Our vision is to see God’s kingdom grow in the East of England through healthy churches, living as wholesome communities and engaging in relevant mission.
The Eastern Baptist Association is a family of Baptist Churches situated throughout Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridge. Our fellowship together is so that we can encourage and resource one another for the work of mission, both for each church in its local context, and in things we might do together. Every Church contributes to our wider mission in their own unique way by taking part in enriching relationships, developing ministry and enabling fruitful mission in its own area.
In 2012 Simon was appointed to the EBA Council as Task Group Leader for Mission Strategy and began serving the Association as Regional Minister for the central sector in January 2014. With Chris Duffett he co-authored the book ‘Big Hearted’ and has been a contributor to the IBRA Bible Reading notes. He is one of the two national Pioneer Co-ordinators for Baptists Together, hosts the online version of the mission-shaped ministry course and represents Baptists nationally within Fresh Expressions.
Nick was born in Devon and raised in a Christian family, attending a Baptist Church for as long as he can remember. He gave his life to Christ at the age of 6, at a beach mission on Exmouth Beach. He was baptised as a believer at the age of 13 and not long after that first felt God’s call to be a Minister.
After graduating from Spurgeon’s Nick was called to Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham, to work as part of the team there as Youth Minister. During their time in Horsham Nick and Sally were blessed with two children: Tom and Hannah. From Horsham (to his great surprise and delight) Nick was called to work at Baptist House in the Mission Department as a Mission Advisor – focusing particularly on encouraging and supporting churches in their work with children, young people, families and young adults. From there he was called in 2008 to serve as the team leader at Colchester Baptist Church. In 2014 he was called by the EBA to serve as Regional Minister in the Southern Sector of the Association. Nick is committed to encouraging churches to be as healthy as possible in order that they can be free samples of Jesus for their communities
Nick likes to express his creativity in different ways. He is the lead author of ‘Making a Splash’, the Baptist Union’s guide to Believer’s Baptism, and writes his own blog (
The Eastern Baptist Association is foremost an association of churches. It is also a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. The council fulfil the role of Trustees of the charity and Directors of the company and are responsible for ensuring that the association pursues its aims in a responsible way and in accord with charity and company law.
Growing healthy churches in relationship for God's mission in the East of England
There are over 170 churches in the east of England who are part of the association. We are one of the thirteen regional associations of Baptists Together in UK. The eastern region covers Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.
Safeguarding training at Level 2 and Level 3 proves to be one of the Associations largest attended. 2017 saw 888 individuals trained at Level 2 and 427 trained at Level 3, this shows that as churches we are taking seriously the need to train and equip our ministers and volunteers. We are please to announce […]
First Business of Mission Conference hailed a success
Shared Space in Southend-on-Sea played its part in organising the first ‘Business of Mission Conference’. On Tuesday 25 April 2017, forty five church leaders came from across the East of England region to this day of training run by Church from Scratch in partnership with Shared Space and the Eastern Baptist Association. The day that took […]
50 Days of Mission in our churches
During Pentecost this year the Eastern Baptist Association launched a new mission resource by the churches for the churches of the Association. 50 Days of Mission (#50Days) is full of current mission projects and ideas that are being successfully run by our churches. Every day a new story was shared on www.50Days.org.uk and via the Eastern […]
