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Nine churches have been planted in just ten years in a pioneering Scottish project – thanks to believers who have grasped the concept of ‘missional living’.

20schemes is a church planting ministry set up and run by Niddrie Community Church, which is located in the scheme of Niddrie, south-east Edinburgh. And this year the initiative is celebrating a decade in action.

A BBC News article has been ‘a lightning rod’ for a Scottish organisation’s mission to bring the gospel to the poorest and those afflicted by addiction.

Twenty Schemes says the news item has helped it refocus towards planting churches in the poorest areas around Glasgow. Peter Campbell of 20Schemes writes: ‘On 30 July 2021 BBC News published an article announcing that Scotland’s drug death total for 2020 was 1,339 people. It means that Scotland continues to have by far the highest drug rate in Europe, and over three and a half times that of England and Wales. The worst-hit areas are, of course, the poorest, with the schemes (housing estates) being 18 times more likely to have a drug-related death than other areas.