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Martin Hodson, General Director of BUS, received an encouraging video message of greetings and gratitude from the church planters in Ukraine supported by EBF partners, including our Scottish Baptist Churches. The host and translator in the video is Yuri...

This April there is an exciting media seminar coming up in Glasgow for pastors, leaders, students & creatives, with a brilliant range of experienced hosts including Lorna Farrell from East Mains Baptist Church, and Alexander Dixon and Olivia Stephen from Peterhead...

It is always incredibly encouraging to see the creative ways churches connect with local communities, and Easterhouse Baptist Church have been sharing the hope and joy this season by delivering 250 bags of hope and kindness to their local community! An enthusiastic...

IN August 2023, over 100 young people signed up for Burra Soccer School and we were so inspired to catch up with the team as they prepare for their 12th annual football academy, with over 90 children signed up already! The vision and planning is co-ordinated...

March 12th-14th saw us gathering from across the Nation to seek God in prayer together.  This was similar to last year except that this year we chose to overlap with the Baptist Union Council meeting for 24 hours including 2 hybrid meetings.  8am and midday gathered...

By Lyndsay Cameron-Ross Last weekend I spent my Saturday afternoon with some absolutely brilliant humans, at a workshop and lunch entitled Autism and the Church, with the author and theologian Erin Burnett. As leaders who organise and facilitate a wide range of...

Church Planting is just one of the ways the BUS is responding to God's calling to pray and equip his people for Increase in our nation. Glenn Innes, BUS Future Church Lead, is involved in both the new Scottish Church Planting Network, hosting their first training...

85 individual lives transformed... £1 million of debt cleared...& 1 carpet that changed life for a client and his daughter! "The CAP Debt Centre at KBC recently surpassed the milestone of £1 million in debt cleared and currently sits at just under £1.2 million!...

Since January 2022, the BUS have been supporting a Church Planting Project “Open Heart” in Zollotonosha, Ukraine under the leadership of Pastor Yura Fedoruk. Yura has shared this incredible update with us just this week, and we would encourage you to continue praying...

We really appreciate hearing from Zak Swan, who is part of Training Hub this year, as he tells us how God has changed his life in the last couple of years... "Earlier this year I got baptised on Easter Sunday. It came after a few months in which God really began to do...

We are privileged this month to share another creative outpouring from one of our BUS members, Joan McDowell. Joan has served as a key part of Adelaide Place Baptist church, along with her family, for many years, as well as serving on the Board of Scottish Baptist...

At the end of August Catriona Gorton left her role as Minister of Hillhead Baptist Church to begin a new ministry down south. This is a bivocational role in which she serves half time as Tutor for Ministerial Formation at Northern Baptist College and half time as...

Background  Over a year ago some of us sensed the need to give more care to the craft of  worship and the souls of those who lead. Our sense then was that  encouragement and skill could increase among those who give out a lot if we  simply found sacred space to seek...