Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Lifesize conference is day conference taking place in Granton Baptist Church Edinburgh on Saturday 20th November. It aims to encourage small churches to recognise their strengths, develop their relationships and serve their communities. This is a conference organised by the Baptist Union of Scotland and Baptist Union of Great Britain.
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 The New Principal of the International Christian College has now taken up post. Richard Tiplady formerly served as the British director of the European Christian Mission. If you follow the link you will get an opportunity to get a bit of an introduction to him. One of things that was striking was his definition of [...]

This past week the General director has had an opportunity to visit one of the Step out Mission teams which have going out to various churches within the union. Here he reflects on this and challenges us to pray for them and also to consider the missional relationships which we could have.

The 21st Century discipleship conference Mission Scotland event is taking place in Aberdeen on 27th  February, 9:30pm-5pm  at Newmill Parish Church, AB21  The event is for anyone who is interested in thinking about how by being a 21C Disciple we can reach and connect people in the society around us to Jesus. It will challenge some [...]

Philip Magee, member (Dingwall)
Nearly two years ago I attended a conference in Edinburgh where Luis Palau and Andrew Palau were the speakers. At that conference Andrew shared his testimony of how he was came to know Christ as his personal Saviour. Strikingly his father knew that he was far from the Lord but still continued [...]

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Peter Trotter, Active member, Glasgow

On Sunday 9 November 2008 I had the wonderful privilege of preaching at two services at the Yan Kwong [Grace Light] Church in Fanling, Hong Kong, a Chinese fellowship which is part of the Hong Kong Evangelical Church, originally established by missionaries from the faith mission OMS International. One of the [...]

 
At the beginning of November, I had the privilege of visiting the Duncan Hospital in Bihar in North India. This Christian hospital was built by Cecil Duncan a Scottish Surgeon in 1930 in Raxaul, a town bordering Nepal.
I found Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, to be a fascinating mixture of beauty of [...]

Professor Emeritus Jim Parratt, Active Member Castlehill Road Baptist Church Bearsden – Formerly Honorary President of SBLPA
A few weeks ago my wife Pam and I said ‘goodbye’ to our many friends in Hungary – for the third time! This is a country I first visited forty years ago, in communist times of course, and where [...]

Stephen Marr (Newton Mearns)
Going on a Mission trip/preaching tour to the USA does sound fairly impressive, but you have to factor in a few things. Firstly, getting to the airport at a time when any good Baptist should be fast asleep! Secondly, having to take 3 separate flights to get there (and the same to [...]

 From Hector Livingston, Friend of the Association
Working at a remote, rural, African hospital, we were often the object of intense scrutiny by the ‘locals’. I had not realised that my decision to put up a car-port alongside our house was regarded as very eccentric behaviour. After all, it rained only seldom, and you could keep [...]