by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Jan 31, 2022 | eConnect, News, Younger Generation
Training Hub is a leadership and discipleship programme, facilitated by the Baptist Union, designed to enable you to become more transformed into the person God created you to be. It runs over 10 months and is built on 3 key areas: discipleship, mission and...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Jan 31, 2022 | eConnect, Mission, News, Younger Generation
Nick Blair is in a unique position having been Chaplain at Merchiston Castle, a boarding and day school for boys age 7- 18, Edinburgh for the last 18 years. Here he shares with us why helping pupils ask questions rather than telling them what they should think is they...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Jan 31, 2022 | Canopy, eConnect, News
Canopy 2022: Having Our Cake and Eating It by Martin Hodson, General Director We are delighted to announce that this year there will be two Canopy events. Canopy Summer on Saturday 11 June in Dunblane and Canopy Online on the weekend of 28-30 October. Let me explain....
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 23, 2021 | eConnect, News
Veterans Chaplaincy, Supporting across Scotland By Rev Ian Millar, Pastor at Gourock Baptist Community Church, and Veterans Chaplain Veterans’ Chaplaincy Scotland (VCS) has recently been established under the umbrella of Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland. As I...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 22, 2021 | News
Christmas Interrupted By Lisa Holmes, Deeper Church Lead at Baptist Union of Scotland So I’m thinking quite a bit about disruption during this Christmas and New Year period … Nothing is certain and everything is open to unwelcomed interruption and as a result there is...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 2, 2021 | eConnect, News, Online Advent
Advent is here and for many brings with it a sense of excitement and reflection as we open doors to see what treasure is hiding behind. So this year we thought, what better way to celebrate than to open the doors to our Baptist churches across Scotland! For each of...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 2, 2021 | eConnect, News
Recently the Scottish Government have made a video available to us to use and share widely. In light of the Covid 19 restrictions and the impact on churches gathering in person, you may want to share it with church members and your communities, perhaps online via...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 2, 2021 | eConnect, News
Martin Hodson says ‘goodbye’ to one Convenor and ‘hello’ to another One of the less prominent but critically important roles within BUS is the Convenor. This is the person who serves as Chair of the Trustee Board, who chairs the Council and the AGM, and who generally...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 2, 2021 | eConnect, News
Written By Martyn Link As the eyes of the world turned to Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP) the question on the world’s lips was “can we keep 1.5 alive?” For some of us this cryptic question may well leave us cold, I have heard some ask “why bother with...
by Lyndsay Cameron-Ross | Dec 2, 2021 | eConnect, News, Online Advent
I want to open a door…! Welcome to the first ever Scottish Baptist Online Advent Calendar 2021! This year Baptist churches from around the country will be surprising us from behind our daily doors! Click to open a door every day of Advent to hear about...
