Moderator marks Mental Health Week with call for mutual support
Rt Rev Dr Martin Fair believes we all have a part to play in ensuring Scotland’s mental health crisis does not worsen due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Registration to join Assembly Trustees webinar now open
Registration to take part in a special webinar to learn how challenges facing the Church of Scotland are being tackled is now open. Up to 1,000 people are able to join the session organised by ...
Prayer - Lord God, hear our voices
The new Moderator of the General Assembly recites his first ecumenical prayer in his new role. Rt Rev Dr Martin Fair took office during a special service at the General Assembly Hall in Edinburgh yesterday. ...
Tayside minister takes up role as Moderator of the General Assembly
A Tayside minister has been officially installed as the new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Rt Rev Dr Martin Fair, who will represent the Kirk at home and abroad for ...
Scottish churches join together in call for prayer on Sunday
Church groups across Scotland are asking Christians once more to join together in prayer at 7pm on Sunday evening. This week's renewed prayer for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is signed by 13 Scottish ...
Church shows support to global partners during pandemic
The Church of Scotland has sent financial support to partner Churches across the globe to help them respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of £38,000 has been sent to eight churches that have long-standing ...
Watch the installation service for the new Moderator
This Saturday,16 May, you are invited to watch the special service to install the next Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The 2020 General Assembly was canceled because of the Covid-19 ...
Watch a special edition of Heart and Soul streamed online
A special celebration of the life of the Church of Scotland in all its richness and fullness is being streamed online. The digital version of Heart and Soul, which will be shown on Sunday, 17 ...
Kirk minister to run equivalent of Glasgow to Inverness for Christian Aid
A Church of Scotland minister is running the equivalent distance of Glasgow to Inverness over 30 days to raise money for Christian Aid. Rev Dr Martin Johnstone, who previouly worked at the Kirk's administrative office ...
Church to host webinar on impact of coronavirus
A webinar is being held to provide those in the ministries of the church, office bearers, staff, members and volunteers with an update on how challenges facing the Church of Scotland are being tackled. The ...
Lanark churches back community funding boost
Two church of Scotland ministers have welcomed a funding boost which will help community projects in Lanarkshire to combat isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rev Bryan Kerr and Rev Louise Mackay, both local ministers, were ...
A prayer - Come Jesus Christ, come my way
The Moderator of the General Assembly is encouraging people to join him in prayer at 7pm. Rt Rev Colin Sinclair said he hoped it would help keep hope alive amid the ongoing Coronavirus crisis which ...
SERMON - 'If you have Jesus, you have enough'
In his final Sunday sermon as Moderator of the General Assembly, Rt Rev Colin Sinclair says "If you have Jesus, you have enough". He said believers can live at peace one day at a time, ...
Elder says celebrating VE Day made his time as a PoW worth it
A Kirk elder who celebrated VE Day in Trafalgar Square in London 75 years ago said the pure joy of the occasion made the "hard" months he spent in a Prisoner of War camp worth ...
Perthshire church uses transatlantic service to cement historic ties with North Carolina
A church in Perthshire is strengthening its ties with an American congregation through a special online service that will highlight their shared history and the twinning of their two communities in 2017. Dunkeld and Birnam ...
Moderator asks church members to remember VE day with prayer
Rt Rev Colin Sinclair, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, has asked church members to mark with a prayer the 75th anniversary of VE day, Friday 8 May 1945, when the ...