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Newsletter - Autumn 2008
We've changed our name. No, it's not some radical re-branding exercise, but just a move back towards the original name of the church. No longer are we known as the Old Baptist Chapel, but Bradford on Avon Baptist Church. It really wasn't helpful being known as the Old Baptist Chapel, as it was wrong in two of the three words that it was using to describe us.
For a start, we are not a CHAPEL. A chapel is simply a building, the church are the people who have joined together because of their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
Then, the word OLD is a little misleading. For sure, some who are in the church are old, and we value them for all that they are, but many in the church are young. In our Sunday congregation you will find people from 9 months to 90 years. There are children, teenagers, married couples and singles, grandparents and great grandparents. We meet together to worship God and to study His word as He has given it to us in the Bible.
The BAPTIST bit of the name was just fine. We are a church that practices baptism for believers. It is not until a person has consciously come to faith in Jesus Christ and confessed Him as their Lord that we offer the sacrament of baptism.
Do feel free to join us for the worship of God at any of our services.
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