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In the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) the writers lay down the biblical principles of inter-church fellowship and exhort all churches to associate together for “their peace, increase of love, and mutual edification“. As a church we have fellowship with and pray for several associations of Confessional Baptist Churches throughout the United States and we pray that these associations would be blessed by the Lord in their Gospel labours. See a list of these associations below.

Our connection with International Reformed Baptist Seminary began when Prof James Renihan came to the UK to teach his Baptist Symbolics course on the 1689 Confession of Faith over ten years ago. Since then we have established a close partnership based on our common convictions and Oliver Allmand-Smith, one of our full-time elders, has become a Trustee of the Seminary. By God’s grace, our relationship with IRBS has developed and we are now the hosting church of IRBS’ training efforts in the UK – you can find more details about that on our ‘IRBS UK‘ page.

Please pray for IRBS. Here are some prayer points for your direction in prayer for them:

• Pray that the Lord would give the Trustees wisdom as they seek to appoint a new President for the Seminary in the next few years.
• Pray that the Lord would continue to add students to IRBS from throughout the world.
• Pray that God would prepare cross-cultural missionaries at IRBS that the seminary may be privileged in training up men for the mission-field.
• Pray that IRBS UK would continue to become established and that the Lord would bless our labours in supporting this work here in Ramsbottom.