Wayne Sutton (Bible Doctrine I & II)

Senior Pastor of Carrubbers Christian Centre

IBS Director

I was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York, and born again by grace through faith in Jesus Christ in my first year of studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, at the age of nineteen. Following graduation with a Bachelor of Engineering degree I worked for the United States Department of Defence in the Submarine Silencing division of the David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Centre, just outside Washington D.C.

While working for the government I was also heavily involved in lay ministry at McLean Bible Church in Virginia. During this time I attended the Capital Bible Seminary and graduated in 1991 with a Masters of Divinity.

I moved to Scotland in the spring of 1991, married Sarah in July and soon after began work as an associate pastor at Carrubbers. Since that time I have enjoyed a wide-spread Bible teaching ministry in many of the University and College Christian Unions throughout the country. We have also been a very significant development in the student ministry at Carrubbers in recent years.

In June of 1996, Carrubbers called me to the senior pastorate where I have been serving the Lord up to the present day. During the past 10 years in Scotland, I have been involved in Bible teaching ministry in various parts of the UK and have spent several years as an adjunct lecturer at the Golgotha Bible School in Talmaciu, Romania. I am also privileged to be the director of Carrubbers' Institute of Biblical Studies, a lay Bible training programme attached to the Centre. Sarah and I have two daughters, Rachel and Naomi.

Lawyer; Lecturer at the Scottish Baptist College and Asian Theological Seminary in Manila

I was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and joined the family law practice after graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1953. While working as a lawyer (and bringing up a young family) I embarked on a Bachelor of Divinity Degree by distance learning, and after that a part-time Doctorate of Philosophy at New College, Edinburgh on Tertullian, a second century lawyer who was converted in his thirties.

I lecture on Church History at the Scottish Baptist College and since my retirement from active legal practice in 1997 I have three times gone to the Asia Theological Seminary in Manila, to assist in their undergraduate and their post-graduate Church History departments.

I contribute to the International Conference on Patristic Studies, which is held every four years in Oxford, and I also had a paper published in the Journal of Early Christian Studies in December 2000. I am at present working on the history of Charlotte Baptist Chapel, Edinburgh, which has its bicentenary in 2008.

I have, since my student days, wholeheartedly supported the eleven-point Basis of the U.C.C.F., which has been adopted by many other conservative evangelical bodies, including Charlotte Chapel.

Alex McLellan (Apologetics)

Hamish Macrae (Prin. of Greek)

Member of Charlotte Baptist Chapel, Edinburgh
Textual Researcher and Expositor since 1955

I was born in the Black Isle in northern Scotland, where my parents farmed until 1932, when we all moved to Edinburgh and associated with Charlotte Chapel, where the illustrious Dr Scroggie ensured that we all developed an appetite for the Scriptures.

In the winter of 1940, at a meeting in, what was then, Carrubbers Close Mission, I experienced a new birth of the Spirit through faith in the Lord Jesus, and immediately acquired an insatiable thirst to read and to learn the Bible - I even memorised the whole of the New testament and huge swathes of the OT.

Just before my sixteenth birthday I began to preach the Gospel, at first at open air meetings but soon churches of all denominations gave me opportunity to preach and teach and by the time I was eighteen I had graduated to conference speaking.

I particularly enjoyed speaking at Christian Brethren conferences and Bible studies because so many of the people there were well informed on Biblical doctrine. In later life this minisrtry exended to all parts of UK, to Europe and to southern USA.

These activities led me into the study of NT Greek and from there to textual research and analysis which, after almost 50 years, I still pursue- sometimes in cooperation with distinguished scholars in this field.

In between these activities I was educated in a variety of Business Schools and Universities, mostly at the expense of the Business for which I worked. My business career, which began in Edinburgh, took me to London for almost thirty years. There I served in a number of senior executive roles and also as a registered Company Director.

In addition to my christian activities (which included five pastorates) I have also served as a visiting lecturer to a number of Universities and Business Schools in both UK and USA.

I am married to Margot and our family of two boys and a girl are succesfully grown up and are, in their own fields, active christians.

In nominal retirement, we joined the membership of Charlotte Chapel where we worship when our ongoing ministry permits.

David Anderson (Evangelism)

Eric Scott (Bible Survey)

Director and former President of Carrubbers Christian Centre

Eric John Scott (Hermeneutics)

Director and President of Carrubbers Christian Centre