Serve Your Local School

Inspiring and equipping Scottish Churches to serve their local schools.

Serve Your Local School aims to help churches in Scotland see the potential to play a part in their local school community and to make a real practical difference for the teachers, staff and pupils in the school.

We believe that every church can make a difference, regardless of the size of congregation, staff-team and resources. On the website you'll find a range of resources and ideas to develop links with the local schools in your area.

New to schools work, need help to begin or just don’t understand the jargon? Find out more on our ‘Get Started’ page.

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How can a slice of cake or a washing machine serve a school? Find these and dozen’s more on our ‘Ideas’ page.

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Be inspired by discovering how prayers were answered for other churches on our ‘Stories’ page.

Stories

Stories from across Scotland

“A fun day event for the children attending the new school had an overwhelming attendance of over 200 people! This was a really encouraging event as it provided a community for the families attending the school before the physical community had actually been established.”

Adrienne Cartwright

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“It is so important to show love in whatever way the school requires it, because in doing so, we are able to show Christ’s love in really practical ways in our community.”

Karen Stangoe

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“Creating a trusted and known persona with the young people of the school is so important for the rest of the community, and can allow other relationships to form”

Michelle Brown

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“One of the ways we can make a community better is by educating young people from the start about the life skills that teachers don’t have the time or expertise to cover in teaching hours.”

Chris Dowling

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It’s very easy to get discouraged when it seems like our current work isn’t going in the direction we were planning or hoping for... So perhaps the important thing is to keep this perspective - that the picture we have right in from of us isn’t the whole, and we might not ever see the whole for ourselves.

Gordon McBirnie

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Inspiring and equipping Scottish Churches to serve their local schools.

New to schools work, need help to begin or just don’t understand the jargon? Find out more on our ‘Get Started’ page.

How can a slice of cake or a washing machine serve a school? Find these and dozen’s more on our ‘Ideas’ page.

Be inspired by discovering how prayers were answered for other churches on our ‘Stories’ page.

“A fun day event for the children attending the new school had an overwhelming attendance of over 200 people! This was a really encouraging event as it provided a community for the families attending the school before the physical community had actually been established.”

“It is so important to show love in whatever way the school requires it, because in doing so, we are able to show Christ’s love in really practical ways in our community.”

“Creating a trusted and known persona with the young people of the school is so important for the rest of the community, and can allow other relationships to form”

“One of the ways we can make a community better is by educating young people from the start about the life skills that teachers don’t have the time or expertise to cover in teaching hours.”