Rev. Paul Thompson is a graduate from the Whitefield college of the Bible. Rev. Thompson was brought up in the rural district of Kells, Ballymena, County Antrim, where his family attended the Ballymena Free Presbyterian Church. During his early years as a teenager he was converted to Christ under the preaching of the gospel, in his early Twenties he then felt that God was calling him to the Christian ministry, after theological training the door of opportunity opened for ministry in Mount Merrion where he pastored the congregation from 2007 to 2015. Paul is now the minister of Antrim Free Presbyterian Church. Paul is married to Kay, together they have six children, three girls and three boys.