Macomb Public Library is a 1903 Carnegie building 2 blocks south of the Macomb Square. The library seves the City of Macomb with a population 21,516. The library and the Western Illinois Museum share the block and has been labeled the cultural block.

Rich joined UBC in February of 2014. Rich is a graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and holds a Diploma of Divinity in Church Ministries. He and his wife Amy have been married for over twenty years and they have been blessed with one child, Isaiah, who is a student at WIU and he and his wife Faith also serve at the Church