Who we are and why this school exists

Project Scotland is a church-planting movement and a hub for mission and training across Scotland. Our vision is to see the transformation of Scotland by the power of the living God. The way we go about it is simple to say and slow to do: fulfilling the Great Commission by living out the Great Commandment. People are reached as they are loved. The Story School is part of The Story churches network, and its aim is to serve our churches and partners.

Isaiah 43:19 opens, "See, I am doing a new thing!" (NIV), and goes on to promise a way through the wilderness and water in the desert. Isaiah 58 describes the fast God actually wants, and then says that such a people "will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail" (Isaiah 58:11, NIV), and that they will rebuild what has lain in ruins for generations and be called repairers of broken walls. Those two passages are what we are asking God for in Scotland, and they are why a training school exists at all: ruins are rebuilt by people, and people have to be taught.

Glasgow Story Church is our first plant. It was founded in 2023 and meets in Parkhead, Glasgow. Its own words put it best: God is writing His story in Glasgow. We believe He wants you to be part of it! It is an evangelical church with Wesleyan influence, and its mission is to love God, love people and make disciples. Alongside it, The Story Coffee is a connection point with the local community — a safe space to belong, even before you believe. That sentence is also the reason the first course in this school is called Belong.

Planting churches is not only about gathering people. It is about teaching them. A movement can only go as far as its people have been discipled, and discipleship does not happen by accident or by osmosis. So we wrote down what we would want every person in every one of our churches to have been taught, put it in the order grace actually works, and made it free. A leader in a new plant with no staff and no budget can hand someone three courses and a kitchen table, and that is enough to start.