchurch.org,uk
OCT 14
Shoeburyness Friars Baptist Church. Rev Vivienne Alexander
www.friarsbaptist.org.uk
Shotgate Baptist Church Rev Errol Jacobs
www.shotgatebaptist.co.uk
OCT 21
South Woodham Evangelical Church Rev Lindsey Caplen
www.southwoodhamevangelicalchurch.org.uk
Avenue Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Pastorate vacant 2½ years
www.avenuebaptist.com
OCT 28
Belle Vue Baptist Church Southend on Sea Rev Andrew Goodliff
www.bvbc.org.uk
NOV 4
Church From Scratch Southend- on-Sea Rev Peter Dominey
www.churchfromscratch.org
NOV 11
Clarence Road Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Rev Daniel Gates
www.crbc.co.uk
Earls Hall Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Rev Steve Smith
www.earlshall.com
NOV 18
Ferndale Road Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Rev Dr Stephen Dray
www.ferndaleschurches.org.uk
Christ Church, Stock Rev Ian Smith & Associate Minister Rev Simon Robertson
www.christchurch-stock.org.uk
NOV 25
Thaxted Baptist Church Rev Wayne Evans
www.thaxtedbaptist.com
Theydon Bois Baptist Church Rev Sue Barclay
www.tbbc.org.uk
DEC 2
Thorpe-Le-Soken Baptist Church Rev David Murray
www.thorpebaptistchurch.org
DEC 9
Cranham Baptist Church. Upminster Rev Claire Luhman
www.cbchurch.co.uk
DEC 16
Springfield Gardens Baptist Church Upminster Rev Mark Davison
www.upminsterbaptists.co.uk
Walton-on-the-Naze Baptist Church Rev Brian Jennings
DEC 23
Homelands Free Church, Walton-on-the- Naze Rev Graham Dallisson
www.homelandsfreechurch.org
West Mersea Baptist Church Rev Dr Rob Hughes
www.wmfc.org.uk
DEC 30
Westcliff Baptist Church. Minister from early in 2013 Rev John Western
www.westcliffbaptist.org.uk
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Introduction. Scroll Down to requests.
=======================
Baptists in Britain during 2012 are celebrating the establishment of the 1st Particular Baptist Church in England 400 years ago
The main distinguishing feature of a Baptist Church which is different from all the churches prior to 1850 is BELIEVERS BAPTISM. That is the baptism in a pool, lake. river or the sea of a Christian old enough to know what they are doing and make up their own mind, and decide to accept the challenge of Jesus Christ to follow in his footsteps and be baptised by total immersion
That was a feature of the Celtic Church from about AD 60 in Britain for the next 5 – 6 centuries before the arrival of Roman Catholic Mission to Kent The team that came were accommodated in a dis-used church building. They persuaded the non-Christian king of Kent to become a Catholic Christian, and after that gradually all the kingdoms of England became Roman Catholic, and the Celtic Church was snuffed out. The Latin Bible was imposed upon the Churches.
In the early days of the Reformation of the 15th - 16th centuries in England General Baptist Churches developed out of the Waldensian Churches of Europe and the Anabaptists of Germany. About 10 of those survive.
Josiah Wilkinson the 26 year old minister of Upper Meeting Baptist Church Saffron Walden attended in 1812 a meeting of Baptist Ministers held at a Baptist church vestry in an alley off Carter's Lane, Tooley Street, Southwark, about a mile from the Southern end of London Bridge.
This was the church that had set him apart to be a lay preacher and then a minister and the minister of this Church ordained him. Josiah had been associated there since boyhood and his Mum had been a member there for over 60 years.
The meeting was presided over by the Minister of that Church, Dr John Rippon. These ministers determined to form a Union of Particular Baptist Churches, the following year. So in 1813 that was done and they held their first assembly.
The General Baptist Union and the Particular Baptist Union merged later in the 19th century to become the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland and is now called BUGB
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Each Quarter the BUGB publish and circulate around the churches associated with it a magazine BAPTIST LIFE which can also be read online on
www.baptist.org.uk/BAPTISTLIFE
Each edition has a PRAYER GUIDE feature We urge all Baptists and like minded people to look this up online or obtain from a local Baptist Church a printed copy of the BAPTIST LIFE magazine. Here we just summarise the weekly Titles and associated websites and asking you to join in, find out more and join us in praying for the extensions of the Kingdom of God on Earth.
OCTOBER to DECEMBER PLEASE PRAY FOR
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 6
BAPTIST HOUSE the National Resource Centre at Didcot in Oxfordshire
OCTOBER 7 – 13
THE MISSING GENERATION a website and a November training day to generate useful conversation and help identify ways to attract more people aged 18 – 30 to faith and church.. Access www.missinggeneration.com
OCTOBER 14 – 20
THE BAPTIST COLLEGES training ministers. At Bristol, Manchester, London,Oxford, Cardiff and Aberdeen. Those who left in the Summer, those just beginning, undergraduates, postgraduates and tutors
OCTOBER 21 – 27
The BAPTIST ASSEMBLY in Scotland Oct 25 – 27 in Dundee.
Contact www.baptistassemblyinscotland.org
OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 3
The Regional Associations of Churches- working together
NOVEMBER 4 – 10
The Baptist Women's World Day of Prayer
www.baptist.org.uk/faith-a-unity-home.html
NOVEMBER 11 – 17
THE BAPTIST UNION COUNCIL gathers this week with important decisions to make that will impact on us all.
NOVEMBER 18 – 24
INTER FAITH WEEK www.interfaithweek.org
new resources are being prepared by the Mission Department to help our churches as a gospel people to respect, celebrate and associate with believers of other faiths. Also go to
www.baptist.org.uk/mission.html
NOVEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 1
The Regional Associations- Mediation. Prayer for the Regional Ministers [ the Baptist Bishops] who liaise between the churches and minister facilitating issues of reconciliation where breakdown in relationships occur.
DECEMBER 2 - 8
ADVENT including the GET IN THE PICTURE initiative go to www.getinthepicture.org.uk
prayer for all ministers and church leaders at this busy time for [patience, stamina and spiritual refreshment
DECEMBER 9 – 15
SEO Supporting Each Other for the development of the FUTURES PROCESS reorganising relations between churches, and for Church Clusters
DECEMBER 16 – 22
ASSOCIATIONS. Supporting Smaller Churches
DECEMBER 23 – 30
CHRISTMAS Let us put Christ the King at the centre of all we are and do. It his birth we celebrate even if this was in Marchesvan,the Roman month which associates with our October. Dec 25th is the Roman Festival of Brumalia, the feast of Mithras and the Festival of Nimrod the founder of Babylonia, and the world celebrates much as it has for 3500 years but we have a greater birth to celebrate
DECEMBER 31 – JANUARY 5 2013
Looking Back, Looking Forward. The Bicentenary of the Baptist Union
From the Baptist Magazine we are reminded by CHRIS DUFFETT President of the Baptist Union of the need to develop new means of reaching out to people who do not attend church.
Most people with a few exceptions are friendly courteous and kind, and not to be feared but encouraged. It is we generally who are scared to reach out to encounter and engage.
He invites us to his blog site www.baptist.org.uk/blogs/big-hearted.html
Communication in Churches is often a problem but communication to people who don't attend churches is greater. So “tabs” may be the answer. “tabs” is a full colour glossy 12 page magazine published by Tabernacle Baptist Church Penarth in South Wales, part of the South Wales Baptist Association. It is an attractive non-threatening way of sharing our faith and amongst other places is delivered street by street house to house through their letter boxes To view a copy of it go to www.baptist.org.uk/baptistlife
THE BAPTIST TIMES
was for many decades the weekly newspaper of the British Baptists
but it closed down in 2011.
But it reopened On-line in April 2012 and we are invited to check it out on www.baptisttimes.co.uk
THE BAPTIST ASSEMBLY
3-6 MAY 2013 will take place at the Norbreck Hotel Blackpool
Find out more at www.baptistassembly.org.uk
SAFFRON WALDEN BAPTIST CHURCH in Essex is a member of the
EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION of BUGB [ www.easternbaptist.org.uk ]
which is made up of the former county associations of Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk each of who still produces a Quarterly Call to Prayer Guide involving all the member churches
This is just a list of the Essex Baptist Churches
being prayed for from October to December 2012
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
You may obtain a copy of it with details of the prayer request from
Mrs Alison Horncastle
alisonhorncastle@virginmedia.com
0208 592 4908
OCT 7
Saffron Walden Baptist Church . Moderator Rev Pat Heap
www.sw-bc.org
Shoeburyness & Thorpe Bay Baptist Church. Rev David Mayne
www.shoeburybaptistchurch.org,uk
OCT 14
Shoeburyness Friars Baptist Church. Rev Vivienne Alexander
www.friarsbaptist.org.uk
Shotgate Baptist Church Rev Errol Jacobs
www.shotgatebaptist.co.uk
OCT 21
South Woodham Evangelical Church Rev Lindsey Caplen
www.southwoodhamevangelicalchurch.org.uk
Avenue Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Pastorate vacant 2½ years
www.avenuebaptist.com
OCT 28
Belle Vue Baptist Church Southend on Sea Rev Andrew Goodliff
www.bvbc.org.uk
NOV 4
Church From Scratch Southend- on-Sea Rev Peter Dominey
www.churchfromscratch.org
NOV 11
Clarence Road Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Rev Daniel Gates
www.crbc.co.uk
Earls Hall Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Rev Steve Smith
www.earlshall.com
NOV 18
Ferndale Road Baptist Church Southend- on-Sea Rev Dr Stephen Dray
www.ferndaleschurches.org.uk
Christ Church, Stock Rev Ian Smith & Associate Minister Rev Simon Robertson
www.christchurch-stock.org.uk
NOV 25
Thaxted Baptist Church Rev Wayne Evans
www.thaxtedbaptist.com
Theydon Bois Baptist Church Rev Sue Barclay
www.tbbc.org.uk
DEC 2
Thorpe-Le-Soken Baptist Church Rev David Murray
www.thorpebaptistchurch.org
DEC 9
Cranham Baptist Church. Upminster Rev Claire Luhman
www.cbchurch.co.uk
DEC 16
Springfield Gardens Baptist Church Upminster Rev Mark Davison
www.upminsterbaptists.co.uk
Walton-on-the-Naze Baptist Church Rev Brian Jennings
DEC 23
Homelands Free Church, Walton-on-the- Naze Rev Graham Dallisson
www.homelandsfreechurch.org
West Mersea Baptist Church Rev Dr Rob Hughes
www.wmfc.org.uk
DEC 30
Westcliff Baptist Church. Minister from early in 2013 Rev John Western
www.westcliffbaptist.org.uk