The Rev Mary Moody of Bovingdon Baptist church is to be a full-time Regional Minister serving the churches of Central Baptist Association, covering Milton Keynes and the surrounding counties.

After having given notice to her church which is near Hemel Hempstead, Mary will start in September 2022, where she will join the Rev Lisa Kerry, who is the incoming Regional Minister Team Leader.

Mary comments, “As minister of a small but big-hearted church within the CBA, I have valued relationships within our association enormously. I am delighted to join Lisa Kerry on the Regional Ministry team, and look forward to journeying alongside our churches and ministers in this role.

More details about Mary will be forthcoming shortly and an occasion for an induction in the Autumn will be fixed and advertised to churches in due course.

As the process continues to identify the remaining posts to cover the responsibilities of the Regional Ministry Team, please pray for those involved in the process.

The recent killing of George Floyd has revealed afresh the depths of racism that remain in our world, and the evils that flourish when it is allowed to go unnoticed. Every black life matters, and every black life is of infinite worth in God’s eyes – and ours too.

We abhor racism in all its forms, and are committed to fighting racism, and to pointing to ways in which our society remains unjust and our world unequal.

We are sorry for our failure to recognise racism, our failure to listen to our black sisters and brothers and understand the racism that they have had to endure as an everyday part of their lives, our failure to stand alongside them, and our failure to fight racism and injustice in our communities, in our country and in the world.

We pray that God might be at work in our own lives, in the church, and in the world, revealing and helping us to eradicate racism, and to work for justice and peace in the world that he loved so much that he redeemed it through his Son, Jesus Christ, crucified, buried and risen.