Events 

SCBA Events

 

SCBA Visions of Colour Conference: Equipping Leaders to Develop Interethnic Churches
Thursday 25th April 2024, 10am-4pm

John Bunyan Baptist Church, Cowley, Oxford

Helping ministers and leaders develop an awareness of, sensitivity to, and action towards issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural discrimination in Baptist Churches in Britain.

For more information and to book please click here.
 

CYF Catch-ups

4 locations, 4 dates, 4 opportunities for those working with children, young people and families to gather to support and encourage one another.

If you'd like to come then let Clare know so that she can be looking out for you on the day.

SCBA 2024 Golf Tournament
Monday 3rd June 2024

Christchurch Golf Club, Dorset

2024 marks the nineteenth occasion that churches will have completed for the Frank Boyd shield. The Christchurch Golf Club Course is suitable for the whole range of golfers from Hackers to Scratchers where the aim is to finish second so as not to be responsible for arranging the 20th tournament!

Each participating church is invited to submit a team of four players (playing as two pairs). You are welcome to invite and bring non-church members to make up your team of four. We are well aware of how difficult it can be for smaller churches to find four golfers so as in the past we will accept one team of two players (one pair instead of two), and there will be a separate prize for the winning pair.

The day includes coffee and bacon roll on arrival at 10.30am, 18 holes of golf (in groups of four), prizes and a two-course meal at 5pm. The cost is £45 per person. The first tee time will be 11.30pm.

Please contact George Callan at: george.callan@christchurchbaptist.org.uk for more information and a booking form. 

It would be helpful if churches hoping to take part could let George know as soon as possible so he can have some idea of the possible numbers.
 

SCBA Smaller Churches Hub Meeting



Coming to SCBA in 2024!

Find out more about this fantastic course here.

If you'd be interested in hosting the training or encouraging your team to sign up then please do get in touch so we can build the delivery around what would work for you (online or in person, evenings or weekends, etc.). Email Clare
 

SCBA Mentoring Training

 

Other Events

  

Project Violet - How to Respond to the Findings

Thursday 2nd May 2024, 7-8pm

Online

The findings from Project Violet will be released on Thursday 2 May 2024. This significant piece of research began in 2021 and explores women’s experiences in ministry. You are strongly encouraged to join the conversation and meet co-leads Jane Day and Helen Cameron as they help Baptists Together navigate the findings.  Not to be missed!

Please do join them for this online conversation. To book your place, please click here.

General Secretary Lynn Green said, ‘Project Violet has already had an impact but now we are looking forward to the release of the findings on 2 May 2024.  All Baptist groups will want to take time to consider them and make their response by the end of September.’

To help the Baptist community prepare five podcast episodes are being released with the first due to drop on 1 February:  https://projectvioletpodcast.podbean.com/

In addition a 15-minute film ‘A name to live up to’ has been released with an accompanying study guide.  The film features an interview with Helen Pankhurst a prominent advocate for women: www.baptist.org.uk/helenpankhurst

Seventeen women ministers have undertaken research, and they are meeting in April to agree the findings and requests for change which will be released on 2 May.

Project Violet has been undertaken by the Centre for Baptist Studies at Regent’s Park College, Oxford and funded by the Mission Forum and Baptist Trustees.  See the Project website: www.projectviolet.org.uk

Baptists & Biblical Scholarship: Historical & Contemporary Reflections - Day Conference
Thursday 9th May 2024, 10am

Regents Park College, Oxford

Baptists care about the Bible, believing it is of utmost importance that the Bible is read and interpreted - as a source of faith and guidance for the church.  Baptists have produced a number of notable biblical scholars, especially in the twentieth century, whose work has been widely read and influential in the academy. Some were appointed professors in their field in Manchester, King's College London and in the US.

This one-day conference will focus on how Baptists have contributed to biblical scholarship and how this has been, and is still today, received by the academy and the church.

The conference is free to attend and lunch is included, though places are limited so registration is required.

For more information and to book, please click here
 

Cosham Baptist Church - Pastoral Training Day: "It Costs to Care"
Saturday 11th May 2024, 10am-4pm

Cosham Baptist Church

How can we be servants of Christ in a hurting world? A day of seminars run by Ian and Ruth Coffey which will take a practical look at how local churches can respond appropriately to need.

For more information on the workshops, please download the information handout here

To book onto the day, please click here

Refreshments are provided but please bring your own lunch.
 

Baptist Assembly
17th-19th May 2024

Telford International Centre

Baptist Assembly 2024 is over Pentecost weekend and will be a wonderful opportunity to be filled afresh with the gift of the Holy Spirit. We will dwell on the words of Acts 2 throughout and prayer will be central. Friends from across the Baptist family will be joining us for what is hoped to be a genuine, contemporary Pentecost for Baptists Together.
Our General Secretary Lynn Green will be our Keynote Speaker who says, ‘For me there is an expectation this will be a special and holy space and you won’t want to miss out’.
 

 

For more information and to book, please go to Baptist Assembly

Fresh Streams Theology School - Ecclesiology Re-Imagined
19th - 20th June

Fresh Streams is holding its Summer Theology School over 2 days on 19th and 20th June in Stafford at Rising Brook Community Church.

Why do our churches operate and organise themselves as they do? This discussion of what the church is called to be - including its purpose, structures and practices - is called ecclesiology.

In recent times our ecclesiology has come under the microscope like never before. At the 2024 Fresh Stream Theology School, some of our best theologians and practitioners will lead you to take a detailed look: what does the Bible say and history teach us? Should our structures be completely de-institutionalised and flexible? What is the Spirit saying? What about the future? Is there a Baptist way of being church that is sacrosanct to us?

For more information and to book, please click here.

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