Rainbow Presbyterian Church Leadership
Rainbow Presbyterian Church is blessed to have a leadership team who are truly dedicated to Christ and accomplishing His will. Please scroll below to get to know the staff team of our church.
Richard Cain
Senior Pastor
Dick has served in many varied roles and places in ministry. Since 1986, Dick and his wife Scottie have lived in eleven different cities. He has served as a youth pastor, missionary, staff pastor, church planter, and senior pastor. This is his second time to live in “Sweet Home Alabama” since he previously served as the Senior Pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tuscaloosa, AL for ten years.
Dick did his undergraduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has a Masters of Theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. His dissertation covered a topic very close to his heart: “Recovering One of the Lost Tools of Christian Spirituality: Praying the Psalms.”
He and Scottie have four children: Elizabeth, Katherine, Rachel, and Austin. He has two sons-in-law, Josh and Taylor; one daughter-in-law, Franni, and four grandsons: Bridger, Campbell, Sibbes and Fisher.
Some of Dick’s hobbies include speaking Spanish, playing the guitar, listening to music, reading biographies and watching SEC football and UNC basketball. He enjoys taking his family and friends waterskiing.
Wade Hooper
Director of Ministries
Wade is thankful that his parents were involved in church as he grew up. He placed his faith in Christ at an early age. He was born in Thibodaux, Louisiana and grew up in the outskirts of New Orleans. He attended Southeastern Bible College in Birmingham, Alabama and in 1988 graduated with a degree in Pastoral Theology. Over the past forty years he has served the church as a teacher, youth pastor, senior pastor, elder and missions leader. He has had the privilege of ministering in Belize, Australia, Venezuela, and for the past ten years he has ministered in Tanzania, Africa. Wade joined Rainbow Presbyterian Church in 2006 and became a full-time staff member in 2016.
Wade has been married to Kimbra for twenty-five years. They have four children: Jennifer, Andrew, Josiah and Julia. Three of their four children are married and they have six grandchildren. One of their greatest joys is spending time with the family. Wade has had the joy of serving in Tanzania with Kimbra and two of his children for ten years.
Adam Swann
Pastor of Youth and Families
Adam grew up in Gadsden and his love for Etowah County runs deep. He believes that the grass is greener where you water it so he came to Rainbow believing it to be God’s place for him to water this community he cares for so much.
Adam came to faith as a teenager and immediately knew God was calling him to devote his life to serving the church. He believes the greatest sound in the world is God’s people singing his praises together and he has a deep desire to help people understand the Scriptures and how to live their lives in response to God’s mercy and grace.
He and his wife Laura were married at Rainbow Presbyterian Church in 2005 and they have two beautiful children through the blessing of adoption. A son named Raylan Jude and a daughter named Ava Grace. They reside in Rainbow City and love their neighborhood and neighbors.
People are the most important thing in life to Adam so he enjoys spending his time with family and friends and having people to their home. He loves listening to music and playing music, running, and is a passionate Atlanta Braves fan.
Tori Winter
Director of Children's Ministry
One verse I have always loved and lived by is Esther 4:14 “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” I love this calling that God is inviting us into his work. He can do it without us, but he chooses to use us. When considering a move, whether it be to Nashville, Peru, or Gadsden, I ask myself, “is it possible that I have come to the kingdom for such a time as this”?
Reed Chambers
International Students and Youth
Reed is a Gadsden native, born and raised in the Noccalula area. He received his Bachelors Degree in Early Childhood/Elementary Education at Jacksonville State University. He was a elementary school teacher for several years, before realizing a call.
Reed leads our outreach ministry to the international and other college students at Gadsden State Community College. In addition, he works part time with our youth and manages our A/V ministry.
He married his beautiful wife, Jill, in 2011, and together they have three wonderful children: Hattie, Solomon, and Beatrix. In his spare time, he loves to work on cars, computers, houses and really anything he can do with his hands. He also enjoys writing and filming movies.
Paul Edmondson
Choir Director
Paul Edmondson serves Rainbow Presbyterian Church as Choir Director. Prior to RPC, Paul served at South Highland Baptist, Fairview Baptist and First Baptist Church of Hokes Bluff.
His education includes a BS in Music Education (Instrumental), an MS in Music Education (Vocal/Choral) and Educational Administration Certification all from Jacksonville State University.
He and his wife Debbie have one son, Scot, who presently lives in Maricopa, Arizona. “Rainbow has been and continues to be a tremendous blessing to our family. Even from our very first Sunday at Rainbow, God’s love has always been evident.”
It is an honor to lead God’s people in worship through the medium of music. God has used music in corporate worship time and again to bring his children closer to His throne. It is the prayer of our entire Music Worship Team that “when in our music God is glorified, and adoration leaves no room for pride, it is as though the whole creation cried, Hallelujah!”