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What many are discovering is that people come to faith because they have got involved with a church perhaps in some practical way. It is was the openness of the church to accept them that made all the difference. I know this is a truth that I’ve come to appreciate more and more. We find people outside the church community coming forward to volunteer with various aspects of our social outreach programme. The interesting thing is that before long we begin to see people of their own volition beginning to turn up at worship on a Sunday. The gospel is not just a doctrinal statement it is a living dynamic word that changes men and women from the inside out.

Lilias Snedden one of our youth workers at St Andrew’s here in Bo’ness got a huge surprise last night when she discovered that she had been nominated to STVs One Show as a ” One in a Million Champion ” The Friday Night youth Cafe welcome STV presenter Michelle McManus who was greatly impressed by [...]

Will you spare a thought and perhaps a prayer for all those who suffer in silence this Christmas. We’ve set aside one of the transepts in the church this year to highlight the work of Amnesty International. We would like to invite people to drop in and pray for prisoners of conscience. A few years [...]

just got back this evening from a speaking engagement at Moffat. It was a wonderful opportunity to tell a whole new group of people about the work of the Vine Trust. I got back into Bo’ness just in time to catch up with Craig Hannah one of our church voluntary youth workers who does an [...]

I’ve started writing up my experience of the Lausanne Congress. The theme of the congress was ” God in Christ reconciling the world to himself ” this text is found in 2 Corinthians 5.19 . Its an amazing text for it gives us a great hint about the nature of God. God is in the [...]

Here i am once again flying a kite as we think a bit more about the reform of Presbyteries. During the past few years it seems to me that there is a mood in the church to be more relational than legal. This leads us to think about structures and functions that are based on [...]

Robert Calvert, in an article written for the Lausanne Conversation entitled ” Secularity: Dogma meets Diversity in Europe”, makes the following comment,” The challenge of secularity is to make the case for the truth of Christ in societies that are pluralistic and globalized and to build the peace of Christ in societies that are broken [...]

Hey can you believe it? Its that time of the year. Yes today ValleyFM goes live on air right up to the the Saturday of Bo’ness Fair. iIf you live in the Bo’ness area you’ll find them on the radio at 87.7FM otherwise you can click here and find the radio station. We’re go on [...]

It was encouraging to everyone involved with the streaming out of the worship service today to have the appoval of one of Apple’s Senior Directors. In an email to me last week he wrote about our plan to stream out the weekly service to iphones ipads and ipods Mark Rogers writes “A nice project, yet [...]

Looking through the photograohs on my iphone this weekend just reminded me of all the excellent experiences that I was able to enjoy over the past few days. It was a real privelege to be able to attend the 2010 Edinburgh Missionary Conference and begin to write about some of the important issues that still [...]