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Brief History
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. To
date over 300 churches have been planted by these men in remote
and previously unreached areas.
Association of Crusade Evangelists
In 2002 Richard Gunning and RTU Ministries launched a
network for young and upcoming crusade evangelists
called ACE
(Association of Crusade 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 crusades
across a state or nation. This strategy has proved to be
very effective. Our crusades are targeted on smaller,
unreached, regional towns where no crusade had ever been
held before, we do not target large cities where other
evangelists have held campaigns in the past. The
crusades are carefully followed up through support for
local native pastors who follow up new believers and
plant new churches after the crusade 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.
Crusades
and Conferences
Soon RTU began holding large gospel crusades in needy
towns; thousands came to the Lord in these inter-denominational
rallies and many also testified to being healed in Jesus'
name.
Russia
and Asia
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.
Ireland
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.
To arrange
a meeting please email
us or Telephone/Fax us on +44 28 90 65 99 48
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