Helmsdale Free Church are running a Kids club for primary school kids on Feb 26th. Spread the word!  Craft, games and snacks!...  Read More

Helmsdale Free Church are running a cafe every Tuesday between the hrs of 10am -12pm. There will be free tea, coffee and cakes.  There are also toys for younger ones. Everyone is welcome!...  Read More

A wonderful evening together celebrating 30 years of Ministry in Castletown - praising God for Howard & Christine and their faithful service to the County over the past 3 decades. Wonderful singing and fellowship too!Thank you to everyone who came out, it was a delight to share in the celebration with so many old and new friends. Thank you to everyone who helped with baking, setting up and clearin...  Read More

Prayer has been said to be the heartbeat of the Christian life. Prayer is not easy! So don’t be disheartened if you find it so. Since prayer is such a central part of the Christian life we have the World, the flesh and the devil pulling against us. To find prayer hard at times is to be a sinner like the rest of us!Prayer is not just another thing “we do” as Christians, another activity to tick off...  Read More

The concept of love languages was first introduced by Gary Chapman, a relationship counselor, and author. He proposed that there are five love languages, which are: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. According to Chapman, each person has a primary love language, and understanding and speaking that language can greatly improve the quality of ou...  Read More

How do Christians grow? Simply put, we cannot grow by ourselves! There is much that we must do if we are to grow to maturity and bear fruit, but left to ourselves we cannot bring about the growth God desires. That is why we must as Jesus says "remain in the vine" Branches that are disconnected from the vine will never bear fruit. A helpful illustration is one of farming. Farmers go out to sow seed...  Read More

Divine InterruptionsOn Sunday 5th February we launched a new series called "Love" at our Capstone outreach. As he preached through the parable of the Good Samaritan, Rev Iain highlighted that the priest who passed the man by, probably had many seeming legitimate reasons  not to stop, perhaps he had a long journey ahead and needed to make it home before dark, perhaps he had pressing responsibilitie...  Read More

NP Connect  will be based at Capstone Christian Centre having signed a license to occupy on 1 Feb. We will be opening the Capstone Cafe soon but will also continue our drop in which has proved popular over the winter months. The Capstone outreach service is at 11.00 on Sundays....  Read More

I want to simply share a challenge I read recently that resonated with me. Are we enjoying God? It is such a great question and goes beyond - do we BELIEVE, but do we ENJOY God? The Shorter Catechism famously describes the chief purpose of our lives being to glorify God and enjoy him forever. John Piper famously changed that to glorify God BY enjoying him forever so important did he think it was.D...  Read More

Zechariah Chapter 4 has lots to teach us about small beginnings. In 539BC and in fulfilment of Isiah’s prophecy, Cyrus King of Persia took control of Babylon and encouraged God's people to go back to their homeland, the work of rebuilding the temple had already begun with Zerubbabel, The foundations of the temple had been laid, but the work had come to a standstill. People could already see that t...  Read More

Stephanie Staples will be returning to the Capstone Christian Centre Alness for an evening of testimony and Music on March 10th at 7:00pmAbout StephanieNashville-based international singer-songwriter Stephanie Staples has ministered and performed around the world for over two decades, taking her passionate and contemplative music to a variety of venues in the USA, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Co...  Read More

On Sunday 22nd at our Capstone gatherings, we continued our series "Begin Again" with a particular focus on the topic of "Second Chances" But in reality, the Good news of the Gospel is so much better than a "second chance"   Read More

“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. (John 4:21)On Sunday we learned of a Samaritan Woman who encountered Jesus. What followed was a conversation on true worship.Imagine getting ready to exercise and then realising the gym is closed. Do you just skip exercising altogether that day? Well if you are like me ...  Read More

Dornoch Free Church are hosting a drop in every Thursday from noon to 3pm. All are welcome to warm up with a bowl of soup...  Read More

The Bible teaches that "God is love," But what does that mean?According to the Oxford dictionary the noun “essence” usually refers to the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character. We might say that The essence of God is love. In his book The dawning of Indestructible Joy, John Piper says, “The same writer of John 3:16 say...  Read More

In the first sermon of our series "Begin again" we considered how repentance is not only a one time act but a way of life. Genuine repentance is the fruit of faith and prayer and love for God. Luther said that all of the Christian life should be marked by repentance.“The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.”- said Martin LutherWe remember that without the Holy Spirit first convicting ...  Read More

When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. (Luke 2:17-18)On Christmas day we heard about the host of Angels who announced to the Shepherds the birth of the Messiah. Have you noticed what people post on Facebook when they want to let the world know that something significan...  Read More

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On Sunday 4th of December, NP Connect hosted a series of Christmas outreach gatherings at the Capstone Centre Alness in an effort to plant a new Community Church among the unreached in the area. The plant's core group continues to meet weekly for prayer and fellowship and the Sunday gatherings are already showing signs of growth.  Please pray for this vital work among the unreached as we look towa...  Read More

A number of our churches in the Northern Presbytery will be holding Chrsitmas Carol services this year...  Read More

Last night the congregation of Thurso and North Coast Free Church met with the members of the Northern Presbytery to sign a call to the Rev. Jerry Taylor to be our minister. We are delighted that he has accepted the call, and we look forward to Jerry, June and the family joining us soon. We are grateful to God for guiding us and the Taylor family in the way forward, and we pray for them as they pr...  Read More

NP Connect have launched two new podcasts. The first is called "NP Sermons" and features messages preached from our church plant gatherings. The second,  "NP Renew", features weekly discussions on themes taken from our gatherings. Both Podcasts can be found in the recourses section of our website, our app (in development) and from wherever you get your podcasts from....  Read More

NP 500 Featured on BBC News!Good coverage on BBC An Làhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00drynf/an-laOne of the initiatives is the NP500 programme in the Northern Presbytery led by Iain MacAskill. The aim is to have 500 new people attending churches within the presbytery area (north Ross-shire, Caithness & Sutherland) in the next five years.We can work at our planting and watering skills, we...  Read More

On June19th Rev Iain MacAskill preached open air at the burn service.   You can watch the whole service here:  Read More