FORMER Launceston lawyer Alistair Bain will be ordained into St Andrew's Presbyterian Church tonight, and hopes to use religion instead of law to set people on the right path.
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Mr Bain, who will become the Reverend Bain at 7pm, did his legal apprenticeship in Launceston and worked at Douglas and Collins as a defence lawyer for five years.
His wife, Rachael, was a teacher at Scotch Oakburn.
"I had an ongoing realisation that once a lawyer becomes involved in someone's life it is often too late," he said.
"As a Christian I believed the problems encountered in the world are not solved in a legal way, we have spiritual rather than legal issues to address so I wanted to be helpful to people at a much earlier stage in their lives."
In 2004 Mr Bain, his wife and daughter Rose took the first step to addressing those issues and moved to Sydney to study at the Sydney Missionary Bible College.
"We then came back in the hope that we could be part of a church which was helping people in their need with the message of hope, which was the gospel," he said.
"We have been given certain gifts and we could use those gifts to build up our own little kingdom as a teacher or lawyer, or we could use them in a way that could have eternal significance."
