12 Facts About Rick Ufford-Chase

Rick Ufford-Chase, born in York, Pennsylvania, is a peace activist and long-time member of the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona.

Rick Ufford-Chase was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church on June 26,2004.

Rick Ufford-Chase was the first Presbyterian Church moderator to serve for two years.

Rick Ufford-Chase is a graduate of Dallastown Area High School, he has a bachelor's degree from Colorado College and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, but says he soon discovered that his call was not to be an ordained minister, but to serve in ministry as an elder.

Rick Ufford-Chase has received honorary degrees from Hastings College and Bloomfield College, Austin College, and Eden Theological Seminary.

Rick Ufford-Chase received the Dignitas Humana Award for Human Rights work from St John's School of Theology and Seminary, Saint John's Preparatory School, in Collegeville, MN.

In 2021, Rick Ufford-Chase moved to northern Vermont and co-founded the Center for Jubilee Practice with Rev Ashley DeTar Birt.

From 2021 through 2023, Rick Ufford-Chase joined the leadership team of Johnson C Smith Theological Seminary, a historically African American Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, in order to support their development of an online curriculum.

Since September, 2021, Rick Ufford-Chase has served as the Director of Newport City Downtown Development, a small, non-profit organization dedicated to reviving the economic vitality of the small city of Newport, VT.

Rick Ufford-Chase had served BorderLinks for 17 years prior to being elected as the Presbyterian Church's moderator.

Rick Ufford-Chase worked with the Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies in Central America in Guatemala, and has been a co-moderator of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.

In June 2006, after the end of his term as PC moderator, Rick Ufford-Chase accepted a call as the executive director of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.