{"id":258,"date":"2011-10-06T20:23:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gajunkie.info\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-10-06T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:23:18","slug":"free-church-of-scotland-2012-moderator-designate-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Free Church Of Scotland 2012 Moderator Designate Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"\"><\/font>There are multiple Presbyterian branches that are moving into the new General Assembly cycle and a couple of days ago we had the meeting and report of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freechurch.org\">Free Church of Scotland&#8217;s<\/a> October Commission regarding their Moderator Designate.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has prayerfully selected the Rev. Dr. Iain D. Campbell as the Moderator for the 2012 General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Campbell, or &#8220;Iain D&#8221; as he is apparently known, is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pointfreechurch.wordpress.com\/minister\/\">pastor<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pointfreechurch.wordpress.com\/\">Point Free Church<\/a> on the Isle of Lewis. He is well known to a much wider audience through is own blog, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creideamh.blogspot.com\/\">Creideamh<\/a>, as well as his writing for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancenet.org\/\">Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals<\/a> online magazine <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/blog\/iain-d-campbell\/\">Reformation21<\/a>. (Although to be fair, both of those have been a bit quiet since last May.)<\/p>\n<p>The Point Church is Rev. Campbell&#8217;s third charge since his ordination, having served at Snizort Free Church and Back Free Church previously.&nbsp; He is an active writer and lecturer and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Church History at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wts.edu\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Westminster Theological Seminary<\/a> (PA).&nbsp; He has served the church in multiple ways, recently as a member and the Convener of the College Board, and currently as Convener of the Communications Board.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Rev. Campbell you can check out the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freechurch.org\/index.php\/scotland\/news_events_item\/moderator_designate_2012\/\">Free Church press release<\/a>, his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pointfreechurch.wordpress.com\/minister\/\">church bio<\/a> (which has the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sermon.net\/pointfreechurch\">link<\/a> to his sermons), the Reformation21 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/iain-d-campbell.php\">contributor information<\/a> (that where I got the &#8220;Iain D&#8221; from), and his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wts.edu\/faculty\/ptfaculty_and_lecturers\/ch_pt_faculty.html#Campbell\">faculty blurb<\/a> at Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>As always, congratulations to the Rev. Dr. Campbell on his selection and prayers for him as he prepares to Moderate the upcoming GA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are multiple Presbyterian branches that are moving into the new General Assembly cycle and a couple of days ago we had the meeting and report of the Free Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-church-of-scotland","category-general-assembly","category-moderator"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free Church Of Scotland 2012 Moderator Designate Announced - The GA Junkie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=258\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free Church Of Scotland 2012 Moderator Designate Announced - 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