16 Sep 2026, 10:18Scotland, United Kingdom
OneVoice27 Finds Its Voice Across Scotland
From prayer in local churches to music, community health and big questions on the airwaves, the launch of OneVoice27 is encouraging churches and members across Scotland to explore the many ways they can share Jesus.
As the global OneVoice27 initiative launched across the Seventh-day Adventist Church on 5 September, congregations throughout the Scottish Mission began the journey in the place where mission must always begin – prayer.
Churches across Scotland used the launch period to seek God’s leading as they looked ahead to the next twelve months of outreach, discipleship and evangelism. Rather than approaching OneVoice27 as simply another programme or campaign, the emphasis was on spiritual preparation and considering how each local church could become more intentional in sharing the hope of Jesus within its community.
Dedicated periods of prayer formed part of Sabbath worship services across the Scottish Mission. Members prayed for spiritual renewal, their local communities, people searching for hope and meaning, and wisdom as churches began considering the outreach activities they might undertake during the coming year.
In several churches, the Scottish Mission’s OneVoice27 launch video was also screened, with some congregations showing it over two consecutive Sabbaths to help members become familiar with the vision and encourage wider participation.
Set against a distinctly Scottish backdrop, the video introduced the four central themes of OneVoice27 – Pray Like Jesus, Serve Like Jesus, Share Jesus and Follow Jesus – and invited every church member to recognise that they have a part to play in mission.
The message was deliberately simple: mission is not limited to pastors, evangelists or church leaders. Prayer, personal testimony, compassionate service, friendship, music, health ministry, digital communication and everyday conversations can all become opportunities to share Christ.
The launch marked the beginning of a twelve-month journey and an invitation for churches to consider afresh what mission might look like in the communities where God has placed them.
One Mission Many Expressions
On the same Sabbath as the OneVoice27 launch, different expressions of mission could already be seen across Scotland.
In Edinburgh, the Glasgow Adventist Gospel Choir shared faith through music at St Giles’ Cathedral, one of Scotland’s most historic landmarks and a destination of around 1.5 million visitors each year.
In Kirkcaldy, the local Adventist group connected with families in the community through a Health Expo, offering free basic health checks, practical activities and healthy refreshments, while creating opportunities for conversations and relationships to continue beyond the event.
And in Moray, the Scottish Mission Personal Ministries Department took mission onto the airwaves, using radio to engage listeners with questions about God, faith and Christianity through its Big Questions Project.
Music, health ministry, media, prayer and personal conversations may look very different, but together they illustrate something at the heart of OneVoice27: there is no single way to take part in mission.
Every church has its own community, opportunities, gifts and people. OneVoice27 invites churches and members to prayerfully consider how those gifts can be used to serve others, build relationships and make Jesus known.
Taking the Conversation to the Airwaves
As part of the Personal Ministries Department’s Big Questions Project, Pastor Wil Masih presented a special programme on KCR 107.7 FM in Moray, introducing listeners to Christian apologetics and exploring some of the questions frequently raised about Christianity in an increasingly secular society.
With OneVoice27 encouraging churches to make greater use of media and digital platforms for evangelism, radio provided a natural opportunity to engage not only with listeners across the region but also with those tuning in online from further afield.
Rather than assuming that listeners already shared a Christian worldview, the programme began with the questions themselves.
Does belief in God still make sense in a scientific age? Why is there something rather than nothing? Has science made God unnecessary? If God is loving and powerful, why is there so much suffering and injustice? Where do our convictions about right and wrong come from? And what should we make of the historical person of Jesus Christ?
The programme also considered some of the philosophical questions faced by atheistic and secular worldviews, including questions around meaning, morality, consciousness and human dignity.
The purpose was not to dismiss alternative viewpoints or suggest that Christianity provides simple answers to every difficult question. Instead, listeners were encouraged to think carefully, examine different possibilities with an open mind and reach their own conclusions.
Christian apologetics was presented not as “apologising” for Christian belief, but as offering a reasoned explanation and defence of faith – creating space for honest questions and demonstrating that Christian belief and intellectual enquiry need not be mutually exclusive.
Importantly, the conversation did not have to end when the programme finished. Listeners were invited to submit their own questions about God, faith and Christianity by email, opening the door for further dialogue with those who may be searching, questioning or simply curious.
Radio offers a particularly useful space for this kind of engagement. Listeners can encounter Christian ideas without first entering a church building; they are free to listen, question, agree, disagree and reflect.
That approach sits naturally within the vision of OneVoice27. Sharing Jesus does not always begin with preaching. Sometimes it begins with a conversation, with listening, with taking a difficult question seriously – or simply creating enough space for someone to wonder whether there might be more to life than they had previously considered.
Listen to the full ‘Revving Up with Wil Masih’ programme here.
Prayer, Preparation and Mission
The Scottish Mission’s launch of OneVoice27 began in several different places, but with a shared purpose.
Inside churches, members gathered in prayer, asking God to renew His people and guide their plans for mission.
At St Giles’ Cathedral, faith was shared through music. In Kirkcaldy, relationships were built through practical care for the community. In Moray, conversations about faith reached the airwaves.
Different places. Different approaches. One mission.
Over the coming months, OneVoice27 will encourage churches and members across Scotland to pray more intentionally, serve their communities, share their faith and help others take further steps towards following Jesus.
The challenge is not simply to organise more activity, but to become increasingly attentive to where God is already working – in churches, neighbourhoods, workplaces, friendships and everyday conversations – and to consider how the gifts, opportunities and platforms available to us can be used for mission.
OneVoice27 has begun. Across the Scottish Mission, the invitation is for every church and every member to discover how their own voice can become part of the shared mission of making Jesus known.
One faith. One mission. One voice.
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From prayer in local churches to music, community health and big questions on the airwaves, the launch of OneVoice27 is encouraging churches and members across Scotland to explore the many ways they can share Jesus.
As the global OneVoice27 initiative launched across the Seventh-day Adventist Church on 5 September, congregations throughout the Scottish Mission began the journey in the place where mission must always begin – prayer.
Churches across Scotland used the launch period to seek God’s leading as they looked ahead to the next twelve months of outreach, discipleship and evangelism. Rather than approaching OneVoice27 as simply another programme or campaign, the emphasis was on spiritual preparation and considering how each local church could become more intentional in sharing the hope of Jesus within its community.
Dedicated periods of prayer formed part of Sabbath worship services across the Scottish Mission. Members prayed for spiritual renewal, their local communities, people searching for hope and meaning, and wisdom as churches began considering the outreach activities they might undertake during the coming year.
In several churches, the Scottish Mission’s OneVoice27 launch video was also screened, with some congregations showing it over two consecutive Sabbaths to help members become familiar with the vision and encourage wider participation.
Set against a distinctly Scottish backdrop, the video introduced the four central themes of OneVoice27 – Pray Like Jesus, Serve Like Jesus, Share Jesus and Follow Jesus – and invited every church member to recognise that they have a part to play in mission.
The message was deliberately simple: mission is not limited to pastors, evangelists or church leaders. Prayer, personal testimony, compassionate service, friendship, music, health ministry, digital communication and everyday conversations can all become opportunities to share Christ.
The launch marked the beginning of a twelve-month journey and an invitation for churches to consider afresh what mission might look like in the communities where God has placed them.
One Mission Many Expressions
On the same Sabbath as the OneVoice27 launch, different expressions of mission could already be seen across Scotland.
In Edinburgh, the Glasgow Adventist Gospel Choir shared faith through music at St Giles’ Cathedral, one of Scotland’s most historic landmarks and a destination of around 1.5 million visitors each year.
In Kirkcaldy, the local Adventist group connected with families in the community through a Health Expo, offering free basic health checks, practical activities and healthy refreshments, while creating opportunities for conversations and relationships to continue beyond the event.
And in Moray, the Scottish Mission Personal Ministries Department took mission onto the airwaves, using radio to engage listeners with questions about God, faith and Christianity through its Big Questions Project.
Music, health ministry, media, prayer and personal conversations may look very different, but together they illustrate something at the heart of OneVoice27: there is no single way to take part in mission.
Every church has its own community, opportunities, gifts and people. OneVoice27 invites churches and members to prayerfully consider how those gifts can be used to serve others, build relationships and make Jesus known.
Taking the Conversation to the Airwaves
As part of the Personal Ministries Department’s Big Questions Project, Pastor Wil Masih presented a special programme on KCR 107.7 FM in Moray, introducing listeners to Christian apologetics and exploring some of the questions frequently raised about Christianity in an increasingly secular society.
With OneVoice27 encouraging churches to make greater use of media and digital platforms for evangelism, radio provided a natural opportunity to engage not only with listeners across the region but also with those tuning in online from further afield.
Rather than assuming that listeners already shared a Christian worldview, the programme began with the questions themselves.
Does belief in God still make sense in a scientific age? Why is there something rather than nothing? Has science made God unnecessary? If God is loving and powerful, why is there so much suffering and injustice? Where do our convictions about right and wrong come from? And what should we make of the historical person of Jesus Christ?
The programme also considered some of the philosophical questions faced by atheistic and secular worldviews, including questions around meaning, morality, consciousness and human dignity.
The purpose was not to dismiss alternative viewpoints or suggest that Christianity provides simple answers to every difficult question. Instead, listeners were encouraged to think carefully, examine different possibilities with an open mind and reach their own conclusions.
Christian apologetics was presented not as “apologising” for Christian belief, but as offering a reasoned explanation and defence of faith – creating space for honest questions and demonstrating that Christian belief and intellectual enquiry need not be mutually exclusive.
Importantly, the conversation did not have to end when the programme finished. Listeners were invited to submit their own questions about God, faith and Christianity by email, opening the door for further dialogue with those who may be searching, questioning or simply curious.
Radio offers a particularly useful space for this kind of engagement. Listeners can encounter Christian ideas without first entering a church building; they are free to listen, question, agree, disagree and reflect.
That approach sits naturally within the vision of OneVoice27. Sharing Jesus does not always begin with preaching. Sometimes it begins with a conversation, with listening, with taking a difficult question seriously – or simply creating enough space for someone to wonder whether there might be more to life than they had previously considered.
Listen to the full ‘Revving Up with Wil Masih’ programme here.
Prayer, Preparation and Mission
The Scottish Mission’s launch of OneVoice27 began in several different places, but with a shared purpose.
Inside churches, members gathered in prayer, asking God to renew His people and guide their plans for mission.
At St Giles’ Cathedral, faith was shared through music. In Kirkcaldy, relationships were built through practical care for the community. In Moray, conversations about faith reached the airwaves.
Different places. Different approaches. One mission.
Over the coming months, OneVoice27 will encourage churches and members across Scotland to pray more intentionally, serve their communities, share their faith and help others take further steps towards following Jesus.
The challenge is not simply to organise more activity, but to become increasingly attentive to where God is already working – in churches, neighbourhoods, workplaces, friendships and everyday conversations – and to consider how the gifts, opportunities and platforms available to us can be used for mission.
OneVoice27 has begun. Across the Scottish Mission, the invitation is for every church and every member to discover how their own voice can become part of the shared mission of making Jesus known.
One faith. One mission. One voice.
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