[5] The current part-time secretary, Wallace Thompson, in 2009 also became chairman of the creationist pressure group the Caleb Foundation.
[6] Thompson, a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Independent Orange Order and the Apprentice Boys of Derry, is a former civil servant.
[1] In 2008, while employed as an adviser to Nigel Dodds, a minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, Thompson caused some controversy by asserting in a radio interview (in his capacity as EPS secretary) that the Pope was the Antichrist.
Dr William J. Malcolmson, a minister of the Congregational Reformed Church in east Belfast, and an activist in the Orange Order and Royal Black Institution, and its chairman Vincent Shortt, a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Orange Order, the Black Institution and the Apprentice Boys.
[1] David McConaghie, a Free Presbyterian minister and Democratic Unionist Party official, and a co-founder of the Caleb Foundation, served on the EPS Council from 1999 but his name disappeared from its website in late 2012.