Ministers' Conference

2024 Conference:

Martin Young is based in the UK and has been leading and planting churches for over 25 years - most recently with Rising Brook Church, a Baptist church with locations in Staffordshire – with ministry emphases on community engagement, global mission, leadership development, and the arts. Martin’s passion is for the expression of the breadth of the Kingdom of Heaven – especially through creativity and relationships. He currently works alongside church teams and leaders in the UK, France, Russia and India and is also pursuing exploring the bible through the creative process: dramatically, musically, artistically and on film. Martin is on the board of Essential Christian (Spring Harvest), DFN-UK (partnering with Good Shepherd Churches in India) and Bless, a church planting and resourcing ministry in France.

Dramatic Encounters is a fresh way of exploring the bible. By rehearsing a story in John’s gospel and interpreting it using the creative arts, learning becomes experiential, leading to understanding, revelation, worship, and prayer.

If you would like to participate – by acting or with music, art etc then let Martin (martinjyoung@mac.com) or Andrew (andrew.openshaw@centralba.org.uk) know. Otherwise just come along to watch, and if you like, to help shape it.

2023 Conference:
The 2023 Ministers' Conference explored the theme of 'Risky Living'.

Here are some photos from this year.

We hope you can join us next year at High Leigh (14 - 16 October 2024).

This was the poster for 2023:

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Welcome to the website of The Central Baptist Association. We look after about 150 Baptist churches across Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, including Milton Keynes. If you are looking to find a specific church near you then please click here.

Who we are

We have a team of four Regional Ministers, led by Lisa Kerry, alongside Mary Moody, Nathan Toseland and Andrew Openshaw. Andrew is also the association secretary. Our moderator is Maureen Hider and our treasurer is Roy Farrant. Jane Day is the course tutor for The Learning Collective.

What we do

We support ministers and churches by 'walking together in ministry and mission'. This includes providing pastoral care for ministers, advice to churches, guiding the settlement process, encouraging churches in their mission, providing training opportunities, encouraging networking, talking ecumenically, and offering small grants.