What a joy to welcome over 30 extra visitors (family and friends) to a 4-hour celebration of praise, testimonies, gospel message and oodles of fantastic food and fellowship, for the baptism of five precious friends who had chosen to publicly profess their faith in...
Archives: #transformations
Keep Fishing
Keep Fishing By Martin Hodson, General Director ‘Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.’ (Luke 5:4). Simon Peter and his crew have been ‘working all night.’ They must have been physically worn out by their exertions. Despite their hard work they...
A New Convenor
Martin Hodson says ‘goodbye’ to one Convenor and ‘hello’ to another One of the less prominent but critically important roles within BUS is the Convenor. This is the person who serves as Chair of the Trustee Board, who chairs the Council and the AGM, and who generally...
How many COPs does it take to arrest climate chaos?
Written By Martyn Link As the eyes of the world turned to Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP) the question on the world’s lips was “can we keep 1.5 alive?” For some of us this cryptic question may well leave us cold, I have heard some ask “why bother with...
‘A problem only exists in the absence of the right conversation’
‘A problem only exists in the absence of the right conversation…’ I first heard this quote from a good friend of mine, Jim McNeish, and whenever I feel things are going round in circles or the same perceived problem keeps being revisited it often springs to mind. As...
Growth, Challenge and Change for EBF & Alan Donaldson
Alan Donaldson, General Secretary of EBF, shares about both the growth and challenges from across Europe, and how our Scottish churches can play a significant role in God’s kingdom. “The Lord gave me a picture of you and Ruth travelling together with just a few...
Journey to Renew Wellbeing Centre (Cathcart, Glasgow)
Written by Cara Wightman and the Renew Wellbeing Team at Cathcart. Renew Wellbeing Cathcart was just launched on Thursday 28th October 2021! Before the launch there has been significant journey and a stirring of the Holy Spirit amongst several people about the need to...
20 Scottish ‘Renew Wellbeing’ centres launched since Canopy 2020!
Ruth Rice, Director of Renew Wellbeing and Coordinator for Scotland, shares the incredible springboard our BUS conference, Canopy 2020, provided as 20 new centres are launched around Scotland! Renew Wellbeing helps churches open spaces of welcome and inclusion in...
Finding a Home in Jesus
Finding a Home in Jesus By Rev Charles Maasz BSc Hons BD Hons, CEO Glasgow City Mission Some will have noticed that I have rather embarrassingly written a load of incidental prefix and postfixes along with my name and job title. I have never done that before and I may...
5 Simple Steps to Sustainability: As Individuals
5 Simple Steps to Sustainability: As Individuals By Laura Young Tearfund COP26 Advocacy Events Coordinator, member of the Baptist Union of Scotland Public Theology Group, and also famously known on social media as environmental influencer, ‘LessWasteLaura’ COP26, the...