Nairn Free Church Scotland
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About The Nairn Free Church Rev Bill Evans and his family arrived in Nairn March 2004 to begin their ministry. Bill is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in America and is working with Mission to the World, the mission sending agency of the PCA and the Free Church of Scotland in church redevelopment. His ministry in Nairn is supported by the Smithton Culloden Free Church as well as Free Church Presbytery of Inverness, Lochaber and Ross. Bill is married to Dana and they have 3 children: Madison, Slaton and Lily.
 
Kathleen McCallen Kathleen McCallen, an MTW intern from Memphis, Tennessee, joined Bill and Dana In February 2006 to serve as the children's and youth worker in Nairn.

Who We Are
The Nairn Free Church is a local church of the Free Church of Scotland. Our form of church government and leadership is “Presbyterian" which means we are led by elders and deacons, both elected by the congregation. The elders oversee the spiritual needs and ministries of the church. The deacons care for the physical needs of the church, including ministries of mercy, the care and maintenance of properties and financial matters.

We are a confessional church committed to the truths of the Reformation, simply stated: salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ Jesus alone. We subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the catechisms as containing the doctrines taught in Holy Scripture. We strive to be faithful to the scriptures, which we believe alone holds God’s very words of eternal life.

As a Christ centered church we are committed to personal growth in grace and holiness, loving one another well and the modeling Jesus Christ to the world around us.

As a great commission church our primary mission is to obey Christ’s command to take the gospel to our community, our nation and our world through evangelical preaching, teaching, personal witness and outreach.

What We Believe
We believe the Bible is the written word of God, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God’s truth and will for humankind and is infallible and authoritative in all it teaches. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments is a complete and unified witness to God's redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible is the supreme and final authority on all matters of faith and practice, and as such requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. On this sure foundation we affirm that:

  1. We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory and praise forever!

  2. Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Jesus is fully God and fully man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High where He now is our High Priest and Mediator.

  3. The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior. Indwelling our hearts, He gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.

  4. Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God's free grace. God credits His righteousness to all who put their faith in Jesus Christ alone for their salvation. All who receive Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, receiving and resting on His finished work at Calvary alone, are born of the Holy Spirit, and become children of God and heirs of eternal life.

  5. The true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity; where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she awaits the return of her Lord.

  6. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth—personally, visibly, and bodily—to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.

  7. The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service to which we strive to be faithful.