www.seventy-two.network

This is the design for the background of our Seventy-two stand. It's been delivered now to the WEBA office and we'll try and put it together at our Spring Harvest planning day tomorrow!
It has to be said there is some doubt concerning our capability of doing this ... 'how many Baptist Ministers does it take jokes may be multiplying.
The Seventy-two website is now live though, so do check that out and add your name to the mailing list for what we hope will be regular updates from here on:
http://seventy-two.network

The Good Sam-aritan

http://www.webassoc.org.uk/the-good-sam-aritan/

The Good Sam-aritan

This story has hit several national papers, but if you missed it…

Rev. Sam King, minister of Calne Baptist Church took part in an experiment with The Bible Society. Dressed as a vicar, and then as a rough sleeper, he asked passers by if he could borrow their phones to make a call. The results were filmed secretly, and you can see what happened – in both a long and short version of the video – on this page on the Bible Society’s website:

http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/our-work/the-good-samaritan/

The Great Unraveling

Merely a signpost to another challenging piece by Alan Roxburgh ... certainly a 'must reflect further' issue for anyone of us involved in anything we might identify as a 'church system': 

The Great Unraveling

We live in a time of huge change and contested stories. It is a time when even the most basic, taken-for-granted systems of organization seem to be dissolving. All of this is particularly true for those Protestant denominations into which many of us were born and to which many of those reading these words have given their life and leadership. These denominations and their churches, as we have known them, are effectively finished! They must now enter a time of being fundamentally remade. 

Read more:  http://themissionalnetwork.com/why/what-were-discovering/energiewende/