According to the respected Lausanne Movement’s Covenant, the equipping of pastors is the greatest need in the church today. “More than 3.2 million pastoral leaders presently minister, while ‘only 5% are trained for pastoral ministry," according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Thus, more than 3 million pastoral leaders need immediate strengthening.

Imagine if your pastor did not know what the Bible taught on various topics. Conversely, the Church worldwide is in dire straits without equipped shepherds.

While training pastors in India, many of them told me that many pastors in their area teach that believers need to do good work to keep their salvation instead of salvation by grace. When the shepherds of the church are NOT equipped, they can and often do teach false doctrine, lead people astray and not reach the community for Christ.

How may we quicken the pace of pastoral training everywhere and keep equipping and multiplying leaders globally? By investing in CCI’s cost-effective mission to equip and multiply leaders globally!

We have a proven strategy. We have a comprehensive curriculum translated into most of the nations' languages which is affordable, accessible, and reproducible – COST EFFECTIVE. Further, we have a proven team ready to train.

Some of our main projects:

• Double It Campaign—In 2020, we set a goal to double our then 10,000 trained multiplying leaders to 20,000. Today, we have 13,892 trained leaders on six continents in 34 countries, reaching 130 people groups. Your gift supports adding more national staff coordinators to expand in each country.

• Translation projects include translating about 3,000 pages of CCI’s 12-course curriculum into local languages where pastors and church leaders are being trained. Most pastors do not have access to training materials in their own language. These 12 courses provide a sustainable discipleship training model for the growing church in the following countries.

• Pastor Library Project—We print and order at least 10,000 training manuals every year. Some pastors cannot afford to purchase a training manual. These training manuals and their Bible are often the only library they have. A pastor's library costs $100.

Crossing Cultures International (CCI) is leading the way in how cross-cultural missions are being done. By equipping and training indigenous pastors and church leaders through the local church, the culture remains unaltered as sound biblical knowledge is imparted through a discipleship relationship. CCI endeavours to equip indigenous church leaders with biblical knowledge, ministry skills, and personal character in order to become participants in the Great Commission and not just recipients of the gospel.

Prayer Request:

• We are praying that God will continue to use us to equip workers for the harvest who will preach the gospel, which has the power to transform lives, families, states, and nations!

• Please join us in praying for the protection and safety of our national coordinators. Many of them reside in countries that persecute Christians.