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...
“This Isn’t the Future Church, this IS the Church!”
"This isn't the future church, this IS the church"! Over a picnic bench at Magnitude festival this conversation with one of our Baptist church leaders got my attention. I had just come from the Hub tent, where over 150 young people age 11-18, from Baptist churches and...
Nourish, Discover & Reach at the Scottish Baptist College
By Graham Meiklejohn, Lecturer and Communications Officer at Scottish Baptist College & UWS If you’re in the west of Scotland as we are, you’ve probably noticed a lot of activity in the garden over the past couple of months. With a combination of typical Scottish...
ESOL Reaches Over 20 Nationalities at Dennistoun Baptist
As many Baptist churches around Scotland are hosting summer outreach programmes and holiday clubs we hear what God has been doing through Dennistoun Baptist Church... 'Dennistoun Baptist Church took the gospel to its local community through a packed week of summer...
Training Hub Says Goodbye to 21/22 cohort… and Hello to ???
By Mae Moore, BUS Training Hub and Comms Support We have reached the end of our Training Hub course for 2021-2022 and what a year it has been! Despite the fact that the cohort has been scattered between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Broughty Ferry, plus the challenges of...
Canopy Online- SAVE THE DATE!
WHEN: October 28/ 29/ 30 WHERE: Online We are absolutely delighted to announce after the success of Canopy Summer, that this October 28/ 29/ 30 we will be hosting Canopy Online, an opportunity to gather virtually from every nook and cranny of Scotland! This weekend...
Making All Things New
Wild flowers are one of my favourite things about summer; the variety of colours, shapes, sizes and scents remind me of the beauty in diversity, and the ways in which we are all so unique. Recently our National team spent 24 hours away together on a retreat. During...
Increase Vision; a word from Martin Hodson
At Canopy Summer, Martin Hodson, General Director of the Baptist Union of Scotland, shared passionately the vision for Increase that God has placed on his heart. Along with the National team and BUS Council we are really excited and hopeful in this new season, and...
Cost of living crisis: the hidden cost
Cost of living crisis: the hidden cost By Charis Scott, Christians Against Poverty, Scotland Promotion and Engagement Manager Over the last couple of years many of us have experienced what it’s like to feel trapped and lonely. Through lockdowns and periods of self...
Hybrid Baptism at Hillhead
We are a church based in the West end of Glasgow, of over 15 nationalities who, after two full years of worshipping on Zoom, began Hybrid Church at Easter 2022. Around equal numbers meet at a hotel and on Zoom, and we delight in how that is working out. Earlier this...
Gather
Over the last few months we have been prayerfully planning ahead for our Canopy Summer gathering, on Sat 11th June, at Dunblane High School. When we were preparing the content and considering what this gathering space could look like we felt a real sense of God...
Training Hub: Applications now OPEN!
TRAINING HUB This exciting opportunity is a discipleship and leadership programme designed to enable you to become more transformed into the person God created you to be. It runs over 10 months and is built on 3 key areas: discipleship, mission and leadership. We want...