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North kirk facing recruitment crisis
Church of Scotland leaders in Sutherland are seriously concerned about a growing recruitment crisis in the area.They say they are experiencing huge difficulty in attracting ministers to vacant pulpits across the county.
Three of the nine charges in Sutherland are currently without ministers. And it is feared that, with four incumbent ministers about to retire over the next few years, the situation is set to worsen.
The Presbytery of Sutherland has now appealed to Church of Scotland headquarters at 121 George Street in Edinburgh for help.
Presbytery clerk the Rev Leslie Goskirk of Lairg and Rogart said this week: "It is a crisis that is looming unless things change. We could find ourselves in the next few years with a lot more vacancies."
Full story at the Northern Times.
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