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Newbold Diversity Lecture: Challenges to Young Christians in Urban Communities
The challenges to young Christians in urban communities were the focus of the first Diversity Lecture of the 2021-22 academic year at Newbold College, on Tuesday evening 14 September 2021. The featured speakers were Pastor Lorraine (Lolly) Fontaine, a pastor in central London and Thomas Mwadimé, ...
Drill and Drum Reaches the Southwest
What a blessing this past weekend (24-26 September) was for the Adventurers, Pathfinders and parents of Plymouth church and their friends, the Exeter Pathfinder Club! Everyone gathered at Chapel Porth Campsite for the first Pathfinder Drill and Drum Bootcamp in memory to reach the far Southwest o...
Blackburn Day of Fellowship
“the followers of Jesus were a handful of people whom the authorities in Jerusalem regarded as ordinary, simple, unlettered, and ignorant men and women. There were just twelve men essentially, and several others with them. They had nothing to recommend them, no great names, no degrees, no money, no means of communication or of advertising. They had nothing at all, they were nobodies. And yet what we know to be a fact is that this handful of ignorant and unlettered people turned the world upside down.”
Welsh Mission Day of Fellowship and Ordination
On Sabbath 18 September, for the first time since the lockdown, members from within the Welsh Mission territory were able to come together for a Day of Fellowship. Held at the Holiday Inn hotel conference suite in Newport, approximately 200 people assembled wearing their masks and in their 'famil...
When the Pastor Grieves
Your pastor is human too! Pastors go through a lot and still have to give a lot. They cry and grieve too. Grieving can't be wished away just like one of your bad days or can it be quickly forgotten just like a friendly disappointing football match loss. As for a friendly football match, a team ca...
BUC Executive Approves Draft Constitution for Session
The British Union Conference Executive Committee has approved a version of the proposed new BUC Constitution to present at the BUC Session, which will run from Thursday 21 to Friday 22 October 2021. More than two years in the making, the latest version is draft 19, which gives an idea of the amou...
NEC Session Convenes with Administrative Changes
On Wednesday 8 September, 295 delegates met together at the Jury’s Inn, Hinckley, Leicestershire, to conduct the business of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the North England Conference (NEC), to look back over the past, and to plan and trust in God for the future. The delegates represent a 1...
BUC Latest Tithe Report
As more and more of our churches (covid aware) begin to reopen tithe continues to improve. Comparing July 2019 tithe still reflects a 6.2% increase. BUC July 2021 tithe of £14,593,384 shows a +24.7% increase (£2,888,238) on 2020. Against our budget we are £116,180 (+8.6%) above our 2021 projectio...