The Global CCI Movement

CCI–Australia is a part of Crossover Communications International, an evangelical missions movement composed of like-minded, independently-led sending bases and mission fields united by the same mission, vision, values, doctrine, and strategy of planting multiplying churches. The primary and passionate focus of the CCI movement is on the people groups of Eurasia. Our very name signals our desire and commitment to communicate the gospel, explaining how a person can “cross over” from death into life, disobedience to righteousness, and from darkness into the light of the knowledge of God. We seek to glorify God by obeying His mandate to see all nations blessed through the knowledge of Him.

History

The vision for what has become Crossover Communications International first stirred in the heart of Bill Jones in the 1970s while he was an American exchange student in the former USSR. In 1987, Bill and fellow visionary João Mordomo founded Student Mission Impact to promote short term missions trips as an opportunity to stir others’ hearts toward missions and seeing God glorified among people needing to hear the gospel message.

The late 1980s and early 1990s saw major upheavals in the Communist world — culminating in the ultimate disintegration of the USSR. It was a time of unprecedented opportunity for ministry and, coupled with a growing conviction that church planting was a vital aspect of world evangelization, a fundamental shift in both the name and the ministry occurred. Student Mission Impact became Crossover Communications International, and transitioned from a mobilizing ministry focused on short term mission trips to an international missionary-sending agency. Whilst continuing the important ministry of mobilizing people for short-term trips, Crossover began to strategically establish spiritually healthy, self-multiplying churches in Eurasia.

This church planting work began in 1995 in the small, land-locked country of Moldova, a former Soviet Republic. The objective of this first phase, Mission Moldova, was to establish a church planting movement that would give birth to five new churches by the year 2000. By God’s hand, this phase surpassed itself with a harvest of six churches. 

At the turn of the millennium, phase two, Mission Black Sea, was established to spread and support church planting movements among unreached people groups throughout the seven countries surrounding the Black Sea (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova). Partnering with CCI-Brazil, a sister missions agency begun by Dr. Robert Silvado and João Mordomo in 1996, Crossover is working toward the establishment of 100 new churches within the region.

This work has been enhanced and extended through the merging in 2005 of Challenge Ministries International of Australia (now CCI-Australia) and, in 2006, the establishment of CCI-Moldova as, perhaps, Moldova’s first ever cross-cultural mission agency.

Four Sending Bases With One Heart And Vision

CCI-USA, CCI-Brazil, CCI-Australia and CCI-Moldova each have different cultural backgrounds and individual and independent boards but are working side-by-side with one vision. Consequently, they are able to accomplish much more in the culturally diverse area of Eurasia than any group could on its own. A sending base is defined as one which has the independent capability to recruit, support, and send missionaries to unreached people groups. Each year there are short-term teams from each of the sending bases ministering in several fields around the world and the CCI movement has longer-term missionaries placed in Moldova, Turkey, Egypt and other locations, with new fields of interest currently being assessed.

Our vision is God-sized, and we move forward in His leading and enabling
… and for His global glory!