Church Of Scotland
Our Leadership Team
You can contact the leadership team at office@comelybankchurch.com
George Vidits
Moderator
Alison Franks
Session Clerk & Finance Convenor
John Baggaley
Elder
Veronique Chittleburgh
Elder
Douglas Reid
Elder
Jacqueline Young
Elder
Our Staff Team
George Vidits
Minister
Our Minister joined us back in 2015 along with his wife, Emma. His focus is on worship services and working with the Kirk Session to create a strategic vision and plan the activities of our church.
You can contact George at minister@comelybankchurch.com
Douglas Reid
Associate Minister
Douglas has a placement with us supporting our ministry team until December 2025.
You can contact Douglas at office@comelybankchurch.com
Kenny McCartney
Youth Pastor
Our Youth Pastor and leads our ministry with young people. He joined us in September 2021 along with his wife, Ashley. His focus is on ministering to young people in our church community and at Broughton High School.
You can contact Kenny at kenny@comelybankchurch.com
Pamela Macphee
Families Outreach Worker
Our Families Outreach Worker and leads our ministry with families. She took up this role in 2023, but she and her family have worshipped with us for many years. Her focus is on ministering to families in our communities, particularly those with young children and babies.
You can contact Pamela at pamela@comelybankchurch.com
Moira McLaren
Church Cleaner
Her focus is on keeping our church and halls looking beautiful. She has been with us for many years and her cleaning is part of her worship in our building.
You can contact Moira at office@comelybankchurch.com
What we Believe
Central to us is our love and worship of God, who created us, daily sustains us, and rescued us from all evil, wrongs, and death itself. We get to know Him more and more as He revealed himself in the Bible, and through our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who rescued us from evil and death by His self sacrifice on the cross and resurrection from the dead. In our daily lives we try to be disciples of Jesus Christ, following His teaching and example. We express our love for Him by our love and practical care for each other and for those we live with and encounter in our daily lives.
Our Christian faith is based on God’s revelation in the Bible. All the statements here, assembled by the Evangelical Alliance, are based on the evidence of the Bible.
The Evangelical Alliance are the largest and oldest body representing the UK’s two million evangelical Christians.
The Statement of Faith says we believe in:
- The one true God who lives eternally in three persons — the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
- The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God—fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
- The dignity of all people, made male and female in God’s image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
- The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ — born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
- The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
- The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
- The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
- The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
- The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers — given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit’s gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
- The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.