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II- Wednesday December age IS PEOPLE Reverends life is never dull By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald writer To many people being a minister is a sober narrow existence The old saw about everything hat fun being either illegal immoral or fat lening seems to be the way a minister life must be in many people s eyes Then they meet Andy McKetuie and discover ho t fit the image Rev Andrew McKcnzie who has spent years as he minister or Knox Presbyterian Church In Acton will leave the congregation the end of Jan to take over new duties in Perth Rev McKcnzie has done a lot of other things during his time in and it is these Interests that give the lie to the straight laced Image of a minister He be longs to the Acton Rotary Club and served as president In He has been a director Acton Chamber or Com and its president from 1964 to He has been padre of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 197 since he first came to town He was one of five delegates to the national Conservative con in He was on the board of directors of the Acton Curling Club and look his turn as president in He la also a member of Walker Masonic Lodge and the Cull en Club Besides that he found time to raise seven children and lake care of his congregation COMPARED NOW These days a minister must be a community minister more than a congregational minis ler he says I am under more calls from outside than church than Inside It And these people are often more demanding than members of the congrcgallon Some of Ihem want service now if not sooner when they call up I don I feel there much wis dom In getting a great pile of people you can handle He feels that members Is the absolute maximum a con great ion minister can handle on his own and he has no secretary at Acton Luckily he loves record keeping filing part of the minister work He haa officiated at weddings funerals for members baptisms and received new members Into the congregation during years Since he mates members of the congregation move per year charge has increased only slightly in that lime COUNTY Rev was bom in May 1919 on a farm In Huron County As sixth child in a family of six boys and two girls he had no idea how he was going to get an education He only knew he get one some how His father died months after retiring at the age of because of heart trouble and Rev McKeniie worked and borrowed to pay for his school Ing He studied at Toronto Bible college the University of To the University of the Presbyterian College in Montreal Yale University and the University or Sackville New Brunswick Winning the gold medal for the highest marks in theology during the three year course Prcsby College Montreal en titled him to the graduate travel scholarship this enabled him to go to Yale Rev McKcnzie s original In tent I on when he went to Yale was to gel his Doctorate of Divinity then take teaching position In one of Canada two Presbyterian Colleges How ever while he was at Yale the New Testament Ins true lor positions both schools were filled by young men It terrible disappoint ho says I could have gone ahead but there have been no place for me to teach when I finished so I very reluctantly decided that I d better change my plans and become a congregational min later He preached for calls In both Windsor and Islington In the fall of and got the word from both places within hours of each other that both congregations wanted him I took one with the work and the least money he chuckles The Islington congregation consisted of 79 members shipping in a hall basement when he went there but it hod grown to members and a brand new building by he time he left In 1956 NOT EAGER When I left there I felt If I never did anything more In the church I done a pretty good Job he says I l loo eager to come to Acton I thought of myself a ban minister and I wondered how aland the quiet slow and conservatism of a town As theycare paused to like It very much Rev McKcnzie lists curling golf hunting gardening pho tography and reading as hob bles He also likes carpentry and bull I his own cottage on Ihe French River In 196364 golfing curling and service club memberships He will be the thirteenth minister in Perth as he was in Acton He also jokes that Lanark County elected a Liberal in generations a comforting thought for a dedicated Tory Although he Is only five to seven years short or retire ment Rev McKcnzie decided to move because he wants a fresh opportunity to use his experience I think I ve accumulated quite a bit of understanding or human nature and he way to motivate people to serve the church he says like one more change to use what 1 learned starting completely This seems to feel they win a man who has proved himself In another pastorate Rev McKcnzie met his wife when they were both attending Toronto Bible College at the beginning of the war They married in 1942 In many ways Rev McKcn fecli lucky Instill be In the ministry After he had a heart attack in 1971 his hcillh wis so bad he feared he would have to retire early My memory was so bad for a long time that began writing full transcript of my sermons and prayers and everything he I don most people how bad 1 was I was just hanging on by my fingernails for about three years Heart problems run in his family he says but he has had a slow heart and tht attack was more like heart failure than like a heart at tack It like I was going to fain he says My vision started to go and I had to pull off to the side of road I 1 faint though until I got to thi hospital in Guclph I think it was more an attack or exhaustion than a heart attack such He has made great changes in his diet since then as well as curtailing some of his tiesand about began to pick up again Rev McKcnzie Is a great family mail and the he about his youngsters re flect the fact that because they are raised in a manse keep them from being Just like youngster The eldest Joanne Ander son lives in with her it yearold daughter and It is the dog which has disrupt the orderly existence Rev hud mapped out Tor his family It seems that when Mrs Anderson and her daughter Nancy moved into a house in rrom an apartment in Toronto it was suggested that a dog might make a suitable Christmas present for tht young lady who now had room to keep one Rev and Mrs McKenzic- went to the pound at Li mi house and round a little wire haired and look her home on a Thursday night lo have her all ready when Nancy arrived Friday evening Unfortunately for all his well Inlentioned plans when Nancy arrived Friday night she had a dog with her My heart Just sank when I walked in and saw that dog he says I knew exactly what thai meant We were stuck with the dog Of course Bill his yearold son was to death He been unsuccessfully for dag for years and I always said no Misty is now Infamous all over town he says a grin She went down around the MP supermarket one day they her a bone now they do it regularly They have nicknamed her The Rev McKcnzie loughs as he explains how eldest son Alan managed to hitchhike all over Europe and Asia at the old age of 18 During the eight months he was away hi only worked seven weeks on an electric turbine Helsinki Finland He stayed in hostels and managed on next Rev said In the end he wired his father that he thought he mint home if Dad would loan him the mon Alan has now left his semi hippie ideas behind him and is earning good money as a well sight geologist He completed his honours degree In s was persuaded to try working in the oil fields by a friend who promised he could have io necessary qua I ideations In two If he applied himself He did and finished his course in IB Rev says the best way to gel his boys do thing was dare them They resist a dare he chuckles When we were In the Bahamas for a week two years ago someone dared Bill lo shave off his hair He did He looked like Beechnut when we got back Son Glen who lives at home and works in at CN Fxpress was once d ired streak through Acton high school ond crushed Into a plate door In the process Tin three MeKinzit irls all home Mar i Itoughlcy is a tachcr lit University of Alberta Alum a hank tiller in Albcr la Carol lues in Kingston REVEREND ANDREW BOOKS CARDS CALENDARS at THE BOOK SHOP 108 Main St S Downtown Georgetown 8861 Gou 1978 YEAR END ST0REWIDE HOME FURNISHINGS CLEARANCE SALE 4 DAYS ONLY EVERYTHING OUR REGULAR LOW PRICES IN STOCK MERCHANDISE ONLY APPLIANCES NOT INCLUDED WED THURS SAT DEC 27 28 29 30 NO PHONE ORDERS PERSONAL SHOPPING ONLY MAIN ST DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN WEDNESDAY PM ALL SALES fINAL thurs a pm SATURDAY PM robert Clearance Sale Group of Ladies DRESSES Off Group of ladies coordinated SPORTS WEAR 3 Group of Ladies SWEATERS to Adult SKI JACKETS 29 Reg 37 Ladies BODY SHIRTS 3 Slight Subs Group of Mens SHIRTS Vz Off Girls 46X DRESSES PANT SUITS Kiddies 46X COATS 99 Girls 714 SKI JACKETS Reg Girls 714 PLAID JACKETS Reg 26 Assorted Group BRAND NAME JEANS 14 BATH TOWELS