Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS) was a national ecumenical organisation of churches in Scotland, founded in 1990.[1] It ran until 2022.
ACTS was the successor to the former Scottish Council of Churches. It was one of the four national ecumenical bodies in the UK, with equivalent bodies being Churches Together in England, Cytûn in Wales and the Irish Council of Churches, plus Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. The ACTS office was originally located in Dunblane, then in Alloa and finally in Stirling.
In 2019, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland announced that ACTS would be succeeded by a new body to be called the Scottish Christian Forum.[2] In 2021 it was decided not to go ahead with the SCF.[3]
Since June 2021 ACTS has been effectively superseded by the Scottish Church Leaders' Forum. By May 2022 ACTS remained in existence for legal and administrative purposes only, governed by its Trustees but without staff.[3]
- ^ Douglas Galbraith (editor), Church of Scotland Yearbook 2013-14, page 31, St Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 2013, ISBN 978 0 86153 801 0
- ^ Life and Work website, General Assembly 2019 Reports
- ^ a b Report of the Ecumenical Relations Committee to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 2022, section 7
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