Ministries

Centre of Pastoral Studies (CEP)

CEP (Centro de Estudios Pastorales) is the Anglican Seminary in Santiago, Chile. It was founded two decades ago mainly by missionaries who were trained at Moore Theological College (Australia). It is a centre of pastoral studies dedicated to training the next generation of pastors and gospel workers in Chile and neighbouring countries (most recently Argentina, Bolivia and Peru). Their vision is to work hard on a rigorous exegesis of the Bible text with a good handling of the Greek text, a thorough theological reflection with the whole biblical theological picture in mind and a careful pastoral application of God's word to the heart.

Soweto Campus of JBC

The Soweto Campus was planted by Johannesburg Bible College in 2009. Like JBC, it is seeking to deliver accredited Bible training. Since their first intake in 2019, Soweto Campus has seen an increase in student numbers every year. Today they have over 200 students attending morning and evening classes, studying a one-year ministry course or two-year accredited course.

Servants of the Word (SOW)

Servants of the Word School of Ministry in The Gambia seeks to train West African pastors and gospel-workers at a grass-roots level. SOW offers a one year full-time residential course, as well as part-time studies, focusing on discipleship and Scripture handling, equipping men and women for ministry in a context where there is zeal for Christ, but also a real need for faithful Bible preaching. Students also learn other skills such as sustainable farming to enable them to support rural church planting ministries. Their campus is shared with the wider church for training, seminars, and retreats, and access to the growing theological library.

RELITE Africa

For over a decade, RELITE has been providing regular Bible training to university students and young graduates on the campus of the university in Accra, Ghana, teaching them to handle God's word and preach it faithfully.

Reformed Gospel Mission (ReGoM)

Reformed Gospel Mission is involved in two key areas of ministry: their urban ministry trains church leaders in expository Bible teaching, whilst their rural ministry runs evangelistic mission trips to rural villages, and plants churches.

Prédica Fiel

Prédica Fiel provides expository Bible teaching workshops across Cuba, a country in which the gospel is spreading rapidly. It also runs workshops in various countries in Latin America and USA. There is a great need for solid grounding in Biblical faith for many many new believers, but many pastors are leading large congregations with little or no training.

Living Word Uganda

LWU exists to train and encourage the Church in Uganda in faithful Bible handling, preaching and teaching. They serve in a context where the church is growing fast numerically amidst very few trained, biblically grounded and faithful church leaders, a lack of resources and widespread false teaching. LWU runs a 6 months bible handling course (Apprentice Ministry Training) in partnership with local churches, with the aim of raising up faithful gospel workers for the local church. Their student work involves equipping university students with tools to study the Bible and teach it faithfully. This includes on-campus Bible studies, regional and national conferences and seminars. They also promote faithful Bible handling among serving pastors and lay people, through pastor conferences and local church-based seminars. Additionally, their book distribution Ministry helps provide authentic and highly subsidized Christian literature.

Lahore Evangelical Ministries

LEM is the vision and ministry of a faithful Pakistani minister, who, for well over a decade, has been training and equipping Bible teachers within the church, as well as facilitating outreach evangelism in a predominantly Muslim context.

Johannesburg Bible College (JBC)

JBC exists to equip and inspire men and women for Bible teaching ministry, seeking to deliver accredited Bible training courses to Christians in South Africa. The college helps church pastors and ministry workers, many who have never had access to training previously, to be effective Bible teachers. Their vision is to establish Bible colleges in the African high-density urban space, that provide a Christ centred, Spirit filled, God glorifying training that will lead to a radical Gospel transformation of local churches, their communities, and the world.

Institute of Bible Teaching (IBT)

Planted by Johannesburg Bible College, IBT equips men and women for Bible teaching ministries, focusing on practical Bible handling skills. Students are a mixture of pastors, young professionals and lay leaders in the church. They have recently introduced ‘Women Serving Christ’, a programme for women in ministry which meets on a weekly basis. IBT provides much needed instruction and encouragement in a country which has experienced so much oppression and economic privation.

iServe Africa

iServe Africa provides an apprenticeship programme for graduates who are placed in churches and Christian community projects across Kenya, with the aim of giving them experience and training in gospel ministry.

Habakkuk in Mission: Pastoral Training Course

Habakkuk in Mission supports pastors, church leaders and womens’ workers in the grassroot, equipping ministers of God's Word for Christ's exaltation, the Church's edification, and World Evangelism. HIM is the organisation behind the Pastoral Training Course, which was started by a Filipino pastor, who had studied at the Cornhill Training Course. Sadly, he died in 2014, but his pioneering training ministry has been continued and developed by his widow, their son along with the PTC Team. The PTC reaches into many local churches through a network of training and conferences across the Philippines.

Beta 22

Beta 22 is a two or three year program, which focuses on teaching men and women how to study and effectively communicate the Bible to others through one to one, small groups Bible study or preaching. The program is named after "2 (translated in Greek as 'Beta') Timothy 2:2" which describes the core of their vision. Their threefold vision consists of an aspiration to: see young men and women learn how to study the Bible and grow in their faith; encourage them to build Bible based, gospel-centered relationships; and equip the next generation of Bible teachers and preachers.

ESCALE

ESCALE is run by one man, and his family, who trains hundreds of grassroots pastors around Brazil each year. Because he is not the pastor of a church, and his ministry cannot be attached to any denomination (for the risk of not being accepted by the grassroots Pastors), he works independently and receives no support from his denomination or church, meaning that Cross Connection's financial assistance is vital to the continuation of this priority work.

Word Increase Ministry

WIM was established in 2012 by Rwandans who had been trained at the Cornhill Training Course in London. They continue to provide Bible training for two weekends each month, over the course of the year, with the potential opportunity for a second year more focussed on preaching. In a context where there is often little teaching from the Bible, WIM enables Rwandan believers to be taught from and transformed by God's Word.

Ministry in India*

Cross Connections supports this ministry in India, which plants churches, trains preachers and sends out missionaries. The ministry also provides a Christian education for under-priveledged children and cares for widows.

* We are not able to share the name of this ministry on our website.

Baltic Reformed Theological Seminary

This theological seminary, based in Riga, Latvia, trains pastors and church leaders across the Baltic countries. Additionally, their Bible School trains Latvian Christians alongside their day to day employment. Most of new BRTS students come through the conferences. Bible teachers feel the need to be better equipped, start to attend the workshops, and really appreciate the training. BRTS graduates have planted churches, take up pastoral ministry, or are bi-vocational Bible teachers BRTS preacher training ministry is crucial for Latvian church context. Churches need new leaders who firmly believe in the power of the Bible and handle it well.