Project Pants
Project Pants By Andy Harding, Executive Pastor, Central Church, Edinburgh As a church, we have felt that this season has been as hard as it has been challenging. We have tried to ensure we mature in our faith but also share the good news and prioritise those who are...
Kirkintilloch Baptist Serving Scotland on The Service
Kirkintilloch Baptist Serving Scotland on The Service The BBC recently filmed a 30-minute service from Kirkintilloch Baptist (KBC) for their series of televised church services, The Service, broadcast on BBC Scotland. Rev Mark Fyfe, minister of Kirkintilloch Baptist...
Centre Stage
Centre Stage By Martin Hodson, BUS General Director This last year God has helped me see how prone I am to putting myself centre-stage. A few other people have told me they have been on the same journey. We’ve been telling the story of the last 12 months in terms of...
30 March 2021
City Gates, Edinburgh - We pray today for City Gates Church in Edinburgh as they continue to strive to be a community where they care and share together as a church family and as they walk alongside people in the local community.
Scottish Baptist College – coming to a screen near you soon!
Scottish Baptist College – coming to a screen near you soon! By Graham Meiklejohn, Tutor at the Scottish Baptist College At the Scottish Baptist College we’ve always been committed to “equipping people to participate in God’s kingdom through the church and in the...
Hospice Chaplaincy During Covid
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
‘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!
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 - 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
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...
21 February 2021
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...
Innovation
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 – A Tool For Leaders
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.
Innovation Collectives – A Space for Affirmation and Exploration
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.
The Annual Pre-Accredited Conference goes Virtual
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.
Pray, Phone, Provide – Project 13:10 in Galashiels
In March 2020 many things changed, including the way we connected with our church fellowship and worshipped together. We started Zoom church, which has been a greater blessing than expected.
We also started a project called13:10 last March, which was initially intended to be an encouragement for our church fellowship.