Profile: Rev Hubert McKenzie
Rev Hubert McKenzie was minister at Clapton and Dalston churches.
Hubert writes:
I have served the Christian faith as a minister for the past 35 years.
I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal saviour at the age of 10 in a Nazarene crusade in Guyana, South America. I was called by God to become a preacher at the age of 14 while I was an active Sunday school teacher and youth leader in the Nazarene Church. To fulfil my calling I entered the Caribbean Nazarene Theological College in Trinidad, West Indies in January 1966 and graduated after 4 years residential ministerial training.
Since then, while being a minister, I have also undertaken secular work as a probation officer, social worker and youth director. I also pursued studies in youth work, social work and management. I lived in Hackney in the 1980s when I was chaplain to Caribbean House.
I am very much interested in the ecumenical affairs of the church and have served on the Education Committee of the former British Council of Churches for 2 years and on the Racial Justice Committee for Churches Together in England for 2 years. I have also served for sevearal years as an adjudicator for the International Ministerial Council of Great Britain / Shiloh United Church of Christ.
I have served in the Methodist Church in Guyana, done voluntary work with the Grace United Methodist Church in Brooklyn, New York and the Methodist churches in Peckham and Newham. Most recently I was appointed to the Nuneaton and Atherstone Circuit and studied at the Queen's Foundation, Birmingham.