An Association AGM is usually a duty that must be done and no more. But that of the Association of Grace Baptists in the South East on 6 October, at St Giles’ Mission, North London, turned into a real joy.
Four new churches joined the group, from Chelmsford, Hythe, Streatham and Ebbsfleet. The new book Pure Church, show-ing the biblical basis for the Association’s ecclesiology, was launched. Graham Nicholls, the director of Affinity, to which the Association belongs, articulated the aims of his work for wider fellowship.
Central London
Chris Hawthorne, soon off to Zambia, spoke movingly of how God has restored and grown the churches of the Association’s Central London district, in the last 17 years. The day was rounded off with great preaching by Mike Gilbart-Smith, pastor of Twynholm Baptist Church, Fulham, from the book of Hosea.
