Children in Christ

What Children in Christ does

Children in Christ (CIC), also referenced as Children of Character, is a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit ministry headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, operating since approximately 1996/1997. Its mission is to disciple children and reach unreached people groups, with current operations spanning 27 African countries and 770+ identified unreached people groups. Reported programmatic output includes approximately 150,000 children disciplined weekly, 669,311 cumulative reported salvations since 2013, 15,977 trained child and youth leaders, and 20,077 indigenous volunteers, indicating a heavily volunteer-leveraged delivery model supported by only 29 paid employees.

The organization delivers its programs primarily through in-country partnerships and indigenous leadership networks rather than expatriate staffing, with a 99.99% volunteer workforce. Its technology stack consists of standard nonprofit SaaS tools: LearnWorlds for curriculum and online discipleship delivery, Squarespace for web presence, Mailchimp for donor email communications, Donorbox for online giving, and Trustbridge Global as a back-office platform. There is no evidence of proprietary technology development, AI/ML deployment, or custom platform engineering; the digital layer appears to be acquisition-and-integration rather than built-in-house.

The revenue model is donation-based. CIC runs a tiered giving program with publicly disclosed levels ranging from $35 (entry-level) up to $25,000 (major-donor tier), supplemented by separate child-sponsorship and ministry-partner programs. The organization holds the Charity Navigator 4-Star rating and the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency for 2026, supporting donor acquisition and institutional credibility. As a 501(c)-style entity, revenue equals annual contributions, and no fee-for-service product, licensing, or commercial revenue stream is disclosed.

Name

Children in Christ

Legal name

Children of Character

Website

https://childrenic.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Children in Christ is a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit ministry headquartered in Oklahoma City that disciples children across 27 African countries through 20,000+ indigenous volunteers, funded by tiered individual donations and major gifts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Christian Ministry Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based Education & Formation (Seminaries, Religious Schools, Catechesis) (BPAGAJAD), Youth Leadership, Civic Education & Service-Learning Nonprofits (BPAGADAI)

Keywords

• Child discipleship ministry
• Christian nonprofit services
• Unreached people groups
• Indigenous church partnerships
• Weekly youth clubs

Headquarters

HQ city

Oklahoma City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Charitable donations from individuals supporting the ministry's field work. Donors can give specific amounts for defined outcomes (child discipling, clubs, people groups, countries). 99.99% of ministry workforce are volunteers, allowing maximum efficiency of donated funds.
2. Partnership Gifts: Combined gifts from indigenous church and community partners that include cash, food, transport, lodging, occupancy and volunteerism, maximizing local empowerment and multiplying impact.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Children in Christ is a Christian nonprofit ministry that runs weekly child discipleship clubs in unreached people groups across 27 African countries, partnering with indigenous local churches to deliver the program. The ministry encompasses four interconnected programs — Weekly Clubs, Child Leadership Development, Indigenous Church Empowerment, and Organically Reproducible Ministry Methodologies — designed to disciple children, raise up child and youth leaders, and multiply impact into new regions and nations. The organization is funded primarily by charitable donations from individual supporters, with a 99.99% volunteer workforce that channels the vast majority of funds into field ministry.

Product overview

Children in Christ offers a child discipleship ministry composed of four interconnected core programs: Weekly Clubs provide a safe environment for children to receive Christ and deep discipleship; Child Leadership Development equips children to become leaders and eventually train adults; Indigenous Church Empowerment partners with local churches to leverage their cultural knowledge; and Organically Reproducible Ministry Methodologies enable rapid multiplication of the ministry. The organization operates across 27 African countries, reaching approximately 150,000 children weekly through an estimated 770+ unreached people groups, with 15,977 child/youth leaders and over 20,000 indigenous volunteers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Weekly Clubs Safe, structured weekly gatherings held by indigenous local churches in African communities where children receive the love of Christ, hear the Gospel message, receive deep discipleship, and are empowered to be co-laborers in the Harvest. Aimed at children in unreached people groups and challenging places across 27 African countries.
• Child Leadership Development Program equipping and empowering children to lead and serve others in Christ, with a documented progression path from club attendees to child leaders, to youth leaders (helping train adults), and to country team members reaching new regions.
• Indigenous Church Empowerment Ministry approach that inspires, equips, and comes alongside local churches who already know the language, culture, and context, empowering them to run weekly clubs, disciple children, raise leaders, and plant new churches in their own and surrounding unreached communities.
• Organically Reproducible Ministry Methodologies Simple, powerful ministry methodologies designed to be easily multiplied, enabling rapid expansion of the ministry into new regions, unreached people groups, and countries without proportional cost increases. Delivered and trained via the 'Our Method' online program.

Quantifiable outcome

• 669,311 salvations recorded since 2013
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Trust & Impact Global (TIG)minorOthersLogo appears on CIC website indicating some form of partnership or affiliation with Trust & Impact Global, an organization focused on Christian nonprofit effectiveness.
• CandidminorOthersCIC displays Candid's Platinum transparency seal, indicating compliance with nonprofit accountability standards and commitment to transparency.
• Charity NavigatorminorOthersCIC displays the Charity Navigator logo, indicating a strong rating for financial health and accountability.
• Trustbridge GlobalminorOthersProvides international donation processing platform for non-US donors contributing to CIC's ministry.
• DonorboxminorOthersOnline donation platform used for processing donations from US-based donors with preset giving tiers.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Kids Around the World: Faith-based organization focused on children globally through play, education, and Bible-based outreach—smaller-scope but highly comparable child-discipleship methodology to CIC's weekly-club model.
• Back2Back Ministries: Faith-based child-focused ministry serving orphaned and vulnerable children internationally through local-church partnerships—mirrors CIC's model of partnering with indigenous churches to disciple children in challenging contexts.

Broad incumbents

• Compassion International: Large child-focused Christian sponsorship ministry operating in dozens of developing countries with structured child development programming—operates a similar donor-sponsorship model and field-delivery approach but at far greater scale than CIC.
• World Vision: Large Christian humanitarian and child-focused NGO operating across Africa with child sponsorship and community development programs—overlaps with CIC on Africa focus and donor-funded child services but at significantly greater scale and breadth.

Regional players

• Agape International Missions: Faith-based organization focused on child rescue and discipleship in Southeast Asia—comparable child-focused faith-based mission delivery but operating in a different geography (Asia vs. Africa).

Direct peers

• Pioneers: Missions organization that mobilizes teams to plant churches among unreached people groups, emphasizing local-church empowerment—closely mirrors CIC's indigenous-church-led approach to unreached regions.
• Operation Mobilisation (OM): International Christian missions organization with long-term involvement in least-reached and unreached people groups across multiple continents—comparable mission scope, volunteer-driven field model, and unreached-people-group focus.
• YWAM (Youth With A Mission): Global Christian missionary organization focused on frontier and unreached people groups with a strong emphasis on discipleship and youth mobilization—directly comparable to CIC's outreach to unreached people groups and child-to-leader development pipeline.
• SIM (Serving In Mission): Interdenominational mission agency with extensive work across Africa and a focus on least-reached peoples, church planting and community transformation—directly comparable geography, mission focus and field structure.
• Child Evangelism Fellowship: Faith-based organization whose core mission is evangelism and discipleship of children worldwide through Good News Clubs, schools and church partnerships—closely matching CIC's weekly-club, child-discipleship model in unreached regions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/children-in-christ

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Investors

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