Our Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Focus:
Our Mission:
- Connecting people, ministries, and resources to encourage evangelism and/or discipleship among nationals, in developing nations.
Our Vision:
- To recruit believers to be involved in world missions.
- To encourage and equip ministries and people in developing nations who are engaged in effective evangelism and/or discipleship.
Our Strategy:
- To conduct mission trips to expose people to opportunities for engagement in evangelism and/or discipleship activity in developing nations.
- To provide encouragement to ministries effectively involved in the spread of the gospel in targeted areas.
- To encourage networking and coordination among ministries at home and abroad.
Our Focus:
- Primarily in the Kingdom of Cambodia and Southeast Asia
- Pursue Cambodian Connection Center
You may contact us as follows:
CSII is:
Christian Service International Inc. (CSII), a Florida 501(c) 3, E.I.N. #01-0855899, formed in 2006 as a successor non-profit to Christian Service Inc. (CSI) founded in 1959.
CSII’s Board of Directors is:
- Drew Wolford, Bloomfield, MI, Vice Chairman of the Board
Attended Western Michigan University. Opened and Managed several retail stores in a five state area. Formerly owned and operated Automatic Lubrication Systems which was sold in 2001. Built and operated the Plymouth Super Center, a multi-line car care facility in Northville, MI.
Current Owner of WolfordTravel.com, an Internet Travel Company. Currently serving on several non-profit, Christian boards of directors, including Christian Service.
- Dennis J. Glenn, Estero, FL, Secretary of the Board
BA degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting. One year course work completed towards Masters degree in Public Administration. FBI Special Agent for 26 years, currently retired. Small business owner in the wholesale giftware business for six years.
Currently serving on the Christian Service board. Previously served on township not-for-profit boards and home association boards of directors.
- Thomas J. Beutler, CPA, CVA, Maumee, OH, Treasurer of the Board
President and sole owner (for 16 years) of CPA firm in the Toledo area and presently partner in Tebay Mosley Associates, CPA firm. Director of a Community bank in Maumee, OH. Board member of CSII for 23 years. Involved with several Toledo area non-profit/Christian ministries.
- Dr. Billy Kim, Suwon, Korea, Director
Graduated with B.A. and M.A. from Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC. Honorary doctorates from ten (10) universities and colleges in the U.S. and Korea. Presently President, Far East Broadcasting Co.- Korea, and former President of the Baptist World Alliance, Washington, D.C. 2000 – 2005. Pastor Emeritus of the Suwon Central Baptist Church, Suwon, Korea. Original missionary to Korea for which CSI was founded in 1959 through which support was directed to Dr. and Mrs. Kim’s Korean ministry. Interpreter for Dr. Billy Graham's historic 1973 Korean Crusade.
- Nolen Rollins, Estero, FL, Chairman of the CSII Board
Graduated from University of Tennessee, Tennessee Temple Theological Seminary, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Presently Founder & President, Kingdom Mobilization, Estero, FL and serving as a part-time volunteer staff member of the Summit Church in Estero, FL. Member of Christian Management Association and the Association of Christian Foundations. Formerly served as Executive Pastor of several large churches over a thirty year period. Serves on the Board of Directors or Advisory Boards of several non-profits.
- Terry Gerken, Toledo, OH, Director
Owner and Operator of Ottawa Hills Travel Agency, Toledo, OH; formerly General Manager of T.R.I., Maumee, OH 1988 – 90. Formerly Associate Trustee, 3rd Vice President, and Co-Chair Development with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Toledo; Trustee Belmont Country Club, and Member of Rotary Club of Toledo (OH). Member, Elder and Mission Team Leader at the North Point Church in Toledo.
- Waldo E. Yeager, Fort Myers, FL, President & Board Member
Elected to the CSII board of directors and appointed as President on October 23, 2007 by the CSII board of Directors. Former CFO, Seaway Food Town, Inc., Maumee, OH until time of sale in 2000 at which time he retired. Former member of Advisory Board, Protection Mutual Insurance Co., Park Ridge, IL. Member of Food Marketing Institute’s Financial Executives Counsel and several non-profits including board member/chairman of boards of National Christian Businessmen’s Committee, Chattanooga,TN; Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference, Muskegon, MI; and church boards near our residences.
Our History:
Founded in 1959 as Christian Service, Inc. (CSI) by three Toledo (OH) businessmen who had a passion to help support Dr. Billy and Trudy Kim's ministry to youth, a church and eventually several other ministry outreaches in Billy's native Korea. CSI receipted donors' funds for the Korean ministries and transferred 100% of the donated funds to the Kim's to be used in ministry, a procedure still followed up to the present.
Over the past few years, CSI has felt called to connect people with ministries engaged in evangelism and/or discipleship around the world. Although CSI has continued to forward donated funds to designed ministries provided that those ministries are operating in accordance with CSI's Mission and Purpose.
Christian Service International, Inc. (CSII) formed in 2006 as a Florida non-profit which has succeeded Christian Service Inc. (CSI), an Ohio non-profit founded in 1959. CSII has continued to carry out the Purpose, Vision, and Mission of CSI’s original founders.
CSII’s Statement of Faith:
- We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true Man.
- We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned, and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word and deed.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all that believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
- We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate.
- We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
- We believe that all who receive, by faith, the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
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