Each week the Eastern Baptist Association will produce a Weekly Prayer Focus for a different member church across the region. We hope you will be able to use the article and accompanying PowerPoint and PDF to encourage you and your churches in prayers for others in the association.
Hawkwell BC was formed in the early 1920s and was a plant from Clarence Rd/Avenue BC in Southend. Richard Iles came to the church in 2006 as an Associate Pastor and has held various roles since. He and his wife Sue are now on the team along with other leaders. As a fellowship they have a real heart for community and passionately desire to be a place where people are cared for, accepted, encouraged, helped, healed and forgiven. They long to see transformation through the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit which they see increasing and this is the most exciting aspect of where they are at just now. The outworking of these principles is seen in the various groups they run, including Nostalgia, Men’s…
Somersham Baptist Church is a small village church with a vision to provide opportunities for the village to get to know Christians with a living, dynamic relationship with Jesus. They are in a new chapter of life as they appointed a new minister, Joshua Ross, after 7 years of vacancy. In this new season, they hope to deepen bonds within the church and together grow closer to God. As the church learns to partner with a minister, Joshua is also learning new skills. He brings 25 years of cross-cultural experience into the new ministry role. He does this alongside his wife and 3 children, one of whom is still at home. God is at the centre of their Sunday services with about 20 people worshipping…
Located in the market town of Mildenhall in Suffolk, King’s Church Mildenhall is a loving church made up of people from all walks of life and from different backgrounds and cultures. They enjoy being a diverse fellowship, and are blessed to have an American contingent from the local USAF bases; all sharing in a common goal to ‘express his life, and fulfil his purpose’, through worshipping God and making Jesus Christ known in their community. The Leadership of the church includes Lead Pastor, Rev Carl Morehouse, Associate Pastor, Rev Tim Bright, and Lay Pastor, Rev Peter Finnis. The church has a large programme of regular activities throughout the week, including a lunch club that hosts around 40 people, a youth café that sees 20+ teenagers come…
The Welcome Directory has a simple yet powerful vision: EMPOWERING FAITH COMMUNITIES TO WELCOME PRISON LEAVERS. The Welcome Directory supports the resettlement of people leaving prison in two ways; providing a directory of churches and other faith communities to prison chaplains identifying places where people leaving prison are welcome supporting faith communities registered with us to do this in ways that are Welcoming, Accepting and Safe. There are currently 455 communities on The Welcome Directory, with the Eastern Region represented above. The purple tags represent Baptist Churches. The issues facing prison leavers are, as I am sure you can imagine pretty huge. I heard someone recently say that when they left prison “I was completely destroyed. I was frightened, had lost my family, and did…