Welcome to the pages of the Scottish United Reformed & Congregational College.
The College offers a range of learning opportunities and the 2010-11 education programme offered by the College on behalf of the Synod has now been published and can be downloaded in booklet or single-page formats. If you’d like a printed copy of your own then contact Christine on 0141 332 7667 or at 
The College’s core purpose is educating people for ministry in the United Reformed and Congregationalist traditions. Ordinands are admitted only on the recommendation of their denomination and the college levies appropriate fees for this work.
Through a reciprocal agreement with the United Reformed Church Synod of Scotland, the College provides a broader programme to support learning of the whole people of God for their ministry in the church and the world.
The College has specialist interest in story, storytelling and narrative approaches in worship, education, pastoral care, community work and the development of churches and other organisations adult learning approaches, methods and theory philosophical inquiry as a means of exploring the big questions appreciative inquiry and other tools for helping organisations to build on their success and develop their life ministry with older people Christianity and engagement in civic society community education.
More information about the College is available from its dedicated website at http://www.scottishcollege.org.uk/
I’ve been given a flyer about your course “Dementia and Spiritual Care” but can’t find any info on this site as suggested.
Can you please tell me how I find out more about this.
Thanks
Hi Laura – one of the events in the 2010-11 College programme is also about dementia. It’s entitled “Joy in the moment – Ministry with people with dementia”. This residential course is due to take place on 17-19 May 2011 at the Gillis Centre in Edinburgh and will be led by Rev Fran Ruthven, the College’s associate tutor and minister with special responsibility for older people at Morningside United Church, in Edinburgh. Details about the course are available here in the 2010-11 College programme and from Chirstine Paterson, the College administrator, by calling her on 0141 332 7667 or emailing her at
My ancestor, Rev. Peter Peterson, I am led to believe was a Congregational Minister, in Walls, Shetland Islands in 1811, and died in Edinburgh in the 1870′s. Where can I go to get information about him, the parishes where he worked, and is there an Obituary for him anywhere please? Thanks for any help you can give.
Yours sincerely,
Susan Guthrie in New Zealand
Susan Guthrie The Scottish Congregational Ministry 1794 to 1993 by Mcnaughton contains the details of Rev.Petersen’s Scottish ministry.
Hope that is of some help.