The Matthew 9 Initiative

Equip One Leader. Strengthen a Church. Multiply the Impact.

Across the world, church leaders are faithfully serving in places where theological education is difficult to access. Your generosity helps bring biblical training to them—so they can serve their churches well and eventually help equip others.

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Why Your Gift Matters

Your Gift Helps Solve an Access Problem.

The global Church does not lack faithful leaders. Many simply lack access to the training they need to lead well.

Global Action brings accessible, in-person biblical training closer to leaders where they already live and serve.

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Leaders Are Already Serving

Pastors, elders, church planters, teachers, and ministry leaders are already caring for churches and communities.

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Training Is Often Out of Reach

Cost, distance, conflict, language, limited infrastructure, and other barriers can make theological education inaccessible.

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Your Gift Brings Training Closer

Instead of requiring leaders to leave their churches for years, Global Action helps bring training into their ministry context.

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The People Behind the Mission

You’re Not Funding a Classroom. You’re Investing in a Leader.

Behind every training cohort is a person who has already said yes to serving the Church.

They may be preaching each week, discipling new believers, planting churches, mentoring young people, caring for families, or leading ministries with very limited resources.

Your generosity helps give those leaders access to biblical knowledge, trusted instructors, mentoring, relationships, and practical ministry development they can use immediately.

The goal is not to replace local leaders. The goal is to strengthen the leaders who are already there.
Why Local Leaders?

Your Investment Stays Close to the Community.

Local leaders already know the language, culture, challenges, relationships, and opportunities around them.

When they are equipped, they do not take that training somewhere else. They use it in the churches and communities they already love.

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They know the people. Training is immediately connected to real ministry relationships.
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They understand the context. Biblical truth is applied within the realities of their own community.
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They remain present. Leaders can grow without abandoning their churches, families, and ministries.
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They can equip others. Strong local leaders can eventually help train the next generation.
What Your Gift Makes Possible

More Than a Training Session.

Your generosity helps create an environment where leaders can grow in what they know, who they are, and how they serve.

Biblical Understanding

Leaders grow in their understanding of Scripture, theology, and the Gospel.

Christlike Character

Training emphasizes integrity, humility, spiritual maturity, and healthy relationships.

Practical Ministry Skills

Leaders learn to teach, disciple, care for people, strengthen churches, and lead faithfully.

Multiplication

Mature leaders can eventually help mentor, teach, and equip others in their own communities.

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Global Action local ministry leaders
Global Action leaders and students
How Multiplication Happens

A Simple Three-Step Pathway.

Global Action’s long-term vision is not simply to train more people ourselves. It is to develop mature local leaders who can eventually help equip others.

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Foundations

Build the Foundation.

Leaders receive accessible biblical and ministry training in Scripture, theology, discipleship, leadership, and church life.

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Formation

Develop the Leader.

Selected leaders continue through deeper mentoring, character formation, competency development, and ministry practice.

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Facilitation

Multiply the Training.

Mature leaders are prepared to teach, mentor, and help bring training to more leaders locally.

The Matthew 9 Initiative

Your Gift Helps Build Something That Can Keep Growing.

Multiplication changes the potential of every dollar invested.

If Global Action only trains individual classes, growth depends entirely on our ability to keep adding more instructors, more travel, and more outside resources.

The Matthew 9 Initiative aims to build a different kind of future: local leaders who are deeply equipped and increasingly able to help train other leaders themselves.

That means the goal of your generosity is not simply one more student. It is stronger local leadership and a pathway that can continue multiplying.

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Matthew 9 Initiative multiplication pathway
The Multiplication Moment

This Is the Part That Changes the Equation.

Facilitation graduates are not simply additional students. They are leaders being prepared to help carry the training forward.

As more mature local leaders are equipped to teach and mentor, Global Action can reach more church leaders without depending entirely on outside trainers for every future cohort.

15 Facilitation Graduates Equipped to Train Others
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500 Foundations Students in the Five-Year Model
A Five-Year Illustration

How the Pipeline Can Grow.

The first years build leaders. Later years begin to show the effect of trained facilitators helping carry the work forward.

Year 1
25 Foundations Students

The first group begins accessible biblical training.

Year 2
25 New Foundations Students

A new cohort begins while leaders move deeper into Formation.

Year 3
5 Facilitation Students

The first leaders begin preparation to help equip others.

Year 4
150 Foundations Students

Multiplication begins becoming visible as facilitators help train new leaders.

Year 5
275 Foundations Students

More trained facilitators help carry the pathway forward.

Why this matters to a donor: Your gift helps Global Action build the early stages of the pathway— not just adding students, but developing leaders who can eventually expand access to training for others.

Five-Year Goal

A multiplying leadership pathway designed to equip leaders, strengthen churches, and increasingly grow through local facilitators.

500 Foundations Students
50 Formation Students
15 Facilitation Graduates
A Practical Place to Start

Help a Leader Take the Next Step.

$600

or $50 a month

A gift at this level can help provide meaningful support toward a church leader’s Foundations training.

That training can strengthen how a leader understands Scripture, teaches others, disciples believers, serves the Church, and develops future leaders.

Training costs vary by region and program level. Gifts support Global Action’s mission and are allocated according to ministry priorities, regional needs, and strategic opportunities.

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Your Heart for the Mission

What Part of the Work Connects With You?

Some donors are passionate about a particular region. Others care deeply about theological education, discipleship, leadership development, multiplication, or reaching leaders in especially difficult places.

However you enter the story, your generosity helps move the same mission forward: equipping local church leaders to serve faithfully and strengthen the Church.

Africa
Eastern Europe
Latin America
South Asia
Leadership Development
Where Most Needed
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Stewardship Matters

Give With Confidence.

We believe generosity deserves transparency.

Global Action’s Certified Transparent recognition from Excellence in Giving reflects our commitment to financial accountability, responsible stewardship, and clear communication with the people who invest in this ministry.

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Join the Work

Your Gift Can Help Build What Lasts.

One equipped leader can teach Scripture more faithfully, disciple people more intentionally, strengthen a church, and help develop other leaders.

And when mature local leaders begin equipping others, the impact of your generosity can reach far beyond the first person trained.

Help Global Action bring theological education closer to church leaders in hard places—and build a pathway designed to multiply.

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