Pastoral/Leadership Team
Pastor Richard Kyerematen
Pastor Richard Kyerematen was born in Ghana to the late Dr. Alexander Kyerematen – a cultural anthropologist and Mrs. Victoria Kyerematen – an educationist and homemaker.
The fifth of six siblings, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Ghana.
Immediately after his conversion experience in 1981, he was led to a servant of God and one of Ghana’s foremost evangelists – Rev. Douglas Frempong. Under his mentorship and tutelage, he had his calling crystallized. He served faithfully as the Assistant Executive Director of the Christian Outreach Ministries responsible for coordinating logistics for
crusades and helped launch the then Christian Outreach newspaper serving as the associate director.
In 1984, he received a Swedish Institute Scholarship award as a student guest researcher to study Church History and Missions at the historic University of Upsala. Barely after a year of study and having realized that he was being called to work more in church settings than in academia, a door opened for him to attend the Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pa. where he received his MDiv.
Immediately upon graduation in 1989, he was called to pastor the Germantown Church of the Brethren – the oldest Church of the Brethren congregation in the United States established in 1723. On arrival and almost at the point of its doors being closed, the Lord revived the congregation. Many lives have been touched since then and families transformed through the various ministries of the congregation.
Pastor Richard Kyerematen’s heart is for the body of Christ to work together, harnessing all its gifts and resources and in love, bring in the HARVEST in these end times. He also has a passion to be used to help believers crystallize their calling as he was helped in his early days of ministry.
“…one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 (esv)