Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Please find below activity on the website over the past week or so:   A New Series Starting tommorrow:  Please keep your eyes peeled over the next month to the website with our new series exploring the theme of worship.  Looking at the general theme of worship and preparing for the various aspects of the worship [...]

Saturday 13th February 2010 is the date of our next ‘Connect Four Lay Preachers’ Workshop’ at Stirling Baptist Church. Feedback from those who’ve attended the previous two has been very positive, judging the content to have been relevant and helpful, and attending a worthwhile investment of their valuable time.  The day includes input from four excellent facilitators [...]

One of the elements of  a service is  intercessory prayer.  How do we prepare for such a prayer? Is it to be spontaneous or is it something we should prepare for?  The benefit of preparing is that the preacher or the worship leader, has the responsibilty of presenting these prayer requests on behalf of the people [...]

Over the month of the December we had series on Advent we were blessed by the rich tapestry of thoughts writtten by our own lay preachers. In the month of February beginning this monday there is a new series beginning on monday. Our new series is entitled worship explored. Again SBLPA lay preachers will reflect on  [...]

This is the 3rd year that the ‘Partners in the Gospel’ Conference is taking place in Aberdeen, ‘A lamp to my feet’ will take place at Deeside Christian Fellowship Church in Milltimber, Aberdeen on Wednesday, 10th March 2010 from 9:30am to 4:30pm.  The Keynote speaker will be David Jackman who will be speaking on the Psalms. In addition Edward Lobb [...]

  Below is a summary of items which have appeared on the website since Monday.  If you have not had a look in a day or two please use the following to catch up:   …Events Coming up (Connect Four and Annual Conference & AGM) Events coming up!   Audio clips which speak about the [...]

Over the next month or two there or so there are one or two key events that are coming up which trust you have ringed in your diary. On the 13th February in Stirling, the 3rd Connect four workshop takes place. An opportunity for lay preacher and pastors a like to sharpen their axes. See [...]

In following link from Evangelical Alliance you will see some clips from Vaughan Roberts and David Jackman who speak about the importance of engaging with the Bible. One of the key things being the preacher’s personal bible study and the need to hear from God.

Following on from the post on 15th January (last Friday), there is more information about BibleFresh on the Evangelical Alliances Slipstream for young leader leaders website. They provide a page which gives idea for leaders as they see to encourage their congregation to engage with the Bible. See also the Bible Fresh Leaders Guide.

On a monthly basis the Baptist Union of Scotland of which we are a part of produces a monthly newsletter giving a flavour of what’s happening around the Baptist union churches in Scotland. The February Connect  features an article about the new beginnings of Bathgate fellowship and also the anniversary celebrations of Cornton Baptist Church, [...]