Our leadership team is led by our Pastor Rev Ian Macinnes
assisted by seven Deacons.
Rev Ian Macinnes
I am married to Norma and have one daughter, Kirsteen. I was privileged to be brought up in a Christian home,
where my father
was a parish minister. I came to personal faith in Jesus Christ at the age of
ten. Teenage years were difficult with little Christian fellowship in the area
we lived. As a family we moved to the Isle of Skye in 1979 and it was here I
knew revival blessing and a call to full time ministry. After five years
of theological study at Kings College, Aberdeen I was duly accepted into the
Baptist ministry, and served for some time as associate Pastor of Sheddocksley
Baptist Church. In March 2002 I accepted the call to be the Pastor of Alness
Baptist Church. One of the texts confirming the call has been a great source of
encouragement and renewal: "I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to
bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope
for" Jeremiah 29:11 GNB
Angus MacLeod
Jan van Engelen
I was born into a happy Christian family in Holland in
1954. That there was a God was never in doubt but especially during my teenage
years I did not really enjoy church. I went to church to keep the family
harmony. Mainly because of the low price and my love for sailing I
joined a “Youth for Christ” camp in 1973. There I was confronted with the
challenge of making Jesus Christ Saviour and Lord of my life. Saviour was no
problem
but Lord … that made me struggle for some time. Would Jesus request of
me to do strange and difficult things? After sometime realising that organising
my own life was not really a good option I committed my life to Him. It was a
good decision that filled me with great joy. After I finished my studies I joined Operation Mobilisation
and served for 4 years in Iran until the Islamic government asked me to leave.
After some time God opened the way to go to Afghanistan. It was there that I met
Isabel, my Scottish wife, and not to long after we were married we had to leave
Afghanistan. We came to Scotland expecting to return to some kind of foreign
mission work in due course. Until now we have felt happy and right to be here in
Scotland. In the last while it has been pressed upon me the
importance of a close walk with the Lord. This is not a mind boggling new idea,
but one so easily neglected in the nitty gritty of busy daily life.
Richard Taylor
I was brought up in a Christian
home. I was thirteen when I gave my life to the Lord, it was at the showing of a
Billy Graham film. I'm a Yorkshire man who has married a good Scots lass and now
live in Alness.
Stuart Chalmers
As a late starter, I only accepted Christ as my Saviour in
my mid thirties, six months after my wife Pauline became a Christian. I have
been blessed with a tremendous time of catching up on the "lost years". I always
believed in God but never heard - that does not mean it wasn't preached -
of the need to have a personal relationship with Him through His Son Jesus
Christ. When I accepted Jesus, as my Lord and Saviour, it was like a huge weight
being lifted from my shoulders. The Christian life is a challenging life, God
puts you into places and situations, which on our own we would avoid. Words
cannot express what I feel about what God has done for me, in putting His Son on
Calvary's cross.
John Barry
I was born and bred in Alness and have never been more than
two weeks away from the town in my fifty two years. My experience and testimony
is that I have tasted the world and all that it has to offer but never found
peace, contentment and joy till I found Jesus as my Lord and Saviour at the age
of thirty six.
Other Leaders
Mike Stainke, Stephen Ilett
