The Association of Grace Baptist Churches (west anglia) is an association of independent Baptist Churches in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire. Churches subscribe to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith and/or the Strict Baptist Affirmation of Faith,  

The purpose of this web-site is to provide:-

Information about churches in the Association. Where they are; when they meet; what they are doing; who to contact if you want to know more. Click here to find out more.

News and reports about Association events; meetings that are taking place; and missionaries supported by Association churches.

Prayer for each other. It  hoped that this can be up-dated regularly so that Association churches can support each other, be aware of the needs of individuals and keep up to date with the prayer requests of our missionaries. Click here to find out about current prayer requests and here to find out how to receive prayer letters from local missionaries.

Sharing of material over the internet. Several churches have their own web sites and links to them are found on this page. Click here to listen to sermons preached at Association churches.

Grace Baptist Mission Area Rally takes place on 21 April at Potton Baptist Church. The theme is "Asians in Britain." The speakers at the afternoon meeting are Nicola Edkins and Nathan Javed. In the evening John McDonald will be preaching and speaking about GBM's work in India.

During the afternoon meeting there will be a children's programme and between the two meetings there is a Bring and Share Tea.

The Programme for the afternoon is as follows:

Afternoon Meeting

3.00pm Welcome

          3.15pm Nathan Javed — Planting a new church among Bradford’s Asians

          4.00pm Nicola Edkins — Behind the veil—reaching Asian women in Britain

4.45pm Bring and share Tea

6.00pm Evening worship -

          Presentation — GBM’s continuing interest in India

          Ministry from John McDonald

The first Association event of 2012 is the Association Seminar. It is taking place on Saturday 14 January at  March Baptist Church.

Stan Evers, recently retired as Pastor from Potton, is the speaker. He has a book awaiting publication on Doxologies from the Old Testament and has been commissioned to write a book on Doxologies in the New Testament. He will speak to us on three occasions, "Exploring Doxologies in the Book of Revelation." The three sessions will be on the Saviour's Love (Revelation 1:4-7), the Saviour's Wrath (Revelation 11:5-19) and the Saviour's Coming (Revelation 22:20-21).

The Seminar is suitable for all church members and their families to attend. It is intended to allow an opportunity for more further study than can be done at home and to show the depths of knowledge that are found in Scripture. It is hoped that from this will grow a desire to study the Scriptures more, making use of the many resources that are available to us.

The Seminar starts with coffee from 9:00am to 9:30am. The three seminars will be from 9:30am to 10:10am, 10:20am to 11:00am and 11:30am to 12:10pm. There will be a coffee break from 11:00am to 11:30am and the morning will conclude with a time of questions and prayer finishing by 12:30am. Please feel free to come to all sessions or to just one.

Please click on the link below to open an A4 poster which sets out further details including a summary of each Seminar.

Seminar Poster

If further details are needed please contact Andrew Keen on 07977 927753 or andrewkeen@tiscali.co.uk

The following are the dates of the Association Meetings for 2012.

If there are any dates from your church calendar that you wish to be included on this site please contact us.

The following are included on the website to show the nature of the work of the Association.

Our Annual Meetings are on Saturday 8 October at March Baptist Church. The AGM is from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. Each church may appoint and send a maximum of five delegates but others are more than welcome to observe. Minutes and agendas will be sent out shortly. We are looking for more people to become involved in the running of the Association and if there is anyone from your church who is interested in finding out more about this please contact us before the AGM.

Our Annual Meetings are on Saturday 8 October atMarch Baptist Church. The AGM is from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. Each church may appoint and send a maximum of five delegates but others are more than welcome to observe. We are looking for more people to become involved in the running of the Association and if there is anyone from your church who is interested in finding out more about this please contact us before the AGM.                                                        

The main meeting is from 6:00pm to 7:15pm. The meeting is a time for worship, fellowship, testimony and the preaching of God's word. Our speaker is Pastor Malcolm MacGregor from Cauldwell Hall Road Baptist Church in Ipswich.

Pat Davies is a GBM missionary to Spain and has served the Lord there for many years. At the end of October her work in Spain will finish and she moves back to the UK to be closer to family. There is a Thanksgiving Meeting for all that she has done over the years at Warboys Baptist Church on Saturday 26 November at 3:00pm.

The next young people's meeting is to be held on Saturday 17 September at Potton Baptist Church. The meeting starts at 3:00pm and is a "Walk About Quiz" around the streets of Potton. After the walk refreshments will be provided and the afternoon will finish with a bible talk.

This will be the fourth meeting that has been held this year. All the others have been very well enjoyed by those present - adults as well as young people.

Pastor Stan Evers completes his ministry at Potton at the end of September. On Saturday 24 September there is his 25th Anniversary Services. The meeting is being held at Potton Baptist Church at 3:30pm and the speaker is Pastor Paul Watts of Coventry.

The theme for the event is "From Darkness into Light" and, although details are necessarily shadowy (!) at present, they can promise you: Quizzes, Competitions, Good Food, and a Gospel message.

The event is being hosted and organised by Deeping Baptist Church, Bridge Street, Deeping St. James PE6 8HA.  If you are able to give the church some idea of numbers likely to come, it will help them to make sure there is enough of everything to go round. Their e-mail is deeping_baptist@btinternet.com

They suggest a donation of one British pound per person, to help cover costs.  OK?

They are looking forward to hearing from you, and to welcoming you to the Deepings.

The Association Picnic will take place on Saturday 9 July. It is being held this year at Hinchingbrooke Country Park from midday to 4:00pm. You can come for all of the four hours or just for a few minutes. We will be eating about 1:00pm - please bring your own food and drinks.

There is Pay and Display parking at the park which is a short walk from the Visitor Centre. There is disabled parking at the Visitor Centre. We will be based within sight and walking distance of the Centre

Hinchingbrooke Country Park has a playground, a fitness area and a variety of walks as well as plenty of space for games. If you want more information before the Picnic or on the day itself please contact Andrew Keen (07977 927753 or andrewkeen@tiscali.co.uk). 

                                                                                                                                                                 Please, if you have no other commitments that day, come and join with us for a few hours of relaxing fellowship with members of other churches. If you want to know some of the benefits of christians meeting together over a picnic read John Piper's, "Towards a Theology of Church Picnics".

  Please click on this link to see the Poster promoting the picnic which includes a map.

Warboys teenagers would like to invite anyone from school year 6 - year 13 to join them for a BBQ on Thursday 30th June from 7.15pm until 8.45pm.

The BBQ will be held in the Warboys Grace Baptist Church Garden (weather permitting).

This event is free of charge.

Please let rebeccajgraham@tiscali.co.uk know numbers attending as soon as possible.

There has been a review of Association youth work. There will be five meetings held this year. Three will be on Saturday afternoons and will be arranged by churches at Needingworth, Deeping and Potton. Warboys and Over are hosting two midweek meetings where they will invite other churches to come to their usual meeting and join in.

The progress made with this ministry will be reviewed at the AGM in October 2011.

We give thanks to God for a wonderful day. About ninety people present at the afternoon meeting was the best turnout for many, many years. It was good to hear about missionaries starting out and missionaries retiring; about the opportunities to serve God in unexpected ways during a gap year at 18 or when retirement has been taken.

Our thanks at GBM for planning and putting on such a good day.

The church at March have benefitted from the Way of the Master programme. They are hosting another series of meetings - starting on 20 April - to give others the chance to grow in their confidence and ability to evangelise. Further details are available from the March church.

If you have any comments about the site please contact us on akeen@agbcwa.org.uk. Our editorial policy is that if any Pastor of an Association Church has a concern about any article or link it will be removed.