Join us in prayer for Baptist Union Council 21-22 October 2025

Baptist Union Council is meeting next week and we invite you to join us in prayer. 

You will see from the agenda we have a variety of topics for discussion, discernment and information, these include:

• Formation Eco-System Update (Please see this Council report to read more about this topic)
• Spurgeon’s College Closure
• Baptist Identity
• Project Violet Accountability Report
• The rise of the Far Right and local witness
• SENT Report and 18-35s future plans
• Farewell to Seidel Abel Boanerges as Moderator of Council

These will be in addition to our normal updates including finance and pensions, Key Roles Nominations Team and new member churches.

Should you wish to discuss the agenda before Council meets please contact your local representative which you can find here.

For those of you who would like to understand the role of Council, our Governance Report outlines the role of Council as follows: 

The key location of strategic leadership and oversight for the Union should be with the Council. This is the body that is representative of the churches through their Associations and colleges, and where the full diversity of the denomination can and should be fully expressed. The leadership and oversight of others will be discerned and held accountable here. As we envisage it, it will be: 

• the body which exercises spiritual and strategic oversight of the affairs of the Union; 
• the place where the rich diversity of our membership will be expressed and empowered and leadership exercised; 
• the forum in which the complex relationships of Union life will be valued and mutual trust be encouraged and enabled; 
• the meeting at which key decision-makers, such as appropriate association officers, will play a part alongside prophetic voices and spiritual leaders.

Further reflections and decisions from Council will be communicated in the following week.

Lynn Green, General Secretary of Baptists Together