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Churches in Scotland

Bethel Foursquare Church, Kintore | Harvest Foursquare Church, Montrose | King of Kings Foursquare Church, Aberdeen | River of Life Foursquare Church, Banchory

Welcome to our page outlining our work in Scotland.

As a Scotsman I am passionate about my homeland and my people and as a servant of the Lord my heart breaks for the spiritual state of my nation. Foursquare Great Britain has graciously acknowledged the need for a fresh approach and a fresh direction when it comes to the evangelising of Scotland and the development of a Church planting strategy.

The Foursquare work in Scotland therefore will be viewed as a ‘new work’ in its own right, different to that of Foursquare Great Britain.

I am excited and ready for the task, will you join with me?

Pastor Kenn - August 2007.

Let’s look at some facts:

Since before the Industrial Revolution, Scots have been at the forefront of innovation and discovery across a wide range of spheres: the steam engine, the bicycle, tar macadam roads, the telephone, television, the transistor, the motion picture, penicillin, electromagnetics, radar, insulin and calculus are only a few of the most significant products of Scottish ingenuity.

Amazingly, for a country whose population has never been much in excess of 5 million, native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11% of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded.

Whatever its source, it's clear that the ingenuity and inventiveness of the Scots have helped shape the world in which we live today.

From the stone circles of Orkney to the new parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland's dramatic history spans 8,000 years, years marked by invasions and independence, wars and religious upheavals, intrigues and subjugation. Yet it also saw the flowering of an imagination and inventiveness across many different fields of human endeavour and resulted in Scotland occupying a pivotal position, not only in a British context but in a European and worldwide one also - 19th-century Glasgow's title as Second City of the British Empire was no idle boast! Such a history has left its mark on the nation's psyche - as well as the landscape - and has contributed in no small way to the fierce pride with which the Scots view themselves and their country today.

Scotland has experienced the outpouring of God upon its shores many times before.

For example - Cambuslang, on the outskirts of Glasgow, now a populous town, was, in the eighteenth century, a small parish of about 900 souls. Here a memorable and far reaching awakening took place, and its ‘green braes’ are fragrant to this day with the Divine breath that breathed so sweetly there in 1742.

‘A mighty hunger for the Word seized the new-born converts, and old people went to school with the children that they might learn to read the Bible. The life of the community was transformed. Drunkenness and blasphemy ceased. A spirit of tenderest love filled their hearts and shone in their eyes. Faults were confessed and forgiven. Restitution to the utmost was eagerly made. Family worship was revived, and every one sought to bring another to the Saviour. On the Sabbath twenty thousand assembled to hear the Word, while more than 1700 pressed to the Communion Tables, sitting down by companies upon the green grass, as in Galilee of old.’

Yet Scotland needs the Saviour like never before. I believe the time is ripe for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the nation.

Scotland has six cities - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and Stirling. We already have our first Church planted in Kintore and are working towards a Church plant in Aberdeen. Each of these cities is firmly in our sights for the establishing of Foursquare Churches within the next five years.

But we need your help!

Often I am asked what can be done to help with the work in Scotland. The answer is simple; we have 5 distinct needs that you may wish to partner with us in meeting.

1. Prayer. We need intercessors that are willing to stand in the gap with our workers as we move to reach a nation for Christ with the Foursquare Gospel.
   
2. General Material Support. Finances are the ever obvious need in any missions endeavour. Scotland is no different. We need financial help to plant new Churches and start up new ministries throughout the nation.
   
3. Adopt a Project. Partner churches can come alongside our existing church in Kintore or indeed any other new church and offer specific support for a specific project.
   
4. Church planting Teams. Teams are very welcome but at this early stage we would need Church planting teams that can fully support their own trip at every level.
   
5. Missionaries. It is our firm belief that Scots will best be reached by Scots but we welcome the opportunity for missionaries to work alongside us in reaching this nation for Christ.

If you as an individual or as a Church congregation feel the prompt of the Lord to partner with the work in Scotland, please contact Pastor Kenn at the Foursquare GB National Office.

Let me leave you for now with the words of Duncan Campbell regarding the great Hebridean revival,

‘It takes the supernatural to break the bonds of the natural. You can make a community mission-conscious. You can make a community crusade-conscious. But only God can make a community God-conscious. Just think about what would happen if God came to any community in power. I believe that day is coming. May God prepare us all for it. Amen.’