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Baptists Together magazine

 
Baptists Together is the A4 magazine which is sent to each minister, church secretary and church treasurer.  It seeks to share a range of stories of how our Baptist family is serving God in mission and ministry, as well as giving you information about developments within our Union and challenging you in your own discipleship.

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Mission in the Metaverse 
What is the Metaverse? In what ways is Christ incarnate within this new world? Peter Phillips highlights these and other questions as we explore how we do mission in the digital age
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What have they done?
A poem by Tim Presswood - Baptist Union President 2023-24
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The Consultation process - an update
By Jonny Hirst, on behalf of the Consultation Steering Group
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Prayers
Prayers written in response to the themes of this edition
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From internet cafes to international Zoom coffee
As technology has evolved, so it has impacted the lives of mission workers. Megan and Alan Barker, who have served long-term in Nepal with BMS, and the Chad-based Claire Bedford share their experiences
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Gen Z: The art of living in a digital age
Jane Shaw introduces a multi-authored book which offers insights into Gen Z
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Parenting in a Digital Age
During lockdown, many of us threw the rulebook in the air as regards boundaries for technology in the home in order to survive. Now is a brilliant time to reset those guidelines, writes Katharine Hill
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‘The most effective digital evangelism platform in the UK’
Around 1500 people visit the website Christianity.org.uk each day - and more than a quarter of new enquirers are people looking to become Christians. It’s easy and free to link from your own church website, writes Cherry Hamilton Bond
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Welcome to Godsquad
A church for video gamers has existed since 2016 – and Alice Cheeseman is a volunteer there.
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Social media is a way of collaborating with him
Femi Onanuga is a youth pastor, minister-in-training and former London Baptists intern – and he has a passion to see people use their social media for evangelism.
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Sharing Jesus through my Facebook page 
Baptist church member Paul James created an evangelistic Facebook page that initially saw many turn to Christ, and which is now developing in new ways.
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‘If others are blessed by it, then good’
Much to his surprise, Baptist minister-in-training Simon Clay has developed a following on TikTok
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‘Technology has been a game-changer in enabling my connection with the church’
How digital technology has blessed the life and ministry of Derby Urban Church in many unexpected and positive ways, with Chandra Morbey and Graham Watkins
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A hybrid church community 
Week by week we gather ‘onsite and online’ at Hillhead Baptist Church, a hybrid community of all ages and stages, yet one congregation doing our best to be one community. By Catriona Gorton
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The whole truth and nothing but the truth? 
AI, and how it relates to the gospel, was the focus of a guest service at Kendal Road Baptist Church in Gloucester earlier this year. Minister Steve Ayers explains why.
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Artificial
Exploring AI in art and the questions it raises through a Christian lens. By Mike Lowe
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The Church making change digitally
What would it look like to be an online presence for the gospel? Introducing the Change Makers Media project, a new digital Baptist missional resource to empower the wider Baptist family to be a part of the digital revolution
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Time for a defrag?
Simon Goddard and Nathan McGuire are helping to shape an online Baptist missional community called transform.church – and want to ask deeper questions about what it means to be a church in the digital sphere
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From one degree of imperfection to another
This conversation between Baptist ministers Ruth Gouldbourne and Steve Holmes focuses on issues raised following the pandemic
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Responding faithfully to AI
Sally Nelson highlights questions and ideas for Christians to ponder in the face of advances in AI
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Baptists and the Digital Revolution
It was 2018 when we identified the ‘digital revolution’ as a priority area across Baptists Together, writes General Secretary Lynn Green
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Autumn 2023 edition
Articles from 'Digital Revolution'
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Prayers: Jesus Commissions
This devotional is taken from Lectio 365, the daily devotional app from 24-7 Prayer.
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Did you pack this bag yourself?
Life as an airport chaplain, by Chris Goswami
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There is love here
Inspirational church ministry from Uganda - by BMS World Mission Writer, Laura Durrant
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Being a young Christian post-Christendom
Perspectives of three young Christians about being young Christians - by Amanda Higgin, Nathan McGuire and Alice Cheeseman
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Prayers
Two prayerful reflections based on the stories in this edition. By Jonathan Vaughan-Davies
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Stories and Questions
What questions arise for you from the good news stories in this magazine? What might God be wanting to say to us?
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They are such a blessing
Three former asylum seekers are now part of the leadership team at Stockton Baptist Church – and their impact on the life and witness of the church has been ‘such a blessing’, says minister Craig Downes.
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Seer Green Baptist Church: exploring a more missional life
“The church was beginning to realise that, unless it did something differently and thought about being more missional, there was the risk it might die in a generation”, says Louise Gilbertson.
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With God’s help we are being used to meet local need
Tom McGibbon, minister at Cleveleys Baptist Church, in the Blackpool area of the Fylde coast shares the story of the church becoming more outward-looking and reaching new people in creative ways.
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Big church/little church
Watchet Baptist Church has been on a journey discovering new ways of being missional disciples of Jesus - and this has included an overhaul of Sundays. Minister Mike Sherburn is joined by several members in reflecting on what’s happened so far.
A new children’s group
How God blessed Attleborough Baptist Church with a children’s group, having previously had no children in the congregation. Interview with minister Loriane Roberts.
God is at work anywhere
Haywards Heath Baptist Church experienced fruit and encouragement from moving Alpha online, initially during the lockdown. Deacon Penny Jenkins explains more.
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This place helps us so much
Renew Wellbeing has provided a valuable framework for Hong Kongers to settle and integrate here in England. Sharon Shek explains more.
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From three members to engaging with 15 families
Many villagers had never set foot inside Norton Baptist Church in Suffolk - but “they’re definitely noticing things are going on here now,” says community minister Caroline Vallance.
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We attract those who don’t easily fit in other contexts of church
In West Wales a small but enthusiastic Narberth Baptist Fellowship continues to meet in a renovated car port which is now a chapel, writes minister Linda Edwards.
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A place of sanctuary and hope, where people have come to faith
Oakham Baptist Church, Rutland marked its 250th birthday in 2022 with a renewed focus and commitment to the community, and as a result has ‘grown and reached deeper than ever before’, says minister Tom Bowring.
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We have continued to ask God to ‘Grow us, not to what was, but instead towards what we can become’
Developments at The Baptist Church, St Peter’s in Broadstairs, with minister Rhodri Walters and Kate Grant, who heads the Westover Beacon mission work.
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The Baptist church CAN continue to flourish in a thriving part of London
Minister Darren Powell shares some of the ways Northcote Road Baptist Church in Battersea is beginning to reconnect with its community.
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Together Magazine
Sharing stories of how our Baptist family is serving God in mission and ministry
Spring 2021 edition
Articles from 'Our Identity: listening to conversations'
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Summer 2021 edition
Articles from 'Pain and hope'
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Autumn 2021 edition
Articles from 'Order and chaos'
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Spring 2022 edition
Articles from 'Is it time for a new song?'
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Summer 2022 edition
Articles from 'Conversation and Connection'
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Autumn 2022 edition
Articles from 'Diverse people, common ground'
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Summer 2023 edition
Articles from 'God is at work'
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Autumn 2023 edition
Articles from 'Digital Revolution'
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