Our Ministry
To enhance cross-cultural effectiveness by Educating, Equipping, and Empowering.
EDUCATING
Through Consulting
Educating Through Consulting
CULTURELink designs solutions for churches and mission organizations to build and enrich their mission programs. We come alongside mission committees, church planters, and global agencies to create and analyze policies and procedures, budgets, strategic partnerships, and missionary care in order to maximize human and financial resources.
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Through Seminars & Resources
Equipping Through Seminars & Resources
Our seminars are highly relational, informative, and interactive. CULTURELink works with mission organizations, churches, and humanitarian groups to equip leaders to master team development, spiritual readiness, and cross-cultural challenges—with confidence.
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Through Partnerships & Projects
Empowering Through Partnerships
CULTURELink is strategically involved in several areas around the globe, each with unique expressions of ministry. We match churches and organizations with credible partners around the globe. We ensure that the values and interests of the sender & field site are aligned and that goals & expectations for all parties are clearly defined.
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How can short-term missions be an effective tool for discipleship and add long-term value to the vision of those on the mission field?
In 1995, leaders at the U.S. Center for World Mission and the Fellowship of Short-Term Mission Leaders approached Larry Ragan about writing a discipleship-based training curriculum for short-term mission teams. The first version of our curriculum was written and a training seminar was created. During the first phase of CULTURELink‘s development (from 2000–2010), more than 2,500 leaders from over 500 churches across the United States and around the globe were trained.
After becoming a licensed nonprofit organization in 2010, CULTURELink broadened its focus to expand its impact on the global community. By revising the curriculum, adding consulting services, hiring full-time staff, and providing specialized short-term trips, the ministry has broadened its influence in the world.
Our seminars are recognized by Perspectives of the World Christian Movement and numerous Bible colleges that offer college credit to seminar participants. Since 2010, CULTURELink has conducted over 80 seminars and trained an additional 2800 leaders. These alumni have mobilized multiple teams to 130 nations. Team leaders have been equipped for ministry from churches across multiple denominations. Ministry leaders have also been equipped from numerous global organizations such as Border Perspective, Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF), Christian Veterinary Mission, Cru, ELAM Ministries, Frontiers, Global[X], Habitat for Humanity, International House of Prayer (IHOP), International Mission Board (IMB), Lifeshape International, The Navigators, North American Mission Board (NAMB), Operation Mobilization (OM), OPEN Business for Transformation (B4T), Pioneers, SEND International, Teen Missions International, WEC International, Winshape Foundation, Wycliffe, Youth With A Mission (YWAM), and many more.
3000
Leaders
Trained
Since 2010