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You are invited to share in a Community with a Heart, ~ in the Heart of the Community |
7 Seminary Street
Sunday Worship 10:30 AM |
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Rev. Richard Dickinson, Pastor, with his wife May Yin |
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You could have the experience of a lifetime!
It is the neighborly thing to do - inviting people to your home. One of our members more than likely lives around the corner or on your street. We are, therefore placing an open invitation to you to come and join us in our Church Family home. You might be looking for a live church in which to worship and a Christian family in which to share in mission. Fellowship, and growing spiritual life. New residents, students, visitors, travelers, families, singles and people from all kinds of church and non-church backgrounds are warmly welcomed at our Church Family home.
Our faith in Christ is what binds us together. It is His GOOD NEWS freely proclaimed with a warm evangelical spirit and freely received that has made us one. We believe a living faith, one with integrity, is a unity of belief, trust and action; therefore we desire to seek, enjoy and serve God by living out His Kingdom's rule here in our Cazenovia. In this spirit we invite you and others to know Him through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
If you would like to know more about us, kindly read further. You can learn even more by joining us on Sunday at 10:30 AM for worship. We'll be very pleased to greet you and help you feel at home.
To learn more about our Pastor see below:
Brief Testimony from Pastor Richard.
I went to college in the 60s, which should worry any straight thinking person! But as we often hear people say, “that is another story!” In 1973, after finishing a Masters in Microbiology, I no longer believed that the world evolved, it had to have been made for it was just too precise and complicated. So I went on a search for who was telling the truth about God and wandered about the yoga societies, sat at the feet of the Eastern gurus visiting America, read the likes of Carlos Castaneda, and a whole lot of other dimensions that I myself invented to become spiritual, like not eating or sleeping. However, those sorts of things are not really all that refreshing, to say the least! Finally, I decided to try that which I scorned most, as did most of my generation, the Bible. And I concluded, over time, that the Bible was indeed accurate and Jesus was the truth. This eventually led me to seminary and a Masters of Divinity. It also led me to my dear wife, May Yin, who was also a seminary student; and in turn, to Ephraim, our dear son, who was home schooled through ninth grade and now is in medical school at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In 1977, God called me into the ministry, and to that task I have tried to be faithful ever since. Over the years I have also been an active community member in varying capacities; and am the current president and founding member of a Christian alumni organization at the Northfield Mt. Hermon School (a New England preparatory boarding school) that reaches out to the students (nmhccf.org). I have also written a book, “Ruling Life,” on the lives of the Old Testament kings that is not yet published.
Education: M.
Div. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (cum laude) 1977
M.S. (Microbiology) University of Montana, 1973
B.S. (Biology) St. Lawrence University, 1971
Spouse:
May Yin (Hong Kong)
M.A.R. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1975
M.B.A. University of Wisconsin, 1973
B.S. (Business) University of South Carolina (Phi Beta
Kappa) 1971
Children: Ephraim (age 24) Graduated
from Williams College ’04 as a Tyng Scholar, currently a second year medical
student at
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Pastoral experience:
29 years weekly preaching, teaching and counseling.
2007- Pastor, Cazenovia Village Baptist Church
1985 – 2006 Pastor of Faith Evangel Church.
1979-1985 Associate Pastor of the International Assembly ,working with the
Evangelical Chaplain at Syracuse University in an outreach to international
students as well as family oriented ministries.
1978-79 pastoral internship, Community Covenant Church, Missoula, MT
(Evangelical Covenant Church)
1976 summer pastoral internship (M.Div. requirement) at Erwin Methodist Church
(United Methodist) Syracuse, N
Community involvement:
1985- Preaching, Brighton Towers Retirement Community 2 months/year
2000-2004 ‘Pastor On Call’, Crouse Irving and University Hospitals
1992 – 2005
President, Syracuse Christian Action Council
1982- President and cofounder of the Northfield Mt. Hermon
Christian Concern Fellowship (nmhccf.org), an alumni
outreach of the Northfield Mt. Hermon School
1987- ‘Pastor
of the Day’ message on WMHR Christian radio
1985-90 Corresponding Sec., Greater Syracuse Association of
Evangelicals
Writings:
Ruling Life- Lessons From Old
Testament Kings, pending publication
Other work experience:
2004- Senior Analyst/Indoor Environmental Consultant at Environmental
Laboratory Services
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