Derek prime biography

  • Derek Prime was a Scottish evangelical minister and author.
  • Derek Prime is the author of Let's Study 2 Corinthians, published by the Trust.
  • Derek James Prime, M.A., S.Th., was born on 20 February 1931 in South Lambeth, London, the son of J. H. Prime, a Company Director.

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    When Derek Prime died on 20 March 2020, I was asked to prepare obituaries for The Scotsman, for his Cambridge College and for two evangelical monthlies. Because of the Coronavirus lockdown, my copy of his (fascinating) 1968 autobiography, My Call to Preach, was, along with all the other Charlotte Chapel records, inaccessible in the City of Edinburgh archives.

    A search on the Internet brought up so few copies of the book for sale that it seems worthwhile reproducing the text here, followed by the obituaries in The Scotsman and the Emmanuel College magazine.

    An interview with Derek Prime about his last published work, his own testimony on the eve of his eighty-second birthday and tributes by family and friends, are all available on the internet under Derek J Prime.

    My Call to Preach

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    My Call to Preach PDF

    Scotsman Obituary

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    Scotsman Obituary PDF

    Emmanuel College Obituary

    Derek James Prime (1951) died on 28 March 2020.
    We have received the following tribute from an Edinburgh friend, Ian Balfour.

    Derek James Prime, M.A., S.Th., was born on 20 February 1931 in South Lambeth, London, the son of J. H. Prime, a Company Dire

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    Derek Prime

    Derek Prime, M.A., S.Th., was born in 1931 in South Lambeth, London, and attended Westminster City School. His parents were neither professing Christians nor churchgoers and Sundays were spent in visiting his grandmother until she was killed by enemy action in the early years of the war. In 1944, at the age of 13, some school-friends persuaded him to go with them to a Bible class at Lansdowne Evangelical Free Church in West Norwood, near his home. There he heard the gospel and became a Christian.  In June 1946, at the age of 15, he was baptized and received into church membership. As many of the older men were away on military service, he had many opportunities of speaking and preaching.

    During his teen years, he began to sense a call to the ministry which was soon confirmed and he was ordained to his first pastorate in 1957. He was for twelve years pastor at Lansdowne Evangelical Free Church before moving to Edinburgh at the age of 38 with his wife and four children. Prime was appointed minister at Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh, where he served for eighteen years (1969-1987).

    While at Lansdowne, he was President of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (1966). Since 1987 he has given his time to writing and itinerant ministry and has written a number

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