About our Interim Pastor; Rev. Dr. Paul Bonham...

Paul began life in the mountains of West Virginia where he spend summers on the farm and winters in the small towns where his father worked on flood control projects. When his father joined the Army for WW II, the family moved to Huntington, WV. After World War II his father served in Korea and the family joined him there where Paul attended the 7th and 8th grades before being evacuated at the startup of the Korean War.

After graduating from high school in Heidelberg, Germany Paul took a degree in mining engeineering from the Colorado School of Mines, then leased and operated a gold mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado. With the draft board close on his heels Paul brought his mining career to a close and joining the U.S. Navy. He served in the Civil Engineer Corp in posts that included Thailand, Italy, Newfoundland, and Vietnam as well as stations in the United States.

In 1985 Paul left the Navy after 25 years with the rank of Captain and entered Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. Upon graduation in 1988 he served a small country church in North Carolina and at the same time took his Doctor of Ministry degree from Colombia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Since then he has served pastorates in Florida and South Carolina.

In 2006 Paul retired as pastor of historic Indiantown Presbyterian Church near Kingstree, South Carolina and moved with his wife Pat to her girlhood home in southern Chesterfield County. Paul continues to preach and do part time pastoral work. Before coming to FHPC he served as interim pastor to Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church.