Convocation

The Order for Baptist Ministry Convocation 2024

13 – 14th November 2024
Shallowford House, Stone, Staffordshire

Booking for this year’s Convocation is now open. It will be in person from morning coffee time on Wednesday 13th until mid afternoon on Thursday 14th.
(In line with the majority view expressed when we canvassed everyone on the mailing list there will be no on-line option for participation this year.)

The cost is competitive at £124 per person, all-in. Places are limited and will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

Please register by emailing Andrew Bevan on subscriptions@orderforbaptistministry.co.uk as soon as possible but by 14th July at the latest.

As usual we will take part of The Dream as our starting point: ‘contemplating in silence and conversation’, exploring and experiencing stillness  and silence. We recognise the challenge of this theme but our hope and prayer is that our encounter with God and each other will help us be wiser in knowing ‘a time to keep silence and a time to speak’ (Ecc. 3:7).

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More about Convocation

Convocation: a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose.

The Convocation of the Order for Baptist Ministry takes place annually, its purpose to assemble and share in fellowship, to engage in the Daily Office, to reflect on the Dream, to make Vows and to discuss business. Attendance at the Convocation is part of what it means to be in membership with the Order.

While we recognise the value of retreat and conference, Convocation has its own distinct purpose as the time and space where we gather together before God to pray, to worship, to listen, to be.

The spirituality of OBM emerges out of the Baptist story but finds resonance in a variety of Christian traditions.

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