Free Church of Scotland | Lewis Minister to be 2008 Moderator




		Lewis Minister to be 2008 Moderator

		It has just been announced that the Rev Kenneth M Ferguson is the Moderator Designate for the 2008 General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. Mr Ferguson is the minister of Cross Free Church, Ness, Isle of Lewis. Born at Back in the Isle of Lewis in 1946, Mr Ferguson attended Back Junior Secondary School and Lews Castle College where he specialised in Textiles. Having spent two years furthering his studies in Dewsbury Technical College Yorkshire, he returned to Lewis in 1965 and spent the next sixteen years employed as a Quality Controller in the Harris Tweed industry.



		Mr Ferguson experienced Christian conversion in 1970 during the ministry of the late Rev Murdo Macaulay at Back. After some years he felt called to preach the Gospel and took an Arts degree with the Open University, graduating in 1980 with B.A. in English and History. He did his theological training at the Free Church College and was awarded the Diploma in Theology in 1984. His entire ministry has been spent on the Isle of Lewis. He was ordained and inducted to the congregation of Lochs Free Church in September 1984, and from September 2000 to the present time, his ministry has been centred upon Cross Free Church in Ness. Mr Ferguson has served on various Church committees since coming into the ministry, but over the past number of years he has served almost exclusively on the International Missions Board. Also, for several years, he has been Chairman of the Management Committee of the Bethesda Nursing Home and Hospice, Stornoway. Mr Ferguson is married to Nan and they have a grown-up family of three; Graham, Donna and Jane.

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