Board of Directors

Reach Ministries International is a non-profit organization registered with the Internal Revenue Service. It's Board of Directors is led by Gene Tabor, founder and Chairman.

The Board consists of eight members who are appointed for three year terms. They give policy direction and support for RMI ministries.

Gene Tabor is the founder and director of Reach Ministries International (RMI) since 1987. He accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior as a teenager, was followed up, and has made disciples ever since. He studied electronics in the U.S. Navy, which brought him to the Philippines in 1953. He claimed Isaiah 42:4 for a disciple-making ministry in the Philippines and returned to the islands with his family in the 1960s with the Navigators. Gene has a B.A. in Social Studies, took advanced studies in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines, and later earned an M.A. in Marriage and Family Counselling in 1986 from the California Family Studies Center in North Hollywood, CA. He has served as a Navigator Area Representative in Washington D.C., was Philippine National Director for the Navigators from 1967-1974, founded REACH, Inc in the Philippines in 1976, and established RMI in 1987 to assist indiginous disciple-making ministries in the developing world. He also serves as a marriage and family counselor. His wife, Helen, has a M.A. in Special Education and recently retired from teaching in the public schools in California.

Dr. Dwight Carlson is both a specialist in psychiatry and internal medicine. He received his medical degree from George Washington University and completed his residency in both internal medicine and psychiatry at Harbor U.C.L.A. Medical Center. For 10 years Dr. Carlson practiced internal medicine and subsequently has practiced psychiatry for more than 27 years in Southern California. He was an assistant clinical professor at the U.C.L.A. Department of Psychiatry in Bio-behavioral Sciences for 14 years. He is an active member of a number of medical and psychiatric organizations. He recently retired from active practice and now devotes his time to writing and speaking. In addition, he has been involved in a number of Christian organizations. He has served as a board member of two mission boards, one which is in memory of his brother, Dr. Paul Carlson, who was martyred in Zaire in 1964. He has been an active leader in his local church for many years holding a number of leadership positions. He has gone on a number of short term mission trips. He is a diligent student of the Bible and is a frequent speaker on spiritual, medical, and psychiatric issues. He has written eight books which have sold more than 570,000 copies. They include Overcoming Hurts and Anger, Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded?, Helping (Not Hurting) Those with Emotional Difficulties, When Life Isn't Fair, and Energize Your Life: Overcoming Fatigue & Stress. Overcoming the Seven Obstacles to Spiritual Growth will be published early in 2006.

Marion "Guy" Chiattello, Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer for Vox Technologies in Dallas, Texas. His primary task is to establish and implement strategic competitive capabilities and processes that will assure Vox Technologies' continued rapid growth and long terms sustainability. He is also implementing an aggressive cost reduction program through off-shore business process outsourcing and developing a joint venture relationship with China.

Prior to joining Vox Technologies he was Executive Vice President of Business Development and Alliance for Suzsoft International, one of the top two Chinese outsourcing providers of global IT solutions. There he worked with the CEO to merge Suzsoft, International with Darwin Partners, a leading Boston based IT consulting firm. The new combined entity plans an IPO in early 2008.

In addition to his business development activities he also has experience as both an academic and as an entrepreneur. He began his academic career in 1970 at the University of Northern Iowa where he was an Associate Professor of Finance. He has earned a B.S. in Accounting, an M.A. in Economics, an M.A. in Management, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northern Illinois University. He has published 15 articles in professional journals, dealing with economics, finance and management.

His entrepreneurial career began in 1979 when he moved to Dallas, Texas to found Chiattello and Powell, a tax and investment advisory firm serving professional athletes, executives and medical professionals. This company had offices in Dallas, San Antonio and Minneapolis. In 1988 he sold the company to start Prisma Software, an early Microsoft Windows development company. His early vision of the emerging Windows technology was realized when he sold the company to Borland International in 1994. He then went on to develop a major digital learning product, which he licensed to Light Span and Phoenix Learning.

Lou Delgado is currently the director of family outreach with the Here's Life Inner City team. He has pastored a church, taught in public schools, and served as a missionary in Mexico for 31 years with RMI, Campus Crusade for Christ, and other oragnizations. He has ministered in the U.S., 13 Latin American countries, Great Britain, and the Philippines. His ministry experience has involved discipling through family ministries, which included planning seminars, family retreats, marriage and parenting seminars, counseling, and lay counselor training within the context of the local church, imparting the vision for the need to attend to families within the local church and the missionary community. He also served with the Luis Palau Evangelistic Team for seven years. He did his undergraduate studies in Biblical Studies at Biola University, post-graduate studies in Theology at Talbot Theological Seminary, teaching credentials for Secondary Education from Cal State University at Los Angeles, and has a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Carlos Ricoy is a native of Mexico and moved to the U.S. at the age of 9. He accepted Christ through the ministry of Youth for Christ and was involved with the Navigators in Washington, D.C. as a teenager and later while attending Virginia Tech. He and his wife, Maria, also served with the Navigators in Mexico primarily in the college ministries. He has a degree in history and did graduate work in history at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He worked for the U. S. government from the mid-70's until his retirement in 2001 in various administrative positions within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and the Forest Service. Carlos and Maria have two married children, Gracia and Juan Carlos, and two grandchildren, David and Jonathan. They lived in California until recently where they were active in their local church leading Bible studies, working with children, leading Crown ministry studies, and doing lay counseling. They also established a small community center in Mexicali, Mexico to do evangelistic outreach in the community and help with social needs. Carlos is an avid sports fan, enjoys music, plays the guitar and piano at the amateur level and has coached several soccer teams. He has been invloved with RMI since the early 1980's. Currently Carlos works as a Real Estate Broker in the Orlando, Florida area.

There are three RMI missionary families working in the Philippines. The overall direction for the ministry in the Phillipines is provided by REACH, Inc. and its Board of Directors.

For additional information, please contact us at reachmin@cosmoslink.net.