Martin has been General Director at BUS since 2018, having spent four years prior serving our BUS as Ministry Development Coordinator.

Martin leads the BUS National and staff teams, and the work and vision for Scottish Baptist churches around the country. Martin served as a minister in churches in Cumbria and Aberdeen and then as senior minister at St Peter’s Baptist Church, Worcester. Through these years his aim has been to live out the vocation of a missionary disciple and equip others for this role. 

Martin has degrees in Theology from Oxford University and is passionate about leading and creating space for God to increase across Scotland.

Specialist area: Continuing Ministry Development, supporting pre-accredited ministers.

Before joining the BUS, Andrew lectured in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen for 20 years, with a particular research interest in life and leadership in the earliest Christian communities. Together with his wife, Jane, he has been involved in planting and leading a ‘Simple Church’ in North Aberdeenshire, in which small groups meet regularly as families to worship, learn from each other about God’s call on our lives, and develop as faithful disciples of Jesus – all in the context of hospitality around the kitchen table. He is passionate about these two goals of learning and formation, which come together in his role of Leadership Development Lead.

Lisa’s role is Deeper Church Lead, drawing on around 30 years of local church leadership, involvement on the Spring Harvest Leadership team and life experience as a follower of Jesus.

In Lisa’s role she is about encouraging us all in starting where we are (not where we think we ought to be!); to be Growing Deeper in our devotion to the Lord, Growing Deeper in our formation as followers of Jesus together, and Growing Deeper in the transformation of our everyday lives so that knowing Jesus makes a difference to every part of who we are. 

Specialist area: Youth, Youth Leaders, Youth Ministry Development, Student and Young Adults.

Originally a Secondary Teacher Ali served Queens Park Baptist for 6 years as youth pastor before working nationally across Scotland for Alpha and Onelife. Ali aims to live authentically as a follower of Jesus and is passionate about inviting, equipping and encouraging young people to join the adventure of following Christ. Ali is committed to seeing youth and young leaders raised up across Scotland and serves on the Deep Impact Conference Planning group and is on the council of reference for PowerPoint.

Glenn has been Pastor at Portobello Baptist Church, Edinburgh since 2018 and is now sharing his time between ministry life and in his new role as Future Church Lead. Glenn spent 10 years in Aberdeen involved in church planting, and prior to that he was at Regents College, Vancouver, Canada where he completed his theological studies.

Glenn’s role as Future Church Lead is to facilitate and encourage our family of churches as we go together on mission into the future. He is working to resource and equip churches for church planting; supporting churches in areas of innovation, and facilitating experiments in new forms of church.

Lyndsay works part-time in her role as Communications Lead, which focuses around promoting the togetherness of our network. Her role is varied and involves developing our social media and online content;  producing Connect, our monthly BUS digital newsletter; editing the website, designing marketing and graphics for our projects, and gathering and sharing stories of what God is doing in Baptist churches across Scotland.

Lyndsay also loves a chat over coffee so and is keen to hear about what’s happening in your Baptist churches!

Brian is our new Finance Director, and also serves as an Executive Director on the Board of Directors and acts as our Company Secretary. His work involves attending to our financial and regulatory responsibilities as a company and a charity, managing the financial affairs of the Union including preparing our annual accounts and budgets, and monitoring the use of our restricted and designated funds.  

Brian’s also seeks to develop relationships with our church treasurers and serve as a support and encouragement to them.  

Katy has recently joined the team and provides administrative and organisational support to the General Director, National Team, Council and AGM. Katy is also the Prayer Coordinator and compiles the daily prayer guide.

Katy’s role is wide and varied, and she brings her background and expertise from working at one of Glasgow’s busiest colleges to the BUS.

Katy is involved at her local Baptist church, helps run a men’s futsal (indoor football) club, as well as enjoying coffee (and cake!) with friends and family.

Ivy is the main administrative support for all areas of Ministry.

Ivy has been a key part of the team since she joined the BUS in 1998, serving in a number of roles before becoming our Ministry Administrator in 2011.

Ivy is responsible for administering our Board of Ministry, Pre-accreditation process, Continuing Ministry Development, Sabbatical Grants and Settlement. Ivy is happy to receive all enquiries relating to ministry. 

Carly joined BUS in 2022 and her role involves supporting the team through administration, both in day-to-day office upkeep and in wider Baptist Union involvements

Working p/t, Carly providing administrative support for both the Lead Academy sessions held here in Scotland, and Training Hub, our young leaders development programme.  She keeps the BUS database up-to-date, deals with bookings for our holiday accommodation in Findochty and with our retirement properties and their related matters.

Kim joined the team in 2023 after moving from the island of Guernsey. Based in East Lothian, Kim has settled into a local church and is excited to be involved with the wider vision of the Baptist Union across Scotland.

Kim is responsible for the day to day operation of the BUS finance systems and general finance and payroll admin. This includes supporting the finance director in keeping up to date records of contributions received, along with gifts and loans to churches. She is available to contact if you have any finance related queries.

Alan has been our law agent and solicitor since 1996, having worked in house for the BUS since 2018.

The twin strands of law and Christian service have woven their way throughout Alan’s career, including studying at the Scottish Baptist College, serving the Lawyers Christian Fellowship, and working in private practice legal firms, large and small.

Alan has progressively specialised in the unique complexities of church title deeds, combining this with charity law knowledge to pilot unincorporated churches through the process of re-structuring as SCIOs. Alan serves many using his legal knowledge and skills and also has his own firm, Diakoneo Legal Services, serving churches and related charities in Scotland.