sentences:  Following a long vacancy, a probationer minister, the Rev.David S. Carmichael, was ordained and inducted on 2 September 1982, and has since continued to faithfully serve the Lord and His people.On 26 March 2020, the congregation of Abbeygreen Church, in unity with its minister and elders left the Church of Scotland and on 31 March 2020, the minister was accepted and recognized as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and the congregation of Abbeygreen was joyfully re-admitted into the Free Church of Scotland, where it began in 1843.