Rev. Neil Young
Positive. Light-hearted. Authoritative
Rev. Neil Young, who had led the occasional Sunday Service at St. Paul’s United Church since early summer, will serve as Supply Minister to our church, beginning January 1, 2026, until June 30, 2026.
Rev. Young was originally a ministerial candidate out of Woodroffe United Church in Ottawa and studied at Emmanuel College in Toronto from 1983 to 1986.
He was ordained at Montral & Ottawa Conference in 1986 and was settled in Borderlands Pastoral Charge, Moose Jaw Presbytery: Coronach, Fife Lake, Rockglen & Killdeer. Rev. Young took a second settlement in Iron Bridge & Bellingham, Algoma Presbytery.
He moved to Harriston & Cotswold, Bruce Presbytery, in 1992, then to Erindale in Mississauga, Halton Presbytery, in 1999. In 2015, he moved to St. Andrew’s at Yonge and Bloor Streets in Toronto, from which he retired.
Rev. Young has served in matters of finance and property at all levels of the church and was on the council of Emmanuel College and the Board of Regents of Victoria University for nine years. His interests have included ancient numismatics and Biblical archaeology.