This year our children's holiday club has a Wild West theme. It will be held at the church every morning from Monday 11 to Friday 15 August.

A fun, action-packed programme has been prepared with a wide variety of activities, including stories, music, art, drama and games.

A café will be open in the church each morning of the holiday club. On the Friday evening an informal BBQ will be held at the church for parents and friends. Please join us if you can. Sermons preached in Smithton-Culloden Free Church are now available from this website in MP3 format for download (eg, for use on a portable device), in addition to the QuickTime video and audio formats which have been offered for some time.

For sermons in MP3 format, please visit sermons for download ; sermons in QuickTime video and audio formats are available at sermons online. :: There will be no o9:30 service during the school holidays. Sunday services will be at 11:00 and 18:30. The 09:30 service will begin again on Sunday 17 August.

:: There will be a break from the usual Sunday School classes until 24 August. Older children are invited to join with the adults in our worship services and a holiday Sunday School will be held during the 11:00 service for pre-school and P1 children. Visiting children will be made most welcome. Babies and toddlers may be cared for in our crèche.

:: The church office will be open as usual, Tuesday to Friday. On 31 March 2008 Smithton-Culloden Free Church and Nairn Free Church were united. We are now one church with two locations: Murray Road, Smithton, and Gordon Street, Nairn. The 2008 General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland recently gave us permission to appoint an Assistant Minister for the joint congregation; this man will live in Nairn and will have primary responsiblity for the Nairn congregation. We seek God's guidance as we move forward together.

As we look to the future, we also record our thanks to God for a ministry in Nairn which has just come to a close. During the four years that Rev Bill Evans and his family spent in Nairn, many lives were touched and changed by the Gospel. The large number of people from the church and community who turned out to bid them farewell on Sunday 22 June bears eloquent testimony to the esteem in which they were held. We wish Bill, Dana and the children God's continuing blessing as they return to Memphis, Tennessee. We will always remember them.


We will remember, likewise, Kathleen McCallen who joined Bill and Dana in 2006 to serve as the children's and youth worker in Nairn. Kathleen too will return to her native Memphis, leaving the people of Nairn with memories of her trademark smile.

To keep up-to-date with what's happening in Nairn Free Church, see their new website.


The Spring 2008 newsletter (PDF) is now available online. Printed copies are available in the Smithton and Nairn churches. Read about a very special marriage and find out what people in our congregations have been doing in Smithton, Nairn and across the world. Last Sunday evening, Pentecost Sunday, the local evangelical churches held a joint open-air service outside the Barn Church, Culloden. The congregations of The Barn Church of Scotland, Culloden Baptist Church, The King's Fellowship and Smithton-Culloden Free Church joined together to worship God. The preacher was Dr Mike Bird of Highland Theological College. You can listen to the sermon here. Rita Nkemba, the Ugandan leader of Dwelling Places, will be speaking at our midweek meeting on Wednesday 30 April at 19:30 in the church. Marsali Campbell, a member of our congregation, works with Rita among the street children of Kampala. Marsali is currently in Scotland studying at International Christian College, Glasgow, so we look forward to hearing up-to-date news of the work of Dwelling Places from Rita. This meeting is open to all. The preacher at our anniversary services this year is Rev Jonathan Stephen, Principal of the Wales Evangelical School of Theology (WEST) and Director of Affinity. On Sunday 16 March he will preach a series of three sermons from the Book of Acts under the umbrella title Travelling light: amazing moments in the ministry of Paul.