Starting on November 20, 2011, Reverend Ken Wonderland will become the pastor of Bensalem Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Ken Wonderland’s spiritual life has deep roots in the Presbyterian Church and our area. His Welsh paternal grandparents were members of the Girard Avenue Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and eventual members of the Ardmore Presbyterian Church. His parents joined Neshaminy Warwick Presbyterian Church in Hartsville, Warminster, Pa., in the early 1950’s, where Ken was baptized, educated and acclimated to a very positive church, church school and youth-music program. He attended Hatboro Horsham Senior High; obtained his B.A. in Secondary Education- Social Sciences, from Muhlenberg College; and graduated from Princeton Th eological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity in 1983.
His first call as a Minister of the Word and Sacrament was to the Community Chapel of West Glens Falls, Glens Falls New York, a three quarter time Stated Supply position, serving from 1983 to 1991. Ken’s second call was to the Webb Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church of Middletown, New York, as Co-pastor with his wife, serving from 1991 until 2007. He then turned to Interim Ministry work serving the Beacon Presbyterian Church, Beacon N.Y., from 2007 until February of 2010. His most recent position was serving as a yoked Interim position for the Marlboro and Highland Presbyterian Churches, Marlboro, N.Y.
Ken’s wife, Rev. Susan Faye Wonderland, have known each other since Church School and Youth Group days at Neshaminy Warwick. Th ey married after she graduated from Muhlenberg and both entered Princeton Seminary together in 1978. Susan currently serves as the Associate Executive for The Synod of the Trinity.
They have three grown children; Kyra, Ryan and Jayme.
