Ministries don’t “live by bread alone”—cash gifts and investments are needed to underwrite Baptist Churches of New England (BCNE) priority needs for 2026.

Nearly 250 pastors and church leaders from six states and beyond gathered for fellowship, information, worship, inspiration, and a little bit of business at the Baptist Churches of New England’s (BCNE’s) inaugural NEXUS Conference, November 7-8, at First Baptist Church, Marlborough, Massachusetts.

If you’re seeking “vital tools” to fuel a “movement of multiplication” in your church or if you want to remove your leadership-development “barriers to the gospel,” the Baptist Churches of New England (BCNE) is organizing its inaugural NEXUS Conference, which ought to be an essential addition to your calendar.  

Creative ministry comes easily to Silvio Simões dos Santos and Vera Lucia dos Santos, missionaries in Portugal, who use their talents in numerous ways to present the gospel—he as a clown and she as a creative artist.

The couple, who are natives of São Paulo, Brazil, opened their ministry center—called the “365 Family Project”—in Viana do Castelo, fifty miles north of Porto, on April 4, 2025. They sell high-quality, secondhand clothing; teach Brazilian jiujitsu; and offer Japanese origami paper folding classes. They also visit and provide a variety of activities at orphanages, schools, hospitals, and nursing homes in their adopted region and in several other countries.

The faith journey of George Lim that began more than two decades ago in San Diego around his mother’s holiday dinner table has blossomed, by God’s grace and because of a commitment to innovative leadership development methods, into The River Church, Glastonbury, Connecticut.

Anyone who spends more than a few minutes with New England Baptist house-church pastor, seminary scholar, and author Paul S. Biswas will soon discover that he was born for exactly the ministry he leads in Greater Boston.

The members of Hope Church in the Midcoast Maine community of Brunswick invited Trevor DeField of mountainous, rural Colorado to be their next pastor before he ever preached a sermon for them.

New England Baptists should understand their church’s “leadership development culture” and sharpen its focus for “growth and vitality,” which will provide “clarity and direction for improvement.” That’s the essence of what Mac Lake, a noted leadership development consultant, is expected to convey when he keynotes two Saturday plenary sessions at the Baptist Churches of New England’s (BCNE)  Annual Meeting, now called the “Nexus Conference,” November 7-8 at First Baptist Church, Marlborough, Massachusetts. 

“No plan to reach New England for Christ would be complete without a collegiate component,” said Terry Dorsett, Executive Director of Baptist Churches of New England (BCNE), who appointed directors to lead the network’s collegiate ministry. Fady Ghobrial, for Boston, and Daniel McGhee for the rest of New England, are serving part-time with funding for three years by the Baptist Foundation of New England (BFNE).

Jonathan Moseley, who was named in May as the Baptist Churches of New  England’s (BCNE) first Director of Faith and Work, is planning to  start a study group that ultimately will “saturate Boston with gospel access by equipping young professionals to bring their faith to the workplace.”

In recent decades, Baptist Churches of New England (BCNE) “has been transformed largely because old, historic churches have joined us and are helping us rethink what it really means to reach New Englanders with the gospel,” said BCNE Executive Director Terry Dorsett.  

Most visitors arrive in Vermont as tourists to experience the mountain vistas and quaint villages that dot America’s most bucolic state, but Shara Cowen, Laura Meloti, and Bucky Elliott came to the Green Mountains with a higher calling: to pave the way for a statewide evangelism thrust in October.   

A small network of New England Baptist pastors opened church-based immigration clinics to minister to their undocumented neighbors if they face deportation from the United States.