Rick Bundschuh, Founding Komrad

Rick Bundschuh is a Pastor, veteran youth worker, writer, speaker, and cartoonist based in Kauai, Hawaii. Born and raised in a 50's era stucco house near the ocean in San Diego, California, Rick came to age in the surf/hippie culture of the 1960's. Fortunate enough to connect with an aggressive and imaginative youth pastor during his early teen years, Rick converted to Christianity (from raw hedonism) and began the spiritual journey that, along the way, led him into the ministry.

After attending Capernwray Bible School in the United Kingdom, Rick became a youth pastor himself, continuing in that calling for the next 28 years with the exception of a six year stint as the Creative Director for Youth Resources at Gospel Light Publications.

Known for his creativity, "over the top" imagination and successful efforts in reaching un-churched teens, Rick has been instrumental in flooding the churches he has worked in with pagans, trolls, and other wild converts. (A talent not always appreciated in some circles.) Along the way he managed to squeeze out a regular two-page cartoon feature in Surfer Magazine (running 1980-86) and authored dozens of books.

Migrating to Kauai in 1986 (rumors that he was chased out of California are unfounded) Rick soon found himself back in youth ministry. Currently Rick serves as a teaching Pastor at Kauai Christian Fellowship and he continues to write and illustrate material for various publishers. Founded by Rick and a few other "mad hatters" in 1991, Kauai Christian Fellowship has earned a reputation as being high-energy, amplified, and postmodern oriented. He lives with his beautiful wife Lauren, their kids, a weenie dog, and a quiver of surfboards in Poipu, Hawaii.