Richmond Baptist Church
Making Jesus known throughout Anfield & Everton
Useful Links
Baptist Union organisations.
Baptist Union of Great Britain.
www.baptist.org.uk
Membership organisation for Baptist churches. Welcomes “all churches who are ‘Baptist’ in nature.” Assists churches in pastoral and governance issues. Provides wide range of local, national and international information about news, views and events of interest to individuals and churches.
BMS World Mission - Baptist Missionary Society.
BMS World Mission was formed in 1792 as the Baptist Missionary Society with the aim of making the name of Jesus known throughout the world. A Christian mission organisation, it works in around 35 countries on four continents providing people, funding, training and expertise in the core areas of their work including church planting, disaster relief, health and education.
Baptist Home Mission
The Baptist Home Mission provides a way that members of the Baptist family can support and resource one another.
Children and Young People
YKids.
https://ykids.co.uk/
"Reaching children; changing lives". Runs youth and children’s projects, CBT programmes, Cooking, community gardening, bee keeping and other skill-based programmes, Homework clubs, Literacy projects, school workshops events, activities, training opportunities, placements, faith projects, holiday clubs and much more.
In Another Place.
https://inanotherplace.com/
"Christians and community working together inspired by our love for God and the people around us."
Work includes: Creative arts projects; Assembly Team; Gospel Choir; Youth Outreach; schools work.
Spurgeons Childrens Charity.
https://spurgeons.org
Spurgeons is a large national children's charity in the United Kingdom, working with vulnerable families, children and young people.
Operation Christmas Child.- The shoe box gifts appeal.
www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk
Founded in 1990 by the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse. Sends gift filled shoe boxes around the world, bringing joy and the hope of Jesus Christ into the lives of over 100 million underprivileged children.
YWAM - Youth With a Mission.
https://ywam.org/
Mainly young people, active in 180+ countries through three main areas — Evangelism, Training and Mercy Ministry.
Ministries include ship-based medical care, performing arts teams, Bible training programs, business coaching, sports ministries, anti-trafficking work, and many more.
YWAM functions as a family of ministries rather than a centralized agency.
Bibles: Readings and distribution.
Scripture Union.
www.scriptureunion.org.uk
Provides a wide range of resources including Bible study and daily reading guides. Works in schools and the community internationally. Founded 1867 as the Children’s Special Service Mission – CSSM.
The Bible Society.
www.biblesociety.org.uk
Works around the world in partnership with 140 other national Bible Societies. Their work includes translating Bibles; putting the Bible into audio and Braille format; making the Bible affordable and providing practical help to those in need.
Our Daily Bread.
Provides a range of daily devotional Bible reading with notes - in print, audio and video format.
Support & campaigns for the persecuted church worldwide.
Release International.
www.releaseinternational.org
Monitors and reports the persecution of Christians around the world and gives support. Release was founded by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned and tortured by the Romanian secret police in the 1950s and 1960s because of his Christian faith.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
www.csw.org.uk
"As Christians, we stand with everyone facing injustice because of their religion or belief".
Everyone Free to believe.
Open Doors
https://www.opendoorsuk.org/
Works in over 60 countries, supplying Bibles, training church leaders, providing practical support and emergency relief, and supporting Christians who suffer for their faith. In the UK and Ireland, Open Doors works to raise awareness of global persecution, mobilising prayer, support and action among Christians
Poverty & debt: getting help.
Christians Against Poverty.
www.capuk.org
A national charity, working across the UK to lift people out of debt and poverty. Offers free debt counselling through a network of 252 debt centres based in local churches.
Help in a Crisis: Liverpool City Council.
https://liverpool.gov.uk/benefits/help-in-a-crisis/
Lists of food banks in Liverpool; debt help; housing problems; homelessness; benefits etc.
Mental Health
Mental health problems can effect anyone. Christians are not immune, and mental illness is not "sin". Some well known Christians have struggled with mental illness throughout their lives. You can read some of their stories below.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
https://thewearychristian.com/spurgeons-greatest-hits-on-depression-anxiety-and-panic/
A great Baptist preacher, minister and theologian
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Drug And Alcohol rehab in Merseyside
Rehab4addiction.
https://www.rehab4addiction.co.uk/country-wide/rehab-merseyside
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William Cowper.
https://phoenixpreacher.com/loving-cowper-like-newton-did-affirming-those-with-mental-illness-in-the-church-a-guest-post-from-cash/
Well known 18th century Christian hymn writer and poet.
Freephone 0808 801 0585.
3pm to midnight 7 days a week.
Listening and prayer support.
New Kapporet - Christian helpline
https://newkapporet.org/
Christians and suicide
https://www.beautifulbetween.com/love-jesus-but-want-to-die/
A Christian woman writes about her experience of feeling suicidal and what helps her.
Freed from Shame.
https://freedfromshame.co.uk/
Addressing the stigma and shame of mental illness in the church. This book and website looks at how churches can offer compassion and support instead of criticism and condemnation to people experiencing mental illness.
Samaritans.
https://www.samaritans.org
Available to everyone irrespective of faith or beliefs. They offer non-judgmental support 24 hours a day every day of the year: Phone: 116 123.
"No judgement, no preaching, no advice or direction. Just the love and compassion of Jesus for you as you are."
Reach.
https://www.reachuk.co.uk/
Christian counselling service providing acceptance and understanding to all who come for help. "We seek to enable people to work through their own difficulties and choices as they wish, by offering counselling for all, whether Christian, of any faith or none".
A national mental health charity that has lots of information and support available.
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC)
https://napac.org.uk/
Offers a confidential helpline for people who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse as children and excellent helpful information to download.
Phone free 0808 801 0331
Disability.
Baptist Voice. Talking newspaper for visually impaired people.
http://baptistvoice.co.uk/
Regular podcasts of Baptist news,views, prayers and hymns.
Through the Roof.
https://www.throughtheroof.org/
Providing life-changing opportunities for disabled people. International mission; clubs; projects.
Equipping the Christian community to fully involve disabled people. Disability and accessibility awareness training for churches. The charity’s name comes from the Bible account where some men break through the roof to help their disabled friend meet Jesus.
BSL Daily Devotions
http://bsldailydevotions.co.uk/
BSL Daily Devotions is a web-based collection of devotions translated into British Sign Language.
Torch Trust
http://www.torchtrust.org/index.php
Christian resources and activities for blind and partially sighted people worldwide.
Open Ears
https://www.openears.org.uk/
A non-denominational Christian charity for people who have various degrees of impaired hearing, mainly (but not exclusively) those who communicate orally, assisted by hearing aids or cochlear implants and lip-reading. It aims to provide accessible fellowship, Bible teaching, prayer support and pastoral care, to produce informative literature and a quarterly magazine called Hearing Eye.
Christian ethics and lifestyles
Right to Life
https://righttolife.org.uk/
Right To Life UK is a charitable organisation focused on life issues – abortion, assisted suicide and embryo research.
Living Out.
https://www.livingout.org/
Helps people, churches and society talk about faith and sexuality. Bible based.
The Christian Institute.
https://www.christian.org.uk/
Aims to be: “a Christian influence in a secular world. Offers news, views and resources on contemporary ethical issues”. It’s lawyers regularly defend Christians in court (free of charge) against discrimination claims.
The Evangelical Alliance.
www.eauk.org
Membership organisation mainly for churches. The largest and oldest body representing the UK’s two million evangelical Christians. For more than 165 years, have been bringing Christians together and helping them listen to, and be heard by, the government, media and society.