Hospice Chaplaincy During Covid By Stuart Murdoch As part of our series of posts highlighting the work of our Baptist Chaplains, we caught up with Stuart Murdoch, Chaplain at Strathcarron Hospice in Denny. This last year has been difficult for everyone. The impact...
Dumfries Baptist used as Vaccination Centre! By Alistair Purss, Lead Pastor, Dumfries Baptist Church We were delighted when our neighbours from the Gillbrae Medical Centre approached us about the possibility of using our Sports Hall as a Vaccination Centre. We...
One Year On - An Interview with Martin Hodson One year on from the start of the disruption to all our lives during this global pandemic, we thought we would interview our General Director, Martin Hodson, to hear his thoughts on the last year. So Martin, we are almost...
Working and supporting doctors and nurses on the coalface at the beginning of the pandemic was incredibly inspirational. They talked about compassion, care, dignity in tones that stirred the heart and made you feel proud and privileged to share that space with them. They had resolved to be everything they needed to be to get through the day and they displayed no outward sign of fear or hesitation and during those first months, for that moment in time, they were one.
High Blantyre Baptist Re-opens after Lockdown By Steve Younger, Minister at High Blantyre BC High Blantyre Baptist Church re-opened for a physical Sunday service on 19th July and has met each Sunday since then, with our Sunday Club also meeting at the same time. The...
By Louise & Phil Proctor, Dumfries BC and BMS World Mission We are mission workers serving in Bangladesh with BMS World Mission. We took the very difficult decision to return to Scotland in March just as the UK went into lockdown and as Bangladesh was heading in...
By Martin Hodson A sentence in Joshua 3 has been going round in my mind: Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. (Joshua 3:4) The second phrase resonates with our experience of living in the present crisis. We want to be God’s...
The habits of lockdown have become the new normal: staying home; social distancing if we need to venture out; meeting family and friends on screen rather than face to face; taking special care of people who are shielding. Lockdown culture has generated a renewed...
Introduction Across society people are repeatedly saying things like: ‘Life will never be the same again after the Coronavirus pandemic.’ ‘If things just return to how they used to be after this we will have missed an opportunity.’ ‘We must learn the lessons from...