About This Project

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 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 trained for 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:

• Equip, Empower & Evangelize - Help us continue our mission of making disciples of Christ by supporting a National Coordinator. We have recently added 61+ coordinators to our team. These coordinators play a crucial role in training and guiding CCI teachers, establishing new classes, and nurturing the growth of the ministry. However, with their addition, we need $300 monthly support per coordinator for travel, personal, and ministry needs. Please consider investing in one or more of these coordinators and annotate “coordinator” in the comment section of your gift.

• 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 globally. Each translation project costs $10,000. Please consider investing in these language projects and annotate “translation” in the comment section of your gift.

• 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 are the only library they have. A pastor’s library costs $100. Please consider investing in a pastor’s library and annotate “pastor library” in the comment section of your gift.

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.

Rejoice with us!

Here is what the CCI team accomplished by God’s grace in 2024:

• Over 10,000 students currently in training

• More than 29,000 trained pastors and church leaders

• 244 new pastoral training classes were started with 3,079 new students

• 57 classes graduated, with 812 students engaged in gospel ministry

• Through 143 seminars, 5,300 participants were equipped in biblical stewardship, family and marriage, resolving conflict, leadership, and expository preaching

• 41 new churches were started (146 new churches since 2019)

• The first graduations were held in Guatemala, Bangladesh, and Pakistan