Today it was announced The Rev. Dr. Herbert Gale is the nominee for Moderator of the 136th General Assemblyof the PresbyterianChurch in Canada. The announcement was made by The Rev. Stephen Kendall, Principal Clerk of General Assembly, on behalfof the Committee to Advise the Moderator, The Rev. Gale being chosen from the three candidates announced in December.

The Rev. Gale currently serves as the Associate Secretary, Planned Giving, for the Presbyterian Church in Canada.  He is a native of North Carolina and was a member of Myers Park Presbyterian Church as well as serving that church as youth director after college.  He attended Union Theological Seminary (Richmond) and served as pastor of Shelby Presbyterian Church in Shelby, NC, after seminary.  He later earned an M.Th. from the Toronto School of Theology and began his service to the Presbyterian Church in Canada at St. James Presbyterian Church, Stouffville, Ontario.  In 1993 he and his wife Shirley were called to Westminster-St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Guelph to serve as co-pastors.  In 2004 the Rev. Gale moved to his current position with the denomination.

He has served multiple times on church advisory committees, including the Worship Advisory Committee when it produced the Book of Common Worship in 1991 as well as serving as a worship leader for various conferences.  The press release says of his ministry:

A pastor at heart and a Canadian Presbyterian by conviction, Herb isconvinced that an intentional focus on planned giving can help providean additional source of funding for the church at every level to realizeits dreams and to expand its ministry for generations to come.