The world, and our realities for ministry and mission, continues to change uncomfortably quickly. So it is essential that we undergird everything with prayer.
The energy costs of heating large empty chapel buildings with old and inefficient heating systems is going to significantly rise and perhaps those same questions will return; how do we continue to meet?
‘I wasn’t looking to leave my work here’ says Rosa over coffee in a café in the village of Tonteg on the outskirts of Cardiff. ‘I think I had expected that I would stay here until I retired, to be honest! This is where we live as a family – we feel part of the community.’ But God opened a different door…
Over the past decade God has transformed this church, and food and hospitality have been at the heart of that transformation…
“This is the latest development in our church life: a ‘Caru Caersalem’ (‘Loving Caersalem’) evening, an evening of fun, sharing and hearing different voices within the church… in short, everything except a service.”
Nestled in a deep valley on the Wales/ England border is the town of Knighton (Trefyclo) with a population of 3000 or so souls, and further up the same valley lies the village of Knucklas. This is the home of Knighton and Knucklas Baptist church, which…
They could see the way things were going, and the danger that all the chapels would close one by one if they continued down the current trajectory…
Cwmcarn is in many ways a fairly typical valleys community, nestled in the Ebbw valley under scenic Twmbarlwm mountain. The village has…
As 2022 gets underway we are launching a new email newsletter which is available for anyone to receive. ‘Baptist news’ will come out once a month and
“It was a joy to enter into cold waters on this particular day, in order to baptize a friend and fellow Christian. Dominic was once an atheist…”
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