Richard Coekin

A sinner saved by God’s grace, Richard is married to Sian, a beautiful Welsh GP, and blessed with five children, one grandchild and a permanently moulting dog. After briefly practising as a commercial lawyer in London, Richard trained at Moore College, Sydney and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, before a training ‘curacy’ at St. Mary’s Cheadle, Manchester and then 29 years as Senior Pastor of Dundonald Church in South London. During those years, he witnessed God growing Dundonald from 35 adults and a few kids through various stages to become a larger church of 800+ adults and 350 kids with nine church plants, through two building projects and despite constant friction with a Liberal Church of England Diocese. God also used Richard to help develop the Co-Mission church-planting network of 30+ churches in London and to launch a variety of gospel ministries (including 9:38, London Men’s Convention, The Planting Collective, a Parliamentary Bible Study) and some books (e.g. Gospel DNA, Our Father, Ephesians for You and The Reluctant Evangelist). Richard has enjoyed mentoring pastors in the UK and abroad for many years and is regularly invited to speak at ministry training events in the UK and internationally. Richard is now Director of Reach Ministries UK, Pastor Emeritus at Dundonald Church and Mission Director Emeritus of Co-Mission.