Richard is a fine Christian man and I believe he will be a good preacher.
Why am I sharing this with TFR? For two reasons: (1) I hope you will pray for Richard. There are some advantages to his current situations and some disadvantages. I pray the former will outweigh the latter. (2) If you have any words of encouragement for Richard, please share them and I will pass them along to Richard. We need to encourage all preachers, but especially young ones.
More on this young preacher at the link above, where you also may insert into the comments area your encouragement, so that Stephen may have them all in one place.