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My wife and I then joined a Baptist church when we moved from North to South London.
However, I quickly found myself appreciating the breadth and freedom of it and, to the horror of my Pentecostal and Baptist friends, became one of the dreaded ‘Liberals’ I would previously have railed against.
As I moved for study and work, I have spent rewarding time in churches of other denominations – Methodist, Baptist, independent evangelical – but found myself for the most time in the Church of England which, with all its strengths and weaknesses, I call my spiritual home.
St John the Baptist
My journey of faith My journey of faith began in childhood, growing up in an active evangelical Baptist church on a council estate in Crawley, Sussex.
Proposer: Sue Say, Holy Trinity Wavertree, Toxteth & Wavertree, Parish Safeguarding Officer Seconder: Peter Dorling, St John the Baptist Burscough, Ormskirk, Diocesan Parish Share Review Group
I grew up in a Baptist manse, but it was through experiencing vibrant parish ministry in the Church of England as a student that I discerned a call to ordained ministry.
During my pilgrimages and travels, I have attended many different church services and I have recently also explored other traditions, including Baptist, Methodist and Orthodox.
I came to faith in a charismatic Baptist church and trained at both Cranmer Hall and the College of the Resurrection.
Partnership (C of E, Methodist, URC, Baptist) in Winchester Diocese.
Vicar of Broughton St John the Baptist
My parents had Catholic roots and found faith in a Baptist church in Leeds where I was nurtured as a child.
Assistant Curate St John the Baptist, Clayton 1985-1988.
As achild, I and my four siblings were packed off to the local Baptist church Sunday School each week.
My time at university gave me many opportunities, opportunities, particularly during my year abroad, to encounter a range of other traditions including Catholic, Baptist and ecumenical.
Through my childhood and teenage years I worshipped ina small Church in Wales parish, a charismatic Baptist church, a middle-of-the-road Methodist church and all sorts of others.
organist and some of my earliest church and musical memories are of four part hymn singing in a Baptist Church.
I came to a living faith at University, and worshipped in conservative evangelical Anglican, Baptist, and Independent churches for over twenty years.
I have been in Sevenoaks for three years, worshipping at St. John the Baptist Church where I am on the church council, and I am a Deanery Synod representative.
I am 68 years old and live and worship in the parish of St John the Baptist, Ruyton XI Towns in Ellesmere Deanery.
Vicar of Saint John the Baptist, Tuebrook
I grew up in French Canada and came to a saving faith in Christ as a child at a Baptist Church that I attended until I moved to the UK in 2003.
In Johannesburg we worshipped at Northcliff Union Church, which has its roots in the Baptist tradition.
When I worked in Harrow my nearest church was a Baptist Church and I got involved with the church and got the priest to come into school to do Assemblies.
In the Baptist Church we sometimes had a café church and I also found a seriousness for studying the bible and what it taught us about living today.
St John the Baptist, Ermine
Baptist, United Reformed, Roman Catholic and
I am supportive of ecumenical partnerships, having served in a Baptist Church as their Youth Director for three years, whilst being committed to our Anglican roots.
I was born into a Leicestershire rectory and have been a worshipping member of Church of England churches all my life (bar 2 years as a student when I attended a Baptist church to benefit from the exceptional preaching there).
Hoxton and chaplain at St John’s The Baptist
Ecumenical partnership — through my role as Chairman of Churches Together in Northampton and involvement with Anglican and Baptist churches.
My commitment to working across denominations is also reflected in my involvement with Harpole Baptist Church, where I am currently Church Secretary and Safeguarding Trustee.
My journey began at Ansdell Baptist Church on the Fylde coast under the leadership of the pastor who would become the principal of Spurgeons College.
Alongside that I regularly visit the orthodox monastery of St John the Baptist in Essex where I am nourished and sustained by the rhythm, liturgy and Jesus Prayer.
I came to faith and was baptised in my teens in the traditional Baptist church in east.
My varied ecclesiastical background — Baptist, Ecumenical Church project, charismatic (Anglican and non- conformist), non-aligned and exclusively Church of England since the 1990s — has taught me to value unity across diverse church backgrounds.
Prior to that I have been a part of other denominations, having grown up in the Baptist Church and Church of Scotland.
I began attending an Anglican church 15 years ago as a young adult, having previously been part of the Salvation Army, a Baptist church and a Vineyard church.
Over the recent years I have had the privilege of serving my local church PCC, at St Mary Magdeline in Christchurch Deanery, and have been very actively involved in the small church, within the same parish, St John the Baptist.
My faith journey has led me from the Methodist and Baptist churches of my childhood to the Church of England.
I grew up in a Baptist family in Leeds before finding my spiritual home in the Church of England.
My faith was initially shaped growing up in Baptist and Methodist churches before settling in the Church of England giving me lived experiences of of some of our many Christian traditions.
I am currently the Dean of Church Planting at St Hild College where I train Anglican ordinands and Baptist ministers-in-training, and deliver other programmes that support the dioceses of the North and the Church of England nationally.
I am an active and enthusiastic member of the congregation of St. John the Baptist, Chirton, near Devizes.
Part of an ecumenical team from local Baptist, Free Church, URC and Anglican churches which organises bi-annual Bible conferences aiming to bring faithful bible teaching and worship to a wider audience Each summer I volunteer as part of the Prayer Ministry Team at the annual Keswick
I have gone on to worship in a variety of churches – URC, Vineyard, Pentecostal, New Frontiers and Baptist - before arriving back to an Anglican Church.
I came to faith through the ministries of a charismatic Baptist church.
Development and Vicar of St John the Baptist, Hove
My early Christian life was grounded in an ecumenical youth group, held in a Pentecostal church, attended by Christians from Baptist, CofE, and Methodist churches.
Proposer: The Reverend Greg Bannister, Vicar of John the Baptist, Hawthorne Bank, Spalding Seconder: The Revd Erica Crust, Priest in Charge of Deeping St Nicholas Thank you for taking a moment to read my election address.
Both in academia and in the church, I have worked with Christians from many different traditions, including those from Methodist, Baptist, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches.
I settled into life at St John the Baptist church in Knutsford shortly after and it has been my privilege to worship the Lord there ever since.
member for the past 29 years, apart from 6 years at a large charismatic Baptist church 2016 -2022. PCC Treasurer 2001 – 2016, & 2023 to date. PCC Secretary 1997 – 2000, & 2026 to date Churchwarden from 2022 to date
I loved my 6 years at a large charismatic Baptist church: I didn’t have to take on any roles, I could simply attend and absorb, and there were many others there my age, and many even younger!
My ministry has included pioneering church grafts, developing teams to support other parishes and leading major building projects—including the purchase of Horfield Baptist Church as a new home for B&A.
I grew up in South London, was deeply involved in the Baptist Church, and preached my first sermon at seventeen.
I am an accidental Anglican: I turned out to be allergic to the floor polish at my Baptist church, so started going somewhere new — and fell in love with the Anglican liturgy, its rootedness across time and place.
I was raised Anglo Catholic, was co- president of Leeds University CU in 1997 and have been part of Anglican and Baptist churches over the years.
I have been a committed member of the Church of England for 40 years and currently worship at St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland , Isle of Wight.
The Rev’d Rachel Heskins – Vicar of St John the Baptist, Ermine,
As a former Baptist, one of the aspects of the Church of England that I love is the parish system that enables everyone in the country to have a local parish church.
I was baptised when I was 13 years old at Morningside Baptist Church in Edinburgh.