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Dr. D. Richard Will - a brief bio of our pastor
Rich's hobbies include reading, being outdoors, cross-country skiing, hiking, golf, gardening and woodworking. He enjoys bird-watching and loves all animals. Music has been a large part of his life from an early age. He sang in church and school choirs as a youth, and participated in musical productions and choral groups in college, community and professional theatre. He "plays at jazz," as he says, on both guitar and piano, but his love of music spans the spectrum from baroque to classical, jazz and blues to rock. He has maintained a love affair with the theatre for decades and likes to sing, act, and even dance. His life continues to be enriched by his two children, Alyssa (a music education graduate), and Drew (currently a college student at WPI in Massachusetts). After ten years of being a re-activated bachelor, in May 2005, Rich married Laurena Wickham, also a Presbyterian minister by profession. They now live together in Potsdam where Pastor Rich continues his ministerial work, or, as he puts it his, "incredibly wonderful, challenging, exasperating, joy-filled way of life." |
Rich Will was born and reared on a NW Minnesota farm. There he grew to love the great outdoors and learn the values of education, hard work, faith, and commitment to family. Rich was educated in public schools and attended a private liberal arts college (BA); he has continued his education, earning graduate degrees in counseling (MS), divinity (MDiv) and ministry (DMin). Not only has Rich enjoyed careers in education, theatre arts, counseling, and ministry, but he has held many blue collar jobs as well (made marbles in WVA, sorted tomatoes and was a security guard in FL and NV, painted condos in CO, worked on farms in ND, served in the US Navy for four years as a communications intelligence technician and analyst, and worked construction—wood and stone in PA, etc.).
Rich writes poetry, and is also hoping some day to finish a novel that will capture, with humor and pathos, the sensitive issue of child abuse through the eyes of a ten year old.