In his introduction to Sunday evening’s sermon, Stephen mentioned Rev. John Tweed, an RPCNA pastor who passed away last week. John served as interim pastor in Stephen’s home congregation during the summers of 2007 and 2008 when they were without a minister. There is also a connection to Scotland, as John’s father was the minister of the Glasgow congregation for a few years, until the outbreak of WWII meant he had to return home.
John and Alta Tweed pictured outside Faughan RPC in 2007
Rev. Kyle Borg, who preached in Stranraer in January, wrote a tribute to John the day that he died entitled ‘John H. Tweed | An Ordinary Pastor’. You can read it on the Gentle Reformation blog.
Kyle writes ‘Today, Jesus has tended another one of his sheep through the pasture of this life and into eternity’ - and on Sunday evening we saw how we can be confident that that will be true of us as well.