Julian Kennedy is a Scotsman and Edinburgh University medical graduate (1976). He came to faith in 1974. In 1983 he was sent by his church as a medical officer aboard the OM ship MV Logos and met his wife-to-be, Marianna, in Venezuela. They courted by letter and married at her home in Trinidad in 1985. They have two adult daughters and a son. He worked mainly in emergency medicine until he retired in 2017. He is a deacon of Covenant Protestant Reformed Church in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.