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We are a gathering of believers united in our love for Christ, where all are welcome to come and join us for worship, where we hear the Word of God preached faithfully. We confess the Reformed Faith as outlined in the 1689 Baptist Confession, holding to holy scripture as the only certain rule of faith and practice and seeking to glorify God in the town of Ramsbottom.
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God’s People Suffering In Cameroon
Please pray for Oumar in Cameroon. After surviving a Boko Haram attack, a bullet remains dangerously lodged in his leg, prolonging the physical and mental anguish of the brutal attack. Oumar was left for dead when Boko Haram militants attacked his community in north Cameroon. Incredibly, he survived. However, a bullet remains dangerously lodged in his leg, reminding him of the brutality of what happened.
More than 12 people were killed when the militants attacked on 20 January 2026. Oumar’s neighbour was amongst those who lost their lives.
“After he died, we spent the day digging the grave and buried him,” Oumar recalls. “In the evening, Boko Haram returned. They pulled out Adama, the elder brother of the one who died, and me. After taking me out of the city, I told them I would not go with them. I cried for help, and then they shot me.”
Adama – married and a father of seven – was tragically killed. Oumar was shot in the leg.
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TASTE Nigeria Latest News
We are thankful to God for continuing to keep our team in Nigeria safe as they travel to remote communities to carry out projects.
Please continue to pray for these communities many of which are facing relentless and brutal attacks, which are sadly likely to get worse as the election in early 2027 looms.
One such attack happened on the night of 30 July 2026.
Naridon village in, Kauru Local Government Area (LGA), Kaduna State, was plunged into unimaginable grief when terrorist attacked without warning killing 30 innocent people, including 22 adults and 8 children.
In the midst of the attack, several women sought refuge inside a house they believed would offer them protection. However, the attackers broke into the house and killed them all.
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Keith Underhill Newsletter September 2026
Keith Underhill writes: Thank you for your fellowship in prayer. We so much appreciate that many of you have written
especially concerned about Priscilla after her small stroke. By God’s grace she continues to
make progress. There do not seem to be any permanent visible effects, but she is not
regaining her strength as quickly as she would like, although there is nothing she is not able
to do. We are able to participate in all the meetings of the church, and we are profiting from
the ministry and the fellowship. We are seeing a few new faces in the church. Last Sunday a
Kenyan student came having found us online. We have also had two ladies, former Muslims,
and a Chinese mainland Christian. You never know who will be there next time! Such is the
providence of God. But we seldom see conversions, or professing Christians willing to put the
local church at the centre of their lives.
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IRBS Newsletter September 2026
Dr James Renihan writes: Courtney Dolezal reports that her husband is doing well. He was discharged from the rehabilitation hospital on August 11, and since being home has continued to make progress in his recovery. She writes: "James has been home for a couple of weeks now and is recovering more each day. He is still receiving outpatient therapy (PT, OT, and Speech) at the rehab hospital twice a week. Therapy, combined with regular visitors at our home, has stretched his body and mind in very positive ways. James can walk indoors independently. He can walk outside and up the stairs with someone to assist. He is reading a little and able to follow a train of thought in print and in conversation. He has been to church the past two Sundays. We are glad to have him home and very thankful for the continued support as we step into this next phase of recovery." Please give thanks for the Lord's mercies to the Dolezal family and continue to pray for further recovery.
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The Worth of Prayer
Prayer is the breath of God in man,
Returning whence it came;
Love is the sacred fire within,
And prayer the rising flame.
It gives the burdened spirit ease,
And soothes the troubled breast;
Yields comfort to the mourners here,
And to the weary rest.
Prayer is the simplest form of speech
that infant lips can try,
Prayer the sublimest strains that reach
the Majesty on high.
Prayer is the contrite sinner’s voice,
returning from His ways;
While angels in their songs rejoice
and cry, “Behold, he prays!”
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The Duty of Faith: Andrew Fuller on Repentance, Faith, and Evangelical Preaching
In Episode 50 of the Broken Wharfe Podcast, John-Mark is joined by Oliver Allmand-Smith and Dr Robert Strivens, Director of the Reformed Baptist Study Centre, to discuss Andrew Fuller and the urgent duty of calling sinners to immediate repentance and faith.
Drawing on Fuller’s The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, Strivens explains how Fuller answered the hyper-Calvinist denial of the free offer of the gospel. He distinguishes physical inability from the sinner’s guilty moral inability, showing why human inability does not remove the duty to repent—and why God’s sovereignty does not diminish the necessity of preaching as his appointed means of calling sinners to Christ.
The conversation explores seven exhortations for gospel preaching: present repentance and faith as duties rather than merely an opportunity; preach to all without discrimination; direct sinners to Christ rather than inward to themselves; exhort, urge, persuade and plead rather than merely explain; call for true conversion rather than outward moral reformation; and insist upon an immediate response to the gospel. Robert also discusses the place of serious study in the Christian life and introduces the work of the Reformed Baptist Study Center.
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Birdsong Isn’t For “Birdbrains”
The Psalmist wrote that the birds of the air “sing among the branches” (Psalm 104:12). Just how well they can sing is becoming increasingly apparent to researchers.
In various bird species,1 pairs (a male and a female) are able to not only sing in tightly synchronized unison but also in antiphonal duets. In songs sung antiphonally, the male and female sing alternating song phrases, frequently in rapid succession and with such precise timing and coordination that people have often mistaken them to be a single bird singing.
Note the second bird to sing in an antiphonal duet must correctly and quickly recognize which song in their musical repertoire the first bird has initiated, in order to correctly contribute the next phrase of the song. Otherwise the duet would end prematurely. Researchers point out that “rapid and precise acoustic interchanges between animals can indicate remarkable perception and information-processing abilities”—and duetting is a particularly striking example of complex acoustic communication.
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Thailand Report August 2026
Nico van Zyl writes: One year ago on the third of August, we
officially constituted Sovereign Grace
Fellowship with 10 members. We thank
God for this privilege, and we have
received many visitors. We also started a
Thai Bible study initially and now a
monthly Thai worship service. We have
started small, but few are interested in
coming. As the Bible says, "Do not
despise the day of small beginnings." By
God’s grace our church is doing well;
Matt and I have started preaching
through Genesis. We also continue
teaching through the 1689 Baptist
confession, and Roxanne and Danielle
are teaching the children. In the last two months I
preached twice in Thai. It has been
challenging, but I have received good
feedback, and it has encouraged me to
study Thai more; there is definitely room
for improvement. Pray also that our
church would be a blessing to all those
who come as we reach Thai speakers.
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Malawi African Pastors Conferences July 2026
Herman Swart writes: The strange and unexpected providences of our Lord are for the good of His church. Both
pastors, Rodney Queen and Wale Akingrunde who were scheduled to minister at the five
conference run contacted me while in Kenya in April two days apart and cancelled. They
both had medical issues to attend to. Ps Million Kambuli from Silverest Central Baptist
Church in Lusaka, Zambia and myself were in Kenya serving APC, I asked him to join me
for Malawi APC.
It's a long trek from Joburg to Malawi. Ryno Rademeyer from Durbanville Baptist Church
and myself started the trek on 1 July 2026. We made the most of the trip and met on
Thursday with our friend and local organizer in Serowe, Botswana, James Clark from the
USA. He brought along brothers from Lephalaka, Botswana to speak about an APC
conference there next year in February. The following day we met with Ps Gift Musantu
from Gospel Reformation church plant of Silverset Central Baptist church in Livingstone,
Zambia to speak about the possibility of having an APC there next year in June.
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When Pastors Need To Speak Out Against Error To Protect The Flock
It has been said that “history is written by the victors.” It is true in the context of war, and it is also true in theological controversy. In the context of the Second Great Awakening, the clear winner is Charles Finney, the preacher with unusual giftings in oration and credited with bringing the “new measures” into mainstream evangelicalism, like his protracted meetings or the famous “anxious bench.” The story of this so-called awakening has largely been told from the perspective of the victors. Those days brought challenges to the American church they had never faced before, challenges that still reverberate today. Finney drew a line in the sand for many presbyteries and communities. While many accommodated his innovations or hesitated to oppose them, one minister emerged as a leading critic. One man stood firm in sounding the alarm, refusing to embrace the new measures or remain silent as they spread. That man was Asahel Nettleton. Nettleton helps show us where the line lies between pastoral charity and courage. When ought we to step into controversy in the public? What if truth requires conviction and timely action?
The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)
In 2011 we made the decision to officially adopt the Second London Baptist Confession (1689) as our confession of faith. We exhort you to read it.
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