Rev. Barry Taylor is pleased to be back in the Friendly City, and he hopes to minister at Moose Jaw Free Methodist Church for so long as his boss will allow.
“I feel we want to be here … as long as God intends for us to be here,” he told the Times-Herald while sitting in his office at the 375 Hochelaga St. W. Evangelical church.
Taylor’s wife, Tracey (Purdy) Taylor, is originally from Moose Jaw and the local pastor received his Bachelor of Theology at Aldersgate Bible College before the local school shutdown in the 1990s. A Free Methodist minister for 18 years, Taylor also worked in Regina before moving back to his hometown of Courtice, Ont., where he has remained for the bulk of his career.
However, Taylor recently took a year off to work on his masters degree and, while doing so, he and his wife decided he would get back into the ministry and of all the Free Methodist churches hiring, Moose Jaw’s was the one to which they heard the ‘calling.’
“We felt God leading us here…. It’s sort of ‘back to the West.’”
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