Rich Kinney - Founder, CEO

I’m a native Californian, born at Beale Air Force Base near Marysville, and raised Military. I have three children and five grandchildren with a 6th on the way. I also was a foster parent for 4 children through the years.

After graduation from College I worked in Insurance, managed various businesses in the Bay Area and was a business owner for almost 4 years. After experiencing a personal calling from God I entered Bible School and eventually came to San Pablo to Pastor an inner-city Church. 

We ministered to attendees, the homeless, drug addicts, alcoholics, sex workers, etc. but primarily our focus was the children in San Pablo, Richmond and North Richmond. 

Our initial work was setting up Saturday mornings outside of drug-ridden apartment complexes around the City  with clothes give-aways, a portable kitchen to serve hot pancakes, sausage, hot chocolate, coffee, orange juice and pastries. Each location became a bus stop for picking up the children and their parents that were interested in coming to our meetings.

I started a Children’s Choir, drove a donated 32 passenger bus to take the children and youth camping at a Lake in the summers and to play in the snow in the winters every year. At the same time I enjoyed serving as a police Chaplain, community college and high school Basketball assistant Coach, organizing citywide activities with local Churches and other events for the community. All this led to me getting elected to City Council in 2012 and serving as Mayor in 2016 and again in 2019. I chose to step away from Pastoring in 2013  to focus on serving our community on City Council and as a substitute teacher in the local school district.  Apostle City Ministries is a redefining, a reorganizing, and a refocusing of a culmination of the past 24 years of service in the local community poised for what God wants to do in this hour.

Basil Neil Hicks -Founder, Pastor, First Nations People

My wife Kasanita, and I are Pacific Islanders of Samoan and Fijian Descent. We have a passion to work with our brothers and sisters of the Native American Community.

I have had the privilege of living on the Reservation at Round Valley (Covelo), in Northern California. Round Valley consists of seven Tribes, six of which are the descendants of Tribes that were forcefully displaced from other areas of the west coast. Round Valley, like every other Reservation, has its share of drugs and alcoholism, suicide and hopelessness, because of the atrocities perpetrated against the Native American people.

Our goal as Cultural People, is to implement programs that integrate Native American dances and traditional values to build relational bridges holistically – spiritually, physically, and emotionally.

We live on the Reservation because it is crucial to developing trust and relationships. We plan on implementing “life skills” programs for the children and young adults and also support families through the distribution of much needed necessities. Our goal is to embrace all age levels of the community.

We also travel to neighboring Reservations building bridges of hope.

I have traveled and ministered in different cultural groups and have come to see the need for instilling hope, identity and value through each distinctive people group’s culture.

I can be supported through your donations to Apostle City Ministries. Please consider your donation.