Post by John on Feb 3, 2011 23:54:28 GMT -5
From Saffron Walden Baptist Church have been set apart to be ministers and missionaries
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Josiah Wilkinson our 3rd minister arrived here a bachelor aged 23 in 1809 and had just this one pastorate and died in 1848 . He trained lay preachers for the Essex Baptist Union
Josiah prepared a number of young men from our congregation for entry into Stepney Academy, now Regents Park Baptist College Oxford and other colleges to train as ministers..
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During the 19th Century from our Church went into the Ministry & Overseas Mission
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Samuel Gosnell Green BA. DD
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Dr Samuel Gosnell Green, came to Upper Meeting from Walworth where his father was pastor and both a teacher and printer, and he was prepared for ministerial training by Rev Josiah Wilkinson.. SGG preached his first sermon at Upper Meeting. He went on to become an author and educationalist.
In 1858 the Psalms and Hymns Trust formed, an influential committee chaired by SGG which produced a hymnal collection of 1000 Hymns entitled “Psalms and Hymns” which remained popular well into the 20th century and in it’s first 21 years 900,000 copies were sold and from the profits £10,000 was distributed to widows and orphans.
He also chaired the committee that produced the Baptist Church Hymnal published in 1900 and he by then had been first tutor and then Principal from 1863 - 1876 and finally President of Rawdon College in total serving them for 24 years. He was also advisor to Mrs John Rylands in the establishment of the Rylands Library at Manchester. The new hymnal was widely embraced in the UK, the Dominions and where ever the BMS held services in English.
SGG was a man of broad interests in the field of Biblical studies the men trained at Rawdon college, “ sought to unite the pair so long despised knowledge and vital piety “
In the Downgrade Controversy he was critical of the Angus Declaration in 1888 which was a kind of creed of Baptist belief.
In 1871 he raised in the BU Council the idea of a uniformed scheme for ministerial training but it was anther 14 years before they agreed. He commended to us our new pastor in 1874 returned and preached in 1879 for the opening of the new Chapel
SGG was General Secretary of the Religious Tract Society which produced Christian books, Biblical commentaries, and school text books and he wrote several such. It later became the United Society for Christian Literature and later organised the Feed the Minds Campaign and Eurolit to provide Mini-libraries to persecuted and imprisoned pastors in Eastern Europe. He Died 15 Sept 1905
Benjamin Hodgkin,
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on of a Soham pastor though born in the Potteries in Staffs. Benjamin was a member here and trained by Josiah went on to serve as minister to Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church from 1836-1886.
Clement Nott
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born in Walden in 1794 Baptised in 1816. He studied at Stepney College, and for 30 years was Pastor of Zion Particular Baptist Church Sutton in Ashfield Notts, and much involved in education. He retired back to Walden and served as a deacon.
James Webb
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from Ipswich whose father served as pastor at Langley. James transferred here at the age of 24, and in 1827 he entered Horton Academy and was later President of the Baptist Union in 1853, as then a minister from Ipswich and a College tutor. He died Jan 23 1881
David Payn,
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born in Birmingham, baptised at Walden in 1827, entered Stepney College in 1828 and went and served as Pastor in 1831 at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
Harold Rollason
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son of our minister of 1874 - 1881 served as a minister in Canada.
Herbert D Rollason
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born in 1886 left an apprenticeship in UK and went to North America, where a Christian couple took him in, befriended him, and helped him get into Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. From there he went to Harvard Seminary at Cambridge Massachusets. He was ordained and served many years as a Congregationalist Minister at Middleton.Connecticut. His grand daughter Ruth Rollason married Robert Inhoff who became a Baptist Minister at Eden Prairee in Minnesota.
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Robert Catt
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(the local PRU Insurance Agency Collector, who was a Deacon and Church Treasurer at High Street Saffron Walden Baptist Church was later from 1914 - 1957 pastor of the Hill Street General Baptist Church Saffron Walden, known in later year’s as Catt’s Chapel.)
Bertram Savill
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whose father was a baker and lived in Gold Street. A member of our Church. Educated at Newport Grammar School 1914-1918 Bert was converted through the personal witness of the Maths master Robert Bell, a member of the Exclusive Brethren. He had pastorates Huddersfield, Foulsham in Norfolk and Manchester, and spent a lot of time in Secondary Education
Dr Nancy Bywaters,
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of our Church, sister of Keith late husband of Karenza Bywaters served several years as missionary doctor in China as did her parents before that
Joseph Clarke
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who was the father of Mrs Doris (Dolly) Stalley a deacon at Walden in the mid 20th century, and grandfather of Miss Jean Stalley who died just a few years ago. was Superintendent of our Sewards End Baptist Mission from 1914 - 1929 . Joseph led an Open Air Meeting at Audley End Village in 1931 which was appreciated there and childreb from there joined the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School.
Bert Clarke
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Early in1931 he formed a Mission Band of young people at Sewards End as team of workers as concern was expressed at the lapse of interest amongst the people in the village. He was son of Joseph Clarke and was active in the Saffron Walden Baptist Christian Endeavour Society and became a Local Lay Preacher and Superintendent of our Sewards End Baptist Mission
In 1946 he went to Germany to hekpe with The Salvation Army deal with the crisis of destituted war weary Germans. He later served as a Lay Pastor at Andover. and retired back to Thaxted and served as a preacher locally,
Arthur E Coote
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joined the church from the Primitive MMethodist Churc when the Primitves and Wesleyans merged in 1926. He was active in the Christian Endeavour Society and served as a Local Lay Prevher and Deacon. He became the Superintendent of our Sewards End Baptist Mission from 1946 to 1963 when it closed.
Richard F Coote
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After 1956 some services were led at Sewards End by students of the Saffron Walden Teachers Training College and the Young Peoples Witness Team from Walden.
Members of these two groups included Anne Wright a student from Worcester, and Richard F Coote born in 1941, only child and son of Arthur Coote and his wife Ivy who did so much for the Mission over a 20 year span, These two young people became friends and lovers and married at Worcester in 1962.
After he committed himself to Jesus Christ at the age of 14 at a Relay Rally at Saffron Walden at which he was a choir member in 1955 from the Billy Graham Crusade at Kelvin Hall in Scotland, Richard helped even more at Sewards End Mission, and as Assistant Scout Master of the Free Church Scouts at Walden. He also , served in the Sunday School and Youth Fellowship. He served for a time as Scripture Union Branch Secretary.
At Worcester he was a Leader of the Christian Endeavour Society at Rainbow Hill Baptist Mission and Sunday School superintendent . He went on to follow in his father’s footsteps further as a Lay Preacher and as Deacon of Sansom Walk Baptist Church at Worcester.
When the Mission became an independent BU Baptist Church he served for a time there as Deacon. For nearly 40 years he worked at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company,
He and Anne had two fine children Mary and David both married. Richard and Anne had two grand daughters. Richard was a very good gardener and allotment holder and David took up horticulture as a career. Richard retired at 60 and took up bowling. He and Anne went on a cruise to the Arctic and to other places overseas, including a visit to China. He was noted as a quiet friendly man, generous hearted and with an impish sense of humour.
Richard died in 2007 aged 65.
Mary Turnbull
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younger sister of Jack Turnbull was Captain of our Girl’s Life Brigade and went onto to become a Baptist Deaconess at Morden Park, Surrey and was later Warden of the Baptist Home for Unmarried mothers. She retired back to Walden as Asst Head of RA Butler Infants School and later served in Birmingham.
Eric John Swan
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Head of Maths at Saffron Walden County High. Local Lay Preacher, for over 30 years, Deacon and at one time Church Treasurer and Leader of the Youth Witness Team in te 1950's after retirement from teaching went on to serve as Lay Pastor of Wood Lane Baptist Church Dagenham before retiring to Walden.
John Edward Maddams
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was a Local Lay Preacher from 1956 and was set apart for Ministerial Training in 1961 with the full approval of the Deacons, the Church Meeting and the Essex Baptist Association Recognition Committee. He went to Bristol Baptist College for the examination and interview but was not accepted. The Principal advised him to return to his home church and continue as a Lay Preacher and pursue his ministry with Christian Literature and see where it led him as the college at that time had not trainingcourses in literature evangelism.
His mother had scrimped and saved £50 towards his training. This he set aside into a Fund - the Sydney and Alice Maddams Memorial Fund which with interest and further investment by 2012 had paid out over £47,000 in hundreds of small grants to help other people in education, training and evangelism.
In 1963 he completed BU Training as a Lay Preacher and continued in this for many years. He also went on to serve the Church in various roles, including Missionary Secretary, Press Officer, Church Treasurer,.Membership Secretary, BB Officer, Church Archivist / Historian and
Adminstered the Lighthouse Prayer Ministry [ MCCPF ] which by 2012 had reached over 61,480 people, including 22,340 overseas, across over 170 countries, using over 287,000 items of resources.
From AD 2000 he represented Saffron Walden on the UDC Tenants Forum caring for 2,800 Council House Tenants.
Philip Cresswell Webb .BD, BSc,
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son of the Revd Horace and Mrs Lillian Webb who served at Saffron Walden from 1956-1968 was converted and baptised here and trained at Bristol Baptist College, and served victoria park bristol 1974-1980 then at the BU Training Department at Baptist Church House including as an illustrator and author 1980-1984. He became a Baptist Minister again St Albans { Dagnell Street) 1984 -1989 then at Maidstone from 1989,and later went on the serve as Ecumenical Development Officer for Churches Together in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire for 10 years and recently moved on to serving 20 hours a week as Ecumenical Mission Officer for CLASP – Churches Linked Across Staffordshire and the Potteries, and BCCE - Black Country Churches Engaged .
He lives with his wife Jane at Chellaston in Derbyshire and Jane is Baptist Minister of Hill Street Baptist Church Swadlincote in Derbyshire which had run down a bit but this year there have ben 3 baptisms and additions to the congregation which average 45 plus 10 under 18's and Philip helps her with that.
Dane Austen Stuart Baker BA
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nephew of Joy Waterman a member of our Sunday School in the 1969-1971 period studied at Regents Park Baptist College at Assistant Minister at Brown Street Salisbury and Winterslow and Salisbury area Fellowship 1982-1988 then as Minister at Winterslow 1988 - 1989 and then at Easthamstead Bucks from 1989 as Senior Minister with 2 congregations and assisted in mission in Kazakstan and then from about 2009 at Emsworth Baptist Church, Hampshire, on the coast, and in February 2011 he was helping with mission in India.
The church at Emsworth were in 2012 building a new £2,200,000 building in the town centre and had 80 teenagers at their TRIBE youth group on Fridays
In August 2012 with his wife Blanche, Dane moved to become Associate Minister of the over 300 member Fleet Baptist Church in North Hampshire inducted there in September.
John Yule
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who with his parents and younger brother David joined us in the early 1970's from Bishop's Stortford Baptist Church educated at Mill Hill School, he was baptised at Bishop's Stortford in 1968 and found scope for service at BMS Summer Schools and was part of our delegation to the Baptist World Alliance Congress in Tokio in 1970. He studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology and then at Newcastle University reading engineering and arts, gaining an Honours Bachelor of Science and a post graduate Diploma of Education.
In 1972 he went to serve with the Baptist Missionary Society, teaching in French, maths and physics at the Secondary School at Ngombe Lutete in Zaire and had other responsibilities as an engineer for Mission equipment. From Zaire [ later the Democratic Republic of Congo ] he later moved to a teaching post in Kenya
Barry Wood
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with his wife Mary will be well remembered here as Youth Leasers, especially of THE FOLLOWERS . They moved to Buntingford finding useful opportunities for service there. Baptised in 1974and becoming conscious of a call to the Ministry they moved to Oxford making application to Regents Park Baptist College to train but could find no accommodation for their family. He signed a 2 year contract with a pharmaceutical firm just 2 hours before the College advised him they had found him accommodation. Why did God allow that to happen. In 1975 they both joined Kidlington Baptist Church, a young Church founded in 1956, as a Baptist Union Initial Pastorate.
I believe they later moved to a Restoration Church
James Cameron Grote, BA
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from Ickleton Methodist Church, and member of our Followers Group. baptised and a member here, co-operated with Paul Stork as a dual music group called Intersection [ meaning the cross ] which performed at the 1975 Bicentenary Anniversary here, trained at the Northern Baptist College,
Carey Hal Leicester 1981-1984, Littleover Derby 1984-1990, BMS El Salvador 1990-1994, John Bunyan, Cowley. Oxford 1994 until now, and Warden of the ARK Christian Art Centre at Oxford.
Peter Witting BA
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Deacon at Saffron Walden, trained at Spurgeon’s College, served at Arbury Road BC Cambridge
Hugh Ellis
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member of our Followers Youth Group went into the RAF became a Squadron Leader, fought in the Falklands Campaign, trained and became a Vicar and in 2012 is at Huish Episcopi Langport Somerset
Martin Ellis ,
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Hugh's younger brother trained for missionary service but finished uo as a socil worker and lived in served in Switzerland. Those two brothers and their older brother Paul, were members of the Followers Youth Group and sons of Deacons Ron Ellis and his wife Doreen who had been born a Jew many of whose family died in the Holocaust doreen long served us as a Deacon
David Halden
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from Ipswich, Member at Saffron Walden and Lay preacher, Youth leader with the Scouts who organised local Gang Shows and Deacon. Trained at Northern Baptist College but died there.
Adrian Smith
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Member of our Junior Church, and TWYG, baptised here and a member of our Church and officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade from being a cadet transferred to a C of E Church in Cambridge trained in London for the Anglican ministry but was killed there by a car.
Ian and Elizabeth Liddle [ nee Tredgett]
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from our Church trained and became Assistant Ministers at Cheshunt in the United Reformed Church
Richard Bending
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(thingy to us) Lay Preacher, Deacon and Church Secretary at Walden later trained in the Church of England and is now a retired Vicar in Norfolk where in AD 2000 he brought 5 rural parishes together into one group ministry..
Graham Jones
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Introduced to our church via a New Year Party he was converted and baptised here, helped with a university Mission, did a Missionary training course and went and served as a missionary, teaching English in Poland but. returned later with his wife to live in the UK
Martin Claxton
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son of Janet Claxton, Church Secretary here in the 1990’s who herself had served in Congo and India. Martin did a Missionary training course, and served as a Youth Leader and spent 6 months driving the BMS Road Show about the country during their Bicentenary Year in 1992
Jeremy Tucker
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son of our minister Brian Tucker, served for a time in the West Indies before dying there,
Gerald Pearce [ GED ]
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Joining the Church he was a leading member of THE VOLUNTEERS a singing group on the 1980's with his singing and his guitar He took up lay preaching. He was involved in helping to lead the Youth work of the Church. He served as Camp Chaplain at several BB Camps. With his wife Sue he served some years most effectively at a Youth Conference Centre at Eton-Dorney Winsor. Returning to Walden he again became active as a musician in one of the groups that lead our worship Sunday by Sunday. He became a Deacon, and took on responsibility for pastoral matters during the interregnum following the resignation of Rev Simon Mattholie and preached effectively several times during that period. He and Sue also took on the responsibility for effectively organising the monthly afternoon Songs of Praise services.
Wendy Spark
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Member of our Church became a missionary to the Afar tribe on the Eritraen border of Ethiopia.
Wayne Field
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born in Australia about 1968 youngest of 3 sons of Doreen and Arthur Field who were married by Rev Horace Webb at Saffron Walden in January 1963. Doreen is the adopted daughter of our former Deacon George Coston and his wife Doris.
Wayne has served as Minister of Freemantle Baptist Church and 8 years at Australind Baptist Church in Western Australia from which he resigned in February 2012 and took a short term contract working for Queensland Rail, until July when he went on a fund raising tour and as from January 2013 has been appointed International Training Co-ordinator for the world wide mission Operation Mobilisation working out of their British HQ in Carlisle Cumbria, researching, resourcing, creating training course programmes and send help to a net work of training teams across 110 countries with the an aim of training more pastors and other workers for the churches of Asia and Africa – where 75% of the Christian Church now lives and where in many countries there is a dearth of trained leaders,
During the 21st Century from our Church went into the Ministry & Overseas Mission
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Elizabeth Brown
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daughter of Rev Malcolm Brown minister here 1995 - 2003
3 month visit to Bela Horizonte in Brazil, working as a member of a Youth With A Mission project to assist Street Children. She is learnt Brazilian Portuguese and is worked there with volunteers from Holland, Ghana and Brazil. She did further training and worked there as a YWAM Missionary. Became with her husband Sergio Vilela joint Youth Pastor 2008-2011 Saffron Walden Baptist Church Sergio and Elizabeth begin training ins Sept 2013 to proceed to Mozambique in May 2014 as missionaries with their daughter.
Philip Brown
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brother of Elizabeth, Member and NCO of our Boy’s Brigade who served on a school project in Zimbabwe, has served as a member of an BMS Action Team in Thailand, has led an BMS Action team in Uganda, and has served with BMS in South Africa before illness forced him back to UK.
Matthew Player
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Member and NCO in our Boy's Brigade. Baptised and a member of our Church, has completed medical training and become Doctor in 2011 at Medical College at Leicester University. He has served at the BMS Centre at Calcutta in India, and with the Mercy Ship off Africa, and in 2011 spent 5 weeks at Kiwoko Hospital in Uganda before taking up a post at Kettering Hospital for 2011-2012 and then returned to practice at Leicester Hospital.
Barnaby Linscott
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member of Debden Pentecostal Sunday School. Member and NCO of our Boys Brigade Company, Baptized at Thaxted Baptist church, Member of New Life Pentecostal Church here, has done short service mission work in India, and is studied for the ministry at Horsham College 2010-2013. He was ordained in 2013 and is Assistant Minister of Saffron Walden New Life Pentecostal Church with especial responsibility for young people.
Simon Mattholie
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Minister of this Church from 2005 - 2011 and remaining a member of our Church became Director of Rural Ministries, a fellowship of some 60 churches around the UK
and co-operated with 4 Associations of Baptist Union Great Britain in support of their rural ministries. For more details of Rural Ministries access www.ruralministries.org.uk
Gavin Walter
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lay preaching at Saffron Walden from 2009 and a Deacon from 2012
he did a Growing Leaders Course having tested out what he believed to be a call to the Baptist Ministry in the North West Essex Cluster churches churches at Ashdon and Great Sampford and Thaxted. He was as from September 2013 accepted for training by Spurgeon's Baptist College, London, as appointed as Student Pastor of Ashdon Baptist Church, about 5 miles from Saffron Walden. in succession to the Rev'd David Doonan who has recently retired from 10 years in that role, who has been acting as a mentor to Gavin for the past couple of years.Gavin is supported in his call by his wife Jo and his daughters Sarah and Hannah who live at Saffron Walden.
Andrew Heinrich
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who joined our Boys'Brigade Compny aged 13, who became a Pharmaceutical Scientist, and rose to be Officer in Charge of Company Section and then from 2008 served as a Deacon began training in July 2012 with a view to becoming a full time Youth Worker.
STREET PASTORS
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Todd Weston one of our Deacon
Tracey Todman Our Missionary Medical Birthday Scheme Secretary
Chris Winfield one of our Deacons and Worship Leaders
Quentin Dawe one of our Deacons and Church Treasurer
Mary Lewendon one of our Deacons
all trained in 2013 to become Street Pastors in Saffron Walden when this project was launched in September 2013. Six Other members of the congregation enrolled as Prayer Pastors in support
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Josiah Wilkinson our 3rd minister arrived here a bachelor aged 23 in 1809 and had just this one pastorate and died in 1848 . He trained lay preachers for the Essex Baptist Union
Josiah prepared a number of young men from our congregation for entry into Stepney Academy, now Regents Park Baptist College Oxford and other colleges to train as ministers..
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During the 19th Century from our Church went into the Ministry & Overseas Mission
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Samuel Gosnell Green BA. DD
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Dr Samuel Gosnell Green, came to Upper Meeting from Walworth where his father was pastor and both a teacher and printer, and he was prepared for ministerial training by Rev Josiah Wilkinson.. SGG preached his first sermon at Upper Meeting. He went on to become an author and educationalist.
In 1858 the Psalms and Hymns Trust formed, an influential committee chaired by SGG which produced a hymnal collection of 1000 Hymns entitled “Psalms and Hymns” which remained popular well into the 20th century and in it’s first 21 years 900,000 copies were sold and from the profits £10,000 was distributed to widows and orphans.
He also chaired the committee that produced the Baptist Church Hymnal published in 1900 and he by then had been first tutor and then Principal from 1863 - 1876 and finally President of Rawdon College in total serving them for 24 years. He was also advisor to Mrs John Rylands in the establishment of the Rylands Library at Manchester. The new hymnal was widely embraced in the UK, the Dominions and where ever the BMS held services in English.
SGG was a man of broad interests in the field of Biblical studies the men trained at Rawdon college, “ sought to unite the pair so long despised knowledge and vital piety “
In the Downgrade Controversy he was critical of the Angus Declaration in 1888 which was a kind of creed of Baptist belief.
In 1871 he raised in the BU Council the idea of a uniformed scheme for ministerial training but it was anther 14 years before they agreed. He commended to us our new pastor in 1874 returned and preached in 1879 for the opening of the new Chapel
SGG was General Secretary of the Religious Tract Society which produced Christian books, Biblical commentaries, and school text books and he wrote several such. It later became the United Society for Christian Literature and later organised the Feed the Minds Campaign and Eurolit to provide Mini-libraries to persecuted and imprisoned pastors in Eastern Europe. He Died 15 Sept 1905
Benjamin Hodgkin,
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on of a Soham pastor though born in the Potteries in Staffs. Benjamin was a member here and trained by Josiah went on to serve as minister to Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church from 1836-1886.
Clement Nott
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born in Walden in 1794 Baptised in 1816. He studied at Stepney College, and for 30 years was Pastor of Zion Particular Baptist Church Sutton in Ashfield Notts, and much involved in education. He retired back to Walden and served as a deacon.
James Webb
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from Ipswich whose father served as pastor at Langley. James transferred here at the age of 24, and in 1827 he entered Horton Academy and was later President of the Baptist Union in 1853, as then a minister from Ipswich and a College tutor. He died Jan 23 1881
David Payn,
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born in Birmingham, baptised at Walden in 1827, entered Stepney College in 1828 and went and served as Pastor in 1831 at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
Harold Rollason
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son of our minister of 1874 - 1881 served as a minister in Canada.
Herbert D Rollason
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born in 1886 left an apprenticeship in UK and went to North America, where a Christian couple took him in, befriended him, and helped him get into Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. From there he went to Harvard Seminary at Cambridge Massachusets. He was ordained and served many years as a Congregationalist Minister at Middleton.Connecticut. His grand daughter Ruth Rollason married Robert Inhoff who became a Baptist Minister at Eden Prairee in Minnesota.
During the 20th Century from our Church went into the Ministry & Overseas Mission
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Robert Catt
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(the local PRU Insurance Agency Collector, who was a Deacon and Church Treasurer at High Street Saffron Walden Baptist Church was later from 1914 - 1957 pastor of the Hill Street General Baptist Church Saffron Walden, known in later year’s as Catt’s Chapel.)
Bertram Savill
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whose father was a baker and lived in Gold Street. A member of our Church. Educated at Newport Grammar School 1914-1918 Bert was converted through the personal witness of the Maths master Robert Bell, a member of the Exclusive Brethren. He had pastorates Huddersfield, Foulsham in Norfolk and Manchester, and spent a lot of time in Secondary Education
Dr Nancy Bywaters,
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of our Church, sister of Keith late husband of Karenza Bywaters served several years as missionary doctor in China as did her parents before that
Joseph Clarke
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who was the father of Mrs Doris (Dolly) Stalley a deacon at Walden in the mid 20th century, and grandfather of Miss Jean Stalley who died just a few years ago. was Superintendent of our Sewards End Baptist Mission from 1914 - 1929 . Joseph led an Open Air Meeting at Audley End Village in 1931 which was appreciated there and childreb from there joined the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School.
Bert Clarke
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Early in1931 he formed a Mission Band of young people at Sewards End as team of workers as concern was expressed at the lapse of interest amongst the people in the village. He was son of Joseph Clarke and was active in the Saffron Walden Baptist Christian Endeavour Society and became a Local Lay Preacher and Superintendent of our Sewards End Baptist Mission
In 1946 he went to Germany to hekpe with The Salvation Army deal with the crisis of destituted war weary Germans. He later served as a Lay Pastor at Andover. and retired back to Thaxted and served as a preacher locally,
Arthur E Coote
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joined the church from the Primitive MMethodist Churc when the Primitves and Wesleyans merged in 1926. He was active in the Christian Endeavour Society and served as a Local Lay Prevher and Deacon. He became the Superintendent of our Sewards End Baptist Mission from 1946 to 1963 when it closed.
Richard F Coote
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After 1956 some services were led at Sewards End by students of the Saffron Walden Teachers Training College and the Young Peoples Witness Team from Walden.
Members of these two groups included Anne Wright a student from Worcester, and Richard F Coote born in 1941, only child and son of Arthur Coote and his wife Ivy who did so much for the Mission over a 20 year span, These two young people became friends and lovers and married at Worcester in 1962.
After he committed himself to Jesus Christ at the age of 14 at a Relay Rally at Saffron Walden at which he was a choir member in 1955 from the Billy Graham Crusade at Kelvin Hall in Scotland, Richard helped even more at Sewards End Mission, and as Assistant Scout Master of the Free Church Scouts at Walden. He also , served in the Sunday School and Youth Fellowship. He served for a time as Scripture Union Branch Secretary.
At Worcester he was a Leader of the Christian Endeavour Society at Rainbow Hill Baptist Mission and Sunday School superintendent . He went on to follow in his father’s footsteps further as a Lay Preacher and as Deacon of Sansom Walk Baptist Church at Worcester.
When the Mission became an independent BU Baptist Church he served for a time there as Deacon. For nearly 40 years he worked at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company,
He and Anne had two fine children Mary and David both married. Richard and Anne had two grand daughters. Richard was a very good gardener and allotment holder and David took up horticulture as a career. Richard retired at 60 and took up bowling. He and Anne went on a cruise to the Arctic and to other places overseas, including a visit to China. He was noted as a quiet friendly man, generous hearted and with an impish sense of humour.
Richard died in 2007 aged 65.
Mary Turnbull
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younger sister of Jack Turnbull was Captain of our Girl’s Life Brigade and went onto to become a Baptist Deaconess at Morden Park, Surrey and was later Warden of the Baptist Home for Unmarried mothers. She retired back to Walden as Asst Head of RA Butler Infants School and later served in Birmingham.
Eric John Swan
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Head of Maths at Saffron Walden County High. Local Lay Preacher, for over 30 years, Deacon and at one time Church Treasurer and Leader of the Youth Witness Team in te 1950's after retirement from teaching went on to serve as Lay Pastor of Wood Lane Baptist Church Dagenham before retiring to Walden.
John Edward Maddams
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was a Local Lay Preacher from 1956 and was set apart for Ministerial Training in 1961 with the full approval of the Deacons, the Church Meeting and the Essex Baptist Association Recognition Committee. He went to Bristol Baptist College for the examination and interview but was not accepted. The Principal advised him to return to his home church and continue as a Lay Preacher and pursue his ministry with Christian Literature and see where it led him as the college at that time had not trainingcourses in literature evangelism.
His mother had scrimped and saved £50 towards his training. This he set aside into a Fund - the Sydney and Alice Maddams Memorial Fund which with interest and further investment by 2012 had paid out over £47,000 in hundreds of small grants to help other people in education, training and evangelism.
In 1963 he completed BU Training as a Lay Preacher and continued in this for many years. He also went on to serve the Church in various roles, including Missionary Secretary, Press Officer, Church Treasurer,.Membership Secretary, BB Officer, Church Archivist / Historian and
Adminstered the Lighthouse Prayer Ministry [ MCCPF ] which by 2012 had reached over 61,480 people, including 22,340 overseas, across over 170 countries, using over 287,000 items of resources.
From AD 2000 he represented Saffron Walden on the UDC Tenants Forum caring for 2,800 Council House Tenants.
Philip Cresswell Webb .BD, BSc,
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son of the Revd Horace and Mrs Lillian Webb who served at Saffron Walden from 1956-1968 was converted and baptised here and trained at Bristol Baptist College, and served victoria park bristol 1974-1980 then at the BU Training Department at Baptist Church House including as an illustrator and author 1980-1984. He became a Baptist Minister again St Albans { Dagnell Street) 1984 -1989 then at Maidstone from 1989,and later went on the serve as Ecumenical Development Officer for Churches Together in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire for 10 years and recently moved on to serving 20 hours a week as Ecumenical Mission Officer for CLASP – Churches Linked Across Staffordshire and the Potteries, and BCCE - Black Country Churches Engaged .
He lives with his wife Jane at Chellaston in Derbyshire and Jane is Baptist Minister of Hill Street Baptist Church Swadlincote in Derbyshire which had run down a bit but this year there have ben 3 baptisms and additions to the congregation which average 45 plus 10 under 18's and Philip helps her with that.
Dane Austen Stuart Baker BA
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nephew of Joy Waterman a member of our Sunday School in the 1969-1971 period studied at Regents Park Baptist College at Assistant Minister at Brown Street Salisbury and Winterslow and Salisbury area Fellowship 1982-1988 then as Minister at Winterslow 1988 - 1989 and then at Easthamstead Bucks from 1989 as Senior Minister with 2 congregations and assisted in mission in Kazakstan and then from about 2009 at Emsworth Baptist Church, Hampshire, on the coast, and in February 2011 he was helping with mission in India.
The church at Emsworth were in 2012 building a new £2,200,000 building in the town centre and had 80 teenagers at their TRIBE youth group on Fridays
In August 2012 with his wife Blanche, Dane moved to become Associate Minister of the over 300 member Fleet Baptist Church in North Hampshire inducted there in September.
John Yule
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who with his parents and younger brother David joined us in the early 1970's from Bishop's Stortford Baptist Church educated at Mill Hill School, he was baptised at Bishop's Stortford in 1968 and found scope for service at BMS Summer Schools and was part of our delegation to the Baptist World Alliance Congress in Tokio in 1970. He studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology and then at Newcastle University reading engineering and arts, gaining an Honours Bachelor of Science and a post graduate Diploma of Education.
In 1972 he went to serve with the Baptist Missionary Society, teaching in French, maths and physics at the Secondary School at Ngombe Lutete in Zaire and had other responsibilities as an engineer for Mission equipment. From Zaire [ later the Democratic Republic of Congo ] he later moved to a teaching post in Kenya
Barry Wood
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with his wife Mary will be well remembered here as Youth Leasers, especially of THE FOLLOWERS . They moved to Buntingford finding useful opportunities for service there. Baptised in 1974and becoming conscious of a call to the Ministry they moved to Oxford making application to Regents Park Baptist College to train but could find no accommodation for their family. He signed a 2 year contract with a pharmaceutical firm just 2 hours before the College advised him they had found him accommodation. Why did God allow that to happen. In 1975 they both joined Kidlington Baptist Church, a young Church founded in 1956, as a Baptist Union Initial Pastorate.
I believe they later moved to a Restoration Church
James Cameron Grote, BA
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from Ickleton Methodist Church, and member of our Followers Group. baptised and a member here, co-operated with Paul Stork as a dual music group called Intersection [ meaning the cross ] which performed at the 1975 Bicentenary Anniversary here, trained at the Northern Baptist College,
Carey Hal Leicester 1981-1984, Littleover Derby 1984-1990, BMS El Salvador 1990-1994, John Bunyan, Cowley. Oxford 1994 until now, and Warden of the ARK Christian Art Centre at Oxford.
Peter Witting BA
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Deacon at Saffron Walden, trained at Spurgeon’s College, served at Arbury Road BC Cambridge
Hugh Ellis
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member of our Followers Youth Group went into the RAF became a Squadron Leader, fought in the Falklands Campaign, trained and became a Vicar and in 2012 is at Huish Episcopi Langport Somerset
Martin Ellis ,
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Hugh's younger brother trained for missionary service but finished uo as a socil worker and lived in served in Switzerland. Those two brothers and their older brother Paul, were members of the Followers Youth Group and sons of Deacons Ron Ellis and his wife Doreen who had been born a Jew many of whose family died in the Holocaust doreen long served us as a Deacon
David Halden
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from Ipswich, Member at Saffron Walden and Lay preacher, Youth leader with the Scouts who organised local Gang Shows and Deacon. Trained at Northern Baptist College but died there.
Adrian Smith
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Member of our Junior Church, and TWYG, baptised here and a member of our Church and officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade from being a cadet transferred to a C of E Church in Cambridge trained in London for the Anglican ministry but was killed there by a car.
Ian and Elizabeth Liddle [ nee Tredgett]
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from our Church trained and became Assistant Ministers at Cheshunt in the United Reformed Church
Richard Bending
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(thingy to us) Lay Preacher, Deacon and Church Secretary at Walden later trained in the Church of England and is now a retired Vicar in Norfolk where in AD 2000 he brought 5 rural parishes together into one group ministry..
Graham Jones
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Introduced to our church via a New Year Party he was converted and baptised here, helped with a university Mission, did a Missionary training course and went and served as a missionary, teaching English in Poland but. returned later with his wife to live in the UK
Martin Claxton
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son of Janet Claxton, Church Secretary here in the 1990’s who herself had served in Congo and India. Martin did a Missionary training course, and served as a Youth Leader and spent 6 months driving the BMS Road Show about the country during their Bicentenary Year in 1992
Jeremy Tucker
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son of our minister Brian Tucker, served for a time in the West Indies before dying there,
Gerald Pearce [ GED ]
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Joining the Church he was a leading member of THE VOLUNTEERS a singing group on the 1980's with his singing and his guitar He took up lay preaching. He was involved in helping to lead the Youth work of the Church. He served as Camp Chaplain at several BB Camps. With his wife Sue he served some years most effectively at a Youth Conference Centre at Eton-Dorney Winsor. Returning to Walden he again became active as a musician in one of the groups that lead our worship Sunday by Sunday. He became a Deacon, and took on responsibility for pastoral matters during the interregnum following the resignation of Rev Simon Mattholie and preached effectively several times during that period. He and Sue also took on the responsibility for effectively organising the monthly afternoon Songs of Praise services.
Wendy Spark
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Member of our Church became a missionary to the Afar tribe on the Eritraen border of Ethiopia.
Wayne Field
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born in Australia about 1968 youngest of 3 sons of Doreen and Arthur Field who were married by Rev Horace Webb at Saffron Walden in January 1963. Doreen is the adopted daughter of our former Deacon George Coston and his wife Doris.
Wayne has served as Minister of Freemantle Baptist Church and 8 years at Australind Baptist Church in Western Australia from which he resigned in February 2012 and took a short term contract working for Queensland Rail, until July when he went on a fund raising tour and as from January 2013 has been appointed International Training Co-ordinator for the world wide mission Operation Mobilisation working out of their British HQ in Carlisle Cumbria, researching, resourcing, creating training course programmes and send help to a net work of training teams across 110 countries with the an aim of training more pastors and other workers for the churches of Asia and Africa – where 75% of the Christian Church now lives and where in many countries there is a dearth of trained leaders,
During the 21st Century from our Church went into the Ministry & Overseas Mission
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Elizabeth Brown
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daughter of Rev Malcolm Brown minister here 1995 - 2003
3 month visit to Bela Horizonte in Brazil, working as a member of a Youth With A Mission project to assist Street Children. She is learnt Brazilian Portuguese and is worked there with volunteers from Holland, Ghana and Brazil. She did further training and worked there as a YWAM Missionary. Became with her husband Sergio Vilela joint Youth Pastor 2008-2011 Saffron Walden Baptist Church Sergio and Elizabeth begin training ins Sept 2013 to proceed to Mozambique in May 2014 as missionaries with their daughter.
Philip Brown
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brother of Elizabeth, Member and NCO of our Boy’s Brigade who served on a school project in Zimbabwe, has served as a member of an BMS Action Team in Thailand, has led an BMS Action team in Uganda, and has served with BMS in South Africa before illness forced him back to UK.
Matthew Player
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Member and NCO in our Boy's Brigade. Baptised and a member of our Church, has completed medical training and become Doctor in 2011 at Medical College at Leicester University. He has served at the BMS Centre at Calcutta in India, and with the Mercy Ship off Africa, and in 2011 spent 5 weeks at Kiwoko Hospital in Uganda before taking up a post at Kettering Hospital for 2011-2012 and then returned to practice at Leicester Hospital.
Barnaby Linscott
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member of Debden Pentecostal Sunday School. Member and NCO of our Boys Brigade Company, Baptized at Thaxted Baptist church, Member of New Life Pentecostal Church here, has done short service mission work in India, and is studied for the ministry at Horsham College 2010-2013. He was ordained in 2013 and is Assistant Minister of Saffron Walden New Life Pentecostal Church with especial responsibility for young people.
Simon Mattholie
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Minister of this Church from 2005 - 2011 and remaining a member of our Church became Director of Rural Ministries, a fellowship of some 60 churches around the UK
and co-operated with 4 Associations of Baptist Union Great Britain in support of their rural ministries. For more details of Rural Ministries access www.ruralministries.org.uk
Gavin Walter
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lay preaching at Saffron Walden from 2009 and a Deacon from 2012
he did a Growing Leaders Course having tested out what he believed to be a call to the Baptist Ministry in the North West Essex Cluster churches churches at Ashdon and Great Sampford and Thaxted. He was as from September 2013 accepted for training by Spurgeon's Baptist College, London, as appointed as Student Pastor of Ashdon Baptist Church, about 5 miles from Saffron Walden. in succession to the Rev'd David Doonan who has recently retired from 10 years in that role, who has been acting as a mentor to Gavin for the past couple of years.Gavin is supported in his call by his wife Jo and his daughters Sarah and Hannah who live at Saffron Walden.
Andrew Heinrich
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who joined our Boys'Brigade Compny aged 13, who became a Pharmaceutical Scientist, and rose to be Officer in Charge of Company Section and then from 2008 served as a Deacon began training in July 2012 with a view to becoming a full time Youth Worker.
STREET PASTORS
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Todd Weston one of our Deacon
Tracey Todman Our Missionary Medical Birthday Scheme Secretary
Chris Winfield one of our Deacons and Worship Leaders
Quentin Dawe one of our Deacons and Church Treasurer
Mary Lewendon one of our Deacons
all trained in 2013 to become Street Pastors in Saffron Walden when this project was launched in September 2013. Six Other members of the congregation enrolled as Prayer Pastors in support
Who will be next ?
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