Rev. Sarah Moore - Transitional Minister

I have been ordained as a Minister in the United Reformed Church for almost 19 years serving initially as a local church minister in Darwen, Lancashire.
I was born and grew up in London and read for my first degree (in Theology and Religious Studies) at what was then the Roehampton Institute before training for ministry at Westminster College, Cambridge, one of the URC’s training colleges gaining a Masters degree in Pastoral Theology.  Two degrees weren’t enough so I have also studied part time for a foundation degree in Counselling and an Open University degree in Law since ordination!
I have served in Scotland working as part of the synod team at the National Synod of Scotland since January 2020.  My role is promoting and enabling transition ministry helping local congregations and the people who lead them develop and take next steps in mission and ministry.  

   Rev Mary Taylor - Pastoral Assistant
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Brigitte Harris - Organist, Director of Music

Brigitte Harris is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, with an A-Exam (Master) in Church Music. She studied organ with Helmut Tramnitz and Gerhard Weinberger, and choral conducting with Alexander Wagner.  Her career in Britain has included both instrumental teaching and performing, as an organist and as a specialist teacher of recorder.

Brigitte has always been active in the field of organ education and has a busy organ teaching practice in and around Edinburgh, as well as Midlothian, Fife and beyond. In 1999 she established an organ teaching scheme in the Scottish Borders in association with The Borders’ Guild of Organists, of whom she is a past President.

​Brigitte is a Lecturer in Harmony, Keyboard Skills and Improvisation at the Ian Tomlin Academy of Music at Edinburgh Napier University. She has taught at the Vicenza Music Conservatoire as part of an Erasmus exchange and has been an organ tutor on RCO Academy courses. She also teaches the organ at George Watson’s College.

She has served on the Committee of the Edinburgh Society of Organists and has been a regular member of the teaching staff of the Edinburgh Organ Academy. In addition, she regularly advises and trains musicians in organ and choral skills. She has co-published two practical organists’ hymnbooks (Hymns for Lent and Easter, Fifteen Christmas Hymns).
(Source: http://www.bordersorganists.org.uk/brigitte.htm)

Sarah McKernan, Office Manager

Email: [email protected] 
Phone: 0131 447 3152

Rose Kumbanga, Congregation Secretary