Education
Born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Mission Kesting was educated at the Nicolson Institute, Stornoway and at the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with a Bachelor and a Bachelor's Degree.
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Sheilagh Kesting
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She served as Moderator of the General Assembly from May 2007 to May 2008. She was the first female minister to be elected Moderator. She was the second woman as a female elder, Alison Elliot, had been elected for the 2004/2005 session.
She was probationer for the ministry at Saint John"s Renfield Church, Glasgow.
She then worked for a few months at the Tom Allan Centre, Glasgow, working mainly with homeless women. She was then minister at Street Andrew’s High Church, Musselburgh, East Lothian until 1993.
She has long held a keen interest and concern for ecumenical relations, leading to her appointment as Secretary to the Committee on Ecumenical Relations in 1993. Her formal title (following the end of her Moderatorial year) is the Very Reverend Doctor Sheilagh Kesting.
She was succeeded as Moderator in May 2008 by the Rev David Lunan.
