KCI Classics Preaching from WTH Richards, founder of King's Church International

In 1943, during the war time Blitz, WTH 'Billy' Richards heard the voice of God telling him to start a church in Slough. It was a town that he had never visited and knew nothing about. Obedient to what God had said, he hired a run down Scout hut and held the first service for The Gospel Tabernacle, as the church was then called. As a young man he had left his home of Wales, where he had been a miner aged 14 and had founded a church that would be known around the world. A pioneer, he also founded 'Christian Witness,' a ten lesson correspondence course in personal evangelism. Within 18 months, 10,000 people had been spoken to about Jesus. Within a few years the course was translated into over 10 languages and was on every continent. He also launched a radio programme and a magazine for pastors. WTH was a gifted preacher in demand at Bible colleges, conferences and conventions. He was a well known and widely respected pastor by the time of his death in 1974.