Where We Serve

  CTM’s training targets leaders who serve in the most challenging urban communities in the U.S. and internationally. Poverty and violence are the two primary indicators that determine where we serve. They are barometers of larger social concerns and the context in which we help leaders teach, preach and bear witness to the Gospel. In each of the contexts in which we serve, we equip leaders to map the pain and the hope of their community as well as the heart of God - such is the geography of grace.

• North America: We currently serve in seven North American Cities including: Tacoma, Seattle, Philadelphia, Camden, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles as well as a rural initiative in the Yelm area of Washington.
• Latin America: Our Latin American office is located in Guatemala City and serves four Central American Countries including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras where we train more than 300 volunteers youth leaders and pastors. In January of 2007 we started a gang chaplaincy initiative; we have hired six chaplains to minister to gangs in Guatemala’s prisons. We have also hired a coordinator in the Dominican Republic to network and train leaders in Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. Our work in Latin America is a partnership of CTM, Liderazgo Juvinil, and Christian Reformed World Mission
• Nairobi, Kenya: This year we hired a coordinator in Nairobi to network and mentor the leaders who serve in many of Nairobi’s 199 slums including Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. More than 150 leaders attend our training twice a year and 30 pastors are enrolled in the masters degree program.
• Marghita, Romania: Through our partnership with Mile High Ministry, we are working in a government orphanage in Romania. Our specific role is to train leaders who serve the orphans and develop themes for the camp experience. Each year a CTM associate leads a trip to the orphanage working in partnership with a Romanian foundation who has more than 60 staff serving the orphans.

"God weeps with us so that one day we might laugh with him" - J. Moltmann