EQUIPPING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL INC

Our ultimate goal is to glorify God by equipping leaders who have the calling and capacity to equip other leaders who will lead biblical, Christ-centered transformation in their communities.

Quantitatively, by 2020, we are working toward:

1. Instructing over 50,000 leaders in conference level training events

2. Equipping and mobilizing over 1000 indigenous leaders annually as volunteer Certified Course Instructors who then train the least equipped in the villages of their home countries

3. Coaching our 3 nationally owned and operated bible colleges who will be operating at a "western" standard producing graduates who have taken over full operation of these colleges.

4. Training the leadership of 50 primary/secondary schools operating with an increasingly integrated biblical Christ-centered world-view

5. Training and coaching 50 indigenous businesses who are successfully operating intentionally as Business as Ministry

By December 2025, 7 million people will be under the direct influence of our trained Christ-centered leaders who are working to bring gospel transformation to their families, churches, schools, businesses, and communities.

We will seek to accomplish our goals through effective leadership using four key strategies:

1 - Sound Contextual Instruction
Whether teaching pastors, educators, or business leaders, our goal is gospel transformation that begins with a clear exposition of the Word of God. We typically begin a work doing large group conferences while seeking out those nationals who are capable and called to train other leaders. We then transition our focus from large group conferences to equipping these trainers who can bypass the culture and language barriers and teach our courses to the least resourced.

2 - Reproducible Resources
Wherever our audiences are literate, we seek to provide a written version of the course in the local language. Furthermore, as those we train pass our courses on, we seek also to empower them to pass on these printed resources. For many, they will be the extent of their theological libraries.

3 - Strategic Partnerships
Our partners enrich our initiatives: They include Mission to the World, Third Millennium Ministries, Advancing Native Missions, Ligonier Ministries, Miami International Seminary, World Reformed Fellowship, Christian Leadership Alliance, and the Central FL Christian Chamber of Commerce.

4 - Global Mobilization
ELI is actively recruiting mature believers with the gift of teaching who have a heart for making disciples globally. It is our delight to connect them to serve the network of one of our National Movement Leaders. Instructional volunteers teach alongside one of our faculty members and many go on to serve as adjunct or even full-time faculty. Ultimately, we want to see national leaders mobilized to reach their neighboring countries.

We are living in an exciting time to be involved in global discipleship. Our heavenly Father is working through national pastors so that as they proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit is regenerating the spiritually dead. Gordon Conwell Seminary missiologists estimate that 170,000 people a day are coming to faith and yet 85% of church leaders outside the US have no formal preparation for the gospel.

We are finding that with regeneration, God is also giving new believers the faith to accept the Bible as the word of God and the humility to desire to rightly understand it and proclaim it.

Simultaneously, baby boomer pastors and church leaders are entering that season of their lives when they want to retire from the daily demands of the the pastorate but at the same time--not retire from doing God's work.

ELI gives them the opportunity to set their own travel pace while putting them into the position of possibly having their most fruitful season of ministry.

By working across denominational lines, we attract national movement leaders asking us to come train their leaders and well trained western leaders who have the maturity to give them exactly what they need.

We are well on our way to accomplishing the numerical goals. See "Impact Summary" above. The exponential power of leveraging leaders who have the calling and capacity to train others is what makes them even possible. We believe that a godly national movement leader is the key to the impacting a country.

We need to make progress in accessing our effectiveness beyond the first generation that we get face to face time with. We know they are getting what we teach by class discussions, their questions, and their joy in learning.

We have not yet figured out how to raise the money needed to mobilize out national trainers as they go out to lead conferences nor do we have money to supplement potential staff who have the time and willingness to go but not the financial means to do it.