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[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.

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.