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2025: A Year of Faithful Multiplication

Greetings!

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026! We give thanks to God for all that He has done through the CCI team and what He will do this year in 2026! First, let’s look at what God did in 2025.

Here are some of the highlights of what the Lord accomplished through your investment and the CCI team last year.

• We surpassed 32,570 total graduates in our core training program (BTCP) and training seminars.
• We surpassed 11,000 current students in the BTCP training in 46 nations.
• We started 227 new pastoral training (BTCP) classes with 2,500 new students in 2025.
• 69 training classes graduated, with 824 students engaged in disciple-making ministry.
• Through 109 seminars, our team equipped 2,941 participants in biblical stewardship, family and marriage, conflict resolution, leadership, and expository preaching.
• Students and graduates have started 57 new churches (206 new churches since 2019)!
• CCI Philippines held its national conference in June with 60 participants.
• The CCI Cambodia team distributed food and water and preached the gospel to 1,500 people displaced by the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia.
• Evangelism teams in India shared the gospel with 7,000 people.
• Our coordinators, teachers, and students stood strong in difficult countries (Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Haiti, Rwanda, and Central Asia) and are bearing fruit for the glory of God.

For more highlights, please enjoy CCI's Year in Review to see what God has done around the world in 2025.

The End of Year Matching Gift was a great success and provided enough funds for our coordinators throughout 2026. Last year, we cut their support by 25%. We will not cut any more this year, but continue their support at this level. Pray for God’s continued provision for them.

Our mission and vision are rooted in the unchanging Word of God because it is powerful (Heb. 4:12; Rom 1:16), inspired and inerrant (2 Tim. 3:16-17), and is the basis and source of all that we do. All our training programs are rooted in the Scriptures as we train godly servants how to accurately and effectively handle God’s Word. Our mission is clear. We are compelled to continue the mission that God has entrusted to us as His faithful stewards and servants.

Praise God. This is our 20^th anniversary as a ministry! Thank you for standing with us in this incredible journey as the Lord has expanded His work through us to 46 nations, equipping indigenous leaders with comprehensive training to make disciples of Jesus Christ of all nations. In addition, this is Mindy's and my 40^th year of cross-cultural ministry. Forty (40) years ago, we began raising support in upstate NY and moved to the Philippines in June 1986 to begin a cross-cultural church-planting ministry. God has faithfully empowered us to do His mission of making disciples. What a great God we serve. Praise God, we have many ministry partners who have stood with us this entire time! What a blessing you are to us!

We have a new partnering ministry. Tyrannus Online Seminary (https://toslms.org) is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and led by godly men who want to bring training to those with the least opportunity. All our students who have a college degree and have completed the BTCP (Bible Training Centre for Pastors) 10-course curriculum can apply to enroll in the Master of Ministry degree (60-hour program) and receive 30 credit hours upon completing exams for each BTCP course. This is an excellent opportunity for our graduates who want to have an accredited degree. This is for anyone around the world.

This fall, from September 26 to October 6, I will be leading a tour of Ancient Asia Minor, where Paul focused his ministry during his third missionary journey. We will travel through and study the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea (the cities of Rev. 2-3). We will also visit Istanbul (ancient Constantinople), Attalia, Aspendos, Myra, Patara, Miletus, Didyma, and Priene.

Please join me in Turkey this fall for this incredible journey. This will provide you with insight and a greater understanding of the events of Acts and Paul’s letters. You will grow spiritually as we journey together. Finally, your faith and confidence will be strengthened as you learn the historical roots of Paul’s missionary journeys.

For more information, visit https://cciequip.org/events/2026-turkey-tour/ or click the image below.

As we look ahead, we will continue to focus on multiplication this year. We will continue to Equip national church leaders, to Empower faithful men as coordinators, and to Evangelize the lost so that God is glorified. In Acts 6:7, we read that "the word of God continued to increase, and the number of disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem."



Please pray that we will be faithful and fruitful in the work God has entrusted to us and that we will steward this ministry well for the glory of God.

Grace and Peace,

Dr. David and Mindy Nelson

Chief Steward and Servant

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