Canopy Autumn 2023 took place on 27 and 28 October, and you can find links to all the content here!

On Friday e had a really significant time gathere together locally in our churches, and online nationally with prayers and stories from around the country, some live ‘outside broadcasts’, plus opportunities for open prayer and worship led in each local church. 

 We have no doubt that praying together must be our top priority if our vision and hope for Increase is to bear fruit in our family of churches. As a family of churches, the Baptist Union is increasingly becoming a network of prayer, and we have been deeply encouraged with how many of you participated.

On Saturday we gathered online to learn with Dr Carmen Imes joining us from overseas!

This was followed by a range of seminars where discussion and questions flowed- you can watch any of these again using the links below or directly through our BUS Youtube channel.

SEMINAR OPTIONS

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS, WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ABOUT A RESCHEDULE DATE!

SEMINAR OPTION 1: with Kirsty Moffat

‘Time to panic?: Investigating The RSHP Curriculum in Scotland’

Join in for a critical overview of the actual content of the Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood curriculum.

Learn about parental rights, and what parents and churches can do to engage in this important area.

There will also be a Q&A session to give you the opportunity to have your say!

SEMINAR OPTION 2: with Ken Benjamin and Jo Trickey

‘Faith Confidence at Work’

Our everyday workplaces and frontlines provide great opportunities for fruitful living. But there’s a problem.

It’s so often easier to sing a little louder on Sunday than live a little bolder on Monday. It’s a confidence thing.

The faith confidence we have when we’re gathered with other Christians can be challenging to sustain throughout the week when we’re apart. Confidence is harder where our faith feels lonelier. Thankfully, we have a winning list of God-given resources and strategies to grow confidence. It’s these confidence building blocks we’ll reflect on together in this seminar.

SEMINAR OPTION 3: with Ian Birch & guests

‘Key Moments in Baptist History’

The story of Baptists is fascinating, and since the early seventeenth century Baptists have been politically and socially agitating, pioneering, Gospel preaching, planting and growing churches, and today are the largest protestant denomination in the world.

We want to enthuse you about the story of who Baptists are, and what they have contributed to the history of the church by telling the stories of some of the most significant people in our family. This will be a fast moving seminar in which Alasdair Black from Stirling Baptist, Lina Toth from the college, and myself tell you about some of the men and women who left their mark on the work of the Gospel over the last four centuries.

SEMINAR OPTION 4: with Paul Haringman

‘ACORN: the simplest way of following God in mission’

Acorn is a simple, straightforward, and down to earth way to reach out to others.

It seeks to connect Christians with the work God is doing in others through caring conversation. It is a simple, effective spiritual practice that helps to mobilise individual believers to step out, following God, listening and connecting with non-believers as and where they are, and sharing what God is doing with others inside the church, all based around a simple, 10 second prayer.

The seminar will explore why this works and how you can make it work in your situation, with plenty of space for questions throughout and an option to sign up and try it afterwards.

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