Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland

Theological conference
2024-10-29 - 2024-10-30
This year’s Theological Conference will be held, God willing, in Glasgow, on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29-30, with Rev W A Weale as chairman. It is expected that the following papers will be read, all in public:
Repentance unto Life – Rev R MacLeod
David Brainerd – Rev K D Macleod
Job – Rev G B Macdonald
Free Will – Rev I D MacDonald
Aspects of the Ruling Eldership – Dr R J Dickie
Listening Online

Details for listening online are as follows:

Link: https://glasgowfpc.my.webex.com/meet/glasgowfpc
Meeting Number: 147 420 587
Audio connection: +44-20-7660-8149

Note: the opening worship before each paper will not be streamed, so the streaming will begin a few minutes after the stated time. Those listening online should click the “Stop Video” button after entering the virtual meeting room.
Rev D W B Somerset, Convener, Training of the Ministry Committee

Communion: Ingwenya
2024-09-26 - 2024-09-30

Communions: Aberdeen, Barnoldswick
2024-09-19 - 2024-09-23

Communions: Halkirk, Munaka, Portree
2024-09-05 - 2024-09-09

Communions: Cameron, Vatten
2024-07-25 - 2024-07-29

Communion: Bonar Bridge
2024-07-11 - 2024-07-15

Communion: Beauly
2024-07-04 - 2024-07-08

Youth Conference in Australia
2024-04-23 - 2024-04-26
The 2024 Youth Conference in Australia will be held, God willing, from 3 pm on Tuesday 23 April till 10:00 am Friday 26 April, at 237 Beacon Rd, North Tamborine QLD 4272 Australia. It is about a 70 minute drive from Gold Coast Airport, and about a 3 hour drive from Grafton. The Lower age limit is 16. The cost is AUD$120. Payments can be made on arrival at the conference, but please e-mail Rev Jett Smith as soon as possible to tell him that you intend to attend (jettdaniel@gmail.com).
The papers and speakers for this Conference are as follows:
Genesis – the Beginning of Lessons for Christians, Part 3 – Mr H Optland
Arminianism and its Impact on the Church – Rev C Hembd
Matthew Henry – Rev G Macdonald
The Mediator: Type and Antitype – Mr Calvin MacKenzie
Moses’ Choice – Christ or the World – Rev J Smith

UK Youth Conference
2024-04-09 - 2024-04-11
The 2024 UK Youth Conference has been booked for Strathallan School, Forgandenny, Perth, on 9-11th April, 2024, God willing. The Welfare of Youth Committee encourages the young people to attend.

Communions: Gisborne, Ingwenya, North Tolsta
2024-03-28 - 2024-04-01

Committee meetings
2024-03-26 - 2024-03-27
Synod committees will meet, DV, as follows:
Tuesday, March 26:
09.10 – 09.40 Church Interests Committee
09.50 – 11.20 Training of the Ministry Committee
11.30 – 12.30 Sabbath Observance Committee
12.40 – 13.40 Overseas Committee
13.50 – 14.50 Outreach Committee
15.00 – 17.00 Religion and Morals Committee
18.00 – 19.30 Publications and Bookroom Committee
19.40 – 20.40 Welfare of Youth Committee
Wednesday, March 27:
10.00 – 13.00 Finance Committee
(Rev) K M Watkins, Clerk of Synod

Communion: Mbuma
2023-10-26 - 2023-10-30

Communions: Edinburgh, Gisborne
2023-10-19 - 2023-10-23

Communions: Leverburgh, London, Odessa
2023-10-12 - 2023-10-16

Communions: Dingwall, Uig
2023-08-03 - 2023-08-07

Communion: Cameron
2023-07-27 - 2023-07-31

Communions: Bulawayo, Gairloch, Inverness
2023-06-22 - 2023-06-26

Communions: Achmore, Scourie
2023-05-11 - 2023-05-15

Communions: Donsa, Grafton, Leverburgh
2023-05-04 - 2023-05-08

Committee Meetings
2023-03-21 - 2023-03-22
Synod committees will meet, DV, as follows:
Tuesday, March 21:
09.10 – 09.40 Church Interests Committee
09.50 – 11.20 Training of the Ministry Committee
11.30 – 12.30 Sabbath Observance Committee
12.40 – 13.40 Overseas Committee
13.50 – 14.50 Outreach Committee
15.00 – 17.00 Religion and Morals Committee
18.00 – 19.30 Publications and Bookroom Committee
19.40 – 20.40 Welfare of Youth Committee
Wednesday, March 22:
10.00 – 13.00 Finance Committee

Meeting of Presbytery: Southern
2023-02-07
At Glasgow on Tuesday 7th February at 2.00pm, DV.

Meeting of Presbytery: Asia Pacific
2023-01-30
At Auckland on 30 January 2023 at 12.00 pm, God willing.

Youth Conference in New Zealand
2022-12-20 - 2022-12-22
The 2022 Youth Conference in New Zealand will be held, God willing, from 2 pm on Tuesday, December 20th, till 3 pm on Thursday, December 22nd, at Masters Hall in Pahiatua, about a 45 minutes’ drive north from Carterton. The Lower age limit is 16. The cost is NZD $120. Payments can be made on arrival at the conference, but please e-mail Rev Jett Smith as soon as possible to tell him that you intend to attend (jettdaniel@gmail.com).
The papers and speakers for this Conference are as follows:
Genesis: The Beginning of Lessons for Christians II Mr H Optland
The Public Worship of God Rev C Hembd
The Benefit of Following Good Examples Mr C Van Kralingen
John Bunyan – Preacher, Prisoner and Pilgrim Rev G Macdonald
The Book of Revelation Rev J Smith

Meeting of Presbytery: Outer Isles
2022-12-20
The Outer Isles Presbytery will meet in Stornoway Church at 11.00 am on Tuesday 20 December, God willing.

Communions: Bulawayo, Santa Fe
2022-12-15 - 2022-12-19

Day of Humiliation and Prayer
2022-12-07
The Synod in May 2022 appointed a Day of Humiliation and Prayer to be observed throughout the Church on Wednesday 7th December 2022. In his motion Rev D A Ross said that such a day “is not appointed out of mere custom but in keeping with the Word of God where we have instances of setting apart such days in times of distress to plead with Almighty God to show mercy. Godly Queen Esther did so when the Jewish nation was appointed to be destroyed by wicked Haman. The godless heathen king of Nineveh also did so in response to the predicted destruction of the city for its excessive wickedness.
The solemn reality is that we too live in dreadful times. The decline in churchgoing is exceedingly alarming; we need not look further than ourselves as a Church. For example, in one joint congregation in the Western Presbytery, 24 members and 341 adherents signed a call to a minister in 1929; today the number attending is less than ten. Moreover, in many places where once we had spiritually-lively congregations we no longer have a presence. What a sad decline! And it is likewise in the visible Church generally. To make matters worse, sections of the visible Church have descended to support fornication in its worst form, that of sodomy. The Westminster Confession of Faith states: “The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan” (chapter 25, paragraph 5). What else can we say of any professing Christian Church that would support these vile sins which brought Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes?
Add to that the awful judgement of war in Ukraine which has impacted the whole world. In Odessa, Ukraine, we have one small congregation struggling, along with their fellow citizens, against the relentless barrage of weaponry set to destroy the city and kill its inhabitants.
These, and the many other evils which we are daily alerted to, must surely drive us to the throne of grace to earnestly plead that God would look, in His great mercy and infinite pity, upon our poor benighted world as it descends deeper and deeper into moral and spiritual darkness. What He did for the poor Gadarean demoniac, may He graciously do for us.
May we continue to present our humble pleas to the God of heaven, that He by His Word and Holy Spirit would turn the tide of iniquity. Without this divine intervention we will be left to unimaginable evils and sufferings immeasurably worse than that brought about by the pandemic.
‘Lord, bless and pity us,
shine on us with Thy face:
That th’ earth Thy way, and nations all
may know Thy saving grace.'”
(Psalm 67:1, metrical version.) (Rev) Keith M Watkins, Clerk of Synod

Communions: Chiedza, Singapore, Vatten
2022-11-17 - 2022-11-21

Communion: Glasgow
2022-11-10 - 2022-11-14

Meeting of Presbytery: Northern
2022-11-01
At Dingwall, on Tuesday 1 November at 2.00 pm, God willing.

Communions: Dornoch, Mbuma
2022-10-27 - 2022-10-31
