Dennis Pethers came to share at our Minister’s Conference about this exciting unique ‘event’ that will be taking place across the globe on October 2nd 2022. The Rooftop ‘Global Encounter’ is an opportunity for followers of Jesus all over the world to gather together in the cities, towns or villages where they live, look across their community and seek a fresh vision of God’s heart for the lost. The longing of The Rooftop Ministry is that this will be an awakening that leads to a global disciple-making movement – A MOMENT that leads to a MOVEMENT. More details about this unique opportunity can be found on the Global Encounter website as well as: A simple form that you can complete to HOST an ENCOUNTER. Your ENCOUNTER will then appear on a world map displayed on the website. A link to a variety of RESOURCES to enable you to promote and host your ENCOUNTER: A promotional …
Will you be joining in as we pray for direction together? Our vision, which began back in 2018, is prayer across the whole association over the course of a week. This year the week we have chosen is 19-23 September which finishes with the EBA Gathering on Saturday 24 September. We would like a series of groups that meet in a range of locations that focus their prayer on our association, our churches and our communities. The groups would be open to anyone from the EBA to attend and would ideally last an hour. We are looking for hosts. Would you like to host and use your church as one of those venues? This could be either in the evening or daytime? Would your minister’s group or local churches like to join together and host one? The regional team will be producing a range of optional resources and prayer points …
During 2022 we plan to return to face-to-face safeguarding training. We have been working on a series of dates and venues across the association, those listed below are not exhaustive and will be added to. The training will be offered at both level 2 and Level 3 with some dates offering both. Level 2 is designed for the minister, deacons/trustees, the designated person for safeguarding and all those who work with children, young people and adults. Level 3 is designed for all church leaders including the minister, deacons/trustees, and the designated person for safeguarding. Level 3 training is designed to follow on from Level 2 and you should attend the Level 2 Course before accessing Level 3. Both courses are bespoke for working in Baptist Churches so even if your workers have attended safeguarding training through a place of work or other volunteer role then we would still encourage them to attend …
Rhythm of Prayer As we enter 2022, we would like to invite you to join with us in asking ‘Which way Lord?’ As we live in these uncertain times, we feel that it is more important than ever that we seek God’s will and to invite Him to lead us afresh and so the theme for our rhythm of prayer 2022 is ‘Which way Lord?’ We will be praying at 9.30am on the 1st Tuesday of the month and we will also be continuing with our termly prayer and weeks of prayer. The Zoom link for all of these meetings is: Topic: EBA Zoom Meeting Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88201290903 Meeting ID: 882 0129 0903 Passcode: 794152 Anyone from an EBA church is welcome to join us. We look forward to ‘seeing’ you at one of our times of prayer together.