The Bible is clear that we should be ‘quick to listen and slow to speak’. In that spirit, at our National Prayer Livestream on June 14 we invited some black and minority ethnic people from Scottish Baptist churches to share their experience and lead us in prayer. As a...
By Eoghan Paterson, Pastor at Dumfries Baptist Church We’ve been running an alpha course online by zoom during Lockdown. We began in February and had completed 5 sessions before Lockdown. We’ve been continuing to run 5 groups with 15 participants continuing out of an...
By Ali Laing, Next Generation Development Coordinator In July 1994 a businessman decided to make a radical change. Whilst safe in a well laid and influential job he began to observe the Dotcom boom. Web-based businesses were springing up literally changing the way...
Held in Perth only three weeks before the UK Coronavirus lockdown, this Council was a very well attended event which facilitated wide ranging discussion over many topics currently before our Union. It was also the first occasion on which our Council was fully...
By Mark Morris, Minister at Dennistoun Bapstist We started as a church replant at the end of 2015 believing that God had not given up on this wee church in the East End of Glasgow. The church was an elderly congregation of 7 members and in need of much support and...
By Rob Jones, Minister at Kelso Baptist Church Lockdown itself has brought about the need to reinvent how to begin with this wonderful wee church of around a dozen believers and a rebirthed mission within the market town of Kelso. Being unable to move from Fife to the...
By Thomas Dean, Minister of Stenhouse Baptist Church One of the advantages of being small is that it should mean that you are more flexible and agile than if you were massive. You stick an oar in the ocean and you can change direction just like that, it shouldn't take...
We continue our series of stories of transformation in the lives of people from within our churches who have come to a saving faith in Jesus and have publicly acknowledged this through baptism. This month, husband and wife team, Peter and Nicola McFarlane from Tiree...
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Prayer is at the heart of our Union. The prayer calendar is a framework to help individuals or congregations pray for all our churches throughout the year. Every Sunday evening several hundred people from our churches across Scotland join in our National Prayer Livestream.
