A church plant in Scotland has taken out a six-month lease on a local shop to reach more of the community with the gospel.
Buckhaven Community Church (BCC) started meeting in January 2015 and since then three members of the community have come to faith in Christ.
Peter Carr, who leads the church, said: ‘We started meeting on Sunday afternoons in January with a café-style service in a windowless room of a run-down community hall in Buckhaven. We began with Billy Graham’s The Cross, followed by the seven week Christianity Explored course. This was to set the tone and intention of the new church: we weren’t interested in sheep rustling.
Mother and son
‘A mother and her teenage son were saved after completing Christianity Explored and they were baptised in May along with another new convert in a 10ft paddling pool of water that was marginally warmer than the sea! After seeing this gospel growth we took another step of faith in June by leasing a large shop for six months. It makes us more central, accessible and visible.’
Buckhaven is a town of 6000 people but 98% of them have no contact with any of the town’s churches. Peter was burdened by these statistics and felt called to plant a church that was very different in style to any of the others.
He added: ‘We’re greatly encouraged that a number of non-Christians have come along to BCC and it’s my opinion that none of them, including those who accepted Jesus as Saviour, are likely to have attended a conventional or traditional church service.’
BCC is now meeting in the shop premises on Station Road in Buckhaven.
Brought up in Glasgow, Peter accepted Jesus as his Saviour at the age of 37. He is married to Shirley and they have three grownup children and three adopted siblings.
