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The BUV Generations Network (BGN) is the banner under which we seek to gather all of our Generations Pastors and Leaders from our Baptist family. Our primary areas of focus are on providing training – opportunities for personal and skill development to equip our leaders for mission – and networking – the intentional linking of pastors and leaders with one another for support, accountability, shared resource and collaboration.

This April, as you prepare your heart and mind to celebrate Easter, we pray that you’ll be encouraged and draw closer to our Saviour through this special devotion series “Before the Cross”. Every week, we’ll feature inspiring messages from BUV leaders and this week, you’ll hear from Rev David Devine, Head of Church Health and Capacity Building, BUV, about the The Easter Sunday Headline.

Week 4: The Easter Sunday Headline by Rev David Devine, Head of Church Health and Capacity Building, BUV

This April, as you prepare your heart and mind to celebrate Easter, we pray that you’ll be encouraged and draw closer to our Saviour through this special devotion series “Before the Cross”. Every week, we’ll feature inspiring messages from BUV leaders and this week, you’ll hear from Rev Jonathan Stark, on Easter Hope.

Week 3: Easter Hope  – Rev Jonathan Stark, Head of Pastoral Leadership, Support & Development, BUV

This Lent, Common Grace and Bible Society Australia invite us to rediscover Jesus’s profound teachings veiled in everyday stories. As we come together, we’re praying for ears to hear these teachings of Jesus afresh, to let them get past our defences and under our skin, as they transform us to make things right in this world.

The Rich Man and Lazarus is a Lent Teaching by Rev Keith Jobberns

This Lent, Common Grace and Bible Society Australia invite us to rediscover Jesus’s profound teachings veiled in everyday stories. As we come together, we’re praying for ears to hear these teachings of Jesus afresh, to let them get past our defences and under our skin, as they transform us to make things right in this world.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son- A Lent Teaching by Professor Neil Ormerod

Neil Ormerod, Professor of Theology at ACU, reflects on the anger of the Prodigal Son’s older brother and challenges us to celebrate the new world that grace opens up for us.

This April, as you prepare your heart and mind to celebrate Easter, we pray that you’ll be encouraged and draw closer to our Saviour through this special devotion series “Before the Cross”. Every week, we’ll feature inspiring messages from BUV leaders and this week, you’ll hear from Daniel Bullock, BUV Director of Mission & Ministries, who encourages us to be together on mission as Easter People.

Week 1: Easter People
Daniel Bullock, BUV Director of Mission & Ministries

This Lent, Common Grace and Bible Society Australia invite us to rediscover Jesus’s profound teachings veiled in everyday stories. As we come together, we’re praying for ears to hear these teachings of Jesus afresh, to let them get past our defences and under our skin, as they transform us to make things right in this world.

For two years Paw Sanba and I have been taking a group of mainly Karen Baptist youth to a Shi’a mosque in St Albans.

“The Rich Fool is not foolish about how to make money, but is foolish enough to allow money to make him.” Dave Hack, the Young Adults Pastor at Riverview Church in Perth, continues our Lent Series in his reflection on the Parable of the Rich Fool.

The International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on 8th of March and is a day to reflect on how far we have come and how far we still have to go to truly achieve gender equality. This year’s theme is #BalanceforBetter and we’ve invited women leaders here at the BUV to share with you their thoughts to better the balance and better the world.