Reverend Doctor Bill Mackie is 53 (24 May 1954) and served with the Royal Army Pay Corps as a Military Accountant from 1973 - 1982. He joined Swaggart Ministries in 1988 as Scottish Director, then as U.K. Director, stepping down in 1993 when he returned to the University. He graduated from Aberdeen University with a Bachelor of Theology Degree in 1997, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity Degree in 2000, for research he did on the Celtic Christian Church in Great Britain & Eire. It was honorary as he had a heart attack, and never finished the research until a year after his due date for Graduation. He has a ThD now as well. In 1999. He joined the Celtic Church in Ireland, and in 2001 was consecrated a Bishop. In 2004, he stepped down from the Celtic Church, but he continued as Chaplain to the Military Veterans Associations that have asked him to hold such a position for them. In 2005 he received a call asking me to consider rejoining Swaggart Ministries, and was re-ordained by Brother Swaggart at Easter Camp in Baton Rouge 2006. He is now self employed Security Consultant running security and anti - terrorism courses. Dr Mackie is a Member of the British Society of Criminology as well as being a member of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. (Both groups are based in London)

You may like to visit the Scottish Veterans Association to see more of Bill's and his compatriots activities in Scotland