Linked Organisations
Listed below are just some of the organisations that SEBA work with - click on the links for more information
African Pastors Fellowship
Baptist Union Environment Network
Churches Together
Everyone Everywhere
Fresh Streams
Joint Public Issues Team
Kent Workplace Mission
Lead Academy
London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
Scripture Union
Share Jesus International
Thrive Baptist Networks
TLG Transforming Lives for Good
Youthscape
African Pastors Fellowship (APF)
Enabling effective ministry in Africa
African Pastors Fellowship is a UK charity working alongside church and community leaders in Africa: training, equipping and resourcing the local African church so communities might be transformed.
To find out more, please go to their website https://africanpastors.org/
The Baptist Union Environment Network - ‘BUEN’, meaning good in Spanish aims to raise awareness and respond to the environmental crisis. They are building a network of environmental partners across Regional Association life who can journey alongside churches to enable them to
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recognise the goodness of God’s creation
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share in God’s mission to care for it and respond to the climate and environmental crisis in practical ways
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work for justice for creation and people impacted by environmental change
BUEN is seeking to enable the Baptists Together family to be a prophetic movement in facing the climate and environmental crisis shaped by our shared values;
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seeking to be a movement of Spirit led communities - hearing the cry of creation, recognising God’s call to caring for creation as an integral part of missional discipleship
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feel like One Team - draw together different regional and world voices across the generations, listening to our failures, needs, fears and dreams, inspiring one another to a common desire to live in harmony with creation as disciples of Jesus
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embracing Adventure - individually, locally, regionally and nationally, transition to a zero net carbon network by 2035
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inspiring Others - seek to influence wider society to be part of a movement capturing God’s creative intent for human beings to care for creation
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share a hunger for God’s coming kingdom - through prayer and action, in the face of the climate crisis, seek justice for the Earth, enabling the flourishing of all living things and its peoples
Click here for the latest news and updates.
If any churches would like to know more about the Baptist Union Environment Network (BUEN) please don't hesitate to get in touch with Revd Stuart Davison, the BUEN rep for SEBA - click here to email him.
We work closely with other church denominations and enjoy a good ecumenical relationship through Churches Together - for more information on what's happening where you are, please click on the link below.
Churches Together in England
Everyone Everywhere
The good news about Jesus is being broadcast and experienced in all sorts of ways across our Baptist movement. Everyone Everywhere wants to gather that all together and inspire and equip individuals and churches with the tools they need to see new people choose to follow Jesus.
To find out more, check out their website
Fresh Streams
Rooted. Alive. Together – Giving Courage!
Fresh Streams is a national movement giving courage to leaders and leadership teams, rooted in the Word, alive in the Spirit, releasing for Kingdom impact.
To find out more, go to their website
The Joint Public Issues Team is a partnership between the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church, and the United Reformed Church. Their purpose is to help Churches to work together for peace and justice through listening, learning, praying, speaking and acting on public policy issues.
Christians are called to act justly and to work for God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. JPIT aim to:
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Share the message in words and action that political engagement is integral to Christian discipleship
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Understand what churches need in order to speak and act prophetically and prayerfully on key issues of justice and peace
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Equip, energise, affirm, support and resource our churches, at both local and denominational level, in their engagement with politics and public issues
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Enable our Churches to speak together with a distinctively Christian voice in promoting justice and campaigning on public issues
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Build deeper coalitions and partnerships to further these outcomes locally, regionally, in the nations, and internationally
For more information, please check out their
website.
Whether you're struggling to survive at work, or want to understand more deeply your calling in the workplace, we are here to encourage and support you with all the practical, theological and spiritual issues we face in paid or unpaid work.
• We offer a range of support for people of faith while they are at work.
• We help local communities of faith/church engage the local economy where they are.
• We develop with businesses onsite chaplaincy services.
Check out their website for up to date news.
Lead Academy
Lead Academy is all about Christian Leadership training for church leaders and leadership teams. Our Lead Academy team of experienced practitioners and facilitators work together to equip leaders and enable churches to fulfil God’s vision for their own unique context. To work effectively together, with resilience, and be fruitful over decades.
We aim to be generous, undefended and not to take ourselves too seriously.
Go to their website, for more information
London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC)
Empowering Christians to make a difference in daily life.
If every Christian was equipped to live their whole life as Jesus would, it would change the world – one place, task, and person at a time.
The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity exists to help every Christian in the UK discover three simple truths:
Wherever we are, we can join in with what God is doing – whether he’s placed us in an office, a builders’ yard, a school, a sports club, or anywhere else.
The tasks we do matter deeply to God – from writing reports to fixing lights, caring for parents to driving buses, who we are and what we do has God-given purpose.
We can be fruitful in all kinds of ways – by modelling godly character, making good work, ministering grace and love, moulding culture, and being a mouthpiece for truth and justice and a messenger of the gospel.
To find out more, check out their website
Scripture Union
Scripture Union helps the church reveal Jesus to the next generation.
We equip churches to reach children and young people – especially those outside the church – wherever they are, and in ways that truly connect. Because every young person should have the opportunity to discover Jesus. And too many never will.
For more information, check out their website
Share Jesus International
Share Jesus International is passionate about helping the Church to share Jesus. We believe that the life changing message of Jesus is as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago.
Helping ….. you share Jesus; ….. your church share Jesus: ….. your church thrive
Click here for more information
Thrive is a nationwide initiative, which aims to encourage a variety of networking between ministers' spouses from those who are training right through to those who are retired. This networking will include different sorts of local and interest groups as well as events, and sharing via social media or email (for those who prefer it).
Ministers' spouses have many different occupations, careers and talents which we want to affirm and celebrate. Being in contact with others in similar circumstances (i.e. married to a minister) allows us to be an inspiration and an encouragement to each other so that we can grow and flourish wherever God has put us.
You can contact them by email or find them on Facebook . Click here to go to their website.
TLG is a national Christian children's charity that helps churches to bring hope and a future to struggling children.
From trauma, to poverty and food insecurity, there are children across the UK facing some of the toughest starts in life. We believe change is possible and that's why in all our work lies an unchanging resolve to transform lives for good.
For more information, click here.
The positive transformation of young people is at the heart of everything they do – especially those facing critical challenges and issues in their lives. Whilst their work started [& continues] supporting Young People in Luton - it has expanded nationally and provides training to enable others to do the same, in their own towns and cities. Youthscape Essentials is a course designed to equip and strengthen anyone working/ministering to young people in churches and community projects.
For more information, check out their website.
Baptist Insurance sponsor our website and provide lots of useful information for our members - check out their latest update on our website.