Members' Stories
Andy & Agnes Daramola
This is a dynamic, family oriented and Word focused church that my entire family has found to be spiritually and socially rewarding.
Alison Mackay
As a deer pants for water, so my soul longs after God...
I cannot remember a time when I did not sense a longing to know God. Even as a young child I recall the ongoing thoughts that would run through my mind, like ‘Surely there must be someone bigger than us, a God who made us for some good purpose?' Sometimes it ran like this, ‘If there is no God, then this life seems pretty meaningless and unpredictable.' I should have been perfectly happy, growing up in a large, secure family, with lots of friends and activities and no problems at school. Yet I couldn't escape this deep awareness that without a real relationship with God there was something seriously wrong.
Then a pivotal event changed my life forever....
Anne Sanderson
Being born into and brought up in a Bible-believing family has been a huge protection and help to me in life, yet it led me through a spiritually barren wilderness before I stumbled across spiritual treasure - when I wasn't even looking for it!
I did my Family Tree a few years ago and this served to show me the spiritual journey of my forebears and how some of their decisions in the 1930s had this profound effect on me. The account is written in my book, How Fragile We Are (only available privately) but I will give a mini-sketch of it here to show how wonderful God is at getting families back on track, spiritually speaking.
My predecessors were virtually all members of the Church of Scotland though I had no way of knowing their personal spiritual standing because all my grandparents had died long before I was born. By the time I arrived, with my twin sister, our parents had left that denomination nearly 15 years earlier, and they hardly spoke of relatives or visited them. This, I was told as a youngster, was because we were Jehovah's Witnesses, a denomination that views all others as part of the Babylon the Great of Revelation, due for God's wrath. We accepted that people avoided us because we were ‘true Christians' and so were being persecuted - we never questioning this idea. Only when collating my Family Tree did I discovered that my maternal great-grandparents had been members of the Free Church of Scotland, being married in that church in 1876.
more>>Paul Horrocks
I was asked to write something about being a Christian but I have chosen not to write a testimony of how I became a believer in the Lord but instead I'm going to write about my experience as a Christian at University. First of all, however, I will give you a brief description of who I am.
My name is Paul Matthew Horrocks and I was born in the fantastic year of 1986 in the town of Dunfermline. Moved to Carronshore near Falkirk when I was about five and have spent most my life there.
Rob Proudlove
NOT THE PRODUCT OF UPBRINGING BUT A NEW BIRTH
My Story, Rob Proudlove
I was blessed to have a happy childhood and was brought up to go to Sunday School and looking back I can see many instances of God's goodness to me. A particular example was a friendship in my teens with a boy of different background from me socially, religiously, and politically-what debates we had! Among other things, my friend challenged me that my belief in God was nothing but a product of my upbringing, a sort of `brain-washing`. This charge led me to examine my beliefs and the teachings of the Bible. After much thought and reading I was for a time drawn to the liberal teachings of Bishop Robinson`s book "Honest to God" but as I tried to apply my beliefs to the big issues of life such as what career I should follow, my `faith` seemed to peter out and briefly I became a convinced atheist.
