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Fr. Richard Mc Cracken-Bennett

Rick McCracken-Bennett
Rector, All Saints Episcopal Church

Rick is the founding pastor of All Saints Episcopal Church. He began his ministry as a Roman Catholic priest for the Diocese of Toledo in 1976 after his studies at St. Meinrad School of Theology (Indiana). His undergraduate degree was in secondary music education from Findlay College (Ohio). After serving several years in Sandusky, Ohio Rick took a leave of absence from the priesthood and moved to Springfield, Ohio where he began work in the alcohol and drug treatment field, first as a counselor and later as the director of a hospital-based treatment center and then as the director of McKinley Hall, a county-wide treatment outpatient center for adults and children.

He was called back into the ministry in 1989 as an Episcopal priest, at the Church of

Our Saviour, Mechanicsburg. He was instrumental in clustering three congregations together into what became known as the Northern Miami Valley Episcopal Cluster.

In 1997, Rick was asked by the Bishop of Southern Ohio to "plant" a new church in the New Albany area. The following summer he began work on his doctorate at the Seabury Institute (part of Seabury-Western Seminary in Evanston, Illinois) and earned his D. Min. in Advanced Congregational Studies in 2002. His doctoral thesis, "Future Story", showed how congregations could learn to navigate their spiritual, strategic journey through the use of a carefully crafted story of their future. Rick serves on the Commission on Congregational Life for the Diocese of Southern Ohio and as a consultant and coach for other ministers and congregations. Rick has been married to Nancy McCracken-Bennett, an Elementary School Guidance Counselor for Big Walnut Schools, for 26 years and they have two children, Gavin (24), and Ashley (21). He is passionate about helping All Saints become a large, vital congregation in the Gahanna, New Albany area.