Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

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

Alan Donaldson, General Director of Baptist Union of Scotland speaks about his current trip to Lerwick Baptist Church in Shetland: “Having a great weekend in Lerwick, Shetland. The new church building was officially opened yesterday. Hundreds of people visited the church during the day from the local community. The children had faces painted, balloons twisted, [...]

“What do you do when you are asked to preach a title with a text?  My simple answer is to honour the title, but preach the text.” Peter Mead reflects on this question in this post.

Peter Lanigan has been called to be the pastor at Hugglescote Baptist Church in the midlands. His ordination  service  will take place at his church,  Falkirk Baptist toay at 3.00 and then the induction service at Hugglescote on Saturday 10 September.  We are thankful to God for  for Peter’s involvement to the association in various roles. He  has served [...]

Florence MacKenzie (Aberdeen Christian Fellowship) Florence Mackenzie is speaking at Scottish Women’s Baptist Fellowship conference in St Andrews on 2nd to the 4th September. The theme she will be speaking on is “Managing Your Emotions”.  She will be speaking on the various topics: Friday evening – Goodbye Guilt Saturday morning – Bitter or Better? Sunday [...]

The Baptist Union of Scotland is delighted to announce the appointment of Rev Peter Dick as our new Finance Director. Peter grew up in a Christian home, but personally owned his faith at the age of 14 being baptised by immersion in 1967. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and for the last 16 years [...]

The Heralds Trust conference is less than 3-weeks away and we are looking forward to partnering with leaders from across Scotland. We still have places available in Glasgow and Edinburgh. You can book online now to join our conference; ‘Reaching Spiritual Leaders in a secular Scotland’.The Speaker at the Herald Trust Leadership conference will be announce that [...]

Graham Kinloch (Bearsden) today is ordained and inducted into the ministry at Cowdenbeath Baptist Church. Please Pray for him and give thanks for the contribution he has made in membership with SBLPA.

Andrea Mill (Bristo Edinburgh) Having attended CLAN (Christians Linked Across the Nation) every year for 14 years, I have to say that this year was the best yet! Having moved back to the Strathtyrum estate just outside St Andrews, we were concerned about the amount of rain there had been and duly packed our wellies! [...]