Come to me all….
International day with Polish emphasis, to be held in the Crieff SDA church, Gwydyr Road, Crieff PH7 4BS.

10am Sabbath School (English and Polish Sabbath School classes);
11:15 Worship service – in Polish with English translation;
Bring and share lunch;
3:00 Baptismal service.

Speaker Anna Radosh (Polish Ministries Coordinator, BUC)

Friends,
The name ‘church’ is full of meaning. Many  people love it, and many people hate it. As Christians we want to preserve the identity of the church, but we may also want to change it. Some say that the church is where the saints worship, but those who attend know that it is also full [...]

Dear Friends,
Have you ever heard someone say – ‘I don’t like change.’ ‘It seems most change round here is just for the sake of change!’ We have a coalition government that was voted in largely on a mandate for change. Already the new political party has proposed significant changes in our system of government, as [...]

Dear Friends,
We were marooned in Slovenia when the flight ban was imposed following the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption. Karen and I had been invited there to teach on the Trans European Division’s Certified Family Life Educators’ course. We were booked to fly on Friday morning from Zagreb, in Croatia, so that I could preach in Crieff [...]

Dear Friends,
Greetings from Auchtermuchty, (pop. 2000), in Fife where I live with Karen and my son Joel. ‘Muchty,’ as the locals call it, is one of 100s of similar burghs across Scotland. If you go to the local web site http://www.auchtermuchty.co.uk you will see that its inhabitants are proud of its unique history and identity.
We [...]

Dear Friends,
Spring, Resurrection and Eternal Life
Yesterday morning, outside the Crieff church, I saw the first spring daffodil opening to the sunshine. It was revealing fresh new life after the barrenness of winter. Then, after church, I had a conversation with a young man who has been coming to our church for a few months. ‘I [...]

Some links to resources discussed in the “Childrens Ministries’ discussions on the Church Officer’s Training Day.

Hard Wired for Power
Yesterday was my ‘first day’ off for months. Besides taking and making a few church related calls, I spent most of the day feeding an electrical cable through the studwork of our bathroom walls.* The proposed new shower in the bathroom needs power. After hours of drilling holes in very awkward places [...]

Dear friends,
It’s been snowing for a few days in Auchtermuchty, but we have a warm dry house, thanks to the good insulation in our newly renovated home and a useful connection to the national power grid. Fortunately our family is protected from the winter elements. Five decades ago life would have been much colder and [...]

Dear friends,
I do get frustrated when journalists use words like ‘unprecedented’ to describe unusual weather conditions. It wonder if they think that just because they can’t remember a similar situation then this is a sign that things are far worse than ever! As a teenager, I remember hearing preachers using examples from the news to [...]

Links to MP3 audio files of Prof Walton’s lecture plus the PowerPoint he used and a suggested reading list…

Dear friends,
We all know that words are so important, and understanding them can be the key to experiencing the true meaning of a passage. Last week I became very curious when I was reading Psalm 91 and came across two words that I had frequently heard, but was not sure what they meant. In verse [...]

MP3s from Gunnar Pedersen’s weekend study conference, ‘The Bible as a Grand Story‘, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 23-24 October 2009.

‘What is the beginning of the story?’ (23MB, 1 hr 37 min)
‘What is the Centre of the Story?’ (13MB, 56 min)
‘Jesus, the Lamb of God’ (7MB, 32 min)
‘What is the Goal of the Story?’ (14MB, [...]

Dear fellow servants of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Last week at the end of Sabbath School, I sat as a visitor in a small Adventist church in England. (My Sabbath plans had been unexpectedly changed!) There is a stereotype that ‘Southerners’ are not friendly so I expected there would be a time of quiet as the [...]

Dear fellow servants of our Lord Jesus Christ,
It has been a very eventful week for the Holford family.  The move to Scotland has taken us a frustratingly long time, partly due to an unusual boundary issue over the drive of our ‘new’ home. So it was a wonderful answer to prayer, and a great relief, [...]