Welcome to Forest Kirk
Forest Kirk Church of Scotland, Carluke, along with Kirkton and Law Parish Churches, form a Cluster within the Presbytery of Forth Valley and Clydesdale.
Together, they serve the towns of Carluke and Law and outlying farms and villages such as Kilcadzow and Yieldshields. For information about our congregation and activities at each location, follow the links in the navigation bar above. Information which cannot be found on this website might be found on the websites of the two previous congregations:
Congregational Meeting
An important meeting was held on Sunday 5 October 2025 immediately after morning worship in Forest Kirk (St John's building). Similar meetings were held in Kirkton and Law churches.
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Carluke and Law Cluster Update
The cluster group met on Wednesday 23rd July.
A basis of union, a basis of team ministry and a basis of reviewable tenure have now been drawn up and will be presented to each Kirk Session in August ( The Kirk Session of Forest Kirk meets on Monday, 25 August). If agreement is given by each of the Kirk Sessions, it is hoped that a formal vote will take place in each congregation in October with the union coming into effect on 1 January 2026 as a target date.
An organisation called Community Dan have been engaged to support the cluster group and Kirk Sessions to help us consider how best we engage in new mission to meet the needs of our communities. This will begin with two meetings with members of the congregations, these meetings will outline the process and encourage members to consider how they might get involved. The first meeting is on Sunday, 31 August in Kirkton Church at 2:30 pm and then on Monday, 1 September in Law Parish Church at 7:00 pm. We hope that as many people as possible will take this opportunity to be part of this process. These meetings will then be followed by two community engagement days where members of the community will be invited to come and share their ideas about what mission in Carluke and Law might include going forward. The first event will be in Law on Saturday, 20 September, and the second will be on Saturday, 27 September in Forest Kirk (St John’s Building).
Further work is also being undertaken to look at what buildings will be needed to support the work of the congregation including assessments of each space and the work that would be needed to ensure suitability for ongoing missional priorities of the congregation.
The group will meet again at the end of August following the Kirk Session meetings and an update given to the congregations in September.