New Restalrig Church, EdinburghAn Evangelical Church of Scotland

New Restalrig is located at the intersection of London, Willowbrae, and Portobello Roads. Click here for a map of the area.

The Church address is 1a Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh, EH8 7EZ.

We are a confessionally reformed and evangelical congregation. We strive to be continually reformed by the Word of God found in the Bible. We adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Apostles Creed, and the Nicene Creed because they most accurately summarise Biblical truths on the topics they cover.

Basic Tenents of Belief

• The Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
• There is one God, eternal and self-existing in three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who are to be equally loved, honoured, and adored.
• All mankind participated in Adam’s fall from his original sinless state and is thus lost in sin and totally helpless.
• The Sovereign God, for no other reason than His own unfathomable love and mercy, has chosen lost sinners from every nation to be redeemed by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit and through the atoning death and resurrection of His son, Jesus Christ.
• Those sinners whom the Spirit quickens, come to believe in Christ as Savior by the Word of God, are born again, become sons of God, and will persevere to the end.
• Justification is by faith and through it the undeserving sinner is clothed with the righteousness of Christ.
• The goal of God’s salvation in the life of the Christian is holiness, good works, and service for the glory of God.
• At death the Christian’s soul passes immediately into the presence of God, while the unbeliever’s soul is eternally separated from God unto condemnation.
• Baptism is a sign of God’s covenant and is properly administered to children of believers in their infancy as well as to those who come as adults to trust in Christ.
• Jesus Christ will return to earth, visibly and bodily, at a time when He is not expected, to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
• The Gospel of God’s salvation in Jesus Christ must be published to all the world as a witness before Jesus Christ returns.

New Restalrig Parish church has its historical roots in the growth of Victorian Edinburgh in the 1880’s. It was originally a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland planted during a time of rapid building and growth on the east of the city. In 1888 a mission station was established by the Edinburgh Presbytery to serve the area with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Four years later the church ‘Restalrig Free Church’ was opened on the evening of the 4th February 1892. The preacher was the Rev Alexander Whyte, the minister of Free St George’s. His text was ‘Behold I make all things new’ (Revelation 21;5).

In 1900 Restalrig Free joined the United Free Church as a consequence of the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterian Church. In 1929 upon the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland uniting, Restalrig United Free Church then became Restalrig New later to be named New Restalrig.

At present New Restalrig is a congregation of the Church of Scotland.

We have two Sunday worship service: 11.00 AM and 6.30 PM. Central to our worship is the free grace offered to sinner in Jesus Christ. To this end, we listen and respond to God’s word, sing, pray, and confess our faith as a body of believers.

David Court was brought up in Lesmahagow in south Lanarkshire. He came to a living faith in Christ in his early twenties and subsequently sensed a call to full time pastoral ministry. After studying geography at Strathclyde University and a short stint working with an insurance broker he went on to complete a BD at the University of Glasgow.

Upon ordination in 1989 David became the minister of Balshagray Parish Church in Glasgow. Soon after the church united with one of its neighbouring congregations to become Balshagray Victoria Park. David served there until June 2000, when he moved to New Restalrig Parish Church in Edinburgh.

David has been involved with a variety of different Christian organisations over the years, including Rutherford House, UCCF and the Bible Society.

David is married to Alison and they are the proud parents of Samuel, Jonathan, and Ruth. Due to a leg injury he has retired his football boots, but still supports Motherwell FC. A keen golfer, David can regularly be seen hacking it up at Duddingston Golf Club in Edinburgh.

If you have any questions about New Restalrig please don’t hesitate to contact us.