OUR LOCATION

OUR TOWN: PAISLEY, SCOTLAND

Paisley is the biggest town in Scotland with about 80,000 residents and has had a significant impact on history!

We are so blessed to call this place ‘home.’ You know what else Paisley is home to?

• Actors Gerard Butler and David Tennant

• The invention of the Personal Identification Number (PIN) and Automated Teller Machine (ATM)

• The 4th busiest train station in Scotland

• The birth of the Paisley pattern (yep, the one that was so popular in the ‘70s!)

• The only UK start for the Monte Carlo Classic Rally

But that doesn’t even touch on our 12th century Abbey, the final resting place of all six High Stewards of Scotland. Or the historical Mills, once the largest thread manufacturing site in the world. Or the fact that Paisley is less than an hour from Scotland’s rugged coastline, its biggest city Glasgow, the Highlands and even the famous Loch Ness. Come visit Paisley, and we promise you won’t be disappointed.

OUR BASE: STANELY HOUSE

Some members of our team live in their own homes throughout Paisley and some live in our historic villa, Stanely House. This is our main location where we have office space, run our training schools and more.

Stanely House was built in the 1891 by the Coats family, Victorian industrialists who owned and operated the largest thread-making company in the world. George and Mary Coats lived in the house with their three children and started to build homes for their family members on their surrounding land. George Coats died in 1901 and his wife Mary in 1920. Stanely House was then sold to the Spiers family who enjoyed entertaining friends and relatives there for many more years. Later the estate was sold and developed into a residential neighbourhood, and the House itself became a elderly care home. In 1992 it was bought by YWAM King’s Kids/ YWAM Scotland and has been used as a training and ministry base ever since.

It’s name ‘Stanely’ comes from the Gaelic stane lea, or ‘stone meadow.’ From its place on the hill can be seen the 15th century ruins of Stanely Castle in the reservoir with the same name, to the taller buildings of Glasgow, and even the beginnings of the Highlands to the North on a rare, clear day.