From staff reports
Beaufort native Sally Foster-Fulton was recently selected as Moderator of the General Assembly for the Church of Scotland. She was installed in her new position during a ceremony on Saturday, May 20, 2023, in Edinburgh.
In addition to chairing the annual General Assembly, Foster-Fulton will spend the next year traveling through Scotland and abroad as the official representative and goodwill ambassador for the Church. She currently serves as the head of Christian Aid in Scotland, a global movement that seeks to “eradicate extreme poverty by tackling its root causes,” according to its website. She’ll be taking a one-year sabbatical from that position in order to fulfill the responsibilities of Moderator.
Foster-Fulton was born in Beaufort, where her faith journey began at First Presbyterian Church.
“My family was the church and before I understood what that meant, I felt welcomed, loved and part of something,” said Foster-Fulton.
She earned her university degree at Presbyterian College, focusing on English Literature and Religion, and later attended Columbia Theological Seminary, where she met her future husband, Stuart Fulton. She completed her Divinity training at Glasgow’s University Trinity College.
After serving with her husband as co-pastor for a Presbyterian congregation in Seneca, S.C., in the early 2000s, the couple chose to make Scotland their permanent home.
Sally Foster-Fulton is the daughter of Beaufort resident Gam Foster and her late husband, Sonny. She is the sister of Beaufort’s Martha Harvey and sister-in-law of longtime City attorney Bill Harvey.
