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A church at the centre of a breakaway split is to have a new minister.

 

Rev Iain Murdo Macdonald is due to depart Cross Church of Scotland to become the new minister at Tarbert.

 

Mr Macdonald is the sole nominee for the Harris congregation. He is expected to move to Tarbert in the summer once his appointment has been formally approved.

 

Last year, about a third of the Tarbert Church of Scotland congregation quit the denomination in protest of the decision to allow gay ministers and the departure from Biblical teaching.

 

In an official ballot, some 94 worshippers at Tarbert Church of Scotland voted to leave while 131 people opted to stay.

 

A further 87 churchgoers did not take part in the vote.

 

The breakaway group have set up a new congregation under the wing of the Free Church.

 

Mr Macdonald hails from Bernera Lewis. He is a graduate from Aberdeen University and has been minister in Ness for nearly 14 years.

 

Tarbert Church has been without a permanent pastor Rev Norman Maciver retired in 2011.

 

New minister for Harris congregation

27 March 2015