by Alan Milnes | Mar 1, 2022 | eConnect, News
By Rev Catriona Gorton Being Hillhead Baptist Church … a Personal Reflection It’s 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, I launch the Zoom meeting, and am joined by Tamara, in Germany, who will read scripture, Paul who will play in the hymns, Leo who is today’s ‘door steward’, E****...
by Alan Milnes | Mar 1, 2022 | eConnect, News, Prayer
On Sunday night Simon Schofield, Minister at Abbeyhill Baptist Church in Edinburgh, organised a prayer vigil for Ukraine. Churches around the country are gathering to pray and support the Ukrainian people this week after the devastating news that Russian...
by Alan Milnes | Mar 1, 2022 | eConnect, News
Re-discovering Local and Trans-local Ministry By Andrew Rollinson, Selkirk Baptist I am instinctively wary of the rhetoric of the surprising blessings that have flowed from the pandemic. For too many of us it has been a period of frustration, pain, sadness and...
by Alan Milnes | Feb 2, 2022 | eConnect, News
Over the last few months one of the key things I have come to appreciate most about being part of the Baptist Union of Scotland is that we are one body but with many members. We each have different gifts, different functions, we come from different areas around...
by Alan Milnes | Feb 2, 2022 | eConnect, MIGCAST, News
Welcome to our new podcast RECAST … some of you will have tuned into MiGCAST but all the best things need a re-launch and so here it is! Jesus told his disciples to cast their nets back into the sea on 2 occasions in the Gospels – he asked them to re-cast their nets...
by Alan Milnes | Feb 1, 2022 | eConnect, News
Finishing Well In this encouraging piece by Anthony Luxton we are challenged to consider what it takes to persevere through challenging seasons; how focusing on God rather than our circumstances can make all the difference, and why Trypraying provides a conversation...
by Alan Milnes | Feb 1, 2022 | eConnect, News, Younger Generation
23-27 JULY , Lendrick Muir Magnitude is a five-day annual Christian youth festival for young people aged 11-18. Based in the breathtaking Lendrick Muir, near Kinross, it is a week like no other: a space to encounter God, enjoy community and experience nature together....
by Alan Milnes | 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 Alan Milnes | 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 Alan Milnes | 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....
