Rev. Alan Ward is a Glaswegian who, having graduated with an MA degree in English from Glasgow University trained as a teacher at Jordanhill College and became an English teacher in Drumchapel, Glasgow.  

 

Responding to a call to the ministry, he graduated BD from Edinburgh University in 1976. After serving his probationary period in a three way linkage in north Fife, he was ordained to Dumfries: Greyfriars in 1978. He moved to Cambuslang: Old in 1985, and then to Greenock: Ardgowan in 2002, demitting from there in April 2010 to become a peripatetic Interim Minister. After serving as Associate Interim Minister at Edinburgh: St Andrew’s and St George’s West for five months, he was introduced as Interim Minister at Dollar, Glendevon and Muckhart on September 30th this year.  

 

Alan has served on various committees in three Presbyteries, including as Convener of Glasgow Presbytery Council. For three and a half years he was Clerk to the Presbytery of Greenock and Paisley. At various times he has been a Group Relations Tutor, a TLS tutor, an Assessor of Applicants for the ministry and an occasional trainer of Readers and Probationer Ministers. In common with all the Interim Ministers he has trained to be a mediator.

 

Outwith the Church of Scotland Alan has led Bible classes, been a padre at Scripture Union holidays, and served on the Victim Support committee in South Lanarkshire. He is currently chaplain to an Air Cadet Squadron in Greenock, near his home in West Kilbride.

 

His hobbies are sailing, playing the bassoon, reading and watching movies on TV. His wife Alison is a teacher, and they have two grown up sons, Michael and Simon.