‘Lightning rod’ spurs church plant drug focus
20 Schemes
Date posted: 1 Sep 2021
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.