Born in the rural heartland of County Down Northern Ireland, the Rev Harris has served God in full time pastoral ministry for some 32 years. His ministry began just outside Belfast Northern Ireland, where he served in Carrickfergus Free Presbyterian Church for 12 years. In 1997, after feeling God's call to distant lands, his ministry was moved to East Africa, Kenya, where he laboured in church planting, Bible teaching and pastoral ministry for 8 years. In 2005, the sovereign hand of God brought him to Annalong Free Presbyterian Church, where he currently occupies the pulpit on a full time basis. The Rev Harris is also the present chairman of the Mission Board of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.