about RTU

Reach The Unreached Ministries was founded in January 1990 by Richard and Agnes Gunning from Belfast, Northern Ireland and Kenyan Pastor Peter Karangu. Richard and Peter first met when studying at a non-denominational Bible School in Norway in 1982; they became firm friends and continued to keep in touch after finishing their studies.

In 1989 Richard and Agnes visited Kenya, at Peter Karangu's invitation, to hold outreach meetings and a great pastors' conference attended by over 600 pastors from all over Kenya. In 1990 Richard and Agnes returned to Kenya as missionaries and together with Peter Karangu established RTU as a mission to unreached tribes and areas. The Lord greatly blessed their efforts and soon over 100 men were receiving support from RTU Ministries. Soon RTU began holding large gospel campaigns in needy towns; thousands came to the Lord in these inter-denominational rallies and many also testified to being healed in Jesus' name. To date over 300 churches have been planted by these men in remote and previously unreached areas.

In 1993 Richard visited Russia and Asia, preaching the gospel to large crowds and training and inspiring native evangelists for future outreach and church planting. Today RTU supports 30 evangelists in Asia who are all out winning souls and establishing new churches.

Richard Gunning and his team have also held successful outreaches in the Republic of Ireland, Richard is also in demand as a guest preacher and evangelist at churches in Northern Ireland.

In 2002 Richard Gunning and RTU Ministries launched a network for young and upcoming campaign evangelists called ACE (Association of Campaign Evangelists). Today more than 40 evangelists from different European nations are linked to RTU through the ACE network. The aim of ACE is to enable different crusade evangelists to cooperate in a planned and strategic way by holding multiple campaigns across a state or nation. This strategy has proved to be very effective. Our campaigns are targeted on smaller, unreached, regional towns where no campaign has ever been held before, we do not target large cities where other evangelists have held campaigns in the past. The campaigns are carefully followed up through support for local native pastors who follow up new believers and plant new churches after the campaign is over. Opportunities are also given to young evangelists to develop their ministry and gain experience by travelling and ministering with more experienced preachers. Each year all the ACE evangelists come together in Belfast for a wonderful annual conference.