Robert McGhee (minister)
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Robert McGhee was a prominent Church of Scotland minister who championed the evangelical movement in Scotland throughout the second half of the 20th century.
He was a signatory of the Manila Manifesto and was nominated for the position of Moderator several times.
He was head of the Church's Board of Social Responsibility （one of the Church's six councils, and the largest voluntary provider of social care in Scotland） during the 1980s.
McGhee was born in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, on 29 July 1929, the first son of Robert McGhee （who had set up various missions and Sunday Schools in some of Glasgow's most deprived areas） and Catherine Hawthorn Ferguson.
He served two years in the Royal Air Force before training as an accountant.
In 1954 he went up to Glasgow University to study Divinity and took his BD from Trinity College, Glasgow.
Here he was influenced by William Barclay and was a contemporary of Revd Douglas Alexander, father of Cabinet minister Douglas Alexander and Leader of the Scottish Labour Party Wendy Alexander.
He was ordained in Port Glasgow and inducted to Pultneytown St.
Andrew’s Church in Wick, Caithness in 1959 as 9th minister of Wick.
After a successful merge with another local church, he was minister of Wick St.
Andrew’s and Thrumster Church from 1961 to 1966.
From 1966 to 1972 he was 1st minister of Mayfield and Easthouses Church in Dalkeith outside Edinburgh, before moving finally to Falkirk, as 8th minister of St.
Andrew's West Parish Church.
During his time in Falkirk, he was appointed president of the Scottish Evangelistic Council （1982–1985）, convener of Community Care （1977–1985） and then convener of the Board of Social Responsibility of the Church of Scotland （1985–1989）.
As convener he visited Ken...
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