adelaide place baptist church

At long last the moment came when our pastor Jack Quinn was commissioned to give half of his time to minister to Adelaide Place and the other half to develop a ministry amongst the business community in conjunction with Business in Glasgow (BiG).

To assist the church to do this we called Ronnie Hall to be our assistant pastor and on Saturday 20^th October both Jack and Ronnie were commissioned to serve the Lord in these capacities over the next three years.

It was a moving and challenging occasion led sensitively by Rev Andy Scarcliffe, Mission Advisor to the Baptist Union of Scotland. Rev Stuart Blythe of the Scottish Baptist College challenged the gathered church when he encouraged us to exemplify the Lord Jesus in “Word and Signs” in our collective ministry.

The highlight of the evening was when members of the church and wider Christian community in the city laid their hands on Jack and Ronnie and, with prayer, commissioned them to these new ministries into which God has called them.

The church have agreed to free up half of Jack’s time to build on BiG’s ministry to business people within the city centre, and the Baptist Union of Scotland have kindly offered to fund part of this. We are therefore looking to appoint a part-time pastor (3 days/week) so that Jack can be released to expand our ministry in this way. Jack will still be the Pastor of the church, but will be extending our ministry in a new and exciting way.

We have advertised in the Baptist Times for the weeks of 31 May and 6 June. For further information, please visit our Part-Time Pastor Post page.

The birth of our second grandaughter, Freya on the 9th February, demonstrated afresh the wonder of God’s creative power. It is a humbling experience to hold a new born baby in your arms but doubly so when it is your grandchild. The connectedness we have to any new born is basic to our humanity but more so when you have had a distant part to play in that new person’s birth.

Psalm 71 verse 6 states:

“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.”

As the writer of the psalm reflects upon his own life he acknowledges that there is more than the dependence of an infant upon its parents. There is a ‘divine’ activity in the birth of every living person. Thus the Creation writings in Genesis speak of human beings being made in the image of God. Whenever I look into the face of my grandchildren, I look for the characteristics that reveal their connectedness to me and Marlyn and their other grandparents too. But I also see, a glimpse of the divine in them. My prayer is that they will grow up to recognise their Creator too.