history

As a boy, watching his father leave a lucrative airline career for the ministry, Ramesh Richard knew that Christian ministry would become his vocation. While still a teen, Ramesh started presenting news about the Lord Jesus Christ in the open markets of South India.

In 1987, six business men came together to form RREACH to undergird Ramesh’s desire to reach into large numbers of desperate souls around our world with lasting solutions. God has extended Ramesh’s itinerant proclamation ministry and expanded the scope of RREACH’s ministry to include large efforts in Major Media outreaches and Pastoral Training.

God has permitted Dr. Ramesh Richard to become a global spokesman for the Lord Jesus Christ. Dr. Richard is a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he teaches courses credited in three academic departments. He is also the founder and president of RREACH.

RREACH is an acronym for Ramesh Richard Evangelism And Church Health. A global proclamation ministry, the vision of RREACH is to change the way One Billion Individuals think and hear about the Lord Jesus Christ. Its mission is to “proclaim the Lord Jesus Christ worldwide with a strategic burden for strengthening the pastoral leaders and evangelizing the opinion leaders of weaker economies.”

From his platform at RREACH, Dr. Richard travels throughout the world, clarifying the message of the Bible through lectures and preaching. His audiences are wide--ranging-from non-Christian intellectuals at Harvard to poor pastors in Haiti, from gatherings of a few to a hundred thousand. In past years he has spoken to crowds of men in stadiums across the United States on their spiritual responsibilities. The Lord has given him the opportunity of training thousands of church leaders in over 70 countries to preach, lead, and think biblically. He also has the privilege of exposing society’s “opinion leaders” to the good news of Jesus Christ.

A theologian, preacher, philosopher, evangelist, and author, Dr. Richard holds a ThD (in systematic theology) from Dallas Theological Seminary and the PhD (in philosophy) from the University of Delhi. Yet his primary desire is for an ever-deepening relationship with his Lord.