Baptist Assembly 2015

Reports, photos, blogs and tweets from the 2015 Baptist Assembly in Peterborough

Stories

Baptist Assembly 2015 opens

President Jenni Entrican's address

iOpener Prayer Session - Led by the young people in the Innovation programme

It all starts with God - Closing Celebration

Baptist Union Market Place sessions (including AGM)

The BMS World Mission AGM

Communion in community - The Big Picnic

Children at the Baptist Assembly

Inspiring stories - BMS World Mission staff shared three ways BMS is transforming lives around the world

Politics, and staying involved - The recent resource “Love Your Neighbour – Think Pray Vote” caught the imagination. Phil Jump reflects on where the church might go next following the Public Issues Market Place session

Market Place: Word and World

Market Place: 21st Century Disciples

Market Place: Mission and Ministry

Photos

Baptist Assembly 2015 - a Baptist Union Flickr album

Blogs on the Assembly

Small (Baptist) World - Catriona Gorton
BUGB / BMS Baptist Assembly 2015 - Neil Brighton

#bap15 - your tweets

Stop expecting our communities to come to us and get involved in what your community is doing #bap15
— Neil Boulton (@whatanumptee) May 16, 2015

Thoughts on @Baptistassembly after time to reflect: some great content, some good innovations, but too rushed #bap15
— Phil Palmer (@Philinthemiddle) May 17, 2015

Back from #BAP15. Definitely a fan of the new "assembly light" and the way it managed to be genuinely all age.
— Beth Allison-Glenny (@BethjAllison) May 16, 2015

If I were to give constructive feedback? A timetable with what different sessions included and longer AGMs (did I really say that?!) #bap15
— Beth Allison-Glenny (@BethjAllison) May 16, 2015

@gemmadunning I greatly enjoyed the day, a real family time with the young people strolling on and off the platform like they owned it!
— Wokingham Baptist (@WokinghamBap) May 18, 2015

Home after the long drive back to Devon. Good times @baptistassembly Great catching up with friends. #bap15 #JesusisLord
— Joe Haward (@HawardJoe) May 16, 2015

@baptistassembly I loved the fact that I wished both @baptistuniongb and @BMSWorldMission AGMs had been longer! #bap15
— Andrew Openshaw (@andjope) May 16, 2015

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Closure of Spurgeon’s College

Statements relating to the closure of the college, including links to updates

The 2025 Sam Sharpe Lecture

This year's lecturer Dr Selina Stone brings a prophetic and deeply theological lens to the Sharpe legacy of "liberation from below”, writes Wale Hudson Roberts

Fresh Streams calls Baptists Together to a day of prayer and fasting

Fresh Streams is inviting Baptist churches, ministers, and individuals across the UK to unite in a dedicated day of prayer and fasting on Thursday, 25 September 2025

'A thank-you—from those taught, challenged, and inspired by her ministry'

The Revd Dr Karen E. Smith was surprised with the presentation of a new volume published in her honour at this year’s Baptist Historical Society Summer Conference

Calling previous members of the Joppa Group

Were you a member of the Joppa Group? Do you have historic papers about it? An invitation-based roundtable event is being co-convened to mark the 40th anniversary of the group's founding. Paul Weller explains more

Ripples of Change - a service of celebration and thankfulness

A service has been organised to mark the role Jane Day served in our Baptist family as Centenary Enabler, combining thankfulness for the progress made, as well as a time of lament for many of the findings of Project Violet. Lisa Kerry explains more

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