Bookings close a week before 2015 Assembly

Tickets sell out for the new look Baptist Assembly

Tickets have proved popular for the one-day gathering at the 1,200 capacity Kingsgate Centre in Peterborough on Saturday (16 May), and sold out on Friday (8 May). Unfortunately no tickets can be bought on the day.

The gathering will have a different feel from recent Assemblies. It is an intentionally intergenerational event, with the children’s dedicated programme only beginning in the late afternoon. The event, say organisers, is “an opportunity for all ages to explore and be inspired in mission and discipleship”.  

The youth programme Innovation, once again led by Andy and Joy Clark, takes place between 2 and 4pm. The young people will then lead the iOpener Prayer Session from 4.15-5.15pm.

Before then the opening celebration will be an opportunity to welcome and pray for our new President the Revd Jenni Entrican, and hear more of her Daring Greatly theme.  

The preparation for Communion will begin during this session, which will then take place during the Big Picnic, when everyone will be encouraged outside to picnic together while being entertained by strolling performers.

The early part of the afternoon sees a busy range of sessions called the Market Place. The sessions are banded under four streams, called Vision and Values, Word and World, 21st Century Disciples and Mission and Ministry (Present and Future). Delegates can plan their afternoon by looking at the programme here.

When it begins at 4pm the children’s programme, led by Arise Ministries, will take the story from Acts 10, considering what it was like for Peter on that rooftop, but also what it means for us to seek God’s heart for the communities we’re a part of.

The closing celebration will welcome and affirm new ministers and mission workers in a new way, and the closing message will be a creative three-parter, from different voices and perspectives.
 

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