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 December 16th, 2010
Dear Friends,
What a change a bit of snow can bring! In the last few weeks we have experienced some of the worst traffic problems in living memory. My hope and prayer is that the cold weather has not caused more than inconvenience for any of our members and friends.
As I researched the effect of the [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on November 30th, 2010
This Month’s Devotional by Pastor Jimmy Botha (from the Edinburgh and Dunfermline Churches)
Many of you may be aware that a small part of my body, a disk in my neck, is causing me great pain and lack of sleep. I have thought about this a lot lately, and I am convinced that it is a [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on November 30th, 2010
Dear Friends,
I’ve just returned from the Trans-European Division’s Winter meetings. The focus was the introduction of ‘Revival and Reformation’ as the World Church theme for the next five years. The 120 or so delegate enjoyed some great preaching as well as inspiring reports of God’s work in all the different parts of our territory. It [...]
Posted in MP3, Study Conferences on November 20th, 2010
Links to resources from the 9th November 2010 lecture by John Walton….
read the restPosted in Pastor's Page on November 17th, 2010
Recently I was invited to work on a project that aims to help people experience life more positively and more abundantly. The more I studied the ideas, the more I realised that they came straight from the teachings of Jesus and Paul. This was not promoting a kind of pop psychology or a short-lived trend. [...]
read the restPosted in MP3, Sabbath Service, Study, Study Conferences, Worship on October 15th, 2010
Audio recordings and presentations from Cedric Vine’s weekend study conference, ‘Cedric Vine – Angles on Mark’, held at Crieff Adventist Church on 15-17 October 2010.
read the restPosted in Pastor's Page on September 29th, 2010
True Fasting
Recently I took time to study what true fasting entails. When I read the potent words in Isaiah 58 I was startled by what I discovered about the features of a true fast. I thought back to the last time I took part in a fast and wondered if it had been a true [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on August 26th, 2010
Dear Friends,
When I think of the flood disaster in Pakistan, I feel overwhelmed. The latest news says that 1.2 million homes have been destroyed and 800,000 people are stranded by broken bridges etc.. The UN has calculated that 17 million people have been seriously affected by the floods.
This is an absolutely enormous tragedy by any [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on August 12th, 2010
Dear Friends,
Last week I went to prison. And before you wonder about the crimes I may have committed, I had better let you know that our whole class made a visit during a course I was taking at Andrews University. It wasn’t my first time behind bars. As a local pastor I’ve visited various prisoners [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on June 30th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on May 26th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on April 29th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on April 7th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Pastor's Page on April 1st, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Sabbath School ~ Children and Youth, Study, Youth on February 21st, 2010
Some links to resources discussed in the “Childrens Ministries’ discussions on the Church Officer’s Training Day.
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