Mission teams

Kansas Mission Team

From 28th February to 10th March we hosted a ‘Kansas Mission Team’. Bob and Rita, already with us for 3 months, were joined by a man from each of the two Kansas congregations Stephen where Stephen had spoken during the summer: Jim (Winchester) and Bob (Shawnee).

On their first Saturday with us, the team helped organise an American style men’s breakfast, before starting into painting around the church building, which would form the bulk of their work for the week.

The team participated in the various aspects of church life during the week: the monthly church lunch on the Lord’s Day, the Monday evening Bible Study and our Wednesday Bible Study and Drop In.

On the Tuesday evening, they got to experience a Stranraer FC match with some of the congregation.

On the Thursday, they helped us with our World Book Day outreach - giving out free Bibles and gospels in the town centre. 48 Bibles and around 20 gospels were given out, and some good conversations were had.

On their second Saturday, we took the team to see Covenanter martyr sites at Wigtown and Glentrool.

On each of their two Lord’s Day evenings with us, a team member shared their testimony over supper after evening worship.

We are grateful for their work and their partnership in the gospel!

GO Team 2023

During the last week of August we had a go team (short term mission team) with us. The team members were Ruth, Hannah, Rosaleen, Hamish, Trinity, Campbell and Matteo.

Some of the team’s activities are summarised below:

  • Psalm singing in the town centre on the Lord’s Day afternoon, which led to a new contact being made.

  • Almost 5,000 leaflets advertising our mission services were distributed in Stranraer, Castle Kennedy and Sandhead.

  • On the Wednesday morning, some of the team did practical work at the church, while others helped run a drop-in. We were very encouraged to have 9 people come in over the two hours.

  • The team also helped to set up for a congregational BBQ at the manse on the Wednesday evening, to which the congregation were encouraged to invite family and friends.

  • On the Thursday, after a Covenanter tour to Anwoth, the team ran a One Day Bible Club. We had five church children in attendance, as well as two from outside the church.

  • On Friday, the remaining team members (some left on the Thursday) did some cleaning up at Stair Park (home of Stranraer FC), which has resulted in some very favourable comments being made to Stephen (who serves as club chaplain) at Stranraer’s home match the following Saturday.

  • All in all it was a really encouraging week, for which we give thanks to God.

Stranraer GO Team 2022

Having had to cancel a planned GO Team to advertise a ‘Let’s Talk about Drugs’ event in September 2020 due to Covid, we were glad it was finally able to go ahead on 14th-17th April (with the team arriving the night before and leaving the morning after).

While recent teams have carried out a variety of tasks, this one was focused on leaflet distribution. We gave out leaflets to the town of Stranraer as well as Castle Kennedy - and also gave out some in the town centre on the Saturday afternoon.

In the evenings, the team had the opportunity to spend time in the homes of various folk in the congregation, which proved to be times of great mutual encouragement. On the first evening, we also watched a video of a talk on ‘Understanding Addiction’.

The audio from the advertised talk on ‘What makes us human?’ can be found here, while Trevor Wills’ story of redemption from a background of drug abuse can be watched below: