The Baptist Union of Great Britain : Baptists Together magazine articles

Prayers

Be Sent (reflecting on John 20:19-23) by Mike Sherburn

Resources

A selection of helpful resources

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Slow Wisdom in the Baptist Church

Are you looking for a way to help your church in discernment? Consider using the Slow Wisdom video course, writes Ruth Moriarty

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Entwined – Life with Jesus in a changing climate

The Holy Spirit is drawing people with a heart for climate justice towards Jesus, writes Dave Gregory, convenor of the Baptist Union Environment Network

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“Young people are wanting to engage and ask questions”

Churches in Salisbury, Wiltshire, were surprised – and delighted – when 100 participants signed up for their Youth Alpha Course. Interview with Hannah Giles

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Connecting in coastal communities

Barney Barron introduces Coastal Expression, a network helping to bring together those ministering on the margins in our coastal towns

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“We have a common belief and love for God we would love to share with others”

Harefield Baptist Church, Middlesex by minister Val Pyper

Making room for people to belong

Ian Pethick reflects on his first term as a Baptist intern at Buckland Road Baptist Church in Poole

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“Putting a smile on the face of the building”

Camberley Baptist Church, by minsters Richard and Fran Bellingham

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“He is a light for these people here”

Lisa Isaac shares the story of Golau Baptist Church in Llanelli, tracing its beginnings as a small youth group to a newly constituted, Home Mission-supported church that meets in unconventional spaces

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Planting a Baptist Church in the West Midlands

How a consistent, pastoral presence has led to the gospel taking root. Interview with Mark Francis-Green

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“People are desperate and don’t need entertainment; they need Jesus”

Rye Lane Chapel has seen lives transformed in its community through a combination of evangelism and responding to local needs. Pastor Phil Woolley shares the church’s story

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Connecting with food - and at Christmas

A weekly community meal at New Mill Baptist Church in Tring helps to alleviate loneliness – and a farm animal event at Christmas has become a community attraction. By Jackie Buie

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“It’s helped with our discernment” Westvale Community Church

Interview with Miranda Odysseos-Beaumont, minister of Westvale Community Church

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“A more missional attitude” Ewhurst Baptist Church

Minister Ben Scadden on missional developments at Ewhurst Baptist Church

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How can we be more effective together for the kingdom?

How one Association is partnering with its churches in mission

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Resisting the secularising drift of social action

I believe that social action projects should not accept the common ‘secularising drift’ that occurs within so much church-based social action, writes Jon Kuhrt

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Dwelling, Discerning and Exploring

We’re in a new context, a change of era – and that means discerning where God is moving in our neighbourhoods, and then taking risks to join in, says Roy Searle

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Evangelism in the everyday life of mission

The Everyone, Everywhere initiative is discovering a renewed desire to recover confidence in sharing faith and forming new Christian communities.

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Baptist Together Mission Forum

The purpose of Mission Forum is to maintain a national perspective on mission across the Baptist family and be a place for collaborative listening and action. We seek to discern what God is doing at the grassroots and reflect this back across the movement

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Walking Worthy

Introducing his theme, incoming President Alex Afriyie highlights three ways we can ‘walk worthy’ of our calling to represent Jesus in the UK today

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Fulfilling Jesus' Great Commandment and Great Commission in our Places

There is no secret formula, writes General Secretary Lynn Green, but here are some important aspects when it comes to participating in God’s mission

Spring 2026 edition

Articles from 'Mission: There is no secret formula'

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Prayers and Poems

A selection of prayers from Slow Down, Show Up and Pray, and Prayers of the People - along with two poems written in response to the articles in this edition by Mike Sherburn

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Resources

A selection of helpful resources

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What does it mean to gather in a digital space?

Gathering digitally represents a reality for many, while others are reflecting on the mission possibilities of sharing God’s love online. Here are snippets from some of the articles we have carried, alongside links to the full pieces.

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Gathering amid the arrivals and departures of an international airport

‘Gathering’ might seem a strange theme to reflect on for a place that daily facilitates up to 250,000 people journeying to and from some 220 destinations worldwide, writes Ruth Bottoms

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Connecting young adults through faith, fellowship and purpose

“The intention wasn’t really to create a young adults ministry,” notes Grace Savage of Hill Cliffe Baptist Church in Warrington. “We fell into it accidentally – but it shows there is a need.”

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Gathering is life together

What does it look like to gather as the church, when you don’t have a building, a stage, or even a Sunday service? That’s the context for Ocean Church in Poole, one of the newest members of our Union. Minister John Good explains more.

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Following Jesus is about the whole of life, not just Sunday

The ‘sustainable’ rhythm of gathering for Light of Life Baptist Church, near Great Yarmouth. Interview with Elizabeth Stoner.

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In a place such as ours, it becomes incredibly important you retain a Christian witness

Interview with Tim Lovejoy, who works part-time for Fulmerston Christian Fellowship, a Baptist church in Thetford.

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‘Alternative Gatherings’ at Chichester Baptist Church

How members are encouraged to spend one of their Sunday mornings each month in the community. Interview with minister and team leader, Ellen Wild.

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The power of gathering: A church rooted in mission

Gathering as an intentional space for encounter with God and with one another – and a church that gathers is a church that goes. By Henry C Ohaka

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Why are Gen Z turning up at churches?

And what are they looking for? A conversation and reflections with Isabella Senior, Kira Williams-Geohaghan and Joel Hawksworth

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A growing interest in Christianity?

Several recent studies have pointed to an increased interest in faith generally and Christianity specifically, even charting a surprising rise in regular churchgoing. Here’s a summary of what they’re saying by Paul Hobson

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The Book of Heaven

Any church that lives up to its mandate to love is already quietly but measurably changing the world around it, writes Roger Bretherton

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Our Baptist roots of gathering

Is it enough to say the church is the people, not the building? Not for the earliest Baptists, writes Ruth Gouldbourne

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We need each other

When thinking about growing and maturing in the faith there is often a tendency to think merely in terms of personal spiritual development, writes Karen E Smith.

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