Hospice Chaplaincy During Covid By Stuart Murdoch As part of our series of posts highlighting the work of our Baptist Chaplains, we caught up with Stuart Murdoch, Chaplain at Strathcarron Hospice in Denny. This last year has been difficult for everyone. The impact...
‘Mornings of Grace’ at Leith Baptist Church By Brian Windram, Church Elder One of the great blessings of this unexpected season has been ‘Mornings of Grace’. We started this group, which meets between 8.00am-8.30am each weekday morning on zoom, in April 2020....
Dumfries Baptist used as Vaccination Centre! By Alistair Purss, Lead Pastor, Dumfries Baptist Church We were delighted when our neighbours from the Gillbrae Medical Centre approached us about the possibility of using our Sports Hall as a Vaccination Centre. We...
One Year On - An Interview with Martin Hodson One year on from the start of the disruption to all our lives during this global pandemic, we thought we would interview our General Director, Martin Hodson, to hear his thoughts on the last year. So Martin, we are almost...
Milestones By Jenny Wilson, Connect Editor I had a milestone birthday recently, yes that’s right…21 again! It got me thinking about milestones, significant points on our journeys whether literal or metaphorical. As someone who grew up in Ayrshire, it makes me think of...
Buckhaven BC - We give thanks to God that from lockdown (March 2020) we have been able to continue our food bag support for local families and individuals; we’ve also been blessed to refurbish the kitchen for our Friday Café reopening post-lockdown. Pray for the...
If you haven’t heard me speak about innovation in the last year then you probably haven’t heard me speak. I know I’ve been going on about it. That’s because I’m convinced it is a deeply important word for churches seeking to follow Jesus faithfully in these changing times (along with transformations and generations, which you may also have heard me mention)…
Innovation collectives are a tool for leaders to pursue change or development in the life of the church, with the support, challenge and prayer of a small group of other church leaders.
Based on the model of action learning sets used at the pre-accredited conference, I’ll be honest and say I wasn’t sure what it would be like. Any time I undertook an exercise like this, I usually spent more of my time trying to think up what I might share rather than engaging well in the exercise. I quickly realised this was different though.
We have all faced so many ‘firsts’ over the past 11 months – some reluctantly foisted upon us; others embraced enthusiastically. This year’s January pilgrimage to Fishers Hotel in Pitlochry was re-engineered as one such ‘first’ for me, by being mapped onto a digital, virtual space.