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Meeting Lane (off Church Street), Burton Latimer, Northants. NN15 5LS |
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Welcome to our Website
Welcome to the website of Burton Latimer Baptist Church and the John Yeomans Hall.
We are a church of about seventy members and as a church we seek to offer a ministry to our community which focuses on Jesus Christ. While remaining faithful to our Baptist heritage we aim to present the Good News in a meaningful and relevant way. We have exciting programs for children and excellent relationships with the local schools. We offer help and care in the community through a variety of special meetings and activities.
The centre of our church's life is our Sunday worship. There is a strong musical tradition as well as an emphasis on expository preaching. During the week we continue our exploration of God's Word through our Prayer and Bible Study meetngs.
We hope you have found the foregoing interesting and informative. We would now like to invite you to visit us and look forward to meeting you.
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OUR STATEMENT OF FAITH
As Baptists, we believe that our faith in Jesus himself rather than statements about Jesus is what is important.
JESUS CHRIST
With the very first Christians we say and affirm JESUS IS LORD. This means following and serving Jesus with loyalty and obedience. Jesus is totally God and totally human. Jesus is perfect and complete revelation of God. It is only through this revelation that God can be fully known. Jesus' death on the cross is an atonement for sin and the means whereby human beings are brought to God.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the guarantee of eternal life to all believers. Jesus will return to this earth visibly in what is known as the Second Coming at the final consummation of all things.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life.
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THE BIBLE is acknowledged as the Word of God and is our rule for faith and conduct. | |
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Burton Latimer Baptist Church |
Church Interior |
The John Yeomans Hall |
Burton Latimer Baptist Church is regarded as one of the better examples of the early ironstone meeting houses built at the start of the non conformist movement. The formation of the church resulted from the Puritan movement in Northamptonshire, leading to the founding of the first local Baptist cause at Fuller in 1696. In 1744, Mr. John Yeomans, a local landowner, provided most of the money for the original meeting house. He became the Church's first pastor at the age of 34, until his death in 1776, leaving his property and small library for future Ministers' use.
In 1813 a Sunday School was started in a cottage opposite the chapel, now Nutcracker Cottage.Several baptisms took place during the years 1828 to 1842 and these were recorded as having taken place in the river.
In 1829 the membership stood at just below 60. In 1832 the chapel was enlarged to seat 280 at a cost of £340. Mr. Ashford's salary was £60 per annum, together with the manse. By 1843 the Sunday School had 50 scholars and the church, with 52 members, was accepted into the Northamptonshire Baptist Association.
During the period 1843 to 1881, under the pastorate of the Revd. William May, there was growth and consolidation, often recording a packed church on Sunday evenings and a number of important improvements were made including laying out a burial ground and today headstones from after this date still exist at the end of the new car park. Exceptional growth is recorded during the next 40 years there being at one stage 168 members.
This led to the building of the Assembly room and 1889 saw another enlargement of the church with the addition of an upper storey being added in 1892.Growth was maintained into the twentieth century under three very able pastors and in 1907 the Revd. T.S.Burrows was appointed covering the crucial period of the First World War. He was greatly loved by the people bringing them great comfort in the absence of their men folk on military service.
The Baptist Church Hall (John Yeomans Hall)
The new hall in Meeting Lane built in 1993 replaced an earlier utility building known as the Lower Schoolroom that was opened on 19th July 1848. Kettering Borough Council approached the church to acquire 1.25 acres of land on which they wished to build a new sheltered accommodation development. The agreement included council use of the existing manse for wardens accommodation and the provision of a new manse for the church’s minister.
The sheltered accommodation development was named Yeomans Court after the Baptist Church’s first minister Mr John Yeomans. The new Baptist Church Hall was officially opened by John Barfield, manager of the Baptist Union on July 14th 1993 and is now used every day of the week for a variety of church and town functions. |
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Burton Latimer Baptist Church supports Fair Trade |
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A Look Back in Time |
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The left hand picture was taken in 1944 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the church. The middle picture was taken during the 250th anniversary in 1994 also the right hand one which shows the Minister, Deacons and Life Deacons at the time.
Back row, left to right: Peter Beeby, David Roe, Suzanne Mills, Derek Muggleton and Paul Gordon.
Front row, left to right: Joyce Whiteman, Joe Neville, Revd. Brian Barker, Walter Tailby and Avis Clipson |
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