Pastor Rick has served Wellspring Church as senior pastor since 1986. He has two theological degrees from Bethel Seminary in Minnesota, where he also taught as an adjunct professor in preaching. In recent years he has been involved in the emerging global prayer movement as a partner in InterPrayer, an international ministry fellowship of prayer leaders from several nations. During that same time he has been used by God to call pastors and churches together for persevering revival prayer and for Kingdom breakthrough in Connecticut. He is passionate about seeing heaven-sent revival come to New England once again in his lifetime. Pastor Rick and Debbie have been married over 39 years and have six children (two by marriage) and five grandchildren (Eli, Hannah, Ezra, Jonah and Ruthie). Debbie is the leader in Bethesda, the healing prayer ministry of Wellspring. Pastor Rick is an amateur decoy woodcarver and an avid supporter of Ohio State football, the Cincinnati Reds (he grew up in southern Ohio and has never recovered) and UCONN basketball.

“I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over ten years of experience working with individuals, couples and families in the Greater Hartford community.  I use a strength-based approach to help clients identify and tap into their God-given strengths in order to establish and achieve their goals. My continued prayer is that God would use the therapeutic process to help clients more fully experience their identity as God’s child and as a result increasingly glorify God through their actions and relationships with others. Areas of specialty include healing from trauma, depression and anxiety, and couple and family relationship difficulties.”