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Dalkeith Baptist Church

Our hope and aim is to be a worshipping church that is growing spiritually, caring for one another throughout the community, and reaching out to encourage the world around us with what the Bible tells us about Jesus.

Our times of meeting together are wide-ranging in style and character, which reflects something of the unity and diversity of our church family.  

History

The earliest record of a Baptist Church in Dalkeith was a fellowship founded around 1820. According to the Baptist Union of Scotland, on 14th March 1852 a new church was born.
The church is believed to have met in the Old Tollbooth opposite St Nicholas Parish Church in the High Street before it moved into a new building on London Road in 1871. The fellowship Joined the Baptist Union of Scotland in 1884. In the early 1900’s, instrumental music was first introduced to a Sunday service in the form of an organ.

In 1972 Midlothian county council prepared road proposals for the centre of Dalkeith which would have meant the compulsory purchase of the church and its surroundings. Moves were started to seek a new suitable site. A new home was found in North Wynd, then known as relief place home to the former relief place church.

The new church building was opened and dedicated in April 1981. During this period new ministries started up including toddlers, girls brigade, senior citizens and big focus on Sunday school with over 150 children regularly attending each week. In 1994 the music ministry was changed considerably with the introduction of a praise band to help lead worship.

Staff

Jeremy and his wife, Karen

Pastor

My name is Jeremy Shaw, and I am the pastor here at Dalkeith Baptist Church in Midlothian. I was inducted as pastor back in June of 2009.

I grew up in Essex, and I am married to Karen. We have two grown up children and five grandchildren.

It’s a real joy for me to serve God in the local church, to which I am committed. I hope that I can have the joy also of welcoming you among us at some future time. You can be assured of a very warm welcome!

Deacons

Donald Cameron – Church Secretary

David Campbell

Mark Lauchlan

George Murrie

Jill Playdon

Leonard Rogers – Church Treasurer

Michael Todd

Bill Winning

Margaret Winning

Safeguarding Team

Donald Cameron – Safeguarding Trustee

Sarah Currie – Safeguarding Officer

Catherine Clark – Deputy Safeguarding Officer

Here’s a link to our Safeguarding policy

Baptist Principles

1. Jesus Christ is God

2. Authority of the Bible

3. Believers Baptism

4. Church is a gathered community

5. Liberty

Mission Statement

To glorify God by being, in fulfillment of the Great Commission of Jesus Christ, a worshiping community which is involved in:

  1. Ministering to human needs
  2. Evangelising non-believers
  3. Making disciples of those who believe in Jesus Christ

Dalkeith

Dalkeith is situated in Midlothian, by the city of Edinburgh, with the Pentland hills to the south-west and the Firth of Forth estuary to the north.

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