Neil Urquhart meets with well known author Steve Aisthorp. Steve is a former Mission worker in Nepal, and most recently longtime Church of Scotland pioneer mission development worker. Realising he had become cautious and comfortable, Steve left

Wild Encounters: Stables II (Bonus Episode)

18 days ago

“Let’s pick up our wheelbarrow and our fork and go into the stables and muck out…”Laura Digan invites us back to the stables to muck out as she reflects once again on Wild Jesus! Wild Encounters!What can the digging of dogs, the singi

Wild Encounters: The Stables

19 days ago

“As we walk up to the field let us just breathe and take in the scenes around us…”Laura Digan invites us to the stables as she reflects on Wild Jesus! Wild Encounters!What can the digging of dogs, the singing of birds and the munching

Emerging Emmaus - Community Worship

19 days ago

Together, Neil Urquhart and Jo Black meet with Worship Coordinator Jo Love & Community Development Worker Catriona Milligan from Gorbals Parish Church, who share on the synergies of Spirit, souls, teams, and Jesus’ Love. It’s raw, real, relevan

Wild Encounters: Birdsong

20 days ago

“Watching birds and listening to them runs deep, because we’ve always done it…”James invites us to the garden as he reflects on Wild Jesus! He reflects on why we are drawn to the sounds of birds singing and what they can tell us… Wild E

Wild Encounters: Dog Walk

21 days ago

“The dogs are sniffing, sniffing about the hedgerows, they’ve got the smell of something…”Laura Digan invites us on a dog walk as she reflects on Wild Jesus! As the dogs bound about she is inspired by their antics to ask us thought provoking

Emerging Emmaus - Youth Ministry for the Whole Church

Apr 17th, 2024

Together, Neil Urquhart and Jo Black meet with Joel Nicholas, Youth Minister from Gorebridge Parish Church about the fruit of their long term intentional investment in young people and the ways they are seeking to equip and train new youth past

Time of the Month - A Small Woman with a Big Faith

Apr 13th, 2024

Laura and Linda are back with a new season of podcasts. This second episode explores the life of Gladys Aylward, who overcame many obstacles to be a missionary in China.Gladys Aylward was a determined woman. Once she felt the call to the miss

Emerging Emmaus - Conflict & Reconciliation

Apr 3rd, 2024

Together, Neil Urquhart, Ruth Kennedy and Verene Nicolas discuss the use of non violent communication in the process of conflict and reconciliation within the Church.Join us as we discover, faith hope and stories of grief in the Church of Sco

Five Tastes of Holy Week: Episode 5 Salt

Mar 30th, 2024

Episode 5: Salt“This can’t be the end. I thought there was more to it. We all thought there was more to it. He can’t have died for nothing. I thought there was more to it. More to Jesus. I’m going to make soup.”This Holy Satur

Five Tastes of Holy Week: Episode 4 Umami

Mar 29th, 2024

Episode 4: Umami“Agnus Dei.Your body broken for usYour blood shed for usPauseYour body broken for meYour blood shed for me”On this Good Friday Laura and James take us to the foot of the cross to contemplate the unstoppable lov

Five Tastes of Holy Week: Episode 3 Sour

Mar 28th, 2024

Episode 3: Sour“Sour, stale bodies make preparations,hands shaking, hands questioning if this will be the last timethe last time we’re all togetheracidic words are exchangedwords that bitethere is excitement and uneasefaith an

Five Tastes of Holy Week: Episode 2 Sweet

Mar 27th, 2024

Episode 2: Sweet“Breathe in the sweetness, in and out, in and out. Gaze upon his faceBreath in his love…”Listen as Laura takes us to Bethany and writes in the second person to immerse us in the story of Jesus’s anointing with sweet

Five Tastes of Holy Week: Episode 1 Bitter

Mar 26th, 2024

Episode 1: Bitter“A small palmful of these bitter leaves are picked for Thursdayfor the meal that will become the last supperthey are sought out of this dense overgrown gardenwhile outside even nowthere are voices clamouring f

Emerging Emmaus - Community Church

Mar 20th, 2024

This week on the Emerging Emmaus Podcast we spoke to Anne Stott who is the community minister at Bertha Park in Perth. Watch the new episode live on Wednesday at 7pm, catch previous episodes on Sanctuary First, Spotify and Apple PodcastsDow

Time of the Month - The Woman at the Well

Mar 9th, 2024

Laura and Linda are back with a new season of podcasts. This first episode explores the unnamed Samaritan woman that Jesus met in John chapter 4. The Woman at the Well.She is never named, yet her encounter with Jesus is the longest between th

Emerging Emmaus - Church Without Walls

Mar 6th, 2024

This week on the Emerging Emmaus Podcast we spoke to Peter Neilson about Church Without Walls and where we are at now within the Church of Scotland.Watch the new episode live on Wednesday at 7pm, catch previous episodes on Sanctuary First, Sp

Creation & The Creator - Episode Two

Feb 29th, 2024

Introducing Creation and The Creator!Sanctuary First’s Green Christian NetworkLaura Digan and Laura Miller continue our Green Chistian Network series with Episode Two of our Creation & The Creator podcast. This time we are talking all

Emerging Emmaus - Right Place, Right Time

Feb 21st, 2024

This week on the Emerging Emmaus Podcast we spoke to Barry Hughes about Divine Interventions and being in the right place at the right time.Watch the new episode live on Wednesday at 7pm, catch previous episodes on Sanctuary First, Spotify an

Emerging Emmaus - Working Together

Jan 17th, 2024

This time we are speaking to Rev William Boyle all about the community that has grown out of Port Glasgow New Parish Church, and how working together can help us to build better communities where all can bring there gifts of the spirit to the t

Advent Labyrinth

Dec 1st, 2023

This Labyrinth has been designed to encourage you to make a journey to follow the star like the wise men of old to find the child in the manger who is the Saviour of the world. Make this journey with Mary and Joseph, with the shepherds, with al

Creation & The Creator - Episode One

Nov 21st, 2023

Introducing Creation and The Creator!Sanctuary First’s Green Christian NetworkLaura Digan and Laura Miller dive into the first Episode of our Creation & The Creator podcast series talking all about Harvesting the crops from summer ahea

Emerging Emmaus - Mission & Change

Nov 8th, 2023

What do we need to do to effect real change in the church and in our communities? This time Neil and Ruth are speaking with Rev Dr Liam Fraser all about ‘Mission & Change’ in the church, and his new book ‘Mission In Contemporary Scotland’.Tog

Emerging Emmaus - Growing Young

Oct 18th, 2023

How do we build the next generation of Christians in our communities? Neil and Ruth are speaking with Graham Duffin and Sheila Notman all about the Growing Young program and how their churches have unleashed a passion of young people in their c

Emerging Emmaus - Rebuilding From The Ground Up

Oct 5th, 2023

Ruth, Neil and Steve explore the story of a church’s lowest point and how it gathered its community around it to rebuild from the ground up!Together, Neil Urquhart, Ruth Kennedy and Steve Aisthorpe explore the stories of struggle and persever