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PATRICK Hamilton spent the whole of his ministry in East Kilbride. In 1948 he was inducted to the parish of East Kilbride West, the former Free Church in what was then the village of East Kilbride. For 10 years he was minister to a fairly traditional congregation in a typical village, but in that period the shape of East Kilbride began to alter dramatically as the new town began to grow.
The Church of Scotland planned to transport two of the churches from the village into new areas: Moncrieff and the West Church. Moncrieff very successfully found a new role in the St Leonard's area of the town, but the congregation of the West Church refused to move. Hamilton, however, had undertaken to go and so in 1958 he demitted as minister of the West Church and was inducted as the first minister of the new East Kilbride South Church in the Murray area of the town, where he saw the Hall Church develop into the present building which was opened in 1964 and the congregation steadily grow.See the full content of this document
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Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton was born in Alexandria and educated at Camp...
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