Our West Coast Ministry

Church Planting + The Open Heaven Network + Helping Ministry Happen

Alan & Tricia Smillie along with their two children  were sent by Global Outreach Mission to Scotland in August 2013. 

They began their work with a calling to help begin a new Church in Arisaig/Mallaig that was loving, hopeful, contemporary and based on building community. 

1/ In December 2014 Lighthouse Church began and we are actively involved in coming alongside to help out with God's new generation of pioneers.

2/ In November 2014 the Open Heaven Network began at a service in Oban Baptist Church. By the third monthly meeting in February 2015 people attended from Mallaig in the North to Campbeltown in the South.

Over the course of the last four years we have seen six separate areas organize their own centres with hundreds attending the meetings.

Our  intent for the meetings is that "We want to see people restored, churches revived and communities renewed. Open Heaven is a gathering of those who want to worship, listen to God together and be directed by the Holy Spirit to live out Christ in our world."

3/ We make ourselves available as resources in the Christian world to help ministry become a reality.  We are flexible enough to keep our eyes on the Father and join Him where He is working.

We:

Teach on developing 'Relational Ministry' through a course on 1 Thessalonians.

Participate or facilitate Church projects that have a focus beyond Church Walls.

Connect intentionally with leaders to mutually encourage and share vision on what kind of leadership will be effective in the West Coast.