United in Mission - Baptist Assembly 2025

This year's Baptist Assembly will explore what we can learn about local mission using global insight

This national gathering is taking a lead on mission, evangelism and discipleship, offering a mission conference where inspiration, discernment, storytelling, resourcing and sharing good practice takes place. 2025 will see BMS World Mission taking a lead role as we hear from the global majority. This will provide teaching and resourcing for mission which can make a difference in our local communities.  

Taking place from noon Friday 16 May to 7pm Saturday 17 May at the Bethel Centre, West Bromwich, sessions include:  


Flourishing discipleship: from Kolkata to Toxteth and back again  

Come join us as we explore together how to make disciples within our very own contexts and congregations. BMS World Mission’s Indian evangelist Ben Francis has given life to over 50,000 house churches in his homeland over the last 20 years. Over that time, he has shaped a ‘Look back – Look up – Look forward’ mission framework that is now being adopted and adapted by UK Baptist churches.  

A meeting in Kolkata between Ben and Toxteth Tabernacle’s Jack Sykes saw this missional movement flow from northeast India to northwest England. Jack and Ben will be on hand to share all that has been learned from the experience and what this looks like in a UK context.

They will be joined by Kwame Adzam, Head of BMS’ Heart for the Gospel ministry, to share how disciple-making movements are bearing fruit within the cracked soil of Bangladesh, Thailand and North Africa and how we can be inspired by them. 

 
Unity in diversity: when intercultural mission goes local  

BMS World Misson partner Quest Academy works on the faultline where refugees meet local communities. Come join Quest’s Peter Samir and BMS’s Head of the Help for the Journey ministry Sam Chaise as they share their experiences of training those from Arabic and Farsi backgrounds to bring the gospel to this group of people who have been displaced from their homes and now live in the UK. 

As the world tilts drastically on its geopolitical axis, Peter and Sam will be joined by Sharon Shek and Londy Chan from the Hong Kong Response Project as they share stories of helping Baptists discern how God is at work amid migrants in your communities.

And in the spirit of bringing as much experience as possible to see how we all can benefit, we will be joined by the Revd Amutha Deveraj, the first non-male, non-white minister at Ashurst Drive Baptist Church in northeast London to share about intercultural church leadership serving and reaching a multicultural community.  

 
Baptist Assembly is uniquely placed to enable us to lean into our shared values, DNA and rich story. We want to come together to listen and commit ourselves to God’s call to mission for us as a Movement in these days.  

In the past, national discernment was a regular part of Assembly and is making a return in 2025. In the lead up, throughout both days and after Assembly, there will be an invitation to join the conversation with what God is saying to our wider movement.  

We are primarily a relational movement. Spending meaningful time together is very important and so for the first time an evening meal on the Friday and Saturday lunch are included in the ticket price.  

A full programme for children and young people will be available on the Saturday.  

On the Saturday we will be celebrating the present and committing to the future. We will share communion, study the Bible together, celebrate all that God has been doing through the previous year and discern His call to us going forward.  Importantly, we will also honour those ministers who are being commissioned and those who have been promoted to glory. 

Baptists Together General Secretary Lynn Green and BMS General Director Kang-San Tan both agree, ‘We want to see lives and communities changed by the Good News that is Jesus! 

'United in Mission is taking a lead on mission, evangelism and discipleship and will inspire and catalyse conversation and action across our movement. We have a beautiful and dynamic distinctiveness that God has given us, and it is our hope we use this for his glory and Kingdom locally and globally’.   


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