Let's just say it's personal! By Barbara Henderson, Inverness Baptist Church We hear about the idea that gained traction at Inverness Baptist to handwrite over 400 Easter cards for the local community! The Easter team at Inverness Baptist Church were quick and united...
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Mission in Scotland in 2021
Glenn Innes, Chair of our Mission Initiative Group, shares his thoughts on Mission in 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14_ntqmV6w
Fuelling Creativity for God’s Glory
Fuelling Creativity for God’s Glory If you attended Canopy recently, then you will have seen video animations and visual media created by a team called Hopefuelled Design. Many of the design team are from around our network of Baptist churches, so we recently caught...
Lockdown Blessings
Lockdown Blessings By Simon Dennis, Minister of Sheddocksley Baptist Church Like everyone in the UK, the 23rd of March brought a sudden closure of everything familiar, including our newly renovated church building. We quickly discovered that His ways are always...
Have Yourself a Very Covid Christmas?
Have Yourself a Very Covid Christmas? By Jenny Wilson, eConnect Editor The clocks have changed, the nights are drawing in and our thoughts turn to one of the most important festivals in the Christian calendar, when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour....
Rest & Restore in Cathcart
Rest & Restore in Cathcart By Karen Gurling, Cathcart BC Just towards the end of 2019, conversations arose within Cathcart Baptist Church around the possibility of opening up the church each week - to be a place for people to come and find a quiet space, a time of...
Springing into action in Stenhouse!
Springing into action in Stenhouse! By Thomas Dean, Minister of Stenhouse BC Lockdown for us initially meant springing into action to get alongside people locally who've found themselves vulnerable through shielding, poverty or challenges at home. We've been really...
People coming together – The Broughty Ferry Foodbank
By Brian Talbot, Minister at Broughty Ferry BC On Sunday 22 March I was contacted by the proprietor of one of the local pubs to see if our church wished to be a partner with six of the local licensed trade proprietors in setting up a food bank in our area of Dundee....
Eight new believers in Dumfries
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...
How Covid-19 is affecting Bangladesh
By Louise & Phil Proctor, Dumfries BC and BMS World Mission We are mission workers serving in Bangladesh with BMS World Mission. We took the very difficult decision to return to Scotland in March just as the UK went into lockdown and as Bangladesh was heading in...