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Church Staff
Carla Pratt Keyes
Pastor
Carla Pratt Keyes has been pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church since May of 2007. She loves GPPC’s commitment to sharing God’s welcome and to living with vulnerability, bravery, and gratitude. She finds great purpose in planning for the worship we share, taking particular care with sermons; she believes the Christian story challenges, comforts, and calls to us with power to heal the world.
Carla was born in Virginia, but moved from place to place growing up as part of a Navy family. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and Princeton Theological Seminary. She served at the University Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge, LA, the First Presbyterian Church of Covington, GA, and St. Andrews Presbyterian Church of Tucker, GA, before accepting the call to GPPC.
Carla’s professional highlights include preaching for W&M’s Service of Celebration for graduates, leading worship for the Annual Event of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators and the Montreat College Conference, and helping to found and develop NEXT Church, which is working to further a lively and relevant PCUSA.
Carla’s personal highlights include marrying Brint (also a PCUSA pastor), parenting two children (Deborah and Elijah), and recognizing the gifts knit into every day: transformative ideas, stirring poetry, the pleasure of exercise, the beauty of the earth, and ways people bless each other.
Doug Brown
Music Director
Doug Brown is a Richmond native and a second generation church musician. He received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, and he completed a master of music degree in both choral conducting and organ performance at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music.
He has served churches in New Haven, CT, Stamford, CT, and Pittsburgh, PA. In addition to his position at Ginter Park, Doug is director of Music at Union Presbyterian Seminary.
He is the father of three girls he adopted from Perú and the stepfather of three children; he and his wife Amy live with their collective six children in Mechanicsville. In his spare time, Doug enjoys building cabinets for his home.
Karen Mitscherlich
Office Manager
Karen Mitscherlich serves as Office Manager, working with the technology, financial, and administrative needs of the church. She is a graduate of James Madison University, and has an MBA from the University of Richmond. After a career as a business and information technology consultant and a hiatus to spend more time with family, Karen started working at the church in January of 2019. She and her husband, Bernie, have three children. Their adult son and his wife live and work locally, their older daughter is in college, and their younger daughter is still at home.
Katie Carboni
Seminary Intern
Katie Carboni will be Ginter Park’s 2024-2025 seminary intern. She is going into her third year at UPSEM pursuing a dual degree program of M.Div/MA in Public Theology. She comes from the tiny but mighty state of New Jersey, has been a nurse for 10 years, and has a long history of summer camp ministry. God’s first call for her started when she graduated in 2014 with a Bachelors in Nursing from Misericordia University in Pennsylvania. She started her career working in post operative care. After four years she pursued travel nursing going to wonderful places like Las Vegas, New Jersey, Vermont, and summer camp nursing at Camp Hanover here in Virginia. Still feeling the ever strong tug from God, Katie decided to move to Richmond in the winter of 2021 to work at a local urgent care and begin her active journey towards seminary. Katie, in her free time, loves to read, be in nature, meditate, and crochet. She has been worshiping with us since 2022, attracted to GPPC’s work towards social justice, its LGBTQIA+ loving community, and its intergenerational congregation.
Feagin Hardy
Youth Leader Intern
Feagin Hardy is a first-year student at Union Presbyterian Seminary, where she is pursuing both a Masters of Divinity and an M.A. in Public Theology. A native of South Carolina, Feagin received their Bachelor's in Southern Studies and Linguistics from the University of Mississippi, where they also worked as the assistant youth director at First Presbyterian Church of Oxford, MS. When she is not thinking and writing about the stories humans creatures tell about each other and about God, Feagin loves to cook, craft, and be outside!
Cynthia Macmillan
Sunday Sexton
Ali Ansari
Event Sexton
