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Alex Taylor was born January 24, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1962, and a Masters of Divinity from Victoria University in Toronto in 1965. Taylor served as a member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Kerrobert - Kindersley electoral district from 1971 to 1975. During part of this time, 1972-1975, he served as the Minister of Social Services and Minister Responsible for the Public Service Commission and the Public Service Superannuation Board.

From 1965, Taylor was a United Church Minister at Zion United Church in Regina, Lang - Milestone United Church, and at Eatonia - Mantario United Church. He also served for 10 years as chaplain of HMCS Queen, retiring in 1991 with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He retired from the active ministry in 2001.

From 1978 to 1980 he chaired the Saskatchewan Worker's Compensation Board, and prepared the legislation changing compensation from pension to salary replacement. From 1980 to 1981 he chaired the Saskatchewan Task Force on Rehabilitation and the Minister's consultation on Home Care. In 2000 he was elected to the Regina Health District Board, and appointed to the new Regional Board, which became the Regina - Qu'Appelle Health Authority. In 2002 he was elected Board Chair of Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO), and served in that role until 2010. He was also Chair of Canadian Health Care Association.

Clergy member of the United Church of Canada.

Raymond Hord was born on December 14, 1918 in Ilderton, Ontario to James and Lena Hord. While doing a ministerial apprenticeship at Eastend, Saskatchewan in the 1940s he met and married June Wright. They moved to Regina where he became the first minister at Lakeview United Church, from 1948 to 1959. Hord died on March 1, 1968.

G.G. Heffelfinger was a Presbyterian and later United Church minister, whose Saskatchewan pastorates included Buchanan, Grenfell, Vanscoy, Melfort, Sixth Avenue United Church (Regina), and Watrous.