Our Founder
Dr Steve Parson is the Founder and Pastor of the Richmond Christian Center Richmond Virginia since December 4, 1983 when he gathered his family together in their living room for the first service of the Richmond Christian Center.
The Church since has received national and international recognition for its outreach ministries and being one of the first television ministries on (BET) in the late 80’s.
Born in Buffalo, NY he was raised in the Bapist Church, under the leadership of his Grandfather Rev E.J. Echols Sr Pastor of First Shiloh Baptist Church the Second Black American Church in the history of Buffalo New York. (1916)
While watching the PTL Club on television in 1976 he personally received the Lord Jesus Christ and
while attending a Full Gospel Businessmen´s Convention in Winston Salem, North Carolina he received the Pentecostal experience known as the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.
In 1978, he came into contact with the Books and cassette teachings by Rev Kenneth Hagin of Tulsa, OK and Dr Fred Price of Los Angeles, Ca. He says, ” The Lord taught and ministered to me more through these two men than any theological school could possibly have done..
