Grace is our business
Introduction
Thank you for the warm welcome we have received from all at the PCK. We have had a wonderful time visiting your amazing country. Your hospitality is second to none. We have visited Palaces and markets and we hope to visit more places before we return home to Scotland next Thursday.
Greetings
May I bring to you the greetings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. We have been having a wonderful time here in Korea and both my wife and I would...
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Address to the Korean Seminary
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I count it a great honour to be invited to Youngnam to address you all. I am aware that I am following in the footsteps of a fellow Scot, who was a great servant of God who came among you all and shared the Gospel and I know is held in high regard by many here in Korea.
John Ross may well have been among the last of the great 19th century missionaries who were not only diligent in their calling but were scholarly in how they...
After lunch it was a music session with some of the primary school children. I taught them the song "I'm not forgotten' and they asked me questions about being Moderator. Then it was off again to meet the Teenagers. I guess I stayed a good half an hour answering questions and learning a little about what it means to live on an Island. One of the disturbing issues centres around employment. Young people want stay on the Island when they leave school but the issues...
I arrived back in Orkney on Thursday morning. It all seems a bit of a dream. I guess it's because you are moving from one meeting tithe next. This was the day to meet the Convener of the Council Stephen Heddle and the Depute Chief Executive Leslie Manson. I believe meetings like these are very important. it gives me as Moderator an opportunity to explain the possible partnerships that can be developed between Church and Council. this proved to be a very productive...
number of people have wanted to read what I said about my brother in law Andrew at his funeral last Wednesday. Here is a copy of the script with one or two amendments.
Early Life
Andrew McGill Campbell was born in Loth, Sutherland, on the 1st March 1940 he was one of four children born to Helen and Andrew Campbell, who at that time where Home Board Missionaries in the Church of Scotland. Andrew is survived today by his three sisters Rae, Ruth and Moria.
Andrew was...