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Day 6 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Chingford, Waltham Forest

February 6, 2016

After a period of decline left Kings Road Baptist Church in North East London with few members and no officers, services in the chapel were suspended. In 2012 Grace Baptist Partnership – in fellowship with Home Mission – developed a plan to replant the church. With the support of Hayes Lane Baptist Church in Bromley, Bernard Roberts and his wife Michelle were set aside to lead the work. Now more than three years into the project, they are seeing fruit for their labour and the small, increasingly-healthy church is growing.

Day 5 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Chelmondiston, Suffolk

February 5, 2016

What do you do when six of your eight church members leave? I suppose it depends on why they left. If they left because you were guilty of doctrinal or moral infidelity, you should repent and step down from church office. If they left because of unresolved personal differences, you should seek reconciliation without delay. But what if you sought such reconciliation and your efforts were effectively rebuffed? What do you then? For David Kelland and his wife these are not hypothetical questions but the exact situation they faced in Chelmondiston little more than three years ago.

Day 4 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

February 4, 2016

Church planting is not as glamorous as it looks. Ask the friends at Chatteris. They can tell you. Many times they have known the reality of being exhausted by the fight and exasperated by the fault-finders. They have oft embodied what it means to be faint, yet pursuing. But, to the praise of God, though they have often been faint they have never been faint-hearted.

Day 3 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Charlwood, Surrey

February 3, 2016

My questioner came straight to the point. Everything that can be done has already been done. People have prayed. People have evangelised. Meetings have been organised. Nothing has happened. Isn’t it prideful of you to think you will succeed where others have failed? I resisted the temptation to respond with the obvious rejoinder – Isn’t it prideful of you to think that no one else can succeed because you have failed? – and gave what I trust was a more helpful (and humble) reply.

Day 1 – 29 Days of Prayer and Giving – Angel, Islington

February 1, 2016

Today we begin 29 Days of Prayer and Giving for Grace Baptist Partnership. Each day we will focus our attention on a particular church planting, church replanting or church revitalisation project in which we have an interest. We trust you will remember these situations in prayer and that you will take advantage of the opportunity to support the spread of the gospel by means of a donation to Grace Baptist Partnership this month. It will also help us if you will share these requests with your friends by forwarding these emails to them.

Some recent updates from January 2016

January 26, 2016

What an encouraging (and challenging!) month January 2016 has proven to be for Grace Baptist Partnership.

Growing smaller churches

January 26, 2016

Growing smaller churches: Three regional day conferences for church leaders in 2016 exploring how smaller churches can grow

A Special Invitation – 5th Anniversary of Grace Baptist Partnership

December 12, 2014

When church-goers in the Victorian era heard Joseph Parker preach we are told they said, “Isn’t Joseph Parker wonderful?” Whereas, when they heard Charles Spurgeon preach they said, “Isn’t Jesus Christ wonderful?”

When we meet in early 2015 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Grace Baptist Partnership it is not to trumpet our accomplishments or to heap praise on our leaders. Rather we will meet to give an opportunity for those who have supported the work of the Partnership through their prayers and finances along with those who have been supported by our efforts in church planting and revitalisation to glorify God for the great things HE has done. Here is the plan.

Effective Evangelism

June 13, 2014

On 2 June 2014, leaders from 36 different churches gathered for a challenging day of ministry and encouraging times of fellowship at “Effective Evangelism”, a day conference hosted by Grace Baptist Church Edlesborough.

Partnership Update – February 2014

February 20, 2014

With a number of special events planned for March in the churches and church plants with which we enjoy fellowship, this update will be given over to informing you about some of these meetings and encouraging your prayers and when possible your presence.

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