Most popular regional news stories in 2017

Cafés and pubs; cancer, courage and compassion; and two Baptist ministers marrying - these were the most read regional news stories of 2017

“We’re not a café church. We are church”
The Table, Cardiff: the story of how a Baptist church dispensed with its Sunday gathering to do church in a new way



Hope rises from cancer despair
Cancer-stricken Baptist minister experiences burst of creativity resulting in a series of songs about God and faith

Baptist church on Songs of Praise
A Baptist church whose minister has cancer was featured on Songs of Praise

Cirencester church opens new building  
A bumper crowd was in attendance to mark the official opening of the new Cirencester Baptist Church building



Two Baptist ministers marry in Cardiff
And 19 more ministers in attendance as the two Revds tie the knot



Presidency for science loving minister
David Gregory - or Dr Dave who runs a Messy Science Lab - will be our Union's President in 2018-19



Baptist minister to open micropub
St Canna's will be a meeting point for people in the community and the "diametric opposite” of “plastic” chain pubs



The Turning - first annual review
Organisers of a street mission which began in Reading and became known as The Turning have revealed that more than 7000 people in the UK have responded to the gospel in the last year



‘Quiet, strong, courageous faith’
Tributes have been paid to the Revd Barbara Stanford MBE, a longtime minister at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, who has died aged 81



'The time for compassion had come'
Why Baptists in Manchester built a hostel for marginalised foreign students instead of a new church