Church to celebrate Easter on YouTube
Pitlochry Baptist Church will celebrate Easter Sunday live onYouTube.
The Highland Perthshire church will broadcast its service at 11am on the morning of Sunday, April 12, a day when ordinarily, the pews in Pitlochry would be full of Easter celebrants.
Rev David Barrie, the pastor at Pitlochry Baptist Church (PBC) for the last 12 years gave his first live broadcast on March 22.
He last spoke live on Palm Sunday and 250-plus people tuned in to see him broadcast from the front room of the church manse in Pitlochry.
David began the 35-minute beam in by welcoming friends watching from as far away as Vancouver Island, Spain and England.
He said:“I’d love it if you would go to Pitlochry Baptist Church Facebook and say‘I’m from Newport’, or ‘I’m from Macklesfield’ or ‘I heard you.’ That would be great.”
He explained that the worship was being led live by himself, with musical and singing contributions recorded ahead of time from members of his family.
His wife Miranda and daughter Eden were singing while his son Luka and Eden’s boyfriend Mark Evans played guitar and his other son Dillon played drums.
(Mark from Wales is considered part of the family in the coronavirus lockdown, having been with them for over a month).
The Baptist pastor told the PA that he’d like to keep up the YouTube uploads long after the current restrictions on holding church services is over because he was“really enjoying the new way to reach people”.
To watch the Easter Sunday broadcast and others in future, use this shortened link: https://bit.ly/2yEfjcE
Local community radio station Heartland FM is also taking the service from Pitlochry and putting it out at
1pm on Sundays.