Canopy Online 2022
Canopy Online was last weekend, and it was incredible to gather online, to connect and pray and hear from so many of you around Scotland! A huge thanks to all of you who were involved in the planning and creating content. Canopy was an opportunity for hundreds of us...
Online Advent Calendar 2022
Greetings one and all! We are so delighted to announce that this year we will be launching our second Online Advent Calendar! Last year it was so inspiring to hear what doors God had been opening in your churches and communities, all around Scotland! And due to...
Starlight Cafe’s 1st Birthday
We recently heard about the Starlight Cafe, an outdoor space created for the coffee and fairy light lovers around Cathcart Baptist Church. Cara, Alison and Karen had a vision for the community, and share below one year down the line... "About 1 year ago 3 women...
Kyria Women’s Leadership Conference, with Lisa Holmes
Kyria Scotland Conference, Saturday 12th Nov, Perth How do you posture and position yourself as a leader? If through your employment or voluntary roles you are an influencer, team leader, strategic planner, budget holder or networker then you are invited to the 2022...
Challenge and Change
Challenge and Change A BUS Editorial “See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant” (Jeremiah 1:10) A cycle is the way of so many events in our world. Kings and Queens...
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...