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Independent Christian ChurchTRAIN InternationalTRAIN International equips missionaries, families, churches, and global workers through pre-field training, debriefing, coaching, spiritual direction,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
TRAIN International
TRAIN International — Organization Profile TRAIN International is a Christian missions training organization that helps churches and global workers prepare for cross-cultural ministry and remain healthy and effective in service. The organization describes its work around the phrase “Go Prepared.…
TRAIN International — Organization Profile TRAIN International is a Christian missions training organization that helps churches and global workers prepare for cross-cultural ministry and remain healthy and effective in service. The organization describes its work around the phrase “Go Prepared. Stay Effective.” Its services include church missions consulting, missionary pre-field training, debriefing, coaching, spiritual direction, orality training, and related resources for global workers. TRAIN International is based in Joplin, Missouri, with programs serving missionaries, families, churches, mission teams, and cross-cultural workers in the United States and abroad. Its public calendar includes trainings and debriefings in Joplin, Missouri; Conception, Missouri; Atlanta, Georgia; and Proem, Poland, reflecting both stateside and international ministry settings. The organization serves people preparing to go overseas, workers…
TRAIN International — Organization Profile
TRAIN International is a Christian missions training organization that helps churches and global workers prepare for cross-cultural ministry and remain healthy and effective in service. The organization describes its work around the phrase “Go Prepared. Stay Effective.” Its services include church missions consulting, missionary pre-field training, debriefing, coaching, spiritual direction, orality training, and related resources for global workers.
TRAIN International is based in Joplin, Missouri, with programs serving missionaries, families, churches, mission teams, and cross-cultural workers in the United States and abroad. Its public calendar includes trainings and debriefings in Joplin, Missouri; Conception, Missouri; Atlanta, Georgia; and Proem, Poland, reflecting both stateside and international ministry settings. The organization serves people preparing to go overseas, workers already on the field, and missionaries navigating transition, furlough, reentry, or long-term ministry stress.
The organization’s core focus is equipping churches and global workers with practical tools for sustainable mission service. Its Orient Pre-Field Training prepares cross-cultural workers to adapt to culture, work well with others, manage stress, understand team dynamics, maintain spiritual vitality, and thrive on the field. The training includes classroom instruction, group discussion, and experiential learning, including a wilderness component through a partnership with Discovery Ministries in Eminence, Missouri.
TRAIN also provides Abide Debriefing for missionaries and families who need space to process field experiences. These group debriefings and retreats help adults and children reflect on gains, losses, expectations, stress, and transition while connecting with other cross-cultural workers. The organization offers stateside debriefing as well as Abide Abroad, giving missionaries structured support when returning, transitioning, or serving during high-stress seasons.
For churches, TRAIN offers Envision Church Missions Consulting, a process designed to help congregations clarify missions vision, evaluate strategy, strengthen global outreach, and care well for workers they send and support. Consulting modules include Vision and Strategy, Caring for Global Workers, Short-Term Missions, Engaging Internationals, and Sending Church. TRAIN describes itself as an independent and unaffiliated training organization that serves a variety of agencies, churches, and denominations.
People can engage TRAIN International by registering for pre-field training, debriefing, coaching, spiritual direction, or orality training; requesting church consulting; reviewing the training calendar; joining the email list; praying for missionaries and staff; or donating to support affordable training. Churches and mission agencies can also connect with TRAIN to support global workers before departure, during service, and through major transitions.
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Independent Christian ChurchEmmaus Road InternationalEmmaus Road International equips churches, mission teams, agencies, and colleges with resources for cross-cultural ministry, missionary…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Emmaus Road International
Emmaus Road International — Organization Profile Emmaus Road International (ERI) is a Christian missions education and resource ministry focused on helping churches, mission agencies, colleges, and mission teams serve well in cross-cultural ministry. The organization describes itself as a “come…
Emmaus Road International — Organization Profile Emmaus Road International (ERI) is a Christian missions education and resource ministry focused on helping churches, mission agencies, colleges, and mission teams serve well in cross-cultural ministry. The organization describes itself as a “come alongside” ministry that provides resources to ignite, develop, and expand involvement in cross-cultural mission. Its work centers on mobilizing churches, training goers and senders, and networking churches and teams with ministries requesting help. Emmaus Road International is based in San Diego, California, with ERI Resources connected through Boulder City, Nevada. Its resources and ministry relationships serve churches, agencies, colleges, missionaries, mission teams, and cross-cultural workers around the world. ERI was birthed on February 28, 1983, when Neal Pirolo and several…
Emmaus Road International — Organization Profile
Emmaus Road International (ERI) is a Christian missions education and resource ministry focused on helping churches, mission agencies, colleges, and mission teams serve well in cross-cultural ministry. The organization describes itself as a “come alongside” ministry that provides resources to ignite, develop, and expand involvement in cross-cultural mission. Its work centers on mobilizing churches, training goers and senders, and networking churches and teams with ministries requesting help.
Emmaus Road International is based in San Diego, California, with ERI Resources connected through Boulder City, Nevada. Its resources and ministry relationships serve churches, agencies, colleges, missionaries, mission teams, and cross-cultural workers around the world. ERI was birthed on February 28, 1983, when Neal Pirolo and several ministry friends sensed a calling to continue missions education through an independent ministry serving many churches globally.
ERI’s core focus is missions preparation, missionary care, cross-cultural training, sending-team development, reentry support, and practical mission education. Rather than asking people to “join” the organization, ERI provides books, seminars, media resources, and training tools that churches and ministries can use in their own contexts. This allows local congregations, sending churches, and mission organizations to better support missionaries before they go, while they are on the field, and when they return.
The ministry is widely associated with resources such as Serving as Senders Today, The Reentry Team, I Think God Wants Me to be a Missionary, Internationals Who Live Among Us, Prepare For Battle!, Partners in the Gospel, and Keeping in Touch. These materials address the practical and spiritual responsibilities of sending churches, missionary support teams, prayer partners, financial partners, communication partners, logistics helpers, and reentry caregivers.
ERI also offers seminars and training experiences. Seminar topics include Serving as Senders, Solutions to Culture Stress, Internationals Among Us, What’s the Big Deal? They’re Just Coming Home!, For Those Who Go, Prepare for Battle!, Steps to the Field, Eight Possible Next Steps, Personal Involvement in Cross-Cultural Ministry, and Nothing Good Just Happens. The ACTS training emphasis and related media resources help prepare believers for cross-cultural service with humility, cultural understanding, and long-term faithfulness.
People can engage with Emmaus Road International by using its books and digital resources, inviting a seminar presenter, accessing the free media library, translating ERI resources, supporting orphan or refugee sponsorship opportunities, participating in ministry trips, ordering resources through ERI Resources, praying for the ministry, or giving financially. Contact is available through both the San Diego ministry office and ERI Resources in Boulder City.
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EducationELICELIC equips professional educators to work overseas through English teaching, cross-cultural relationships, team-based service, and educational…Education · Independent Christian Church
ELIC
ELIC — Organization Profile ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on…
ELIC — Organization Profile ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on teams in hard-to-access places. Its work connects professional classroom service with long-term relational presence among students, colleagues, neighbors, and local communities. ELIC is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional offices in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its educators serve across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. ELIC began sending teachers to China in 1982 and now offers teaching opportunities in universities, K–12…
ELIC — Organization Profile
ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on teams in hard-to-access places. Its work connects professional classroom service with long-term relational presence among students, colleagues, neighbors, and local communities.
ELIC is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional offices in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its educators serve across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. ELIC began sending teachers to China in 1982 and now offers teaching opportunities in universities, K–12 schools, language centers, community centers, and teacher-training settings.
The organization’s core focus is English education as a pathway for meaningful global service, cultural engagement, and relationship-building. ELIC works through partnerships with governments and educational institutions, placing professional educators in settings where English instruction is needed and where teachers can serve with excellence, humility, and cultural sensitivity. Teachers may serve for a few weeks, nine months, or one year or longer.
ELIC’s programs include short-term Engage opportunities, the Global Ambassador Program, and longer-term Legacy teaching placements. Engage provides team-based summer teaching opportunities for people serving two to eight weeks. The Global Ambassador Program is a nine-month mentorship and cross-cultural development program in locations such as Thailand, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan. Legacy is ELIC’s one-year-or-longer teaching program for university campuses, K–12 schools, and language centers.
The organization also provides substantial support for educators before, during, and after overseas service. ELIC’s process includes inquiry, application, interview, preparation, pre-departure training, support development, team placement, and ongoing care while overseas. Services include orientation, health and safety assistance, visa and travel guidance, personal support, insurance, financial advising, newsletter support, alumni care, and team-based field leadership.
People can engage with ELIC by applying to work overseas as professional educators, exploring short-term or long-term teaching opportunities, joining the Global Ambassador Program, giving financially, inviting ELIC’s president or team members to speak, reading Field Notes, connecting with alumni resources, or contacting the organization for more information. ELIC also offers career opportunities for people interested in North American office support and mobilization work.
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Independent Christian ChurchCoaching Mission InternationalCoaching Mission International provides Christ-centered coaching and coach training to strengthen global mission workers, leaders, and…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Coaching Mission International
Coaching Mission International — Organization Profile Coaching Mission International (CMI) is a Christian coaching and training ministry that serves global mission workers and mission organizations. Its stated mission is through coaching and training, CMI empowers global mission workers and organizations…
Coaching Mission International — Organization Profile Coaching Mission International (CMI) is a Christian coaching and training ministry that serves global mission workers and mission organizations. Its stated mission is through coaching and training, CMI empowers global mission workers and organizations for greater Kingdom impact. The organization focuses on helping missionaries, cross-cultural workers, ministry leaders, and organizations gain support, clarity, resilience, and practical skills for sustainable ministry. CMI is connected with leadership in Arizona and serves mission workers across 110 countries. Its story began in 2004, when a mission organization working in South Asia invited coaching support for six global workers. That initial work led to a wider vision for making coaching available to thousands of field staff, and Coaching Mission…
Coaching Mission International — Organization Profile
Coaching Mission International (CMI) is a Christian coaching and training ministry that serves global mission workers and mission organizations. Its stated mission is through coaching and training, CMI empowers global mission workers and organizations for greater Kingdom impact. The organization focuses on helping missionaries, cross-cultural workers, ministry leaders, and organizations gain support, clarity, resilience, and practical skills for sustainable ministry.
CMI is connected with leadership in Arizona and serves mission workers across 110 countries. Its story began in 2004, when a mission organization working in South Asia invited coaching support for six global workers. That initial work led to a wider vision for making coaching available to thousands of field staff, and Coaching Mission International was incorporated in 2006. Since then, CMI has trained more than 500 mission leaders serving in 54 countries and has provided more than 65,000 hours of coaching to more than 4,100 mission workers.
The organization’s core focus is developing global workers to have transformative and sustainable impact. CMI describes coaching as a way to help workers process challenges, transitions, calling, leadership questions, cultural adjustment, team dynamics, purpose, and spiritual formation. Its vision is to see mission workers strengthened, encouraged, and equipped to serve well and thrive.
CMI operates through coaching, coach training, workshops, courses, mentoring, and volunteer support. Its courses include Foundations for Coaching Excellence, Advanced Mentor Coaching, Coaching with Personality Types, Coaching with Cultural Intelligence, Coaching with Life Purpose, Advanced Global Coach Certificate, and Training Transformational Trainers. The Advanced Life Coach Certificate is accredited by the International Coaching Federation as a Level 1 training program.
The ministry’s distinctives include Christ-centered coaching, cross-cultural awareness, mission experience, and training designed for people serving in global ministry contexts. CMI’s coaches and trainers bring experience from pastoral ministry, international missions, member care, leadership development, nonprofit work, education, counseling, and cross-cultural service. The organization’s materials emphasize the coach approach as useful not only for certified coaches, but also for ministry workers who want to lead and serve others more effectively.
People can engage with Coaching Mission International by getting a coach, becoming a coach, taking a course, attending a workshop, scheduling a call, giving financially, receiving email updates, volunteering, or exploring opportunities to serve with the CMI team. The organization also invites mission workers, churches, and mission organizations to use coaching skills as a tool for strengthening leaders and supporting people serving in challenging ministry settings.
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Independent Christian ChurchChile MissionChile Mission serves families, children, youth, and churches in Chile through Dulce Refugio medical housing, Campo…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Chile Mission
Chile Mission — Organization Profile Chile Mission is a Christian mission serving in Chile with a stated purpose of being sent out by the church to reach people, especially children, with the love of Jesus so they may know and…
Chile Mission — Organization Profile Chile Mission is a Christian mission serving in Chile with a stated purpose of being sent out by the church to reach people, especially children, with the love of Jesus so they may know and follow him. Jack and Janine Swanson began missionary preparation in 1992, arrived in Santiago, Chile, in November 1993, and the ministry later developed as an organized mission entity through the purchase of a ministry site in La Cisterna, Santiago, in 2001. The mission is based in Santiago, Chile, with ministry also extending to middle rural Chile, between Chillán and Concepción. Its work serves Chilean families, children, youth, adults, local churches, and people who travel to Santiago from other parts of…
Chile Mission — Organization Profile
Chile Mission is a Christian mission serving in Chile with a stated purpose of being sent out by the church to reach people, especially children, with the love of Jesus so they may know and follow him. Jack and Janine Swanson began missionary preparation in 1992, arrived in Santiago, Chile, in November 1993, and the ministry later developed as an organized mission entity through the purchase of a ministry site in La Cisterna, Santiago, in 2001.
The mission is based in Santiago, Chile, with ministry also extending to middle rural Chile, between Chillán and Concepción. Its work serves Chilean families, children, youth, adults, local churches, and people who travel to Santiago from other parts of the country for medical treatment. Chile Mission also connects with Christian Churches and Churches of Christ in Chile and with supporting churches and individuals in the United States.
One of Chile Mission’s main ministries is Casa de Acogida “Dulce Refugio,” or Sweet Refuge House. This ministry provides temporary housing with emotional and spiritual support for parents of hospitalized children and adults receiving medical treatment in Santiago. The residence operates on the mission property in La Cisterna, where families from other parts of Chile may stay while facing burns, cancer, transplants, and other long-term medical situations.
Chile Mission’s other major ministry focus is Campo Vivo, a developing Christian children’s and youth camp and retreat center on a 90-acre rural property in middle Chile. The project is designed to provide a Christian camp setting for children, youth, adults, church retreats, marriage encounters, pastoral restoration, seminars, and future community outreach. The land was purchased in 2019, and development has included planning, infrastructure work, roads, fencing, and preparation for future buildings and ministry use.
The mission has also been connected with community ministries such as English Club, a pre-evangelistic English-learning outreach, and teaching at La Casa del Alfarero, a Christian live-in drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for men. Some of these ministries are described as dormant or dependent on additional Spanish-speaking team members, but they show the mission’s broader approach of building relationships, meeting practical needs, and sharing Christian teaching.
People can engage with Chile Mission by praying for the monthly needs shared through its updates, giving financially, contacting the mission about serving, helping with Campo Vivo development, or participating in cross-cultural service opportunities. The mission also notes its need for Spanish-speaking missionaries or couples with skills such as counseling, construction, cultivation, animal-raising, and ministry support in Santiago and rural Chile.
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Independent Christian ChurchAll in Ministries InternationalAll In Ministries International equips women worldwide with disciple-making training, resources, workshops, and ministry partnerships through…Independent Christian Church · Missions
All in Ministries International
All In Ministries International — Organization Profile All In Ministries International is a Christian nonprofit ministry focused on training, equipping, and mentoring women worldwide to be disciple makers of Jesus. The ministry serves the local church across denominations and describes…
All In Ministries International — Organization Profile All In Ministries International is a Christian nonprofit ministry focused on training, equipping, and mentoring women worldwide to be disciple makers of Jesus. The ministry serves the local church across denominations and describes its vision as igniting a movement of women who disciple women across cultures for God’s glory. Its work centers on helping women know Jesus, grow as disciples, and learn how to share the gospel and disciple others in their own families, churches, and communities. All In Ministries International is based in Jacksonville, Florida, and serves women through a global ministry model that includes Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and other regions reached through online training and ministry partnerships. The organization…
All In Ministries International — Organization Profile
All In Ministries International is a Christian nonprofit ministry focused on training, equipping, and mentoring women worldwide to be disciple makers of Jesus. The ministry serves the local church across denominations and describes its vision as igniting a movement of women who disciple women across cultures for God’s glory. Its work centers on helping women know Jesus, grow as disciples, and learn how to share the gospel and disciple others in their own families, churches, and communities.
All In Ministries International is based in Jacksonville, Florida, and serves women through a global ministry model that includes Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and other regions reached through online training and ministry partnerships. The organization places special emphasis on under-resourced women who may have limited access to discipleship training, biblical resources, or women’s ministry support in their local context. Its stated concern is not only evangelism, but also helping women understand their identity, purpose, and calling as disciples who make disciples.
The ministry operates through volunteer involvement, donor support, and partnerships with churches, missionaries, and ministry leaders. All In describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is 100 percent donor-funded and serves through a largely virtual and volunteer-based culture. Its approach is designed to be reproducible across cultures, often using Bible-centered teaching, simple training tools, and translated resources that can be taught with an interpreter and adapted for local churches or ministry settings.
A central offering of the ministry is women’s disciple-making training that teaches practical steps for abiding in Christ, studying the Bible, praying, sharing Jesus, and serving with the local church. All In offers a free online Disciple-Making Course, free resource kits, video and audio resources, and workshop curriculum. Its Women’s Disciple-Making Workshop Training Guide includes sessions on God’s story, identity in Christ, purpose, prayer, Bible study, sharing Jesus, and serving through the local church.
All In also equips trainers and mission partners. Through its “Be a Trainer” pathway, women can receive free workshop materials intended for international Christian women’s conferences, short-term mission settings, and local ministry training. Through mission partnerships, the ministry works with churches and organizations that desire to equip women as disciple makers in their own communities. All In’s model emphasizes local leadership, ongoing mentoring, and the multiplication of disciple makers rather than one-time events alone.
People can engage with All In Ministries International by using its free disciple-making resources, taking the online course, becoming a trainer, inviting the ministry to speak, partnering through missions, praying, volunteering, sharing ministry updates, or giving financially. The ministry invites monthly and one-time donors to help provide online training, translated Bible studies, discipleship resources, and support for local leaders serving under-resourced women around the world.
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Church of ChristLet’s Start Talking (LST)Let’s Start Talking (LST) is a Hurst, Texas-based ministry connecting Christians and international neighbors through one-on-one…Church of Christ · Missions
Let’s Start Talking (LST)
Let’s Start Talking (LST) — Organization Profile Let’s Start Talking (LST) is a conversation-based outreach ministry that helps Christians build one-on-one English conversation friendships that naturally open the Bible. Since 1980, LST has connected volunteers and international participants through a…
Let’s Start Talking (LST) — Organization Profile Let’s Start Talking (LST) is a conversation-based outreach ministry that helps Christians build one-on-one English conversation friendships that naturally open the Bible. Since 1980, LST has connected volunteers and international participants through a simple, repeatable approach: meet regularly, practice conversational English, and use discussion-based workbooks built around biblical stories and themes. LST is based in Hurst, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth area) and serves international neighbors locally and “around the world” through multiple pathways. Some participants connect with LST online, some meet in local communities with newcomers and immigrants, and others travel to global sites where LST teams partner with long-term host ministries. Across all settings, LST emphasizes relationship, consistent conversation, and thoughtful questions rather…
Let’s Start Talking (LST) — Organization Profile
Let’s Start Talking (LST) is a conversation-based outreach ministry that helps Christians build one-on-one English conversation friendships that naturally open the Bible. Since 1980, LST has connected volunteers and international participants through a simple, repeatable approach: meet regularly, practice conversational English, and use discussion-based workbooks built around biblical stories and themes.
LST is based in Hurst, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth area) and serves international neighbors locally and “around the world” through multiple pathways. Some participants connect with LST online, some meet in local communities with newcomers and immigrants, and others travel to global sites where LST teams partner with long-term host ministries. Across all settings, LST emphasizes relationship, consistent conversation, and thoughtful questions rather than classroom-style teaching.
One of LST’s primary programs is FriendSpeak, which equips churches, campus ministries, and other groups to engage international neighbors through English, friendship, and Scripture-based discussion. FriendSpeak is designed for a one-to-one setting and is supported by training and a defined set of workbooks. LST encourages groups to pursue training before using the materials, aiming to help volunteers create welcoming, meaningful conversations and a sustainable local ministry structure.
LST also offers LST Connect, an online option that matches English-speaking volunteers (“Workers”) with international “Readers” for reading sessions through tools such as Zoom or WhatsApp. Participants use print or digital workbooks, and LST provides ongoing training and support so volunteers can feel equipped and Readers can practice English while exploring Bible-based conversations at a comfortable pace.
For those called to cross-cultural service in-person, LST International Projects send small, well-prepared teams to partner with host sites. LST describes these as “projects” (not traditional mission trips), with teams typically serving 2–6 weeks and focusing on one main task—building bridges into the community through English conversation practice. LST’s full-service model includes training, fundraising support, onsite support, and post-project debriefing, with options for families and special tracks like YoungFriends for youth groups and Christian high schools.
Training is central to how LST operates. The ministry offers recurring entry points like “Exploring LST,” along with core preparation such as Basic Training and additional components for project teams, including Gateway Training (pre-departure preparation) and EndMeetings (post-project debriefing). LST also provides monthly Advanced Training for experienced participants who want deeper understanding of the approach and more tools for meaningful conversations. People can engage with LST by volunteering, hosting or launching a FriendSpeak ministry, joining LST Connect, serving on a project team, attending training, and supporting the ministry financially.
