He was born in
Korea to Scottish parents and spent most of his youth in
Tasmania, studying Economics at the
University of Tasmania, graduating in 1981. In 1982, he moved to
Edinburgh in
Scotland where he befriended his minister, Rev Donald Lamont of St Columba's Free Church, also working in the Church of Scotland bookshop on George Street. Re-inspired, he began studying Divinity in 1985 at the
Free Church College in Edinburgh, graduating in 1988. He was then dispatched by the Foreign Missions Board to work in
South Africa. Here he served in various village schools in the southern
Transkei before settling in
Dumisani to run their Bible School. From this base he also lectured in various church subjects at
Potchefstroom University. Here he also obtained a further degree in Theology. In 2015, he moved to
Duirinish Free Church on
Skye. ==Family==