The Bell Family

Independent Baptist Missionaries

Currently Raising Support

To Plant Churches In Scotland

(Current Support Level 27%)

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Psalm 43:3

Facts About Scotland

 Scotland is a political division of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  It consists primarily of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and three offshore island groups: the Hebrides and the Orkney and Shetland islands.  On the south Scotland adjoins England; elsewhere it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and such arms of the Atlantic as the North Sea and Irish Sea.

 Scotland, about the size of South Carolina, is usually divided into three regions: the Highlands, the Central Lowlands, and the Southern Uplands.  The population of Scotland is around 5 million people, with the vast majority living in lowland cities and towns.

 The climate of Scotland is moderate, despite the fact that it lies farther north than the most northerly point in the United States, excluding Alaska.  Except in the high mountains, temperatures average about 35° to 40° F. in January and 55° to 60° in July.  Rarely is the weather either very hot or cold.

Rains, drizzles, mists, and long cloudy periods make Scotland one of the most humid and overcast parts of Britain. 

 The Church of Scotland, the legally established (state) church, is Presbyterian.  Two dissident groups—the United Free Church and the Original Seceders—have rejoined the parent body in this century.  About a fourth of the population now belongs to the established church.  Roman Catholics make up the second largest group, followed by Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Baptists, so-called free Presbyterians, and Methodists.