Gordon Dane is the minister of Crossgar Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland which was the first congregation of the Free Presbyterian denomination. He is a graduate of Aston University Birmingham and also of the Theological Hall of the Free Presbyterian Church and of Trinity Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1987 as the first minister of Aughnacloy Free Presbyterian Church having spent the two previous years there as a Student Minister. Then he was the minister of Coragarry Free Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Ireland for almost 12 years. Since 1989 Mr Dane has also been a lecturer in New Testament Greek in the Whitefield College of the Bible. He is the author of one book "The 1641 Rebellion in Ulster". Mr. Dane is married to Florence and has three children Faith, James and Ruth.