Stranraer GO Team
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...
Book Reviews: VanDoodeward
Reformation Women, 16th Century Figures Who Shaped Christianity’s Rebirth Reformation Heritage Books, 2017 The Reformed church rightly holds to the Biblical teaching that a woman should not be in the pulpit. But we can...
Stranraer RPC: Ministering in Scotland Since 1796
RPCS | Scottish Presbytery | Stranraer (Wigtownshire, Scotland) Organised: 1796 Pastor: Stephen Steele, Ruling Elders: Gerald Milligan, James Fraser, & Peter Loughridge (interim elder) Members: 20 Communicant, 10 Baptized Revitalisation The oldest of the...
Stranraer RP Featured on BBC TV
A recent episode of the BBC NI TV programme ‘Hame’ was partly filmed in the Stranraer RP Church building. The programme also featured an interview with minister Rev Stephen Steele, and presenter Ruth Sanderson....
Book Reviews: Richard Sibbes
Rev. Stephen Steele is minister in Stranraer RPC in Scotland, a member of our Advisory Committee and a keen reader. We asked him to review his favourite book of 2021: I spent most of...
Stranraer Go Team
From 11th-18th September we hosted a 7-person GO Team who helped us with various outreach (and in-reach) activities, particularly advertising four talks on the subjects ‘Is there more to life than staying safe?’ and...
Scottish Presbytery Meeting
The Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland met on the 16th March. Rev. Tim Donachie completed his term as moderator, and he will be transferring his credentials to the Irish RP Church...
Historical Lecture: W Symington
The members of the Scottish Reformation Society in Lewis (Western Isles) hosted an instructive and inspiring lecture on Dr William Symington on Friday 19th February 2021. The speaker, Rev Stephen Steele (Stranraer RP Church), not...
Scottish Presbytery Meets
The Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland met online on the 3rd November. Besides the regular Presbytery business and financial updates, Mr Sylvester Konteh (student under care of Presbytery) took the next...
Hope for today from a past crisis
In 1836, a typhus epidemic hit Scotland. The minister in my own congregation in Stranraer at the time was William Symington. As both his unpublished diaries and a memoir written by his sons reveal,...
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