Africa Evangelical Fellowship
now merged into SIM.
Dave and Hallé Smith served with AEF in Luampa, Zambia from September 1994 with strong prayer and financial support from TBC.
They came home on furlough in the summer of 1998 at about the time that AEF was merging with SIM to form a new society under the name of the Society for International Ministries (SIM), which was soon renamed again to become Serving in Mission (SIM).
Jonathan ans Sara Oliver began serving in Ethioipia with SIM in 2004.
SIM brings together:
- AEF - formed in 1889 as the Cape General Mission, renamed Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) in 1963
- ICF - the International Christian Fellowship, which began in 1893 as two separate missions to India and Ceylon
- SIM International - founded as the Sudan Interior Mission in 1893
Visit the SIM website
BMS World Mission
- the Baptist Missionary Society
TBC has had close links with the BMS for many years:
- support given to Raymond Holmes as he trained for medical missionary service with the BMS;
- Jack Saxton supported in training for medical missionary service with the BMS and then went with his wife, Kathleen, to Angola in 1934;
- Marjorie Belcham (later Mrs Newton) served in China from 1937;
- Leslie Larwood served with the BMS in Jamaica during the 1950s
- Rev Theo Valentine came to TBC ministry from the BMS in 1958;
- Ed and Arlette Fuller went to serve with the BMS in Congo in 1965;
- Trevor and Stella King went to Nepal in 1980 and Trevor worked for the BMS for some time after they returned to the UK;
In 2000, the Baptist Missionary Society changed its logo and began calling itself BMS World Mission.
Visit the BMS World Mission website
Baptist Union of Great Britain
TBC has belonged to the Baptist Union - a union of independent Baptist Churches - from the earliest days.
The Baptist Union came together in 1891 from several previous unions as recounted by the following quotation from the Baptist Union Handbook:
The influence of the BMS [Baptist Missionary Society] led in its turn to the formation in 1812-13 of
the first Baptist Union amongst Particular Baptist churches. The Union had
an uncertain early history, but after its re-formation in 1831-32,
Particular Baptists and General Baptists of the New Connexion began to
draw more closely together. This process culminated in 1891 when, when the
General Baptists of the New Connexion, under the leadership of John
Clifford (1836-1923) amalgamated with the Baptist Union.
Read the Core Values of the Baptist Union
Visit the Baptist Union website
Billy Graham Missions
The Billy Graham Missions held in London during the 1950s and subsequently have been very influential in building up London Baptist church life and, in particular, the life of Teddington Baptist Church.
In 1954, TBC took enthusiastic part in the Billy Graham Harringay Arena rallies with coaches being run regularly from Teddington.
In 1955, the Church again supported the Billy Graham Wembley Crusade with 27 coaches in total going to the meetings of which 12 were reserved for the uncommitted.
In both these Crusades, many members served as choir members, stewards, and counsellors.
In 1960, the Church was one of the London broadcast centres for the relay of the Billy Graham North of England Crusade.
The Church continued to be involved with subsequent Billy Graham Missions in London including the 1966 and 1967 Mission.
Visit the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website
Churches Together in Teddington
Churches Together in Teddington is the name for the grouping of churches working in Teddington.
This was originally formed as Teddington Christian Council in 1964.
TBC has played a full part in Teddington Christian Council and Churches Together since their foundation.
Colin Hicks has been running a website for CTT since 1997 and Elizabeth Hicks, a TBC member, became Secretary to CTT in 1998.
Visit the Churches Together in Teddington website
Daughter Churches
TBC has been closely associated the foundation, support, and re-opening of a number of Baptist Churches in the local area including the following:
- In 1925, TBC helped opened Baptist work in Feltham under the leadership of Mr W H James;
- In the 1920s, TBC helped establish the Free Church Hall in Ham;
- In 1944, TBC took oversight of the Ashford Mission Church - now independent as Ashford Baptist Church;
- In 1992, Hampton Baptist Church was planted under the leadership of Steve Jenkins - now an independent Baptist Church with its own Minister;
Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance UK is an umbrella body serving more than a million Christians
from some 20 denominations.
The Evangelical Alliance was established in 1846.
It brings together Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Church of
Scotland and many others to co-operate in prayer, evangelism and social action - to work
as one body, whether locally in their own neighbourhoods or nationally through
Parliament and the media on the pressing issues of today.
TBC joined the Evangelical Alliance in 1977.
Visit the Evangelical Alliance UK website
London Baptist Association
On 10 November 1865 at the age of 31, with his two ministerial friends Charles Brock and William Landels, Charles Haddon Spurgeon ("the Prince of Preachers") established the London Baptist Association at the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
The primary purpose for establishing the LBA was mission - as well as fellowship amongst Baptists.
The coming together as an Association was for the sharing and promoting of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The aim of the LBA was to plant one new Baptist church per year in the Capital or suburbs.
In fact in the first 11 years of the LBA, 62 new churches were founded, 53 of these as a direct result of help from Spurgeon's students at his College.
TBC has belonged to the LBA since 22 June 1943 when the Home Counties Baptist Association was amalgamated into the LBA
and the LBA Thames Valley Group (see below) was formed.
However, TBC has always played a significant role in the local area by supporting its daughter and sister Baptist Churches..
Visit the London Baptist Association website
LBA Thames Valley District
The LBA Thames Valley District is the local area of the London Baptist Association (see above).
It brings together Baptist churches in the local area (from Richmond and Kingston to Shepperton) so they can support and encourage each other.
The District came into being as the Thames Valley Group of the LBA on 22 June 1943 when the Homes Counties Baptist Association was amalgamated into the LBA.
The name was changed to the LBA Thames Valley Region in the early 1990s and then to District in the late 1990s.
TBC has played a significant role in planting churches in this region and by providing preachers and lay pastors for local Baptist churches.
This has ranged from 1924 when Guy Fair became lay pastor of Balaclava Baptist Church to the 1990s when Steve Langford was deeply involved with (eventually part-time lay pastor of) Hampton Wick Baptist Church (1992-1997).
TBC provided Mr W T R Alexander as the first Treasurer of the Thames Valley Group on its formation in 1943.
TBC has provided the Secretary/Co-ordinator for the District/Group/Region since the early 1970s
- successively Evelyn Hart and Colin Hicks.
Visit the LBA Thames Valley District website
London City Mission
The London City Mission currently has over 100 Missionaries and Women Evangelists taking the Gospel to Londoners.
When TBC was established as an independent church in 1881, the first oversight of the new church came John Greenwood
- a London City Missioner who worked from Little Queen's Road, Teddington. Mr Greenwood worked with the Church until late 1881.
Luis Palau Missions
The early 1980s saw the Luid Palau Missions to London in 1983 and 1984.
TBC was closely involved with both phases of the mission - the local marquee on Hounslow Heath in 1983 and the central meetings at Queens Park Rangers Football Stadium, White City in 1984.
The Church ran coaches to White City and opened them to people from all the Churches of Teddington.
Visit the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association website
Metropolitan Tabernacle
The Metropolitan Tabernacle was built for Rev Charles Haddon Spurgeon. It was completed in 1861 to replace his first London church (New Park Street Chapel) which proved to be too small for the congregations who wanted to hear him preach.
Links with the Metropolitan Tabernacle were very strong in the early years of TBC.
The first Baptist meetings in Teddington in 1877 were under the auspices of Spurgeon's Metropolitan Country Mission and the young Church received financial assistance from the Mission.
The Metropolitan Tabernacle still stands on the west side of the Elephant and Castle roundabout, at the northern end of Newington Butts.
The nearest Tube Station is the Elephant and Castle on the Bakerloo and Northern lines.
Spurgeon's College
Rev Charles Haddon Spurgeon founded Spurgeon's College in 1856. For its early years it was known as the "Pastor's College".
It met at the Metropolitan Tabernacle from the opening of the Tabernacle in 1861 until 1923 when it moved to its present site in South Norwood Hill in South East London.
Many of TBC's Ministers have been trained at Spurgeon's College including Rev Richard Littledale and a number of members have trained there for ministry - e.g. Leslie Larwood, Michael Collis and Peter Jamieson.
Stella and Trevor King also trained at Spurgeon's College before serving in Nepal with the BMS.
Close links with the College have continued through the 1980s and 1990s with student mission teams from the College working with TBC in 1981 and 1994.
We also had Ron Overton as our Student Assistant (1985-86).
Visit the Spurgeon's College website
Tearfund
Tearfund was founded in 1968 as Tear Fund (The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund).
For a long time it was at 13 Station Road, Teddington - a building which was at one time the vicarage for Christ Church - but it now has its headquarters at 100 Church Road, Teddington.
There have long been close associations between Tearfund and TBC which became closer when Tearfund moved to the same road as TBC.
Tearfund now often uses TBC's buildings for conference and overflow meetings.
A number of members of TBC work at Tearfund including Stephen Rand who is one of TBC's members and has served in various elected leader posts.
Visit the Tearfund website
Teddington Society
The Teddington Society was founded in 1973.
When the Teddington Society reached its silver jubilee in 1998,
it launched a website called Web-Tidings.
This website is hosted by TBC as part of its Wot? website.
Visit the Teddington Society website - Web-Tidings