Our Church can be found in the small town of Crieff, in the beautiful Scottish county of Perthshire
We meet every Sabbath (Saturday) for our worship services. At 10am we have our Study Hour (with separate classes for adults and children). Our main worship service is at 11:15am and we often have other events throughout the week. The calendar in the right column will give you details of what is up and coming...
Our aim and vision is to be a community that reflects faith in God demonstrated by faith in our fellow men and women, thus honouring the command of the Lord Jesus found in passages such as John 13:34,35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
Come and join us.
Posted in Pastor's Page on August 13th, 2009
Dear Friends
For those who were not at the recent SM Day of Fellowship, let me introduce myself in a ‘back to front’ way by telling you about me. I am Karen’s husband and Bethany, Nathan and Joel’s father as well as Tim’s father-in-law. I am Alison, Graham, Colin and Robert’s brother as well as being [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on June 24th, 2009
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Introducing Pastor Bernie and Mrs. Karen Holford
Pastor Bernie Holford has been called to take up the role of President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Scotland, following Karin’s and my departure. He will also be the Pastor of our faith community in Crieff. He and his wife Karen have three children; Bethany (Married to [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on June 4th, 2009
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Are you Jesus?
Most will know the story of the man running to catch a train who bumps into a small boy playing with his swap cards. The cards are scattered about the platform and the man has to choose between catching his train or helping the boy. He decides to help the boy and [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on April 28th, 2009
Dear Friends
By the time you read this, I hope you will also have received sheets of paper to write your part of the “Adventist Church of Scotland’s Bible”. Each of our churches and companies are assigned sections of the Bible and we hope that the act of writing out the Word will be an opportunity [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on April 2nd, 2009
The Lord is coming – we know the time!
Adventists by the very nature of our wonderful and exciting hope are constantly tempted to study the ‘signs’ and try to figure out how soon is the time of His coming. We have been doing it since the disciples asked Jesus the same question in Matthew 24:3 [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on March 4th, 2009
Death or Life?
Last Sabbath I attended a wonderful baptism service for the Glasgow-Faifley-Paisley fellowships in which 23 folks became members of the church. I was privileged to address the candidates and spoke on the tragedy of people who choose death when by the grace of the Lord Jesus they can choose LIFE and life eternal. [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on February 12th, 2009
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President Obama and Daniel 2
It was fascinating to watch the historic inauguration of President Obama a few days ago. The story of Obama’s rise from his African past to become the leader of the most powerful nation on earth is the inspirational American dream at its best and this event stated for all to [...]
Three years ago, in 2006, we started the CAP program. It was always our intention to review our projects after three years so today we’re looking back at the ROPE and CAKE projects.
The big picture: Over the 3 year period £24,000 was given from church budget (the single biggest line item in that budget). £16,674.22 [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on November 26th, 2008
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Roseto and Prayer
This month sees probably the first ‘Prayer Retreat’ in the SM. That has got me thinking about a connection between Jesus’ advice to enter your closet and close the door and a town called Roseto*.
Roseto Valfortore is a very small mountaintop town of approximately 1317 residents in the province of Foggia in [...]
Posted in MP3, Study, Study Conferences on November 17th, 2008
John Walton has provided us with a list of books for those who are interested in the current Science/Religion debates…
read the restPosted in Pastor's Page on November 5th, 2008
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On the Lookout for Grace
Acts 11:23, 24. When he arrived and saw the evidence of the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people [...]
This month we had a CAP auction where we swapped our rubbish valued contents of our garages with each other and paid CAP for the privilege.
With the auction and other giving £604 were added to the CAP funds.
Posted in Pastor's Page on October 7th, 2008
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Responses to the Financial Crisis – Standing “from a distance” or standing “firm”
Over the past few days of financial crisis, the words of two 1st century Biblical writers seem to have a 21st century application –
James 5:1-8 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. [...]
CAP was £246 richer this month.
read the restSummertime. Sort of. A yellow thing appeared in the sky so we gave some more money to CAP. £383 to be precise.
Also: A further £200 went to ROPE and a big transfer of £7055 went to the CAKE project in Lesotho.
