Liz Hughes
Board member
Rev Dr Liz Hughes has recently retired as Minister of Whitehouse Presbyterian Church in Belfast, where she has served since December 2000.
Liz qualified in Edinburgh as a registered general nurse and became a deaconess before taking up the ordained ministry.
Liz and her husband served as missionary ministers with the United Church in Jamaica from 1987-95, fuelling her special interest in Global Mission and the learnings from the developing church context. On her return to Northern Ireland, Rev Hughes served as Associate Minister in 1st Bangor Presbyterian Church.
In 2016, the Rev Hughes was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Divinity for her outstanding service, becoming only the second female Presbyterian minister to be recognised in this way.
She served as Convener and Chair of the PCI Council for Global Mission from 2015 - 2022.