I Teach The Bible

over 30 years on 4 continents

MY PASSION

I love the Bible. It is at once very simple and complex. The simplicity gives us confidence because through Jesus we are forgiven and will go to heaven when we die. The complexity keeps us humble, trusting, growing.

MY PAST

Since the age of 25, I have lived in Africa, Asia, Europe and America. I have invested these years in teaching the Bible, church planting and encouraging people in their faith.

PASTOR

I am the Teaching Pastor at Community Baptist Church in The Woodlands, Texas.

PODCASTER

I host a Podcast called LISTEN TO RICH. I introduce you to amazing people with stories of hope.

PROFESSOR

I teach bachelors and masters courses at Grace School of Theology (GSOT).

Brief

Resumé

I have partnered with some of the most amazing people and organizations.

Here are a few . . .

Teaching | Training

Operation Mobilization

Ten years teaching young people from all across the world, in the Bible and ministry skills. Based in India, England and USA

Church Planting | Teaching

GO! Ministries

From 2002 to the present, planted Calvary Chapel Birmingham, teach community Bible studies for people of other religious backgrounds, GO! Ministries Board member

Church Planting | Teaching

Calvary Chapel Ft Lauderdale

On staff in Missions Ministry, Church Planting and Missionary from 1994 to 2015.

Church Planter

Calvary Chapel Birmingham, UK

From a Bible study of 6 people in 2002, Calvary Chapel Birmingham, UK has grown to a thriving, multi-cultural church.

Short Term | Service

CE NATIONAL

Central African Republic and Chad, from 1988-1990, I cut my teeth in ministry serving the church and making friends with Muslims in the city and in nomadic regions of Chad

Adjunct Faculty

Grace School of Theology

Teaching bachelors and masters courses in Biblical History, Theology, Church History, in the USA and in Nepal

teaching | Ministry Training | Outreach

The Church of England

Worked in conjunction with youth leaders and youth outreach projects in local parishes to mobilize church youth and reach unchurched young people in Birmingham, London and Málaga.

Teaching | Training

Assemblies of God

Teaching, leading prayer meetings, mobilizing people for ministry in the city of Birmingham, England.

Teaching

Church of God

Assisting Emmanuel Church of God church planting among Pakistani Community in Houston.

Teaching | Training

Southern Baptist Convention

Teaching in local churches, Assisting with DNOW in local churches in Charlotte, NC.

Teaching | Church Planting

Agapé (Cru in the UK)

Assisted a team teaching the Bible and Church Planting among Iranians in Birmingham, Sheffield, Netherlands and Germany

Missions Pastor

FBC

Missions Pastor, responsible for shepherding missionaries and mobilizing others for minitry

Education

University of Birmingham, England, PhD – 2011

Columbia International University, Columbia, South Carolina, MDiv – 1993

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, BSc Management – 1989

Recent Publications

by Richard Bustraan

The Jesus People Movement: a story of spiritual revolution among the hippies.

Who would have imagined that the hippies, those long-haired, psychedelia-influenced youth of the 1960s, would have initiated a spiritual revolution that has transformed American Christianity? If you are unfamiliar with the 1960s, the counterculture, the hippie movement, and the Jesus People, then this book will transport you to that era and introduce you to the generation and the decade that turned American culture upside down …

The Story of The Bible: the way Jesus and the Apostles told it

The Bible tells a story . . . a story of three prophecies. Understand the three prophecies and you will understand the story of the Bible. The Story of the Bible is an overview of the entire Bible. It will teach you to summarize the Bible the way that Jesus and the apostles did. This book has been over 20 years in the making. It emerged from hours …

The Book of Acts: 50 Questions

Reading the Book of Acts is an experience. Its pages are an endless sequence of riveting stories that form a single account of the early days of the movement that would later become called Christianity. Unshackled from two millennia of history and freed from deep theological discourse, it reads more like an action adventure with characters whose raw courage, faith and miracles were taken out onto the streets of the major cities of Palestine, Asia minor and Europe … to be published Summer 2022