Compiled by the Ministries Council

DEATHS

Rev James Martin, formerly of Glasgow: High Carntyne, on April 23

Rev George A M Munro, formerly of Edinburgh: Cluny, on April 26

Rev Charles A Duncan, formerly of Heriot linked with Stow: St Mary of Wedale, on May 1

RETIRED

Rev Neil I M MacGregor, from Huntly Strathbogie Drumblade, on May 4

Rev Alan Sharp, from Burntisland, on May 31

Rev John K Collard, from Kirkcudbright as Interim Minister, on June 2

DEMISSION

Rev Fyfe Blair, from Stonehaven: Fetteresso, on May 31

TRANSLATIONS

Rev Samuel A R Torrens, from Edinburgh: Barclay Viewforth to Edinburgh: Slateford Longstone, on May 17

Rev Sandra Boyd, from Glasgow: King’s Park to Blackburn and Seaield, on May 30

INDUCTIONS

Rev Lynn M McChlery, to Auchterarder, on

May 15

Rev Rosie Magee, to Edinburgh: St Andrew’s and St George’s West, on May

ELDERSHIP

St Andrew’s Wallace Green, Berwick-upon-

Tweed: admitted – Alan Aitchison, Karen

Aitchison

Bathgate High: ordained – Janice Boshell,

Brenda Kilpatrick, Shona Sanderson, Peter

Arkless, Duncan MacPherson, Callum Rhind.

Admitted – Edith Spence

Edinburgh: Polwarth: ordained - Claire

Elizabeth Holmyard, Mike Holmyard, Averill

Stapley, Rob Stapley, Astrid Daphne Telfer,

Alison Kristina Joyce Wright

Admitted – Peter Braynion, Pauline Rumbles

Portree: ordained – Sandra Beaton, Ishbel

Beattie, Norman Bruce, Mary Cameron, Jan

MacDonald, Colin Reeve

LONG SERVICE

The following have received long service certiicates

Airdrie: Clarkston – Guild - Elizabeth McCrone (25+ years), Norma Mitchell (25+), Elizabeth Kennedy (25+)

Annan: St Andrew’s: Elder – Brian Burton (30)

Berwick-upon-Tweed: St Andrews Wallace

Green: Elder - James E Armstrong (51 years)

Girvan: North: Elders – Margaret Benson (30+), William Benson (40+), Robert Bone (30+), Violet Connor (30+), Alexander Clark (30+), Elizabeth Dunlop (30+), James Fairbairn (30+), Ian Fitzsimmons (30+), Agnes Gibson (30+), Ronald A Gibson (40+), Margaret Grassom (30+), Robert Jess (30+), Stuart Kilpatrick (30+), William Leith (30+), Eric Mackinnon (30+), Arlene McGarrigle (30+), James Nicol (40+), Peter Noble (40+), Jennifer Ramsay (30+)

Kingcase: Organist – Paul Cohen (60) Elders – Morris Brown (49), Philip Craig (47), Alan Duncanson (41), Bryce Donaldson (41), Moyra Michie (41), Sandy Murdoch (41), Catherine Ford (40), Derek Killin (40), Stan McCulloch (40), Margaret Ross (38), Norman Hull (36), Joyce Pringle (36), Joyce Blyth (34), Eric Lindsay (32), Patricia Lindsay (32), Robert McIlwraith (32), Donald Cuthbertson (31), William Phillips (31), Mhari Rennie (31), Margaret Frame (30), John Inglis (30) Congregational Board – Gordon Blunt (33), Malcolm McGregor (34) Boys’ Brigade – Ken Sinclair (23)

Kirkcaldy: St Bryce Kirk: Elders – Anne Hughes (40), Isobel Greenaway (40)

Penpoint, Keir and Tynron: Elders – Sophia Harkness (30), Anne McKinlay (30)

Perth: Kinnoull: Elders – Marjory McGregor (30) and Stella McIntosh (30)