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Ian Murdo Macleod from Tong on the Isle of Lewis has been appointed as a part-time Outreach Worker by the Western Isles Presbytery. Ian graduated from HTC in 2008 with a B.A. in Theological Studies. He worships in Stornoway Free Church and has an interest in personal evangelism. This short-term appointment is for a six-month period and on the basis of a pilot scheme. As part of the pilot scheme, the congregations of Barvas and Lochs have been invited to host Ian for three months respectively. This will help establish whether it is feasible for the Presbytery to develop a long-term appointment of a facilitator, to work in conjuction with some of our smaller, more ill-resourced and needy congregations. Ian will begin working in Barvas at the end of October. He will work closely with the Presbytery’s Strategy Committee and the Kirk Session, and facilitate various evangelistic activities throughout the local community. Amongst other things, Ian will oversee a ten-week Christianity Explored course, beginning on Tuesday 20 October from 8-9pm in the new Clan MacQuarrie Community Centre in Borve, and facilitate an informal Bible Study called Practical Christianity, which will begin in the Barvas church hall on Tuesday 27 October from 7:30-9pm for six weeks. He will also provide support in organising a series of testimony meetings over the winter months - the first being on Sunday 25 October at 8:30pm in the Clan MacQuarrie Community Centre, at which Stan Gowdy will speak.

Calum I. Macleod
Barvas Free Church