profiles

Richard Gunning was born in 1956 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is co founder of Reach The Unreached Ministries together with his wife Agnes and Pastor Peter Karangu. Richard accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour at the age of 21 and soon sensed a call to preach the gospel. In 1982 Richard went to Norway where he studied for one year at "Evidence of Faith Bible and Missions Institute", founded by Norwegian evangelist Rev Aril Edvardsen. Richard met Peter Karangu from Kenya during his time in Norway and the two became firm friends, eventually the Lord led them to found Reach The Unreached Ministries in 1990 in Kenya. Richard and Agnes have been happily married since 1988, they are based in Belfast and have three boys, Peter, John and Mark. Richard leads the work of RTU worldwide from the Belfast head offices and frequently travels to other countries to lead great gospel campaigns and pastors conferences.

Martin Goodchild comes from England where he was involved in full-time Christian work. He first met Richard when he moved to Belfast in 1988 and accompanied Richard and Agnes on their first ministry trip to Kenya in 1989. As the work grew and expanded Martin started to help develop the work in Africa and soon became a key full time worker with the ministry. Martin has had particular responsibility for the work in Kenya, together with Peter Karangu and the local leadership. Martin is involved in the leadership of ACE (Association of Campaign Evangelists) and takes a major responsibility for overseeing follow up after our gospel campaigns. Martin is married to Susie and is based in England

Peter Karangu comes from a remote area of Kenya called Tharaka where his late grandfather was a famous witch doctor. Peter was being trained to follow in his grandfather's footsteps when he was dramatically converted and led to the Lord by a travelling native evangelist called Wilson. The Lord turned Peter into a fiery preacher of the gospel and he soon proved to be an effective soul winner. Soon Peter was ordained as a full time minister of the gospel by his denomination and was sent to Norway for further studies where he met Richard and later co founded RTU Ministries. Peter directs RTU's work in Kenya from the regional head offices in Meru in central Kenya, he also travels to other nations to preach and teach the Word of God. Peter is married to Monica and has five children.