Church backs supporting More than Gold campaign for Commonwealth Games
The Church is supporting plans to make the 2014 Commonwealth Games a Christian as well as athletic celebration. In a report to be put before the General Assembly today, Tuesday May 21, the Convener of...
View ArticlePioneering church growth project Fresh Expressions comes to Scotland
The Church of Scotland’s Mission and Discipleship Council has today indicated it is planning for growth in numbers and not managing decline, encouraging the pioneering work of Fresh Expressions. ‘Fresh...
View ArticleChurches buck the trend to reach ‘missing generation’ of young adults
New research identifies five types of churches which are bucking the trend in reaching and discipling the ‘missing generation’ of people in their 20s and 30s. Beth Keith, a tutor at Church Army in...
View ArticleGospel proclaimed in the Scottish Parliament
The head of an “unashamedly Christian” charity has delivered a powerful gospel message at the opening of this week’s business in the Scottish Parliament. Chamber Business usually begins each week with...
View ArticleSolas: organic Scottish festival encourages global heroes
In the year that the Greenbelt Festival turns 40, Scotland’s home-grown equivalent emerged last weekend as a flamboyant four-year-old determined to celebrate its cultural, and quite possibly political,...
View ArticleChurch of Scotland partners with Fresh Expressions
The Church of Scotland has announced the start of a new partnership with the Fresh Expressions initiative. Fresh Expressions was launched in 2004 by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York together with...
View ArticleDavid McCarthy on Fresh Expressions and the Church of Scotland
David McCarthy, newly-appointed Church of Scotland Fresh Expressions Development Worker, shares the challenges facing the Church of Scotland as it seeks to follow God’s Spirit in planting fresh...
View ArticleNorth East Glasgow investment set to reap rewards
A husband and wife duo from the United States, via the Middle East, have brought their pioneering spirit to the North East of Glasgow which has seen a run-down church building transform into an...
View ArticleAnglican website for evangelism and church growth resources is launched
Anglicans and Episcopalians interested in evangelism and church growth now have a new website where they can find the latest resources and examples of best practice. Anglicanwitness.org is described as...
View ArticlePioneering drive-thru church in Alness school car park
You’ve heard of drive-thru restaurants and even drive-thru cinemas, but one Easter Ross man is the driving force behind what is thought to be the first drive-thru church in Scotland. Johnny Bremner,...
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