The Baptist Union of Scotland has been partnering with LeadAcademy since 2017 to deliver focused training courses for Church Leadership Teams. These have been a catalyst for transforming how leaders develop more effective ways of working as a team and...
"This isn't the future church, this IS the church"! Over a picnic bench at Magnitude festival this conversation with one of our Baptist church leaders got my attention. I had just come from the Hub tent, where over 150 young people age 11-18, from Baptist churches and...
By Graham Meiklejohn, Lecturer and Communications Officer at Scottish Baptist College & UWS If you’re in the west of Scotland as we are, you’ve probably noticed a lot of activity in the garden over the past couple of months. With a combination of typical Scottish...
As many Baptist churches around Scotland are hosting summer outreach programmes and holiday clubs we hear what God has been doing through Dennistoun Baptist Church... 'Dennistoun Baptist Church took the gospel to its local community through a packed week of summer...
By Mae Moore, BUS Training Hub and Comms Support We have reached the end of our Training Hub course for 2021-2022 and what a year it has been! Despite the fact that the cohort has been scattered between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Broughty Ferry, plus the challenges of...
WHEN: October 28/ 29/ 30 WHERE: Online We are absolutely delighted to announce after the success of Canopy Summer, that this October 28/ 29/ 30 we will be hosting Canopy Online, an opportunity to gather virtually from every nook and cranny of Scotland! This weekend...
Wild flowers are one of my favourite things about summer; the variety of colours, shapes, sizes and scents remind me of the beauty in diversity, and the ways in which we are all so unique. Recently our National team spent 24 hours away together on a retreat. During...
At Canopy Summer, Martin Hodson, General Director of the Baptist Union of Scotland, shared passionately the vision for Increase that God has placed on his heart. Along with the National team and BUS Council we are really excited and hopeful in this new season, and...
Cost of living crisis: the hidden cost By Charis Scott, Christians Against Poverty, Scotland Promotion and Engagement Manager Over the last couple of years many of us have experienced what it’s like to feel trapped and lonely. Through lockdowns and periods of self...
We are a church based in the West end of Glasgow, of over 15 nationalities who, after two full years of worshipping on Zoom, began Hybrid Church at Easter 2022. Around equal numbers meet at a hotel and on Zoom, and we delight in how that is working out. Earlier this...