Rev. Phyllis Richards is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Chaplaincy Internship Program of On One Accord Ministry. She works as the Program Associate for the Global Sharing of Resources Team of the United Church of Christ (UCC). She has dedicated her life to helping others.
With a special passion for families and youth, Rev. Richards began working with youth in Ohio over 25 years ago, who were associated with agencies including the Positive Education Program (PEP), Child Services, and Parmadale. In 2006, Rev. Richards began volunteering at Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility. She graduated from the Chaplaincy Internship Program through On One Accord Ministries where she continues to volunteer and teach others about prison ministry and ways to offer pastoral services to the adjudicated and their families. In 2007, Phyllis Richards received her license for Ministry and was registered with the State of Ohio in 2011. In 2013 she was ordained and installed as Associate Pastor of Restoration Family Worship at Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility.
Rev. Richards works for the UCC promoting the One Great Hour of Sharing offering, an ecumenical offering in which several denominations and Church World Service are participants. Working together, they share Gods love around the world raising funds and sharing funds where needed most. Approximately $12 Million is raised annually, to respond to disasters in the States and around the world, to support sustainable development in the areas of health, education, and agriculture internationally, and to address and support refugee and immigration concerns. Rev. Richards, as part of the National Headquarters of the UCC helps its 5,300+ churches promote the offering.
Through the UCC’s commitment to monitor, evaluate and be accountable to how offering dollars are spent, Rev. Richards has traveled internationally to several countries including Haiti, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia (East Timor), Israel, Laos, South Africa, the Congo (both the Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo) China, Lebanon, and Switzerland.
The UCC lifts up John 17:17, “That we may all be one”. Rev. Richards believes that we are all called to be one, spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. Being a part of On One Accord Ministries is a further extension of this belief.
