Journal of European Baptist Studies, 2017

rthern Baptist College within the LKH Partnership and the Irish Baptist College as part of Queen’s University, Belfast. 40 The Czech Hussite Church was created in the first Czechoslovak Republic after World War 1 and initially consisted of liberal Catholics. It has remained an independent Christian World Communion with a Faculty in the Charles University, Prague. It is a member church of the Community of Protestant churches in Europe (CPCE) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC). Jones, A ‘Mistake ’ which Became a Triumph 17 explored baptistic identity over against that of other groupings, some Christian, others secular, in society. Matters of ecclesiology and baptistic ways of doing things and being church were explored in a variety of contexts, not least in relationship to dominant ecclesial groups in particular settings, such as the Orthodox churches in eastern Europe. Two studies explored the place of women within baptistic communities, especially those who are single. Countries singled out for particular attention included Estonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. What happened to our graduates? When governmental quality assurance agencies conduct investigations of higher education providers, a constant theme is the issue of ‘outcomes’. What happened to those who graduated? Have they been of any constructive use in society? Has their research benefitted the societies to which they returned? These questions are often answered easily by the providers of science, technology, medical, and management education, but are more nebulous in the realm of the arts and humanities. Nevertheless, one key outcome which belongs to the concern of the European Baptist Federation Council was to provide developmental capacity for the churches through providing those who would engage in further and higher education in their countries of domicile and those who would enable the church in its missionary task. By these criteria IBTS has had excellent ‘outcomes’. Of the thirty graduates, at least twenty have assumed positions of academic teaching within further and higher education serving the churches. Six have been appointed to lead or to be a deputy or assistant at university sector educational institutions. Several have been missional pioneers in developing contemporary forms of church life, and others have served in leadership capacities in local congregations. As eight of the thirty have graduated in the last three years, we anticipate seeing further development in the number of those called into significant leadership positions within theological education. Supervisory teams The standard supervisory team required by the University of Wales varied over the period from 1998 until 2016. Ultimately, the norm was three people. This, inevitably, meant that the small IBTS core academic and adjunct academic team had to draw on resources from elsewhere and in total twenty- 18 Journal