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800 South Enota Avenue
Gainesville, GA 30501
770-532-0136
Our Pastors
Dr.
Jap Keith, Pastor,
jkeith@fpcga.org
Jasper Newton Keith, Jr. was born the only child of Jap and
Jap graduated received a Bachelor of Arts degree
from
Jap served as pastor of small congregations
throughout college and seminary. Following seminary he was pastor of a
new church development in
Jap was certified an ACPE Supervisor by the
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. in 1967 and served as
its President in 1984-85. He was certified Fellow by the American
Association of Pastoral Counselors in 1973, and was licensed by the
State of
From 1973 to 1983 Jap was the Professor of
Supervised Ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary, and from 1983 to
1996 he was the Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling. He was
received as a “teaching elder” in the Atlanta Presbytery, PCUS, on June
12, 1973, and he was honorably retired as a Minister of Word and
Sacraments of the PC(USA) on March 31, 2006. Between 1973 and 1996 Jap
served fifteen interims in thirteen congregations of the Presbytery of
Greater Atlanta. He was Senior Pastor, Head of Staff, at the Decatur (
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Rev. Paul Evans, Associate Pastor,
pevans@fpcga.org Paul was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1992 and was called to become an Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Gainesville, working primarily in the areas of Christian education, pastoral care and worship He currently is the teacher for the Rocks of All Ages Sunday School class, the B-4 Bible study and supervises our congregation’s Stephen Ministry. He has also served in leadership positions with the Presbytery of Northeast Georgia, the Synod of the South Atlantic and the General Assembly, including a term as a Commissioner to the General Assembly in 2003 and as a clergy representative to the national Presbyterian Men’s organization.
He is a co-founder of GHAIN, now known as Gainesville Action Ministry, and has served on the boards of the Hall County Coalition on Adolescent Pregnancy, the Drug Awareness Task Force of Hall County, and as chair of the board of the Career Development Center of the Southeast, Decatur Georgia. Paul has also been active with the Boy Scouts, serving as our congregation’s institutional representative and as chaplain for Boy Scout Troop 3.
Current affiliations include membership in the Society of Biblical Studies, the Biblical Archeological Society and the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research. His hobbies include reading, canoeing, and Biblical archeology. Paul is married to Karen McElroy Evans, a native Georgian, who is an accountant for the Mansfield Oil Company in Gainesville. |
 Rev. Shon
Peppers, Family Ministry
speppers@fpcga.orgShon was born in Atlanta but has lived in Gainesville since he was four years of age. He is a 1994 graduate of Brenau University where he received a B.S. in Human Resource Management with a minor in History.
Before Shon graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary where he earned an MDIV degree during a three year matriculation, he and his wife Lori served as House Parents at a ministry called Eagle Ranch for five years where they walked alongside young men and their hurting families as they worked toward family reunification with a Christ centered basis. Prior to that, Shon worked for United Parcel Service for eleven years and Lori was a stay at home mom until feeling led to go into full time ministry. Before UPS, Shon worked as a Hall County Deputy for a just over a year until enrolling into college full time. Shon also served as a Sergeant in the United States Army Reserves for six years and is very appreciative for that experience and his time of service in the military.
Shon’s hobbies include reading, fishing of any kind, fly tying, gardening, beekeeping, golfing, canoeing, camping and anything outdoors that is even remotely adventurous. However, his favorite hobby is spending time with his family. He and Lori have two sons, Thomas and Jonathan. They also have three dogs: Bailey, a black Labrador retriever; Heidi, a Parson wired hair terrier and Kipper, a black terrier mix; along with three cats: Mr. Floyd, Toby and Tula. They do all types of things together as a family but mostly just hang out and enjoy one another and their time together.
Shon has been on staff at First Presbyterian Church since August, 2009. His current area of responsibility is Family Ministry and sharing the love. |
