Rich Gimmel is the owner and chairman of Atlas Machine and Supply, Inc., a fourth-generation family industrial machinery manufacturer. He currently serves as the Executive Director for the Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy (KY-RTC) whose network of chaplains and volunteers serve four tracks in the state. Along with his wife Angie, Rich currently lives and serves in Louisville, KY. Rich's heart for service is evidenced by his heavy involvement in organizations with missions bent toward helping the citizens of Jefferson County and Central Kentucky including the KY-RTC, KY Board of Education, and the Global Church Missions Team of his local church.

Darrell has spent the past seventeen years as the Senior Chaplain at Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico during which time the Lord has grown the ministry in size and influence. Darrell received the Lord at age thirteen at a summer camp in Minnesota, after which he chose to live with his uncle who headed up a ministry there. He remained active as a "staff kid" until going off to college and then entering the business world. Darrell spent the next twenty years owning two businesses and working for a fortune 500 company before retiring to Ruidoso. Darrell believes that his mission work as a teenager and his business background were both God's preparation to give him the unique skill set to do His good work.

Humberto was born in Mexico City and later came to New York, where he lives with Karen, his wife of sixteen years, and their sons David, Johnathan, and Lukas. Together they have a passion for empowering others to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that will eventually help them to become better workers, spouses, and parents.

Since being called to full time ministry in 2003, Humberto has served as the official Chaplain for the New York Racing Association (NYRA). Humberto and his team of volunteers with the New York Race Track Chaplaincy (NYRTC) provide ministry and programming for the workers at Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga race tracks. Chaplain Humberto ministers and advocates on behalf of the stable workers, horse racing staff, jockeys, trainers and the surrounding communities.

Chaplain Michael Bingaman received a BA Degree in Pastoral Ministries from Northwest College of the Assemblies of God in 1983. He became a Qualified Chemical Dependency Counselor (QCDC) in Washington State in 1992 after completing that education at Bellevue Community College.  He received his MA in Professional Counseling from Texas State University in 1999, and became a Licensed Professional Counselor in 2004.

Michael began his relationship with RTCA in 1981 while serving as a Children’s Pastor for the Renton Assembly of God when he approached the current Chaplain to provide a children’s outreach for Longacres Race Track.  Michael served on the Longacres’ Chaplaincy council from the summer of 1981 until February 1986, when he was made the Chaplain at Longacres.  Michael served at Longacres until it’s closing in 1992.  He then served the same community in 1993 as they held the Longacres meeting at Yakima Meadows in Eastern Washington.

1994 found Chaplain Bingaman moving to Texas where he served both Bandera Downs and Trinity Meadows until the opening of Retama Park in San Antonio.  Michael has been Chaplain at Retama Park from the opening day on April 7, 1995, until the present.  He has also served the national organization as the Chaplain’s representative between 1997 and 2000. Chaplain Mike served as a Field Director for the National RTCA from 1995 through 2011.  He has served as a member of the National Executive Committee as secretary for the year 2011-2012.   He resides with his wife, Charo and his son Tommy.  His oldest son, Joshua, ministers at the First Church of the Open Bible in Des Moines, Iowa where he is the director of Harvest Bible Institute. Joshua and his wife, Zia, have three sons, Ezra, Titus and Jude. His daughter, Amy and her husband Paul live in the Dallas metroplex. Amy works at the Dallas extension of Abilene Christian University where husband Paul works at Southwest Assemblies of God University. Youngest son Thomas is completing his degree in finances at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The Director of the Animal Health Division of Luitpold Animal Health, Allyn has dedicated the past 29 years to the equine health industry.

Marie is the Academic Coordinator of the English Department at Wheaton College, and is also an adjunct instructor in the English Language Program at Moraine Valley Community College. She has taught adult ESL for eight years, and currently teaches the migrant adults who work at Arlington and Hawthorne race tracks in Illinois, which was also the context of her master's thesis on English teaching at the backstretch of America's race courses.

Born in the Philippines, Marie immigrated the US with her family as a teenager in 1971, where they settled in the San Francisco Bay area. Marie accepted Christ at the age of 10, spent 16 years as a Navy wife, and eventually settled near Chicago. She became involved with the workers at Arlington and Hawthorne during her graduate studies and worked to re-establish the Chaplaincy programs there. She has served as the Council President for RTCA Chicagoland since 2016. Marie enjoys playing the piano, sewing, and writing both fiction and creative non-fiction.

Rick Hooper is Chief Counsel for Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a Georgia corporation that supplies carpet, resilient, hardwood, laminate, tile and stone flooring products and synthetic turf to residential and commercial markets worldwide. 

At Shaw, Rick directs the legal and corporate compliance departments located at the corporate headquarters in Dalton, Georgia. He has been with the company for 25 years and became its chief legal officer soon after the company was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2001.  Rick earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University.  

Prior to joining Shaw, Rick worked in private legal practice, representing businesses and individuals in general business law and litigation in state and federal courts.  He continues to be involved in his local community in various roles. At the state level Rick serves on the Board of the Georgia Association of Manufacturers as Treasurer and chairs it’s Legislative and Public Policy Committee. Nationally he is the chair of the Carpet and Rug Institute’s CARE & EPR Panel. 

Rick and his wife, Sandee, have three children and attend Rock Bridge Community Church.