Printed on 1 August 2025
3 minutes learn
Rev Ruth Kennedy, digital ministries adviser, writes about attending this yr’s Magnitude Pageant, a five-day annual Christian youth pageant at Scripture Union’s rural centre, Lendrick Muir, close to Kinross.
Gathering tons of of church youth teams from throughout Scotland, Magnitude retains the native Church at its core. Its imaginative and prescient is to see a technology of younger individuals captivated and reworked by encountering Jesus who go on to remodel their Church buildings, communities, nation and the world!
And from what we noticed in and from the Church of Scotland village this yr, Magnitude is rising and succeeding for God!
Our village had grown considerably from final yr with 110-120 campers supported by devoted group leaders and a village staff of 12, together with Religion Motion workers, Presbytery staff, Ministry Candidates, and volunteers. Collectively, we cared and catered for one another, rising in friendship and the issues of God.
Along with the primary gatherings had been: ‘wee prime’ gatherings – secure, relaxed worship for neurodivergent and quieter youth, seminars, sports activities, arts, Youth Alpha, prayer, campfire worship, ceilidh, silent disco, expertise present, karaoke, and a color run.
The significance of our youth ministry and people concerned can by no means be emphasised or honoured sufficient. Magnitude ran out of ‘welcome to religion’ packs there have been so many new Christians!
A particular thanks goes to those that offered night meals: St Mungo’s Alloa, St Michael’s Linlithgow, Religion Motion workers, Arbroath and District, and Dunfermline East – you received a particular place within the hearts of our youth.
Church buildings from Inverness Nitelife, Devana, Eyemouth, Dunfermline East, Drymen, Kirk on the Cross Motherwell, Lochside Union, St Michael’s Linlithgow, St Andrews Leckie Peebles, and Higher Annandale pitched up and witnessed our youth coming to and returning to religion, celebrating communion, and getting down to change the world with unity and love. We honoured those that inspired us by sharing their testimony on the twice-daily principal gatherings in entrance of round 1,500 individuals and served by washing the dishes!
Different Church buildings, together with Arbroath and District, Sandyhills, Martins Memorial, John Knox Stewarton, Kiltarlity and Kirkhill, and Holy Trinity Wester Hailes got here alongside to the Magnificent Sweet Bar to eat sweets but additionally to share their concepts in regards to the future nationwide youngsters, youth, and younger grownup improvement work.
We additionally welcomed buddies from Christian Help, Open Bible Podcast, Scottish Bible Society, Lectio 365, Boys Brigade Scotland, Open Doorways, and the great Rev Kenny Borthwick.
All of us within the village staff have been left impressed by how this technology is working after and with Jesus. Their tempo is quick. And they’re constructed for endurance. God is doing one thing explicit and we, throughout the Church and ages, are up and working with them!’
Sure, it was an unbelievable and full 5 days of religion!
Worship was wonderful
A number of the suggestions from younger individuals attending:
“Magnitude was nice. Worship was wonderful. The Church of Scotland had been wonderful; the leaders had been pretty and the meals was nice. All spherical, wonderful!”
“Magnitude was wonderful. I believe everybody was feeling like they had been connecting with God.”
A number of the suggestions from different attendees:
“Magnitude is superior – and for ministers, like myself, and leaders, it provides us the understanding and instruments we have to attain the younger individuals in our parishes.”
“That is our first yr and we introduced fairly an enormous group however could not handle catering too. The Church of Scotland village meant we may really come.”
Sarah Johnson, Mission Help Supervisor, Village Group, mentioned “Magnitude was a major week within the lives of 100s of younger individuals. I imagine that for a lot of will probably be formational. I do know from my very own expertise that such occasions, put aside for God, typically lead to non secular encounters that form religion and alter the route of lives.”
Subsequent yr’s Magnitude Pageant will run 18-22 July 2026. Electronic mail faithaction@churchofscotland.org.uk for extra data.
Printed on 1 August 2025
3 minutes learn
Rev Ruth Kennedy, digital ministries adviser, writes about attending this yr’s Magnitude Pageant, a five-day annual Christian youth pageant at Scripture Union’s rural centre, Lendrick Muir, close to Kinross.
Gathering tons of of church youth teams from throughout Scotland, Magnitude retains the native Church at its core. Its imaginative and prescient is to see a technology of younger individuals captivated and reworked by encountering Jesus who go on to remodel their Church buildings, communities, nation and the world!
And from what we noticed in and from the Church of Scotland village this yr, Magnitude is rising and succeeding for God!
Our village had grown considerably from final yr with 110-120 campers supported by devoted group leaders and a village staff of 12, together with Religion Motion workers, Presbytery staff, Ministry Candidates, and volunteers. Collectively, we cared and catered for one another, rising in friendship and the issues of God.
Along with the primary gatherings had been: ‘wee prime’ gatherings – secure, relaxed worship for neurodivergent and quieter youth, seminars, sports activities, arts, Youth Alpha, prayer, campfire worship, ceilidh, silent disco, expertise present, karaoke, and a color run.
The significance of our youth ministry and people concerned can by no means be emphasised or honoured sufficient. Magnitude ran out of ‘welcome to religion’ packs there have been so many new Christians!
A particular thanks goes to those that offered night meals: St Mungo’s Alloa, St Michael’s Linlithgow, Religion Motion workers, Arbroath and District, and Dunfermline East – you received a particular place within the hearts of our youth.
Church buildings from Inverness Nitelife, Devana, Eyemouth, Dunfermline East, Drymen, Kirk on the Cross Motherwell, Lochside Union, St Michael’s Linlithgow, St Andrews Leckie Peebles, and Higher Annandale pitched up and witnessed our youth coming to and returning to religion, celebrating communion, and getting down to change the world with unity and love. We honoured those that inspired us by sharing their testimony on the twice-daily principal gatherings in entrance of round 1,500 individuals and served by washing the dishes!
Different Church buildings, together with Arbroath and District, Sandyhills, Martins Memorial, John Knox Stewarton, Kiltarlity and Kirkhill, and Holy Trinity Wester Hailes got here alongside to the Magnificent Sweet Bar to eat sweets but additionally to share their concepts in regards to the future nationwide youngsters, youth, and younger grownup improvement work.
We additionally welcomed buddies from Christian Help, Open Bible Podcast, Scottish Bible Society, Lectio 365, Boys Brigade Scotland, Open Doorways, and the great Rev Kenny Borthwick.
All of us within the village staff have been left impressed by how this technology is working after and with Jesus. Their tempo is quick. And they’re constructed for endurance. God is doing one thing explicit and we, throughout the Church and ages, are up and working with them!’
Sure, it was an unbelievable and full 5 days of religion!
Worship was wonderful
A number of the suggestions from younger individuals attending:
“Magnitude was nice. Worship was wonderful. The Church of Scotland had been wonderful; the leaders had been pretty and the meals was nice. All spherical, wonderful!”
“Magnitude was wonderful. I believe everybody was feeling like they had been connecting with God.”
A number of the suggestions from different attendees:
“Magnitude is superior – and for ministers, like myself, and leaders, it provides us the understanding and instruments we have to attain the younger individuals in our parishes.”
“That is our first yr and we introduced fairly an enormous group however could not handle catering too. The Church of Scotland village meant we may really come.”
Sarah Johnson, Mission Help Supervisor, Village Group, mentioned “Magnitude was a major week within the lives of 100s of younger individuals. I imagine that for a lot of will probably be formational. I do know from my very own expertise that such occasions, put aside for God, typically lead to non secular encounters that form religion and alter the route of lives.”
Subsequent yr’s Magnitude Pageant will run 18-22 July 2026. Electronic mail faithaction@churchofscotland.org.uk for extra data.
Printed on 1 August 2025
3 minutes learn
Rev Ruth Kennedy, digital ministries adviser, writes about attending this yr’s Magnitude Pageant, a five-day annual Christian youth pageant at Scripture Union’s rural centre, Lendrick Muir, close to Kinross.
Gathering tons of of church youth teams from throughout Scotland, Magnitude retains the native Church at its core. Its imaginative and prescient is to see a technology of younger individuals captivated and reworked by encountering Jesus who go on to remodel their Church buildings, communities, nation and the world!
And from what we noticed in and from the Church of Scotland village this yr, Magnitude is rising and succeeding for God!
Our village had grown considerably from final yr with 110-120 campers supported by devoted group leaders and a village staff of 12, together with Religion Motion workers, Presbytery staff, Ministry Candidates, and volunteers. Collectively, we cared and catered for one another, rising in friendship and the issues of God.
Along with the primary gatherings had been: ‘wee prime’ gatherings – secure, relaxed worship for neurodivergent and quieter youth, seminars, sports activities, arts, Youth Alpha, prayer, campfire worship, ceilidh, silent disco, expertise present, karaoke, and a color run.
The significance of our youth ministry and people concerned can by no means be emphasised or honoured sufficient. Magnitude ran out of ‘welcome to religion’ packs there have been so many new Christians!
A particular thanks goes to those that offered night meals: St Mungo’s Alloa, St Michael’s Linlithgow, Religion Motion workers, Arbroath and District, and Dunfermline East – you received a particular place within the hearts of our youth.
Church buildings from Inverness Nitelife, Devana, Eyemouth, Dunfermline East, Drymen, Kirk on the Cross Motherwell, Lochside Union, St Michael’s Linlithgow, St Andrews Leckie Peebles, and Higher Annandale pitched up and witnessed our youth coming to and returning to religion, celebrating communion, and getting down to change the world with unity and love. We honoured those that inspired us by sharing their testimony on the twice-daily principal gatherings in entrance of round 1,500 individuals and served by washing the dishes!
Different Church buildings, together with Arbroath and District, Sandyhills, Martins Memorial, John Knox Stewarton, Kiltarlity and Kirkhill, and Holy Trinity Wester Hailes got here alongside to the Magnificent Sweet Bar to eat sweets but additionally to share their concepts in regards to the future nationwide youngsters, youth, and younger grownup improvement work.
We additionally welcomed buddies from Christian Help, Open Bible Podcast, Scottish Bible Society, Lectio 365, Boys Brigade Scotland, Open Doorways, and the great Rev Kenny Borthwick.
All of us within the village staff have been left impressed by how this technology is working after and with Jesus. Their tempo is quick. And they’re constructed for endurance. God is doing one thing explicit and we, throughout the Church and ages, are up and working with them!’
Sure, it was an unbelievable and full 5 days of religion!
Worship was wonderful
A number of the suggestions from younger individuals attending:
“Magnitude was nice. Worship was wonderful. The Church of Scotland had been wonderful; the leaders had been pretty and the meals was nice. All spherical, wonderful!”
“Magnitude was wonderful. I believe everybody was feeling like they had been connecting with God.”
A number of the suggestions from different attendees:
“Magnitude is superior – and for ministers, like myself, and leaders, it provides us the understanding and instruments we have to attain the younger individuals in our parishes.”
“That is our first yr and we introduced fairly an enormous group however could not handle catering too. The Church of Scotland village meant we may really come.”
Sarah Johnson, Mission Help Supervisor, Village Group, mentioned “Magnitude was a major week within the lives of 100s of younger individuals. I imagine that for a lot of will probably be formational. I do know from my very own expertise that such occasions, put aside for God, typically lead to non secular encounters that form religion and alter the route of lives.”
Subsequent yr’s Magnitude Pageant will run 18-22 July 2026. Electronic mail faithaction@churchofscotland.org.uk for extra data.
Printed on 1 August 2025
3 minutes learn
Rev Ruth Kennedy, digital ministries adviser, writes about attending this yr’s Magnitude Pageant, a five-day annual Christian youth pageant at Scripture Union’s rural centre, Lendrick Muir, close to Kinross.
Gathering tons of of church youth teams from throughout Scotland, Magnitude retains the native Church at its core. Its imaginative and prescient is to see a technology of younger individuals captivated and reworked by encountering Jesus who go on to remodel their Church buildings, communities, nation and the world!
And from what we noticed in and from the Church of Scotland village this yr, Magnitude is rising and succeeding for God!
Our village had grown considerably from final yr with 110-120 campers supported by devoted group leaders and a village staff of 12, together with Religion Motion workers, Presbytery staff, Ministry Candidates, and volunteers. Collectively, we cared and catered for one another, rising in friendship and the issues of God.
Along with the primary gatherings had been: ‘wee prime’ gatherings – secure, relaxed worship for neurodivergent and quieter youth, seminars, sports activities, arts, Youth Alpha, prayer, campfire worship, ceilidh, silent disco, expertise present, karaoke, and a color run.
The significance of our youth ministry and people concerned can by no means be emphasised or honoured sufficient. Magnitude ran out of ‘welcome to religion’ packs there have been so many new Christians!
A particular thanks goes to those that offered night meals: St Mungo’s Alloa, St Michael’s Linlithgow, Religion Motion workers, Arbroath and District, and Dunfermline East – you received a particular place within the hearts of our youth.
Church buildings from Inverness Nitelife, Devana, Eyemouth, Dunfermline East, Drymen, Kirk on the Cross Motherwell, Lochside Union, St Michael’s Linlithgow, St Andrews Leckie Peebles, and Higher Annandale pitched up and witnessed our youth coming to and returning to religion, celebrating communion, and getting down to change the world with unity and love. We honoured those that inspired us by sharing their testimony on the twice-daily principal gatherings in entrance of round 1,500 individuals and served by washing the dishes!
Different Church buildings, together with Arbroath and District, Sandyhills, Martins Memorial, John Knox Stewarton, Kiltarlity and Kirkhill, and Holy Trinity Wester Hailes got here alongside to the Magnificent Sweet Bar to eat sweets but additionally to share their concepts in regards to the future nationwide youngsters, youth, and younger grownup improvement work.
We additionally welcomed buddies from Christian Help, Open Bible Podcast, Scottish Bible Society, Lectio 365, Boys Brigade Scotland, Open Doorways, and the great Rev Kenny Borthwick.
All of us within the village staff have been left impressed by how this technology is working after and with Jesus. Their tempo is quick. And they’re constructed for endurance. God is doing one thing explicit and we, throughout the Church and ages, are up and working with them!’
Sure, it was an unbelievable and full 5 days of religion!
Worship was wonderful
A number of the suggestions from younger individuals attending:
“Magnitude was nice. Worship was wonderful. The Church of Scotland had been wonderful; the leaders had been pretty and the meals was nice. All spherical, wonderful!”
“Magnitude was wonderful. I believe everybody was feeling like they had been connecting with God.”
A number of the suggestions from different attendees:
“Magnitude is superior – and for ministers, like myself, and leaders, it provides us the understanding and instruments we have to attain the younger individuals in our parishes.”
“That is our first yr and we introduced fairly an enormous group however could not handle catering too. The Church of Scotland village meant we may really come.”
Sarah Johnson, Mission Help Supervisor, Village Group, mentioned “Magnitude was a major week within the lives of 100s of younger individuals. I imagine that for a lot of will probably be formational. I do know from my very own expertise that such occasions, put aside for God, typically lead to non secular encounters that form religion and alter the route of lives.”
Subsequent yr’s Magnitude Pageant will run 18-22 July 2026. Electronic mail faithaction@churchofscotland.org.uk for extra data.
