Resources

All the downloadable SEBA resources are on these pages - if you cannot find what you are looking for below, type key words into the search box on the top right hand side of this page. If all else fails, please get in touch with Steph (via the Contact page) and she will endeavour to find it for you.

Safeguarding

please check out our new Safeguarding page

DBS checks

For a useful guide to help you complete your application with DDC online click here

If you are changing verifier, you need to let the Baptist Union know - please download and complete this form - download form

BUGB statement on the removal of Ministers/Church Secretaries from the list of DBS verifiers, from 1 June 2018

For all Children/Youth information, please check out the Children/Youth pages; which also includes details of any First Aid, Child Protection and Food Safety courses that are being run. Click here to go there

SEBA's Ministers' Conference 2021

Resources from:

Bloomer loaf recipe - for use on Thursday's 'Bread of Life' sections

SEBA BUEN (Baptist Union Environment Network) PowerPoint

SEBA Justice Strategy PowerPoint

Events

Posters & Booking Forms - run by/through SEBA

Core Leaders training - any course details can be found by going to our training page - click here

Safeguarding training details can also be found on our training page - click here

For all events run by the South Eastern Baptist Women's Ministry, please go to their page - South Eastern Baptist Women's Ministry

Posters & Booking Forms - across the Association

(Please note - all events below, which are not organised directly by SEBA, whilst we are publicising them, the views and comments expressed are not necessarily approved by the Association)

Posters & Booking Forms - further afield

Equipped to Minister course dates (Spurgeon's)

Gospel Pathways - Hope for those in Financial Distress (LCM) - 25 March 2021 - flyer

The Reading Room (Regent's Park) - dates between 13 April & 20 July 2021

Notes & Guidelines

SEBA

Helpful tips on Mental Health issues - for churches

SEBA Guidance to Churches on Regional Ministers' expenses

SEBA Practical Guide for Church Stewards on Disability Awareness

Food Safety - Allergen guidelines - menu Excel sheet - list of all allergens - allergen awareness information

Baptist Insurance

Baptist Insurance Winter Risk Management Advice - colour

Baptist Insurance Winter Risk Management Advice - black & white

Baptist Insurance - Guide to Church Security

Baptist Insurance - Guide to Fires in Churches

Baptist Insurance - Guide to holding Church Functions

Baptist Insurance - Guide to Health & Safety

Baptist Insurance - Guide to setting up your own Health & Safety Policy

Baptist Building - Empowering Change Fund

Parish Nursing UK - 'A Question for Church Leaders' PowerPoint

Reflections

Personal reflections during lockdown

Newsletters from outside organisations

Kent Workplace Mission newsletter 9 (December 2020)

Publications/Study Guides (further details)

York Courses - 'Who Are We Praying To?' flyer - full courses available flyer

"You are what you do" 10 part study guide on the letter of James poster

Pilgrims Progress resource for Sunday School, Youth Group or Community Outreach - low res flyer - pdf

Additional Correspondence

A Vision for Uganda - document from Richard Smart

London City Mission - Together in the Gospel

Sussex Police - Police Property Act Fund - guidance notes - application form

Surveys

Situations Vacant

Kent Workplace Mission - Team Support Coordinator - covering letter - job description & person specification - application form

Green Pastures - Partner Liaison (South) - job description & spec

Sending payments

Donations and Payments to SEBA:
The banks are now cracking down on all 'payee' details and we are no longer able to accept cheques made payable to 'SEBA'.

Please check the details below before sending us a payment - thank you.

Payments for Home Mission
Payments can be made online, please email Steph for the details.

Cheques can be made payable to 'Baptist Union Home Mission' and sent to the SEBA Administrator; Steph Tidy, SEBA, 17 Cherry Close, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9PR

Payments to SEBA
Payments can be made online, please email Steph for the details.

If you have to send a cheque, make it payable to 'South Eastern Baptist Association' - please send a covering note, explaining what the payment is for (ie Safeguarding training, Annual Subscriptions, donation, etc); and post to Steph Tidy, SEBA, 17 Cherry Close, BURGESS HILL, RH15 9PR

Appointment vacancies

Below are the current appointment vacancies in SEBA - if you are interested at all in any of these roles, please email the Administrator

Ecumenical Representative for Sussex (Churches Together) - currently on hold

SACRE Representative for Surrey - download role description

SACRE Representative for Medway - download role description

Trustee for the Kent Workplace Mission - go to their website for more detail

Member of the SEBA Finance and Home Mission Grants Committee - download role description - currently on hold

SEBA Churches Annual Returns Statistics

Below are the figures from the church completed Annual Returns forms, submitted to the Baptist Union. Click on the relevant year for the information, which is in a protected Excel file.

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