Foundations | Global Action

Our Mission

Equipping church leaders in hard places to transform their communities with the gospel

Our mission is to equip church leaders where biblical training is out of reach so healthy churches can faithfully proclaim God’s Word, make disciples, and bring the hope of the Gospel to their communities.

Around the world, many pastors and ministry leaders are already faithfully serving but have never had the opportunity to receive biblical training. Global Action meets that need by bringing practical, in-person, Scripture-centered training directly to leaders where they live and serve.

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Our Heart

God Works Through His Church

Global Action exists to glorify God by helping strengthen His Church around the world.

We believe local church leaders are already called, committed, and faithfully serving their communities. The challenge is often not a lack of passion or calling. The challenge is access.

Many leaders serve in places where biblical training is limited, costly, distant, or completely unavailable. Global Action comes alongside these leaders with practical, contextual training rooted in Scripture and designed for real ministry.

The Need

Access Changes Everything

Around the world, churches are growing in communities where leaders have few opportunities for biblical education, theological formation, or ministry mentorship.

Global Action helps close that gap by equipping church leaders where they live and serve. Our training is accessible, relational, and contextual, allowing leaders to grow without leaving their churches, families, or communities.

As leaders are equipped, churches are strengthened, disciples are formed, and communities are served with greater faithfulness.

Global Impact

A Growing Global Ministry

Today, Global Action is equipping church leaders across multiple regions of the world through Foundations. The ministry continues to grow through new cohorts, regional teams, academic leadership, and partnerships that open doors for biblical training where it has long been out of reach.

Active Countries

with continued expansion underway into additional regions.

Cohorts

across Foundations and Formation programs.

1,800

Leaders

in Foundations training this year.

8–12

Formation Students

growing through deeper ministry development and mentoring.

What We Do

Accessible Biblical Training For Church Leaders

Global Action provides a leadership development pathway that helps church leaders grow in biblical knowledge, Christlike character, ministry practice, and the ability to equip others.

Our model is designed for multiplication. We do not simply want to train individual leaders. We want to strengthen churches, develop future leaders, and support local ministry that can continue for generations.

Biblical

Our curriculum is rooted in Scripture and designed to help leaders teach, preach, disciple, and serve with faithfulness.

Contextual

Training is shaped for the realities of local ministry, honoring the culture, language, and needs of the communities leaders serve.

Relational

Leaders grow through community, encouragement, mentoring, accountability, and shared learning with others in ministry.

Our Main Program

What Is Foundations?

Foundations is Global Action’s one-year biblical training program for local church leaders who are already serving but have limited access to theological education.

It brings practical, contextual training directly to leaders where they live and minister. Students learn in community, apply what they are learning in their churches, and grow in the biblical understanding, character, and ministry skills needed to lead faithfully.

Foundations is not simply information delivered in a classroom. It is training designed to strengthen the whole leader so the whole church can grow.

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1 Year A complete training journey designed to fit alongside active ministry.

9 Modules A clear progression through Scripture, theology, discipleship, and ministry practice.

In Person Relational learning led by instructors who understand the local ministry context.

Contextual Accessible training shaped for local language, culture, resources, and ministry realities.

What Students Learn

A Strong Biblical Foundation For Real Ministry

The modules help leaders understand the story of Scripture, communicate biblical truth, disciple others, care for people, serve with integrity, and lead the local church with greater confidence.

Each part of the program is connected to the ministry leaders are already doing. They do not have to leave their families, churches, or communities in order to grow.

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Program Focus

Understanding Scripture

Students learn how the Bible fits together and how to interpret it faithfully.

Program Focus

Knowing What We Believe

Leaders build clarity around essential Christian beliefs and the Gospel.

Program Focus

Teaching And Preaching

Students grow in their ability to communicate Scripture clearly and responsibly.

Program Focus

Making Disciples

Leaders learn to help others follow Jesus and grow toward spiritual maturity.

Program Focus

Leading With Character

The program connects ministry leadership with integrity, humility, and Christlike service.

Program Focus

Strengthening The Church

Students apply their learning as they care for people, develop leaders, and serve their communities.

Why Foundations Matters

When A Leader Is Equipped, The Impact Does Not Stop With One Person.

A stronger leader can teach Scripture more faithfully, disciple others more intentionally, develop new ministry leaders, and help the whole church serve its community. Foundations is designed for that kind of multiplication.

What Comes Next

Foundations Is The Beginning Of A Larger Pathway

Foundations is Global Action’s primary program today. As the broader leadership pathway develops, selected leaders may continue into deeper formation and eventually help multiply training in their own communities.

Next Step

Formation

Formation moves beyond foundational content into deeper character development, mentoring, ministry competency, and practical experience.

Develops character and competency
Provides mentoring and accountability
Supports long-term leadership growth

Multiplication

Facilitation

Facilitation prepares mature leaders to teach, mentor, and help bring Foundations to more leaders in their own communities and ministry networks.

Equips leaders to train others
Expands local leadership pipelines
Supports sustainable local multiplication

Reforma Certificate Pathway

A Meaningful Next Step For Growing Leaders

Many students complete Foundations and immediately ask, “What’s next?” They want to keep learning, keep growing, and keep serving with greater faithfulness, but there is often a gap between accessible non-formal training and formal theological education.

Through Formation, eligible students can work toward a Reforma certificate that gives their learning a recognized marker of completion and credibility while keeping training rooted in real ministry, mentoring, and character development.

Why It Matters

Recognition That Supports Formation

The Reforma certificate helps affirm serious learning for leaders who may never have had access to a traditional seminary pathway. It recognizes growth that is not only academic, but also deeply connected to ministry practice, character, calling, and long-term leadership development.

This pathway helps students see that their work matters, strengthens confidence in their local ministry context, and creates a bridge between accessible training and deeper recognized development.

Reforma Certificate

In the Formation level, eligible students can pursue a Reforma certificate as part of their deeper ministry development.

This certificate gives leaders a meaningful recognition of their learning while keeping the focus on spiritual formation, mentoring, competency growth, and faithful service in their own churches and communities.

It Honors Serious Learning

Students are not simply attending sessions. They are being mentored, assessed, and developed over time in real ministry contexts.

It Strengthens Credibility

For leaders with limited access to traditional seminary pathways, recognized completion can help affirm the value of their training before churches, mentors, and ministry partners.

It Supports Multiplication

When leaders are formed deeply and recognized for their growth, the strongest among them can be identified and developed further for Facilitation.

Where We Serve

Serving Across Multiple Regions

Global Action is currently serving leaders across Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, with expansion underway into additional regions.

Across these regions, teams are launching new cohorts, strengthening partnerships, developing academic leadership, translating training materials, and preparing leaders who can multiply biblical training locally.

Regional Growth

New cohorts are forming, existing teams are being strengthened, and regional retreats are helping align leaders around a shared vision for biblical training and multiplication.

Language Access

Training materials are available in multiple languages, with additional translation work underway so more leaders can study Scripture in languages they know and use every day.

New Partnerships

Partnerships with local ministries and mission organizations are opening doors to serve more leaders in places where access to theological education is limited.

Sustainable Multiplication

Global Action is investing in regional leadership, academic development, and facilitator training so biblical education can continue multiplying through local leaders.

What Shapes Us

What We Believe

Global Action is guided by biblical convictions that shape how we teach, serve, partner, and steward the ministry God has entrusted to us.

We believe every church deserves equipped leaders.

We believe the challenge facing many church leaders is not a lack of calling, passion, or commitment. The challenge is access.

We believe local leaders are best positioned to reach, disciple, and serve their own communities.

We believe biblical training is transformational when it forms both knowledge and character.

We believe healthy churches are strengthened by multiple equipped leaders serving together.

We believe discipleship requires both the work of the Holy Spirit and faithful biblical teaching.

Our Commitments

Faithful Training. Local Leadership. Lasting Impact.

Our commitments help ensure that Global Action’s work remains grounded in Scripture, centered on the local church, and focused on long-term multiplication.

1. We Are Committed To Glorifying God

We seek to make God’s name great, not our own.

2. We Are Committed To Scripture

Our training is rooted in biblical truth and faithful commitment to the gospel.

3. We Are Committed To The Local Church

We equip leaders who strengthen churches and disciple others in their own communities.

4. We Are Committed To Accessible Training

We believe biblical training should be available to leaders regardless of geography, resources, or educational background.

5. We Are Committed To Contextual Ministry

We honor local leaders, cultures, languages, and ministry realities while remaining rooted in the unchanging truth of Scripture.

6. We Are Committed To Multiplication

We invest in leaders who can teach, mentor, and equip others for generations to come.

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Your partnership helps make biblical training accessible to leaders who are strengthening churches, discipling others, and serving their communities with the hope of Christ.

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