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Ways you can join with the Project Violet lament 


From now until Baptist Assembly 2025 all of Baptists Together are encouraged to join the Project Violet lament - and co-leader Jane Day shares ways you can take part


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This research has investigated women’s experiences in ministry whilst developing women ministers. It has helped Baptists Together understand more fully the theological, missional, and structural obstacles women ministers face in the Baptist community in Great Britain and identify ways forward. 

Project Violet's Request for Change 57 is that Baptist Union Council calls Baptists Together to prayer and lament, and in October 2024 this was agreed.
 
Expressions of this lament include the offering of prayers, liturgy, poetry, song and art and other creative approaches to help us express our lament in this period. At Assembly 2025 we will hear feedback and reflect on what we have learned.

On the Project Violet lament area of our website you will find links to resources to use individually, in small groups and within a church service to reflect on the outcomes of Project Violet and join together in this period of lament. You can also submit your own responses.

We also call on every church to offer prayers when they are gathered in worship. Specially written prayers are being offered to support and enable this.

Project Violet has taken us beyond a pastoral response to the injustices reported in the findings of the research.
 
An extended period of lament is needed to acknowledge the pain which has been shared and to orientate us towards how God is going to lead and heal us.


Click here to access the Project Violet lament area of the website


 

Baptist Times, 20/01/2025
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