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New East Kilbride minister is far travelled to his church

East Kilbride West Kirk’s new minister has come all the way from Pakistan. And the Reverend Mahboob Masih, who was inducted into his new charge on Thursday, believes the role of minister was one he was destined to follow all his life.

For, when he was a baby and so seriously ill his parents thought he would die, they promised in their prayers for his recovery that, if he did get better, his life would be dedicated to the ministry.

Mahboob went to the Guramwa Theologic College graduating with a Master of Divinity degree and was ordained in 1999.

He undertook pastoral work and taught biblical doctrine to A-level students for some time before coming to Scotland, with his German-born wife Silke whom he had met while she was working in Pakistan, to specialise in systematic theology at Glasgow University with the help of grants from an American based church group.

However, they wanted Mahboob to go to America to finish his studies, leaving his wife and family behind and they withdrew their funding when he refused.

For the next five years Mahboob worked with Queen’s Park Baptist Church studying for his Master of Theology degree at the International Christian College in Glasgow.

He decided to return to his presbyterian roots and for the 15 months before taking over at the West Kirk served as a probationer at Crosshill Parish Church in Glasgow.

Full story at the East Kilbride News.