The Baptist Union of Wales (Undeb Bedydd wyr Cymru) is a fellowship of Baptist churches in Wales.
A General Baptist minister, Hugh Evans, was one of the first Baptists to preach in Wales (ca. 1646). In 1649John Miles (1621-1683) and Thomas Proud were instrumental in forming a church at Ilston. Miles and Proud were connected to the Particular Baptists in London. In 1650 three Baptist congregations held the first general meeting of Baptists in Wales. The national union was organized in 1866. One of the most notable Welsh Baptist ministers was Christmas Evans (1766-1838).
The Baptist Union of Wales is a member of The Evangelical Alliance Wales, The Free Church Council, Cytûn (Churches Together in Wales), the European Baptist Federation, and the Baptist World Alliance. Baptist Union headquarters are in Swansea, West Glamorgan. In 1995 the Union had 544 congregations with 25,384 members. 146 of these churches (with 9552 members) held dual membership in the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
Though English is spoken by most citizens of Wales, many churches hold their services in their native Welsh language.
The BaptistUnion of Wales (Undeb Bedyddwyr Cymru) is a fellowship of Baptist churches in Wales.
The BaptistUnion of Wales is a member of The Evangelical Alliance Wales, The Free Church Council, Cytûn (Churches Together in Wales), the European Baptist Federation, and the Baptist World Alliance.
BaptistUnion headquarters are in Swansea, West Glamorgan.
The Particular Baptists held that the atonement of Christ was particularly for the elect, while the General Baptists held that the atonement was a general one that made salvation available to any man through voluntary faith in Christ.
The Particular Baptist Missionary Society for Propogating the Gospel among the Heathen (later the Baptist Missionary Society) was organised in 1792, under the leadership of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815), John Sutcliff (1752-1814) and William Carey (1761-1834).
The Union maintains membership with ecumencial organisations such as Churches Together in England, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the Conference of European Churches, and the World Council of Churches, and Baptist organisations such as the Fellowship of British Baptists, the European Baptist Federation, and the Baptist World Alliance.
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