Leaders
Leader - Keith Short
Pastor
Barnton Baptist Church
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KEITH SHORT leads Barnton Baptist Church and is the Senior Leader of the Scottish Network Churches, with 26 years experience in full time leadership, working both in evangelism, church planting and leadership training. Before moving to Edinburgh, he was Senior Pastor at Bishopbriggs Community Church, Glasgow for 17 years, prior to that he was in leadership at Yeovil Community Church, Somerset for 8 years and until recently, he chaired the Executive and Council of the Evangelical Alliance in Scotland. Keith has a heart for unity and longs to see the church renewed and revived with many people turning to Christ in Scotland. He is married to Becky who is the Admissions Officer at the International Christian College in Glasgow. They have three grown up children and three grandchildren.Assistant Leader - Phil Arbon
Chairman of 2gether
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PHIL ARBON is the Leader of Scottish Network Churches and plays an increasing role in facilitating Network events and building up relationships within the Network. Phil has an itinerant bible teaching and equipping ministry and after nine years serving as Pastor of Olive Tree Christian Fellowship, in 2003 he embarked on this wider ministry which now takes him to England and also Rwanda. He is Chairman of 2gether (the Evangelical Alliance group in Paisley) and is also on the leadership team at CGC Paisley. Phil is married to Julie and they have two grown up children.Alistair MacIndoe
Leader
The Rock Community Church
ALISTAIR MACINDOE is a founding leader of the Rock Community Church, Dumbarton. He is currently pursuing a PhD on the ‘House Church’ movement at Edinburgh University and is also the facilitator of NETS (New Evangelical Theological Symposium).
Patricia MacIndoe
Elder
The Rock Community
Church
PATRICIA MACINDOE is an Elder of the Rock Community Church, Dumbarton. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art and a teacher, she has taught in Scottish prisons for a number of years, works as an independent artist, and is a co-Director of both the West of Scotland’s centre for patchwork & quilting – The Studio, and the nation’s annual May festival – the international ‘Loch Lomond Quilt Show’. Her heart and energy are for ‘orphans and widows’, she believes in ‘the comfort of cloth’.
Colin Symes
Team Leader
Community Church Edinburgh
COLIN SYMES is team leader at Community Church Edinburgh, meeting on the south side of the Scottish capital. He came to Edinburgh from Essex over thirty years ago, and has been involved in ministry in Scotland since the early eighties. He also has a heart for Europe, in particular for Slovakia, Poland and France, and has been involved with the Polish community in Edinburgh through joint Alpha and other initiatives. He also chairs the local churches together grouping. ‘My passion’ he says,’is for Jesus Christ to receive all He has paid for by His cross.’
Chic Lidstone
Leader
Gateway Community Church
CHIC LIDSTONE is currently leading Gateway Community Church in Perth. He passionately believes in the call of God on the Scottish Nation and is working to encourage the church to be Christ centred and relevant to our nation and culture.
Bill Nisbet
Leader
North Berwick Christian Fellowship
BILL NISBET is married to Sally and they have two grown up sons. After spending many years in a city church in Edinburgh, Bill and Sally established a home group in North Berwick which is now known as North Berwick Christian Fellowship - they moved to the town in 1997. Bill (helped by his core team) leads the Fellowship, teaches, leads worship and writes the occasional worship song.
Grant Campbell
Leader
Bishopbriggs Community Church
GRANT CAMPBELL is the Pastor and an Elder of Bishopbriggs Community Church and is responsible for pastoral care and oversees a project called "the Well" where the church seek to be a people who are involved with their communities locally, nationally and internationally to see the dreams of God come true on earth. Like a village well in a dry country, they seek to be a place of refreshing, where all are welcome and none excluded. Grant is formerly a software developer for a major international firm and has since graduated from International Christian College in Glasgow. Grant lives a stone's throw from the church building with his wife Alison and three young children. In his spare time he enjoys playing hockey.
Paul Ede
Leader
Urban Expression Possilpark
PAUL EDE lives in Possilpark, Glasgow with his wife Esther, with whom he co-leads a small church-planting team who have all moved to live in the community. He is particularly interested in the way that God seems to be increasingly calling charismatic Christians in western countries to take seriously God’s call to the poor in their own cities.
