Free Church of Scotland: the next generation

Free Church of Scotland  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Oct 2019
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Free Church  of Scotland:  the next  generation

David Meredith | photo: 20Schemes

The Free Church of Scotland will facili-tate a focused outreach initiative called ‘Generation19’ which aims to encourage local churches to reach out to their com-munities with the gospel.

In 2017 a census of Scottish churches was carried out by Brierley Consultancy which indicated a sharp decline in church attendance and engagement. The report showed that ‘some 390,000 people regularly attended church, being 7.2% of the Scottish population, down from 17% in 1984.’ This decline was the equivalent of ‘losing ten congregations per month’.

Mission Director, the Revd David Meredith, said: ‘The statistics are clear, but they tell us what we already know. Scotland is for all intents and purposes an unreached people group.

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