{"id":114,"date":"2015-01-06T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbcnice.org\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:44:54","slug":"our-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/?page_id=114","title":{"rendered":"Our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1861.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1861-743x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-446\" style=\"width:274px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1861-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1861-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1861-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_1861.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-65436d215e86d716aab601501fa5e5db\" style=\"color:#1178b3\"><br>Pastor Rich has been the Pastor of Community Baptist Church since October of 1996. He pastored a church in Peoria Illinois before that, for about 8 years. He has been a pastor for almost 40 years. He graduated from Moody Bible Institute with a Bachelor degree and from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary with a Master\u2019s degree. His education is valuable to him but his experience is invaluable.<br>He has been married for 39 years to his wonderful wife Margie and they have raised a son and a daughter, both married and are working and living outside of Lake County.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-93f1507cfa9497df4c682b53f3c89b07\" style=\"color:#1178b3\"><br>He is a NorCal native and has a love for being in the outdoors and enjoying God\u2019s beautiful creation. Some of his favorite activities are riding his motorcycles, camping\/backpacking, hiking, boating, wakeboarding in the Summer, and snowboarding in the Winter.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63ee033a4eec7e814f94798622f1f6c3\" style=\"color:#1178b3\"><br>\u201cI love living in Lake County and I love the church God has called me to. Our church is a very friendly and loving community\u201d -Pastor Rich<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3;object-fit:cover;width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_6256-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Rich has been the Pastor of Community Baptist Church since October of 1996. He pastored a church in Peoria Illinois before that, for about 8 years. He has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcnice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}