Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland

Meeting of Presbytery: Northern
2021-11-30
At Dingwall, on Tuesday, November 30th, at 2.00 pm, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Western
2021-11-23
At Lochcarron, on Tuesday November 23rd, at 11.00 am, God willing.

Communion: Sydney
2021-11-18 - 2021-11-22

Theological Conference
2021-11-16 - 2021-11-17
This year’s Theological Conference will be held, God willing, in Inverness on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 16th-17th, with Rev K D MacLeod as chairman. It is expected that the following papers will be read, all in public:
Tuesday 2.30pm
Romanism – Changing and Unchanging Rev J B Jardine
[This paper will be read on Mr Jardine’s behalf, due to his being away in Africa.]
Tuesday 7.00pm
Jewish Ministers of the Nineteenth-Century Free Church Dr R J Dickie
Wednesday 10.00am
Application in Preaching Rev D A Ross
Wednesday 2.30pm
The “Mysteries” of the New Testament Rev D W B Somerset
Wednesday 7.00pm
Union to Christ Rev I D MacDonald

Synod
2021-10-26 - 2021-10-28
The Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland will meet in the Inverness Church, on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 6.30 pm, God willing, when the retiring Moderator, Rev J B Jardine, will conduct public worship.

Meeting of Presbytery: Asia Pacific
2021-10-25
The next ordinary meeting of the Asia Pacific Presbytery is to be held in Gisborne, New Zealand, from 11:15am on Monday 25th October 2021, the Lord willing.

Communion: Ness
2021-10-07 - 2021-10-11

Synod Committee Meetings
2021-10-05 - 2021-10-06
Synod Committees will meet, DV, as follows:
Tuesday, October 5
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, October 6
10.00 – 13.00 Finance Committee

Communion: Aberdeen
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-27
Thursday 23rd Sept Day of Humiliation 7.30 pm (Rev JB Jardine)
Friday 24th Sept Day of Self-Examination 7.30 pm (Rev JB Jardine)
Saturday 25th Sept Day of Preparation 11 am (Rev D Somerset)
Sabbath 26th Sept Communion 11 am and 6 pm (Rev JB Jardine; Rev D Somerset)
Monday 27th Sept Day of Thanksgiving 11 am (Rev JB Jardine)

Meeting of Presbytery: Outer Isles
2021-09-21
The Outer Isles Presbytery will meet in Stornoway Church at 11.00 am on Tuesday 21 September, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Western
2021-08-31
At Lochcarron, on Tuesday August 31st, at 11.00 am, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Southern
2021-08-24
At Glasgow, on Tuesday August 24th, at 2.00 pm, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Northern
2021-08-03
At Dingwall, on Tuesday August 3rd, at 2.00 pm, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Asia Pacific
2021-07-23
The next meeting of the Asia Pacific Presbytery is due to be held in Auckland on Friday 23rd July 2021 from 10am, the Lord willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Outer Isles
2021-06-24
The Outer Isles Presbytery will meet in Stornoway Church at 11.00 am on Thursday 24 June, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Southern
2021-06-22
The Southern Presbytery will meet on Tuesday, 22 June, at 2.00pm in Glasgow, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Northern
2021-06-15
The Northern Presbytery will meet on Tuesday, 15 June, at 2.00pm in Dingwall, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Western
2021-06-01
The Western Presbytery will meet on Tuesday, 1 June, at 11.00am in Lochcarron, God willing.

Communion: Aberdeen
2021-05-27 - 2021-05-31
Aberdeen communion services (DV):
Thursday and Friday 7.30pm
Saturday 11.00am
Sabbath 11.00am and 6.00pm
Monday 11.00am

Meeting of Synod
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-21
The meeting of Synod adjourned from October 2020 will resume on Tuesday 18th May 2021 at 10.30am in Inverness Church, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Outer Isles
2021-03-30
The Outer Isles Presbytery will meet in Stornoway Church at 11.00 am on Tuesday 30 March, God willing.

Meeting of Presbytery: Southern
2021-03-24
At Glasgow on Wednesday March 24th DV at 4.00 pm.

Meeting of Presbytery: Outer Isles
2021-03-23
The Outer Isles Presbytery will meet in Stornoway Church at 11.00 am on Tuesday 23 March, God willing.

Synod Committee meetings
2021-03-16 - 2021-03-17
Synod committees will meet, DV, by teleconference as follows:
Tuesday, March 16
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 17
10.00 – 13.00 Finance Committee
(Rev) K M Watkins, Clerk of Synod

Meeting of Presbyteries: Western and Northern
2021-03-09
Western – At Lochcarron on Tuesday March 9th DV at 11.00 am
Northern – At Dingwall on Tuesday March 9th DV at 2.00 pm

Meeting of Presbytery: Southern
2021-02-24
At Glasgow on Wednesday February 24th DV at 4.00 pm.

Meeting of Presbytery: Asia Pacific
2021-01-29
At Auckland on Friday January 29th DV at 9.30 am

Communion: Auckland
2021-01-28 - 2021-02-01

Meeting of Presbytery: Outer Isles
2020-12-22
The Outer Isles Presbytery will meet in Stornoway Church at 11.00 am on Tuesday 22 December, God willing.

Day of Humiliation and Prayer
2020-12-09
At the meeting of Synod on 27 October 2020, a Day of Humiliation and Prayer was appointed on Wednesday, 9th December 2020, as follows:
“The Synod appoints a Day of Humiliation and Prayer to be observed throughout the Church on Wednesday, 9th December 2020 because of the deepening moral and spiritual darkness that is relentlessly descending on Church and State. Never since Reformation times has our nation stooped so low in the basest of sins, and increasingly the commandments of men are displacing the commandments of God. Among our heaven-provoking sins are false worship, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, the cruel abortion of millions of defenceless unborn babes, and the Sabbath utterly given over to secularism. Sin, we are assured from the Word of God, will inevitably bring God’s judgments on sinners. The coronavirus pandemic is one such judgment, bringing with it deprivation to the whole of society, and the church itself deprived for a time of the precious privilege of public worship, which even now is not fully restored. We need to ponder the judgments of God recorded in the Scriptures as solemn warnings to all nations. The judgment upon our own nation must inevitably continue and perhaps worsen, unless we return to God in repentance and gospel obedience. Israel in the time of the Judges and in later times fell away from serving God and consequently judgment came upon them. Wonderfully, this caused them to plead earnestly in prayer with the Lord for deliverance; and the Lord in His great mercy heard their cry and turned their time of bondage, affliction and mourning to times of prosperity, spiritually and otherwise. We therefore encourage our people likewise to pray for mercy and to make this day of humiliation and prayer a total day of humble pleadings to God for Church and State and for all nations, that we be given to mourn our ungodliness and turn to Him in repentance and new obedience. Let us pray also that Christ Jesus the King of kings be given His rightful place – otherwise we can expect worse judgment to come, as is evident from Psalm 2:9-12,
‘Thou shalt, as with a weighty rod of iron, break them all;
And, as a potter’s sherd, Thou shalt them dash in pieces small.
Now therefore, kings, be wise; be taught, ye judges of the earth:
Serve God in fear, and see that ye join trembling with your mirth.
Kiss ye the Son, lest in His ire ye perish from the way,
If once His wrath begin to burn: bless’d all that on Him stay.”
