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 PrintableVersion An irregular candidateJackie Ross of BlythswoodModern visionaryAN IRREGULAR CANDIDATE: This is the story of how God took one young man with a gospel passion, in a very conservative Presbyterian church in the West Highlands, and used him in ways no one could have asked or imagined. Jackie was founder of the Blythswood Tract Society, now Blythswood Care. His life is told through the words of himself and his wife Elma, their five children and a host of friends. From student days reaching Glasgow tenements in the 60s, through ministry in the FP Church in Lochcarron, to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the explosion in Blythswood's work, this reads almost as fast as Jackie's legendary driving. Every so often God gives to his church a visionary, a risk-taker who will see potential for the gospel that cannot be ignored, so fired by a passion for the lost that obstacles are only there to be overcome. Jackie was a pioneer with a great heart, a deep compassion for people, and a way of translating ideas into reality. Sometimes he tried the patience of his friends, and his bank manager, but his gospel motives were beyond reproach. Jackie died in March 2002. His struggle with cancer and his radiant faith in dying is dealt with in great honesty. 1,500 people packed into Dingwall Free Church for his funeral service, a measure of the gratitude to God that lives on in the hearts of so many when they remember Jackie Ross. This is quite the most moving book I have read in a long time. Jim Sayers,
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