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Stornoway, Lewis
Two new churches after 140 years in the wilderness 27/9/11
The tiny Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland (RPCS) has officially constituted its Stornoway church just 10 weeks after starting fellowship services on Lewis.
It means the tiny RPCS has doubled its number of churches due to island worshippers who have split with the Free Church over hymns and music controversy.
Until this summer, the RPs had under 100 members in Scotland and only two churches
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Rev David Karoon, who quit the Free over its radical departure from exclusive unaccompanied
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Mr Karoon, who hails from Singapore, is the former pastor at Arran Free Church and was very recently accepted as a minister in the RPCS.
His induction is due to take place on 29th October.
It means that the Western Isles community has been instrumental in setting up the first new RP churches in 140 years. The denomination only had two small congregations until May this year when Rev Kenny Stewart of Grimsay in Uist quit the Free and join the RPs. He is now minister of the Glasgow RP chruch which meets in Thornwood Primary School.
Mr Stewart, 48, is a former minister in Free churches in Stornoway, Scalpay and Dowanvale. He previously criticised the Free for “abandoning its constitutional heritage.”
He felt the manner of the radical modernisation vote breached Free Church law and weakened its integrity.
Until June, the RPs had under 100 members in Scotland and only two churches -
The clean history of the RPCS -