Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Glasgow’s motto used to be “Lord, let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of Thy word and the praising of Thy name” As time has gone on it has been shortened to “let Glasgow flourish!”  In this current series, we want to take the original motto and apply it to our nation. Let Scotland flourish by the [...]

Florence MacKenzie (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship) “I don’t know who first coined the term. Certainly, it was one of the kids in the group I used to hang out with when I was about ten years old. “Holy Joe” seemed such an apt description of this guy who never missed an opportunity to talk to people [...]

Jim McNulty (Islay) serves as lay pastor at Islay Baptist Church. Here he provides an update on his ministry there. For more information have a look at the church website.

Ready, Steady, Go…! Alan Donaldson (General Director of the Baptist Union of Scotland) and his cycling companions are getting ready for their 7 day cycling ‘Tour de Scotia’ (well the West of Scotland anyway) which starts tomorrow. For those who are Facebook users, Alan will be posting regular updates there – so if you know people who [...]

Florence MacKenzie (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship) Congratulations to Florence Mackenzie who has completed her Diploma in Expository Preaching with Honours!

Newton Mearns Baptist Church will, on Sunday 5th June, welcome Rev Dr David Coffey, former President of the Baptist World Alliance and prior to that, General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. David will not be preaching as such as he’s guest speaker at the Ministers Conference at St Andrews the following week, [...]

Praise Gathering begins on Friday 10th June. A choir of 400 singers from over 150 different churches will join the PG band and special guests Ian White and Brad Goodine for four nights of praise in Scotland’s major concert halls. Baptists from across Scotland will be singing. Please do advertise these concerts and support this [...]

Take a moment to view the regular Baptist Union of Scotland newsletter  Connect June 2011

“There is nothing spiritual or godly or Christlike or commendable about preaching in a boring manner. The Bible is not boring! Our task is neither to make it interesting, nor to add illustrative extras to make it interesting (add them for legitimate purposes, of course, but not because you think the Bible is boring!)” See [...]