Kenneth MacDonald, a native of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, served for some years in South Africa as an artisan missionary. He then returned to Scotland to study at the Free Church of Scotland College, Edinburgh. He was ordained to the pastoral ministry in 1997 and was minister of the Snizort congregation in Skye until 2008 and was then called to Scalpay Isle of Harris where he ministered until 2016. Now retired, he lives in the Isle of Lewis.