AGM of Highland Christian Schools Trust

The Annual General Meeting of HCST took place on 13 October in the YMCA, Bank Street, Inverness, with about thirty people present. The Rev. Maurice Roberts of Greyfriars Free Church opened the meeting with prayer and after the singing of Psalm 119. 9-14 and the reading of Acts 4. 13-22 the Chairman of the Trust gave his report.
Mr. Nixon spoke briefly of the Trusts’ history and said that after five years in existence there was some faint evidence of a growing interest. During the past year many letters had been to MSPs on educational and moral issues. Some sympathy for the stand of HCST had come from the Conservative Party. Brian Souter was to be commended for his campaign regarding Section 28. Mr. Nixon spoke of his own recent experience of home-schooling his own daughter. They were using a curriculum supplied by a Christian school and even the education authorities seemed impressed with it.
Letters recently received by the Trust included one from the Christian Institute of Newcastle and another from the Lewis Independent Christian School in Stornoway, now in its second academic year.
A financial report drawn up by the Treasurer, Mr. Andrew Homes, was available at the meeting, as were tapes of previous meetings.
Mr. Nixon then introduced the speaker for the evening, the Rev. David P. Murray (now minister of Stornoway Free Church [Continuing] ), who gave an address entitled ‘The Online Christian School’. (We hope to include the text of this address in our next issue, D.V.)
Following a time of questions Mr. Scott Melhuish concluded the meeting with prayer.