In addition to the previous posts on Presbytery Funds and Seeds for Growth, another way to resource mission can be found through the Consolidated Fabric Fund. The General Assembly agreed in 2024 that the General Trustees could release money from the Consolidated Fabric Fund for missional purposes if certain conditions were met, outlined below. This year the General Assembly heard… Download
Growing Young is a learning programme for a small team from your congregation to engage with six principles that have come from research conducted by the Fuller Youth Institute. They studied churches that were attracting younger demographics and have rolled out the learning worldwide. Growing Young has been running in the Church of Scotland for almost five years and a number… Read More
The main fund the Church of Scotland has for resourcing initiative aimed at church growth is Seeds for Growth, with the main information page here: https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/resources/grants-and-funding/seeds-for-growth. They have a list of the types of projects that have been funded and lots of helpful advice for developing new work that shares faith in Jesus Christ with those around us. There are an increasing… Read More
Are you looking for resources to aid in sharing the good news of Jesus and expressing the 'Five Marks of Mission'? There are funding options available from the Evangelism Grant of Glasgow Presbytery and the Church of Scotland's funding page. The Evangelism Grant forms can be found here: https://www.presbyteryofglasgow.org.uk/presbytery/committee/pioneering-and-planting Seeds for Growth is a relatively new fund set up to support… Read More