Easter Baptisms for Aberdeen Asylum Seekers
By Gary Smith, Crown Terrace Baptist Church, Aberdeen In response to the Baptist Union's call for baptisms last year, we took a step of faith and promoted and planned for a baptismal service on the 21st November last year. We did not have anyone lined up. In the end...
Mae Moore and April’s Training Hub update
Training Hub, April Update By Mae Moore I can’t believe another month has been and gone at Training Hub already! Since last month’s update we were able to meet together in Glasgow to hear from Ruth and Stevie McLaren all around our Myers Briggs Type Indicator. One of...
Why Canopy!? Watch our video and find out!
We are really looking forward to being able to gather again together for Canopy Summer, at Dunblane High School on June 11th. It’s going to be a wonderful opportunity for us to worship together, engage with the word of God and reconnect with one another face to...
Solas, Perth Baptist and Overcoming the Awkward Conversation!
Solas is a Dundee-based Christian ministry – which works alongside local churches and student groups across the country in evangelism and evangelism-training. Our director, Dr Andy Bannister leads a small team of evangelists/apologists/trainers who travel the country,...
Watch and Pray: Our Journey around Scotland
Watch & Pray Lent 2022 By Lisa Holmes, Deeper Church Lead, BUS During Lent it was brilliant to join together on zoom to form a wall of prayer around Scotland as we travelled over 6 Sunday evenings from the Highlands & Islands to the Borders (& all places...
What’s Your Wolf Fruit? Re-wilding the Church in a New Season
What would it look like to ‘rewild’ the Church? By Jenny Wilson, PA to the General Director I have been enjoying watch the Sir David Attenborough series The Green Planet recently and one particular episode gave me real pause for thought. Sir David told the story of...
Prayer: Our Tools for Collaboration
Prayer. Talking to God. Confessing. Praising. Pleading. Interceding. Petitioning. Whispering. Shouting. Politely requesting. Passionately engaging. Reading aloud. Collective. Individual. Heartfelt. Dutiful. Inspired. Grudging. Loving. Healing. Restorative....
Homes for Ukrainian Refugees
Homes for Ukrainian Refugees By Martin Hodson, General Director, BUS After a month of war in Ukraine we continue to cry out to God for protection for people under threat, for safety for those who are displaced and for peace to be restored. Some familiar words of...
Training Hub- is it for you?
Mae Moore, Training Hub and Comms Support, shares with us what has been happening in Training Hub this month! We would also love to hear from you if this is an opportunity you would like to know more about, all the info is here at: Training Hub. I have recently been...
Look out for our NEW Podcast
This month's Recast, is brought to you by our BUS hosts Glenn Innes and Lisa Holmes and in this episode they are in conversation with Scott and Faith Brennan. Faith and Scott have been innovative church planters and leaders for over 15 years. This new series of the...
Canopy Gathering, 11th June, Book Your Place Now!
Have you checked out our brand new Canopy webpage yet? It has all the info and details about our gathering this June 11th, at Dunblane High School and we would love to see you there! A full day programme with speakers and seminars, worship, prayer, creativity, sports,...
TryPraying (on a bus near you)
Boxes, Booklets, Banners and Buses... This week on the school run I threw my phone at my 8 year old, yelling, 'Quick, take a picture, there's one of the buses..!' It was the first local advert I have seen for the new TryPraying movement across Scotland, which many of...
Refurb & Foodbank for the Atholl Centre, Pitlochry
The Atholl Baptist Centre in Pitlochry was founded on the giving of Baptists in Scotland and Europe just over 50 years ago. It has an amazing history and the Lord has blessed them greatly over these 50 years, but particularly over the last two years despite all the...
The Power of Prayer Walking, Bristo Baptist
When Garry Ketchen and Christopher Anderson committed to prayer walking from their church, Bristo Baptist, around the local community, they had no idea what it would lead to! Christopher shares with us here about the power of prayer walking and the amazing impact...
19-21 March 2022
19th March Lord God we thank you that you have made us in Your image and that just as you are creative, we have been gifted creativity too. We pray for those in our churches who shine the light of Jesus in their creativity - for poets and painters, for wood-turners...
Weep With Those Who Weep
📸 credit: EBF By Martin Hodson, General Director Ukraine is in the forefront of our minds at this time. The unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation. The brutal violence of the assault and the response it has provoked. The threat to stability in Europe. But perhaps...