Wiveliscombe Evangelical Congregational Church
On Saturday 14 June 2003, Rev Alan Millar was officially recognised at a special welcoming or 'Induction' service held at the chapel.
Prior to coming to Wiveliscombe, Alan was for twenty three years pastor of Chinnor Congregational Church. During his time in Chinnor the church steadily grew and Alan has been thrilled at what extra-ordinary things the living God can do through ordinary people. Ursula, is wife, was a staff nurse in the Eye Department of the world famous Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Aylesbury.
Alan and Ursula's roots are, however, in Scotland. Ursula was born and brought up in Dundee where she trained to be a nurse before studying Midwifery at the Simpson Memorial Hospital in Edinburgh. Alan grew up in a village in central Scotland.
They met while studying at the Bible Training Institute (now Glasgow International Christian College) in Glasgow and married in January 1972. For two and a half years they lived and worked in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was no easy decision to leave their homeland, but because they believed that God wanted them to work in England, they moved south of the border to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in 1973, and then to Chinnor in Oxfordshire in 1979.
Introducing Alan and Ursula
