The Pastor
ABOUT THE PASTOR
John Richardson is an Anglican missionary priest serving the United States under the direction of the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA). He has a Masters of Divinity from the University of the South (Sewanee), 1993, 
and a Doctor of Ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), 1999. He is a former missionary to Bolivia.
From 1996 to 2002 John led the 6th fastest growing Episcopal (US branch of Anglicanism) church in the US. Since, he has led, as founding pastor, a rapidly growing Anglican church (AMiA) in Birmingham. in 2010 he relinquished that post after seven and a half years and following a sabbatical has moved to the Brookhaven/Chamblee area of Atlanta to plant an
Ancient Future Church, Grace Community. www.ancientfuturechurch.org. After six and one half years of devoted planting and cultivating Grace had become a wonderful fellowship of 55 or 60 on Christmas Eve and Easter. Alas, Grace did not take root and become sustainable.
In 2017 with care and institutional support from Heartbound Ministries, John began mentoring incarcerated youth, Under Grace Community that work is affectionately called “Grace and Truth Inside.” Seven years later in 2024 John serves incarcerated youth in three Atlanta area Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Facilities and one prison GDC). Just last year, 2023, John baptized 40, 39 of whom were Inside. Since 2017, he has baptized 60.
The fruit of this labor is a palpable. In 2023 a felon returned to prison with John to mentor others as he was mentored, In 2024, if the Lord wills, a 21 year old successful entrepreneur will return to Juvie with John to mentor as he was mentored.
John is married to Kristen Richardson. They have five children Mary (31), Madison (25), Dow (15), Whit (13) and Graham (12). In the few moments free of church leadership and parenting, John pursues a few idols including sun, boating, wakeboarding and snow skiing. He’s also rather fond of his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Alabama.
Favorite Non-Fiction Books/Authors
Oden -The Transforming Power of Grace
Dodd – The Apostolic Preaching and its Development
The Family Before Whit and Graham
Bonhoeffer – The Cost of Discipleship
Stott – The Cross of Christ
Forde – On Being a Theologian of the Cross
Green – I Believe in the Holy Spirit
CS Lewis – Mere Christianity
Smalley/Trent – The Blessing
Niebuhr – Christ and Culture
Blank – UN-Comfortable Words
Alexander – The Secular Squeeze
Hauerwas/Willimon – Resident Aliens
MacDonald – Who Stole My Church
Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Church
Favorite Fiction Books/Authors
Clive Cussler – Dirk Pitt Series
Robert Ludlum – Bourne Series
Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth
Jan Karon – Mitford Series
Brad Thor – The Apostle
Favorite Movies
The King’s Speech
The Mission
Dead Poet Society
The Truman Show
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Good Will Hunting
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
RV
Hotel Rwanda
A Few Good Men
With Kristen – Titanic, Notting Hill, Fool’s Gold and Top Gun
Favorite Places
Water – Lake Martin and the Emerald Coast
Snowbird, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
The Trout, Oxford, England, UK
Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois, US
Covent Garden, London, England, UK
Bodega Bay/Healdsburg, California USA
Grand Place, Brussels, Belgium
The Boys in the Image of Their Father
Baptizing My Grandson Jayden
