Rev. Paul Evans
Associate Pastor
pevans@fpcga.org

A native of Yazoo City, Mississippi, Paul Evans is in his twenty-fourth year as a member of the staff at First Presbyterian Church, Gainesville, Georgia. Prior to that, he served several churches throughout the South as a director of youth ministries, a position that led him to Gainesville in 1986. In 1989 he entered Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and completed his Master of Divinity degree in 1992, while continuing to serve at First Presbyterian Church. He is also a 1969 graduate of Belhaven College, Jackson Mississippi, and has done graduate study in New Testament research at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California.

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.