Alli and Jeni were part of the church family at St Columba’s during their time in Aberdeen.  Originally coming to the city to study they met at church and married here in 2003.  Alli then went on to complete his training as a minister in the Church of Scotland and Jeni as a primary school teacher.

In 2007 they accepted a call to St Ninian’s Church of Scotland, Glenrothes.  Alli is working as the parish minister in the fife church and Jeni works in a local school.

David Steele was a divinity student from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI).  He did a ministerial placement (internship) at St Columba's during the 1990's as part of his ministerial training and he and his wife, Maggie, together with their four children, are now in Malawi where both David and Maggie are in full time Christian service.

Jayne Maccabe, who worshipped and served at St Columba's whilst a student, has gone on to work with SIM (Serving in Mission), an international, interdenominational, Christian mission agency.

SIM has grown from a few pioneers to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. This is a diverse group of praying people. Some give financially, and some go — more than 1,800 missionaries are making an impact in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia and South America.

Jayne works with SIM in Glasgow at present.

Cat Derrick went down to The Wirral in September 2004 and was a Voluntary Youth Worker with the Village Youth Project which is part of St Mary's Church.

She is now a Youth Development Worker with responsibility for schools work in which she leads RE and PSE lessons and assemblies in Woodchurch High School.

She has had trips to Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Congo to visit projects linked with St Mary's. She also helps out in the "Bank" which is the Youth Centre and enjoys taking dance groups, going rock climbing and taking groups to Outdoor Centres!

John & Jeannie Jamieson have been  ministering for a number of years now at Kathmandu International Christian Congregation, Nepal, where John is the Pastor.

Before leaving for Nepal they worshipped at
St Columba's and at Bridge of Don Baptist Church.

Pamela Gordon, from Irvine in Ayrshire, is now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Grand Rapids, near Toledo, Ohio.

For a number of years she was part-time
pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Lompoc, California. Pamela worshipped at
St Columba's whilst a student at Aberdeen University.

Debs Erwin, a former student at Aberdeen 
University, is a Co. Antrim girl with a heart for God, for young people and the land she calls home.

As of June '06 she has taken up a post with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland as Programme Officer for the 'Preparing Youth to be Peacemakers' programme (PYP).

This is a 6-week discipleship course designed to challenge, equip and resource young people as they consider God's call to be
peacemakers in a divided and increasingly multicultural society.

Debs' role is to develop and promote the PYP programme throughout PCI, working alongside churches and youth leaders seeking to run PYP for their young people.

For more information on the PYP programme, check out: www.pciyac.org/resources/pyp.php.