Early Life
Capill was born in western Africa, his parents being Christian missionaries. Most of his youth was spent in New Zealand, mainly in the city of Christchurch. He was educated at Middleton Grange School, a large evangelical Protestant school in that city, where his father, Donald Capill, was Vice-Principal for most of the seventies, and his brothers, David, Murray and Timothy, attended the same school. He has described his religious beliefs as Presbyterian by conviction, although he chose to attend an Anglican church because his own was too accepting of "false teachers and those who are sexually permissive".
Initially, Capill worked in the aviation industry, qualifying as a pilot and an avionics engineer. Later, Capill decided to become a minister, and studied towards a Bachelor of Divinity degree at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia. He gained his degree in 1986, and returned to New Zealand to complete an internship at Wellington before becoming a minister of the Reformed Church of Dunedin in 1988. Capill also gained a law degree from the University of Canterbury in 1997.
Capill is married to Judith and has nine children.
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