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Directory 4. Presbytery of the North 1. Presbytery 2. Congregations Meets in Aberdeen 3rd Saturday February; 3rd Saturday April Meets in Perth 1st Saturday September; 1st Saturday November Clerk: Rev G B Bruce Treasurer:-Mr J Sandanasamy CONVENERS OF PRESBYTERY COMMITTEES Finance - Mr J Sandanasamy Survey & Readjustments - Students - Rev I F R Lloyd MINISTERS EMERITI ON ROLL OF PRESBYTERY Rev A M Begg,Rev J Creelman, Rev G M Currie, Rev D MacKenzie Rev J G McPhee,Rev S J W Matthews MINISTERS ON ROLL OF PRESBYTERY BY APPOINTMENT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY Rev J Billows, Rev D Cartledge, Rev C A Fraser WOMEN'S PREBYTERIAL ASSOCIATION DUNDEE President:Mrs M Currie Vice-President:Mrs E Shering Secretary: Miss I Denning Treasurer:Mrs E Scott WOMEN'S PRESBYTERIAL ASSOCIATION ABERDEEN AND THE NORTH Secretary: Mrs M Patterson Treasurer:Mrs M Bruce 2. Congregations A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ABERDEEN:NORTHFIELD A church extension charge opened on 18th January, 1958. Membership drawn from original Aberdeen:Central congregation, formed 6th July 1930. Sunday Services - 11am and 6 pm Membership - 60 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - Mr W Buchan, ABERDEEN:TORRY (Grampian Road) Congregation formed 26th October, 1930 from minority of Torry Church, a Free Church of the Disruption. Church opened on15th April, 1933. Halls extended and renovated, 1978. Sunday Services - 11 am and 6pm Membership - 70 Minister - Rev I F R Lloyd MA BSc BD, Ord. and Ind. 1990. Session Clerk - ARBROATH (High Street) Membership 1929 from local congregations. Services in Good Templar Hall. Moved in 1931 to Masonic Temple, former High Street UF Church. Temple bought and opened as church on 30th May 1936. Sunday Services - 11.15 am : 6.30 pm, 3rd Sunday (September to May) Membership - 85 Minister - Session Clerk - Mrs A Stewart AUCHTERARDER Membership 1929, from St Andrew's and West Churches. Services in Evangelistic Hall, later purchased and renovated as UF Church. Sunday Service - 11 am Membership 22 Minister Session Clerk - Mr I Shering BALBEGGIE & COLLACE Balbeggie - an Anti-Burgher, congregation formed 1791. Church built in 1832. Collace - a Free Church of the Disruption, 1843. United 1906. Adhered to Continuing Church 1929. Sunday Service - 11 am Membership 23 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - Mr G M Smith, BALINTORE (Fearn) An Anti-Burgher congregation, reckoned to be the first congregation of Highland Seceders, formed about 1756. The continuing minority of Nigg:Chapelhill congregation obtained the Park Meeting House (a UP mission hall) in Balintore and opened it as their church on 7th December, 1932. Vestry added later and new hall opened 1973. Sunday Services - 12 noon and 6 pm Membership - 78 Minister - Rev R Smart, ind 2007 Session Clerk - Mr J Skinner BODDAM A Free Church dating from 1879. Adhered to Continuing Church, 1929. Sunday Service - 6 pm Membership - 10 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - CARNOUSTIE ERSKINE (18 Kinloch Street) Constituted 27th April, 1931, by members of the former Erskine UF Church which entered the Union. Services in YMCA Hall until 14th January, 1934, when the Original Secession Church was bought. Old Library acquired as hall, 1978 and disposed of when Church was renovated and hall added in 1990. Sunday Services - Morning 9.30 am. First Sunday of the month - 6.15 pm Membership - 97 Minister - Session Clerk - Mr R S Strachan, CUNNINGSBURGH (Shetland) A Free Church dating from 1846. Entered Union 1929. Group of members later withdrew and formed Continuing congregation, 5th February, 1933. Church opened on 17th June, 1933. Sunday Services - 11.30 am and 7 pm. Membership - 39 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - Mr D Halcrow, DOUNBY (Orkney) Congregation inaugurated 7th December, 1930, by Continuers from surrounding district. Services fortnightly or monthly until 1944, when Dr W I Ernslie served as voluntary pastor until 1963. Church opened on 9th March, 1949. Sunday Services- 12 noon and 6.30 pm. Membership - 12 Minister - Session Clerk - Mrs E Gray DUNDEE (Caird Avenue) Constituted late 1929 as Dundee Central Church by Continuers from city congregations. Met YMCA Hall. Church opened on 3rd September,1932. Sunday Services - 11.00 am and 6.30 pm. Membership 62 Minister - Session Clerk - Mr A Milne, FERRYDEN (Montrose) Associated at first with Montrose Continuers. From mid 1930s service in Fishermen's Hall until hall church opened in 1954. Sunday Service - 6 pm Membership - 15 Minister - Rev G B Bruce, Ord. and Ind. 1975. Session Clerk - Mr A Mearns LOSSIEMOUTH (St Gerardines Road) Inaugurated 2nd March, 1930, by minority of St James' UF Church. Services in Masonic Hall, later in Town Hall. Church opened on 18th September, 1937, and hall on 21st January, 1961. Sunday Services - 11 am and 6 pm Membership - 70 Minister - Rev A Ritchie  Session Clerk - Mrs A Bremner MONTROSE:Knox's (Mill Street) Formed 1929 by Continuers from local and district churches. Met in Angus Hall until former picture house in Castle Street opened 10th December, 1932 as Knox's UF Church. Former St Luke's Church purchased, and opened 6th May, 1954. Sunday Service - 11 am Membership - 61 Minister - Rev G B Bruce, LTh, Ord. and Ind. 1975. Session Clerk - NEWPORT-ON-TAY:Trinity A UP congregation formed 8th December, 1878. Church opened 18th May, 1882. Continued 1929, with minister, Rev James Sneddon. Sunday Service 11.30 am Membership - 30 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - Mrs E Fairweather PERTH (Kinnoull Street) Membership 1929, from Perth Churches and West Church, Scone. Services in Lesser City Hall, Perth, and Public Hall, Scone. Church opened on 21st September, 1935. Sunday Services 11 am and 6 pm Membership - 61 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - SANDWICK (Shetland) Church built sometime between 1820 and 1839. Originally Congregational, later Free (1891), the pro- Union minority held the property in1929. The Continuing majority met in Public Hall until their former church was handed back and opened on 4th October, 1931. Vestry and vestibule added 1958. Sunday Services - 11 am and 5 pm Membership - 21 Minister - Vacant Session Clerk - Mrs M Anderson, TAYPORT (King Street) Membership 1929, from local churches. Church opened October, 1931. Sunday Services - Morning 10 am Membership - 78 Minister:Rev A M Begg Session Clerk - Mrs A McRobbie, WESTRAY (Orkney) A United Secession congregation, formed 1823. Present church opened in May, 1867. Adhered 1929 to Continuing Church. Sunday Services - 11.30 am and 6 pm Membership - 28 Minister - Session Clerk - Mrs A G Scott,

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