Crossworld

Name

Crossworld

Legal name

Crossworld

Website

https://crossworld.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1930

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Mission and Disciple-Making Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based & Mission Service Programs (EDAIAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Missionary Training Colleges & Schools (EDAHAKAF), Language & Cross-Cultural Training (BPACANAL)

Keywords

• Missionary sending services
• Discipleship training programs
• Cross-cultural training
• Global missions organization
• Missionary support services

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Gifts: Crossworld generates revenue primarily through charitable donations from individuals, churches, and partners who support their missionary workers and projects globally. Donors can give one-time or recurring gifts at various suggested amounts ($25-$100/month) or give to specific projects.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Crossworld recruits, trains, sends, and supports disciple-makers (missionaries) from all professions to serve cross-culturally among the world's least-reached people groups. The organization delivers proprietary online training (Good Cues, The Discipling Tree, Priority on the Heart), in-field coaching, community, and care services to missionaries in 35 countries. Operations are funded through donations, recurring monthly giving, and church partnerships.

Product overview

Crossworld offers a portfolio of missionary training resources and disciple-making tools. The core offerings include online training courses through its Training Library (Good Cues, Priority on the Heart, The Discipling Tree, Our Work, The Biblical Basis for Support Development), a free 7-day Disciple-Making 101 email challenge, and Services for Expats providing cross-cultural support. Additionally, Crossworld publishes books authored by Dale Losch (A Better Way, Giving Outside the Box) and children's resources like Every Job for Jesus. The organization operates various mission projects globally including church plants, training initiatives, universities, medical centers, and community centers across multiple countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Good Cues: Online cross-cultural training program helping expats and mission workers navigate new cultures through 15 cultural cues
• The Discipling Tree

Products and services

• Good Cues Online cross-cultural training program built around 15 cultural cues (colors, sounds, smells, and more) that helps expats, marketplace workers, and mission workers build a strategy for cultural integration rather than just mimicking surface behaviors.
• Priority on the Heart

Quantifiable outcome

• 496 new believers baptized in 2024
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Beraca Medical Center (Haiti)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA Crossworld partner ministry in Haiti delivering quality, compassionate, Christ-centered healthcare to the Northwest Haiti population. The medical center provides holistic healing of body, soul, and spirit, with only 5% of its budget coming from outside gifts.
• Shalom University/CME Bunia (Congo)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn educational institution in the Democratic Republic of Congo training Christian leaders since 1961. Recognized as one of the 10 best universities in D.R. Congo with 1850 students. Crossworld workers serve as professors there.
• STEP Seminary (Haiti)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEvangelical Theological Seminary of Port-au-Prince training servant leaders to make disciples by living and loving like Jesus. Crossworld supports scholarship development for future Haitian leaders.
• Lemuel Ministries (Haiti)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA Crossworld partner ministry in Northwest Haiti. Manis, the director, leads agricultural and community development initiatives. The ministry has shown faithfulness through hardships including drought and COVID-19.
• African Church Leaders (Togo)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAfrican pastors in Togo being trained to take the gospel from their native country to unreached North Africa. The 8-week training course provides effective tools for sharing the gospel with Muslims.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Frontiers: Mission-sending organization focused on unreached people groups with a comparable model of recruiting, training, and supporting cross-cultural workers.
• Wycliffe Global Alliance: Global alliance focused on Bible translation and related discipleship work among language communities — overlapping Crossworld's least-reached people group focus and training/support model.
• TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission): Evangelical mission agency sending career and short-term missionaries globally with similar training, support, and care services for field workers.
• ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism): Faith-based mission-sending agency recruiting, training, and supporting missionaries across multiple regions with a comparable church-sending structure and donor base.
• Pioneers: U.S.-based sending agency focused on church-planting movements among least-reached people groups — directly overlapping Crossworld's core geographic and ministry focus.
• SIM (Serving In Mission): International evangelical mission agency with cross-cultural workers serving across dozens of countries, parallel to Crossworld's least-reached people group focus.
• Operation Mobilisation (OM): Global interdenominational mission organization sending workers across multiple regions with comparable training, support-raising, and community-based missionary care models.
• YWAM (Youth With A Mission): Global evangelical mission agency with a comparable sending/discipleship model, multi-country field operations, and training programs (e.g., Discipleship Training Schools) targeted at young adults.
• Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ): Large U.S.-headquartered evangelical mission organization that recruits, trains, and sends missionaries globally with a similar donation-based funding model and focus on disciple-making.

Broad incumbents

• Samaritan's Purse: Much larger evangelical relief and mission organization with a comparable donation-supported model and global field footprint, though with a broader humanitarian/relief scope beyond disciple-making.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubevimeo.com/crossworld
• Facebookfacebook.com/crossworldORG
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/crossworld-org-12222221
• Instagraminstagram.com/crossworld.mission
• Xx.com/CrossworldORG

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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