Born and reared in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia, Randy Thompson holds a B. S. from Virginia Tech, a M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary, and a D. Min. from Westminster Seminary in California. He was the church planter and then pastor of Evangelical Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Cape Coral, Florida in 1980 and served there until 1995. He has also served as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greenwood, Mississippi. In 2002 he became the pastor of First Presbyterian. He and his wife Cathy, have four grown children and eight grandchildren.