Richard A. Germaine
Richard A. Germaine has thirty-eight years of pastoral experience, the last thirty as the Senior Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He came to Hopkinton as the result of a prayer he prayed in the mid 1960’s, that God would prepare him for the day when He could put him in the pulpit of a mainline, Liberal, New England church so he could see the power of the gospel in his lifetime. He saw First Congregational come from a position of theological liberalism, confusion, division, decline and unbelief to a position of vital, alive faith in and commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ with ten full and part-time staff and a variety of significant ministries. FCCH is now recognized as a leading Evangelical church in New England. In the course of these thirty years Dick has faced and dealt with just about every challenge that can come to today’s pastors and church leaders.

He is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Fuller Seminary, where he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree in Church Growth in 1984. He has conducted Church Growth seminars for churches and associations in Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Ohio. 

He has taught seminars and led conferences on Effective Leadership, Ministry in A Changing Culture, Pastoral Renewal, Personal Spiritual renewal, Becoming A Purpose Driven Church, Developing Intimacy With God, Unity In The Local Church, and many different ones on personal and corporate prayer life. 

He led the elders of FCCH on annual retreats dealing with Long Range Vision For the Church, Community Transformation Through A Transformed Church, Learning To Lead, Developing Perspective & Character, A Church For The 21st. Century, Developing A Life of Prayer, and Characteristics of A healthy Church. 

He has also led several week-end retreats for FCCH lay people on Developing A Life of Prayer, and has written the materials for and taught extensively in the area of Spiritual Gifts, Healing In the Local Church, The Person & Work of the Holy Spirit, Romans: A Mission Mandate To The World, Prayer As A Way of Life, Christian Identity: Discovering Who You Are In Christ & Living By This, What Christians Believe & Why, Spiritual Warfare & Breaking Strongholds, and other subjects. 

In January 2003 Dick stepped down as Senior Pastor to begin Barnabas Ministries, Inc., the vision of which is to “Equip pastors, lay leaders and congregations to experience spiritual renewal, congregational growth, and the unity Jesus prayed for in John 17, leading to transformation of lives, ministries and communities.”

Dick was born in Michigan in 1936, married Jay in 1961, and was ordained in 1965. They have four adult children, Rick, Shep, Kreh and Jana, and seven grandchildren. They reside in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.