We worship Sundays at 10:00am during the Summer.
Our Fall/Winter/Spring schedule will resume Sunday, September 10, with Worship at 11:00am
A Thoughtful, Joyful and Diverse Congregation in Richmond, Virginia
Carla Pratt Keyes
Pastor
Doug Brown
Music Director
Karen Mitscherlich
Office Manager
Andrew Byrd
Seminary Intern
Lee Hunter
Seminary Intern
Levi Bannerman
Youth Leader Intern
Cynthia MacMillan
Sunday Sexton
Pastor Carla Pratt Keyes
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 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 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.
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Doug Brown
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, Stamford, and Pittsburgh. 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.
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Karen Mitscherlich
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.
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Andrew Byrd
Andrew Byrd is a second-year MDiv student at Union Presbyterian Seminary and a native of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, a suburb of Charleston. He grew up active in both his home church, First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, and the Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery. An organist, Andrew received his Bachelors in Sacred Music from Appalachian State University in 2018, and served for three years as Minister of Music and Organist at Sea Island Presbyterian Church in Beaufort, South Carolina. In addition to music, he has passions for history, Presbyterianism, and his home state of South Carolina, and has been working on compiling a history of every Presbyterian church in the Palmetto State.
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Lee Hunter
Lee Hunter was born and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, to two parents and an older brother. Lee attended Davidson College where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2018 with a B.A. in History and a minor in French and Francophone Studies. After college, she took a position with the Davidson College Advising Corps, working as a college advisor in a high school just north of Statesville, NC. During that time, Lee got married to her wonderful college sweetheart, Joshua, who hails from Tamale, Ghana.
After her position as a college advisor ended, Lee decided to pursue an M.Div at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond. Starting online during the pandemic, Lee completed her first year of study from her brother's bedroom, after she and Joshua moved back in with her parents during the pandemic. They finally moved to Richmond in August of 2021, and are enjoying their own space and exploring this beautiful city.
In her free time, Lee likes to spend time with Joshua, watching movies and dragging him around town on new cultural excursions. She also likes to craft, do puzzles, and watch PBS.
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Levi Bannerman
Levi Bannerman is a native of Black Mountain, North Carolina and moved to Richmond, VA during the summer of 2021 to pursue his Masters of Divinity degree from Union Presbyterian Seminary. Levi comes to Richmond having previously worked in Youth Ministry at both White Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh and Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. He is a product of Appalachia where he found an appreciation for creation, community, square dancing, and the importance of play. Levi received his undergraduate degree from Presbyterian College in 2017 and has also served the Presbyterian Church in various ways including leading conference recreation for Montreat Youth Conference, Faith in 3D, and Presbyterian Youth Triennium. Levi moved to Richmond with his wife Mary Katherine and enjoys cooking for others, biking, and doing anything outside with Mary Katherine and their two dogs Ramsey and Hank. He is thrilled to be joining the team and hopes you’ll reach out and say “hello”!
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