News from the Networks
South Kent Network
Ashford Baptist Church
Ashford Baptist Church would appreciate your prayers as we have been without a minister for over one year and our search continues. Our leadership would appreciate prayers for strength, guidance and unity giving thanks for our moderator Stephen Cave for all his support. We are also extremely grateful for our visiting speakers. We pray that these continue and that they can continue
to reflect the multi-diversity of our congregation.
We have a large and active youth ministry. We’d appreciate prayers for the forthcoming youth Alpha course as well
as for our youth that attended Satellites whom were touch by Christ and those to know that they’re chosen.
Finally, Ashford Baptist Church works closely with refugees and misplaced families. We’d appreciate prayers to continue to be able to support and care for them.
Headcorn Baptist Church
We had the joy of two baptisms in the sea at Camber Sands. Toni on Saturday 27th September and George on Saturday 4th October. Both expressed a wish to be baptised there. The church gives thanks and praise to God for lives being transformed in Christ by holding a baptism service of thanksgiving at the church on Sunday 5th October.
North Downs Network
Chiddingfold Baptist Church
Men’s Evening & Fellowship Lunch
The smell of chicken and beef pie freshly baked hung in the air, a comforting sign that our Men’s evening had arrived. The food was delicious, and we were encouraged by the number of men who attended the evening event held on August 30th. We had over 20 men, including several who are not committed Christians, who had the opportunity to hear the testimony and prayers of Clive Booley, a man transformed by Jesus. We want to celebrate and share the success of the event, and are planning to host another Men’s evening on November 15th.
On September 7th, we were blessed by our quarterly Fellowship Lunch. It was a bright, crisp day, the kind that promised the gentle shift from summer to autumn, and the church hall was filled with that quiet, happy hum of a community gathering. We had over 50 people, including both church members and those who are unchurched, gathered to enjoy a meal together. The atmosphere was excellent; the food was delicious. We even had a violin performance; folks were thrilled.
These are a couple of ways that we serve and bless our community. We are missional in all that we do and always say a few words from the Bible and a prayer before feasting.
It is refreshing to remember God’s faithfulness and share in the bounty of His grace. By the time we consumed the last dessert, I hope that someone had found a new spiritual home.
Gatwick Network
Crossways Church
Mid Sussex Network
Good News Brighton
For nearly a decade, Good News Brighton has been privileged to live among and serve the residents in Moulsecoomb. The estate will soon be entering a period of significant regeneration and change. We see an incredible door opening for our ministry to not only continue but to significantly expand our positive impact.
220 new social housing homes are going to be built in Moulsecoomb, which is great news, but to make room for these homes the council have to knock down our current building. While the estate's new housing plans mean our current home for the Good News Shed is scheduled for demolition, we are looking forward not backward. We have a monumental opportunity to secure a more permanent, expansive base that will anchor grassroots support in the community for years to come.
This opportunity centres on a large, currently vacant, space - the ground floor of a big building at the entrance of our estate. If we are successful in navigating a few key steps to unlock a sustainable reduced rent on this ground floor, this new space will allow us to create a holistic community centre, perfectly complementing the council’s new facilities.
This new hub will feature:
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Dedicated Support Spaces: Private rooms for vital services like Debt Advice, Counselling, and Alcoholics Anonymous, removing the current travel burden on vulnerable residents.
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The Enhanced Good News Shed: A larger area for our community woodwork project, providing crucial skills training, combating isolation and creating pathways toward employment.
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The Kitchen & Lounge: A welcoming space for a Community Pantry (affordable food access) and a coffee lounge, designed to fight loneliness and offer employment training.
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A Multi-Purpose Community Hall: A flexible venue for gatherings, courses, elderly befriending, and our church community.This is a chance to provide a place of connection, support, and empowerment, ensuring residents have a positive place to connect with others and with God.
We would be grateful if you would pray for:
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Unlocking the Ground Floor: Pray for clear pathways to secure the crucial change in land designation on the first floor of Hillfort House. This decision is what will enable a sustainable, long-term ground floor community rent.
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Favourable Agreement: Pray for wisdom and favour in achieving an agreement with the building owners on the terms of use for the ground floor, ensuring its use for community benefit for decades to come.
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Future Funding: Pray that necessary capital - specifically from the upcoming housing development's Section 106/CIL community funds - will be successfully designated to fit out and prepare this new space for community use.
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Advocacy: Please pray for our local Councillors and MP to recognise the immense value of this dedicated grassroots space and advocate for our vision.
Your continued partnership in prayer and encouragement is a profound blessing as we step into this exciting, new chapter of ministry in Moulsecoomb.
North Kent Network
Riverview Park Baptist Church
We are a small, elderly, fellowship of 25 members, although sadly two of our members passed away this year. We also have a number of people who join us fairly regularly and one committed Christian who started coming to our church a few months ago because she felt God was calling her to our church and she has expressed a desire to become a member of Riverview Park church. We are encouraged by the 2 children that come regularly to the Services.
In the early part of 2026, we are hoping to hold our first ‘inhouse’ Alpha Course and at the moment we are discussing and preparing for this. The leadership of the church are also currently rethinking the Mission of the church and God’s vision for the church.
We have 4 members that due to health and mobility issues, are not able to join us at services and we wanted them to still feel they are part of the church. Not having the expertise or equipment to record our services, or people who could access the internet or have laptops and smart phones, we recently decided to send typed sermons to their homes. We have had positive feedback from those who received them, saying it has helped them feel part of our Fellowship.
On Sunday we celebrated Harvest and our 34th birthday. Four of those who set up the church 34 years ago still regularly attend and were there on Sunday as we cut a cake, and enjoyed a shared lunch together. The Harvest food went to a local Foodbank.
Due to age, health, mobility, and the fact we don’t have our own building we have not at the moment made any wider connections with our community. We have tried but unfortunately at this time it has proved unfruitful.
However, this year we felt God calling us to prayer walk our community and we have a few people who regularly go out and prayer walk our streets and engage with people when possible. For those who cannot get out and walk they have a list of roads to pray for from home. We are now on our third time around the community and are praying that with this small step of faithfulness and obedience God will move in our community and send us more people.
Our prayers would be:
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To give God thanks for those who are at our church and who serve Him faithfully week after week through preaching, leading worship, being on the Diaconate, setting up tables and chairs, serving refreshments, prayer walking, delivering sermons, sharing communion, leading a home group, being a loving, caring presence with one another
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That God would send us two families at the same time so they could find relationship with each other and us.
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That we might see God move as in the Quiet Revival, that has had an impact on many churches, take place at Riverview.
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That God reveals to us how He wants us to connect with our community and that He will provide the right people and venues to be able to do so.
West Kent Network
Tunbridge Wells Baptist Church
Tunbridge Wells Baptist Church has entered a new season with the recent induction of Rachel and David Hayward as the Co-Pastors of the church. One of the strap lines for Tunbridge Wells as a town is, 'Love where we live' and as we enter this new season, we feel very clearly that as a community of disciples we need to discern what it means for us to 'love where we live,' to be a loving presence in our town.
Every church exists for the Glory of God but not every church exists for the benefit of Tunbridge Wells. As we intentionally engage with our town, we are asking what it means specifically for us to be the people of God who live, work and socialise in Tunbridge Wells. We would value your prayers as we look to answer this question, as we look to increase our connections with our town and as we look to be a loving presence in Tunbridge Wells, all for the Glory of God.
East Kent Network
Whitchurch Baptist Church
At the moment we are in pastoral vacancy so our focus, as a church, has been prayerful consideration surrounding building our church profile and that ultimately we will experience God's guidance and provision at every step of this process.
We have been truly blessed with our pulpit cover during the past 15 months and have enjoyed and benefitted from many and varied messages from some visiting preachers, organisations and some home-grown worship leaders.
We found out recently that our church organ was suffering a bad case of wood worm proving to be a very costly job. God has once again provided and folk have given most generously to enable the work to go ahead and save or organ for future generations to enjoy.
We would value your prayers for folk within our church family who are suffering specific health issues and also those who ae struggling with ongoing age, health or other problems.
Philippians 4:19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
East Sussex Network
Battle Baptist Church
Please pray for the fellowship at Battle.
West Sussex Network
Pulborough Brooks Baptist Church
Please pray for the fellowship at Pulborough Brooks.