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...
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...
Watch and Pray Scotland: Lent 2022
As we enter this season of Lent we have been so encouraged by how many of you are planning to participate in praying for one another across our nation as part of 'Watch and Pray for Lent 2022'. We have included a short video which is available here on our YouTube...
Being Hillhead Baptist: An International, Glaswegian Baptist community
By Rev Catriona Gorton Being Hillhead Baptist Church … a Personal Reflection It’s 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, I launch the Zoom meeting, and am joined by Tamara, in Germany, who will read scripture, Paul who will play in the hymns, Leo who is today’s ‘door steward’, E****...
Over 150 Baptist and Ukrainian Church members join together for prayer vigil
On Sunday night Simon Schofield, Minister at Abbeyhill Baptist Church in Edinburgh, organised a prayer vigil for Ukraine. Churches around the country are gathering to pray and support the Ukrainian people this week after the devastating news that Russian...
Roman Roads & Digital Highways at Selkirk Baptist
Re-discovering Local and Trans-local Ministry By Andrew Rollinson, Selkirk Baptist I am instinctively wary of the rhetoric of the surprising blessings that have flowed from the pandemic. For too many of us it has been a period of frustration, pain, sadness and...
What’s Happening in Training Hub?
Each month we have the pleasure of hearing from the lovely Mae, our Training Hub and Comms Assistant, sharing what is going on inside the realm of Training Hub and what they have been learning and doing over the last few weeks.... 'I am delighted to be back...