Richard Zuris is the Pastor of Administration and Worship at Promise Center.   Richard also serves as the Administrator and Principal of Promise Academy. Richard is a licensed Foursquare minister since 2007.  As the church worship leader since 2006, he is also a band member since 2002.  Rich was brought up in the Lord by Pastor Vince and Yvonne O'Shaughnessy, founders of our school, and served as a monitor and supervisor in the school from 1981 through 1987, and as a PE teacher upon returning to Paradise in 1998.

Rich is married to Mary, our Learning Center 1 Supervisor, since 1987, and has five children.  He loves to serve others and teaches his family to do the same.  Rich is a true believer in the Scripture that a merry heart does good like medicine and loves to make people laugh.  And if they don't, he does anyway.

Rich moved to Paradise in 1975 and graduated from Paradise High School in 1979.  After a year at the University of California, Berkeley, Rich responded to a call to ministry and graduated from Rhema Bible Training Center in Oklahoma in 1981, entering full-time ministry in Promise Academy (then Christian Center School, a ministry of Paradise Christian Center) as a teacher, youth pastor, and worship leader.  Shortly after he and Mary married in 1987, then moved to the Bay Area to start a new career as a computer programmer.  The opportunity to work from home allowed them to return to Paradise in 1998 where they have lived since.  And live to serve.