Cross Connections was founded in the late 1990’s, by David Jackman and Richard Borgonon, specifically to channel financial support to indigenous and well-researched frontline ministries across the world, which focus especially upon Bible teaching and training. Many of the original recipients were international ex-students of the Cornhill Training Course, who had returned to their home situations in the majority world, to try to establish similar courses but with few, or no, resources to support them.