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 endeavors to equip indigenous church leaders with the biblical knowledge, ministry skills, and personal character in order to become participants in the Great Commission and not just recipients of the gospel.
According to the respected Lausanne Movement’s Covenant, the equipping of pastors is the greatest need in the church today. “More than 2.2 million pastoral leaders presently minister, while ‘only 5% are trainedfor pastoral ministry,” according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Thus, more than 2 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 of the pastors in their area teach that believers need to do good works in order 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.
Why give to this project?
How may we quicken the pace of pastoral training everywhere and keep equipping and multiplying leaders globally? By making a substantial investment 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—Our goal is to double our current 10,000 trained multiplying leaders to 20,000. Your gift provides support to add more national staff coordinators to expand in each country.
Translation projects—this includes the translation of 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 model of training for the growing church in the following countries.
Pastor Library Project—Every year we print and order at least 10,000 training manuals. In every country, there are pastors who cannot afford to purchase a training manual. Many times, these training manuals and their Bible is the only library they have. A pastor’s library costs $100.
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.
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Program Countries: Global 33+ Countries with head office in Brandon, Florida
*You will receive an official Canadian tax receipt for all eligible donations by the end of February of the following year. Thank you for your support of the mission and programs of The Great Commission Foundation (“GCF”).
*GCF operates on the basis of Donor-Advised Funding. It is our utmost goal to meet the Donor’s desire and intent to provide support to particular GCF projects but, ultimately, the responsibility for the disbursement and ministry use of funds is the Great Commission Foundation’s.
