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Why Canopy!? Watch our video and find out!

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...

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Watch and Pray: Our Journey around Scotland

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...

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Prayer: Our Tools for Collaboration

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....

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Homes for Ukrainian Refugees

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...

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Look out for our NEW Podcast

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...

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TryPraying (on a bus near you)

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...

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19-21 March 2022

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...

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Weep With Those Who Weep

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...

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New CMD Programme 2022

New CMD Programme 2022

We are delighted to release our new programme of CMD (Continuing Ministry Development) workshops and seminars for 2022, and this year we have been able to make these more widely available to anyone who is interested. Including content on: Safeguarding Leadership...

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