Elgin minister on the move
The Scots Kirk, Paris.
AN ELGIN minister will be leaving the Presbytery this summer to take up the pulpit in the French capital.
The Rev Jim Cowie has been called to the Scots Kirk, Paris, and is expected to be inducted into the charge in early July.
Mr Cowie came to Elgin as associate minister at St Giles and St Columba’s South in 2007.
Prior to that he was minister at St Mary’s Haddington, and was originally ordained as a minister of the Church of Scotland in Perth in 1977.
Having served for four years as convener of the Church of Scotland’s board of social responsibility, he is also one of the four international church leaders supporting the ecumenical and interfaith organisation L’Arche, founded in France by Jean Vanier.
His wife, Margaret, was appointed rector of Elgin Academy in January 2007 and will leave the secondary at the end of the current term.
The job is being advertised; as are the head teacher posts at Keith Grammar, following the recent retiral of John Aitken, and Speyside High, ahead of David Tierney’s retiral later this year.
