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Our Aims for the Next 5 Years

John Adams — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:05:18 +0000

At our Church AGM last night, we discussed our vision for the next five years. Please use this opportunity to discuss these aims, and how we might plan to achieve them.

Part-Time Pastor Post

John Adams — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:54:36 +0000

The church have agreed to free up half of Jackâ€™s time to build on BiGâ€™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.

Seeking BU buy-in

Jack Quinn — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:41:38 +0000

As mentioned before, I met today with the core leaders of the Baptist Union and the Glasgow Mission Networker Neil Young, to explore the potential of developing a new expression of church which could be offered to city centre workers.

This is an important step in the direction of Adelaides future ministry within the city centre of Glasgow, and would involve the co-operation of the church with the Baptist Union, other churches and Christians who are already engaged in similar efforts to engage with city centre workers.

The meeting was an honest exploration of the need to relate in as many ways as possible to the demands of 21st century living. It is good to be in partnership with such forward thinking people.

The Baptist Union are now considering our proposal and we hope to hear back from them in the next few weeks.

Next Steps in the Consultancy

Jack Quinn — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:05:34 +0000

The series of evenings we have had over the last month were a useful stepping stone in the process of developing our response to the Consultancy lead by Neil Young.

The next stage is for the Deacons to try to draw together all the comments, ideas and the suggestions into a draft action plan, which should be ready early in the New Year. The whole church will then discuss and consider and we will move forward from there.

Linked to this of course is the suggestion that we develop the work of Business in Glasgow by releasing me to work on that part-time. If that happens we will need to invite someone to assist with the church part-time. This idea depends on the Baptist Union releasing core funding for 3 years and I will be presenting our proposal to the BU on Thursday 9th November. I would value your prayers that we may sense the leading of God in this matter.

These are challenging times but we pray that as we open ourselves up to the leading of God he will both supply the financial and the spiritual resources to complete the task. Continue to pray for the consultancy process so that we may be confident in our core mission in the future.

New expressions of church

sheila — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:18:32 +0000

[Bath Street. From Jase Mueller on Flickr].

The annual assembly of the Baptist Union of Scotland meets in Aberdeen on Friday 27th October. The very first session of the assembly will involve questioning of several members of the Baptist constituency by David Gordon, Mission Advisor as he explores the potential and the possibility of mission in new and different ways within Scotland. This will involve our own Pastor, Jack Quinn as he presents the case for a new kind of ministry amongst business people within the city centre of Glasgow.

This is a wonderful opportunity to promote the work that has already been done by Business in Glasgow and creates the possibility of taking it forward in new and different ways. With Baptist Union support and APBC releasing our Pastor part time to spearhead the initiative we could develop a new expression of church within the business community.

The project will very much involve APBC and other churches and Christians within the city centre as it will be a joint venture of co-operation amongst Christians to reach out to the business community.

Consultancy Discussions

Jack Quinn — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:10:57 +0000

At our last church meeting on Wednesday 28th June we agreed to set aside four Thursdays in the autumn to consider in detail the results of the consultancy conducted by Neil Young of the Baptist Union. We will use these meetings to prayerfully consider the issues raised by the church consultancy, create an agreed vision and identify what actions we need to take to realise the vision.

We have booked the following four Thursdays, at Adelaides:

28 September – The need for action
5 October – Identifying actions
19 October – Creating the vision
26 October – Setting priorities

Housegroups have agreed not to meet on these Thursday evenings, to allow as many people as possible to participate in the discussions.

We will take two hours (7:30 pm – 9:30 pm) on each of these evenings to spend a little more time in depth over some of the results of the consultancy, and to reflect, to pray, and to seek God’s leading in how we will benefit from the consultancy.

The expected outcome of the evenings will be a draft Action Plan containing detailed proposals for specific activities to support the vision. This plan will be submitted to the church for approval, and will also be reviewed and updated regularly.