Home for Good: BUS Families Opening their Homes and Hearts
Home for Good: BUS Families Opening their Homes and Hearts Every child deserves a home where they will be nurtured and enabled to thrive. Home for Good has a bold vision to find a home for every child who needs one in Scotland through fostering, adoption and supported...
Adventures in Advent
Adventures in Advent We are fast approaching C…C…can we even say it? Christmas! Our staff team is getting excited and in anticipation our administrative elves are here to kick off your advent season with some suggestions to enhance your Advent journey! What comes to...
OCTOBER PRAYER
WEEK BEGINNING: 16 OCT: Baptist Union of Wales, Perth Baptist Church, Peterhead Baptist Church, Pitlochry Baptist Church 23 OCT: Irish Baptist Networks, Pollok Baptist Church, Glasgow Portlethen (ACF Church Plant), Aberdeen Portobello Baptist Church, Edinburgh 30...
Exploring Sustainable Fashion at Portobello Baptist
Exploring Sustainable Fashion Event at Portobello Baptist Church By Archie Catchpole Community Outreach Worker What do you get when you put African shirts, Malay dresses, baptism gowns, thousands of shoes and a couple of kilts in the same room together? An event...
Pumpkin Spice is not the Only Change
By Lyndsay Cameron-Ross, Connect Editor & Communications Lead It's that classic moment when the seasons change; we transition into autumn and the coffee shops update their menus (hello pumpkin spiced latte, old friend). Yet this year there is a definite sense of...
Churches Responding to the Cost of Living Crisis
Churches Responding to the Cost of Living Crisis By Martin Hodson, General Director, BUS A question facing us all is, How do we love our neighbours in this time of financial hardship? When the BUS Council met on 28 September 2022 we spent some time considering how...
BUS Council Digest, Sept 2022
A summary of the main outcomes of the BUS Council meeting in Stirling on 28 September 2022 33 people gathered from across Scotland, joining in worship and reflecting on the biblical promise that God ‘is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine,...
The Royal Thanksgiving Service
Martin Hodson, our General Director, reflects on attending the Service of Thanksgiving for Queen Elizabeth at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. "I paused for a moment as I passed the royal coffin, unsure what to do, conscious that the ubiquitous TV cameras might...
What’s In a Name? The Journey from Ardbeg to Bute Baptist
Peter Atkins, Pastor at Bute Baptist Church, reflects on the journey they have been on as a church during the transition from Ardbeg to Bute Baptist, and what that has meant for them as a community, an island and a congregation... "Church is a strange thing. Like Adam...
Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Retreat
An invitation from the SBLPA to anyone who is a lay preacher, whether you have been before or this is your first time. Lisa Holmes will be guest speaker and is here to explain more about why this could be just the opportunity you have been waiting for...
Made for Encounter at Easterhouse
Made for Encounter is an intentional monthly training space where you will grow and learn as a disciple of Jesus, experience healing and equipping to share His Kingdom wherever you are. You can find out all the information here at Made for Encounter. It will be...
Canopy Online, plus Francis Chan
Canopy Online 28, 29, 30 October 2022 Canopy Online runs from 28-30 October this year and we are looking forward to a programme full of worship, great stories from across our network, Bible teaching and seminars. All main sessions will be accessible via our Youtube...
Mainly Music: Reaching Families at Burra Baptist Church
Mainly Music: Reaching Families at Burra Baptist Church Written by Sarah Adamson, Burra Baptist Church, Shetland ..."we never anticipated having a connection with over 50 families..." We are entering our 5th year at Burra Baptist church of using Mainly Music and it is...
Times and Seasons: a Farewell from Jenny
Times and Seasons By Jenny Wilson, PA to the General Director, Sept 2022 ‘My times are in your hands’ Psalm 31:15 After over 14 and a half years serving God at the Baptist Union of Scotland, God is moving me on to a new job with the Scottish Bible Society in their...
*BRAND NEW* Summer Mini Pods
☀️Summer Mini Pods ☀️ Starting on Wed Aug 3rd our Recast podcast will be putting out 1 short episode a week for the rest of the summer. These mini-pods will be short interviews with some of the contributors from our Canopy Summer program. They are a great...
Lead Academy Taster Day Invite
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...