“Bodies not Bucks” — a renewal effort in South West Scotland

UK pastors have a long history of going to the USA to fundraise. The Irish Reformed Presbyterian minister Robert Nevin spent almost six months in America in the mid-19th century, travelling 3,291 miles to raise funds for the construction of a new church building in Londonderry. (The building was sold during the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and now, rather galling, is to be turned into a mosque.) While not averse to doing the same, our focus in Stranraer recently has been on trying to encourage mature Christians from the US to come and be part of the congregation here for at least a month. The response has blown us away, and there is scope for other churches to do the same. Read the rest of this article here.