Four ministers have been licensed by the Free Church of Scotland, at a service at Dundee’s historic St Peter’s Church - the congregation founded by Robert Murray M’Cheyne.
Licensing in the Presbyterian church is where a student graduates to become a probationer minister and can then be called to a congregation by the local presbytery for ordination. The four ministers - Donald Smith, Matty Guy, Angus Macleod and James Murray – were licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh and Perth.
There are currently 100 Free Church of Scotland congregations across Scotland, with 23 ministry candidates at various stages.
Meanwhile Jeremy Ross, minister of Dunfermline Free Church of Scotland, has been appointed Chief Executive at the charity Blythswood Care – co-founded in Glasgow in 1966 by his father, the late Jackie Ross.
Jeremy worked for the charity between 1998 and 2007 and has been a trustee since 2021. He will leave ministry and take up the post in February 2024.
