Pastor Rich

Pastor Rich


Pastor Rich is a native Californian, received his B.S. in Geology and Religious Studies from the College of Wooster, and earned his M.Div. from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Prior to coming to Faith Pres, Rev. Poole served as a chaplain in Colorado, as pastor in Texas, and as director of a campus ministry at the University of Oklahoma.

rev.richard.poole@gmail.com

youth

Christian Education


The spiritual education of our children is very important to us. Sunday school is made available to all ages, and children are very involved in the worship services.


Highlights of the Christian education program include: The Christmas Pageant, Tuesday Nite Live, The Community Easter Egg Hunt, and the Rally Day Worship Service

youthministries@faithpresvv.org

Our Church


We are a diverse community and we welcome all who wish to be part of this inclusive, multigenerational, and multicultural congregation. Together we seek to find God, to deepen our spiritual awareness, and to experience God’s forgiveness and grace. We seek to live out the spirit of Jesus Christ’s saving presence in the world through equipping and empowering one another for witness and service to all of God’s people here and everywhere.

churchoffice@faithpresvv.org

Our Church

Faith Welcomes New Partners in Ministry!

This past Sunday, Faith Presbyterian Church announced and formalized its relationship with three new partners in ministry! Faith was delighted to meet, and receive, the Rev. Curtis Webster, who has just begun his ministry at San Francisco Theological Seminary as the co-director of enrollment and Pastor-in-Residence. Curtis, his wife Kay, and two of their seven …

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World Communion Sunday a WILD Success!

Thanks to all the wonderful readers we had in worship this last Sunday, filling up our sanctuary with close to a “thousand tongues to sing our dear Redeemers praise!” German! Tagalog! A Persian Version! and Biblical Greek was used to praise our God of all nations and peoples as we gathered with a full house …

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The New Website is Here!

Somethings New? Have no fear your new webmaster is here. Ransin Maryohanna has decided to step down after years of excellent website work. I know you will miss his work. The old site is alive and well at old site Index. I have made several behind the scenes changes to our site that will allow …

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We’ll Continue to Be the Church God Wants Us to Be

We know some in the congregation thought the PNC was moving very slowly, but when we had made up our minds things moved really quite quickly! Some of us had met Rev. Richard Poole before Christmas when, having already decided we were almost ready to invite him to preach at a neutral pulpit, we were …

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