Racial Justice
The Bible is clear that we should be ‘quick to listen and slow to speak’. In that spirit, at our National Prayer Livestream on June 14 we invited some black and minority ethnic people from Scottish Baptist churches to share their experience and lead us in prayer. As a...
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...
BUS launches new website
On 29 June BUS launched this new website. It now has a cleaner look and you should find it easier and more intuitive to navigate. There is a wealth of news and resources on the website and we will be adding much more in the weeks ahead. This is part of a wider brand...
New BUS Logo
From 29 June you will see the new BUS logo bringing a freshness to our communications. The logo retains the gold and blue colours of our previous logo but has a simpler and cleaner shape. The meanings it suggests will vary from person to person, but what has mattered...
BUS refocuses social media
From 28 June the focus on our social media will be sharpened up. Each of the platforms we use will have a different emphasis, though there will continue to be overlap on important matters. Facebook will continue to be the main platform where we post news and prayer...
Corporate worship through a video medium by Andrew Clarke
Small Beginnings
By Ali Laing, Next Generation Development Coordinator In July 1994 a businessman decided to make a radical change. Whilst safe in a well laid and influential job he began to observe the Dotcom boom. Web-based businesses were springing up literally changing the way...
Spring 2020 Council Digest
Held in Perth only three weeks before the UK Coronavirus lockdown, this Council was a very well attended event which facilitated wide ranging discussion over many topics currently before our Union. It was also the first occasion on which our Council was fully...
Disciples making disciples in Dennistoun
By Mark Morris, Minister at Dennistoun Bapstist We started as a church replant at the end of 2015 believing that God had not given up on this wee church in the East End of Glasgow. The church was an elderly congregation of 7 members and in need of much support and...
Small Beginnings at Kelso Baptist Church
By Rob Jones, Minister at Kelso Baptist Church Lockdown itself has brought about the need to reinvent how to begin with this wonderful wee church of around a dozen believers and a rebirthed mission within the market town of Kelso. Being unable to move from Fife to the...
Our Mission is Mission
By Thomas Dean, Minister of Stenhouse Baptist Church One of the advantages of being small is that it should mean that you are more flexible and agile than if you were massive. You stick an oar in the ocean and you can change direction just like that, it shouldn't take...
Callander Baptist Fellowship – the story so far…
By Brian Gooding, Pastor What's happening? Its Sunday afternoon. I'm the Pastor and so far today I've watched several online services and, later today I'll watch myself and some of our team as our weekly Sundays@Six Online service goes out - strange days and not what...
How is God leading us?
By Martin Hodson A sentence in Joshua 3 has been going round in my mind: Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. (Joshua 3:4) The second phrase resonates with our experience of living in the present crisis. We want to be God’s...
Peter & Nicola McFarlane – Baptisms and Transformations
We continue our series of stories of transformation in the lives of people from within our churches who have come to a saving faith in Jesus and have publicly acknowledged this through baptism. This month, husband and wife team, Peter and Nicola McFarlane from Tiree...
The New Normal and the New Future
The habits of lockdown have become the new normal: staying home; social distancing if we need to venture out; meeting family and friends on screen rather than face to face; taking special care of people who are shielding. Lockdown culture has generated a renewed...