Gwenda Richards was brought up in Caernarfon, where she is now minister of Eglwys Seilo.  On leaving the local Grammar School, she complete a BEd degree at Bangor University before being appointed to a teaching post in her old primary school.

In 1984 she was ordained an elder in her childhood chapel, Capel Engedi.  But although she enjoyed teaching, it slowly became clear that other paths were opening before her.  She felt the doors opening, and God calling her to the ministry.

She left her teaching post and started a BD course at the Theological College at Aberystwyth.  There, she met Elwyn and they were married in 1987.  After leaving Aberystwyth, she accepted a call to a pastorate of three churches in the Porthmadog area.  She spent 14 years there.  In 2001 she was called back home, to be minister of Capel Seil. "It is an honour to minister to my own people," she says.  She is now also minister of a small church in Waunfawr.

Among the aims of Revd Richards for her time as Moderator is to strengthen the sense of belonging to one Connexion.