Rev George Shand starts in Symington

MOVING to Symington to become minister of a knot of rural Clydesdale parishes is a massive change for the Rev George Shand.
In place...Rev George ShandIn place...Rev George Shand
In place...Rev George Shand

For his last post was as the Church of Scotland’s minister in Jerusalem.

He spent five years in the Holy Land looking after a small local congregation but working in the wider Occupied Palestinian Territories and with a patch that included the Gaza strip.

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