Ministry

50 years of God’s goodness

July 30, 2026 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Keith and Kay in robes Kay and I celebrated 50 years with Campus Crusade for Christ in July. Here are some highlights over the years. We’ve also documented these years in a Google Photo Album here.

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The Nigeria years (1976–1992)

This journey begins in 1976 at the Campus Crusade for Christ headquarters in San Bernadino, CA. Keith, Kay and baby Jennifer attended training before arriving in Nigeria in March of 1977.
Teaching Electronics and Discipling Leaders in Bukuru, Nigeria. Keith served as the head of the electronics department, where he taught vocational skills and discipled students and teachers. Keith and Kay led couples Bible studies with other lecturers. Among those discipled was Peter Agu, who is now a university professor and a major ministry leader himself. God added Daniel and Jonathan to complete our family.
Translating and Dubbing the JESUS Film: Keith directed the production, dubbing, and recording of the JESUS film into 10 major West African languages which made the Gospel accessible to millions of people in their own native languages. Kay typed the scripts in languages she could not understand. Keith developed a wordless Four Spiritual Laws and follow-up sessions to enhance ministry among oral cultures.
Kay actively ministered to women by leading discipleship Bible studies and participating in the Women’s Bible Study Fellowship. She also coordinated physical fitness classes for women and faithfully played the organ for morning church services.
Kay taught second grade at Hillcrest School, a missionary school located in Jos: Kay served the missionary community and local families by teaching second grade and later elementary physical education at Hillcrest School in Nigeria. She considered it a great privilege to help children from diverse nationalities learn to trust Christ while providing them with a quality physical and academic education.
Evangelism, Discipleship and Church Training: From 1977 to 1992, the Seabourns served full-time in Bukuru and Jos with the Great Commission Movement of Nigeria (the local name for Campus Crusade for Christ), training laypeople to use print, video, and audio tools for evangelism and discipleship.
Assisting Other West African Nations: In the early 1990s, the Seabourns expanded their reach by helping other West African countries record and dub the JESUS film. This included Keith travelling to Gambia to record the film in Mandinka, as well as producing languages for Ghana and Sierra Leone.

The Faculty Ministry years (1992–2001)

Keith pioneered internet outreach by launching the “Telling the Truth” project and Leadership University. These platforms equipped Christian professors and students worldwide with apologetics resources to defend their faith and share the gospel. Joining Christian Leadership Ministries (CLM, now renamed Faculty Commons) in 1992 after returning to the U.S., Keith was tasked with exploring the new Worldwide Web. In 1994, he officially pioneered and launched Internet Ministry. By 2001, this family of websites had ministered to more than 20 million visitors, serving over 18 million truth articles to individuals in 134 countries.
Kay successfully maintained CLM’s nationwide network of over 10,000 university professors, verifying addresses and ensuring faculty members received The Real Issue publication. Her diligent administrative work was essential in equipping these educators to use their platforms of influence for Christ.
Keith established the Virtual Faculty Office Project: To counter the popular misconception that scholarship and Christianity are incompatible, Keith created Virtual Faculty Offices on Leadership University. This project allowed Christian university professors to publish scholarly writings and personal testimonies, growing from 16 to 47 offices online by 2001.

The Global Technology years (2001–2013)

Keith and Kay established the Global Technology Office: Upon Keith being selected as the first executive-level Chief Technology Officer for Campus Crusade for Christ in late 2001, Keith and Kay established the Global Technology Office to help identify, build, and deploy strategic digital solutions across the global organization. Kay led the wives of technology staff to find places to engage in ministry since they sometimes felt disconnected at the global headquarters. This new role required moving to the CCCI- HQ in Orlando in 2003. Daughters-in-love Michelle and Meredith joined the family and we were blessed with five grandchildren during this era.
Keith founded the MinistryNet Global Conferences: Beginning with Budapest in 2005, Keith founded the MinistryNet conferences. These gatherings equipped ministry leaders from dozens of countries to build strategic digital plans, eventually leading to the establishment of Digital Strategies as a core ministry strategy of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Kay coordinated critical logistics and administration for massive global conferences, including the Pamoja Africa gathering. During this continent-wide event, she assisted with registration for 2,400 people and helped facilitate computer training labs for African staff.
Keith led the development of the Global ConneXion Community Platform: Keith’s team developed and rolled out mygcx.org (Global ConneXion), a community platform that saw the rapid formation of over 4,000 unique “communities of purpose” to facilitate global peer-to-peer collaboration.
Kay utilized her skills to train women leaders from various countries, equipping them to use digital strategies and share their faith. Kay’s training in education was invaluable in helping equip and resource Cru staff.
Keith led the innovative mLearning (mobile learning) initiative to deliver seminary courses via mobile phones. By loading courses like the “Essentials of Christian Living” onto microchips, he enabled pastors in remote African villages to receive vital leadership training.

The Global Church Movement years (2013–present)

Keith and Kay refined church planter training materials: Keith and Kay led a team to refine and improve GCM’s core church planter training, called MC² (Multiplying Churches and Communities).
Keith and Kay travelled globally Launching Church Planting Initiatives: Taking numerous trips to Africa in 2013 and following years, Keith and Kay began to train MC² trainers. Training conferences inspired and mobilized pastors and denominations to engage in the Great Commission. They visited over 60 countries around the world during this era.
Keith coached Global Church Movements (GCM): Keith coached GCM leaders like Ignatius (Kenya), George (Nigeria) and Adama (Mali). Later leaders were Apollos (Nigeria), Tamadji (Chad), Miktile (Ethiopia) and so many others. Since 2010, 314,905 new churches and missional communities have been planted.
Keith and Kay model long-term engagement in the Great Commission: In recent years, Keith and Kay have spoken and modeled marriage and lifetime engagement in the Great Commission.
Keith helped found and launch Coalition of the Willing: Keith is a founding board member of Coalition of the Willing (COTW), a multi-organization collaboration to see a church planted in every village among every people. The iShare tool built for Campus Crusade for Christ and then donated to COTW is used to track every village and identify gaps where there are no local churches.

“Jesus please let us out of this prison.”

November 14, 2025 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Pastor Abdel Aziz Ndalu of Senegal writes:

We have been working with the Lord in reaching prisoners in Senegal: providing for them clothes, soap, sanitary supply, women’s needs, and food. We are also allowed to show the Jesus Film, not as an evangelistic outreach but as an entertainment movie according to prison officials. We also distribute Bibles to ladies who can read French. The other women said, “We want Bibles too. We will send the Bibles to our children who go to school. We want them to read the Bible.”

One day, after showing the Jesus Film and preaching, we prayed for them as usual before leaving. A lady exclaimed: “Jesus can do miracles for sure! Can we ask him to make a miracle for us? Let’s ask Jesus to let us out of this prison.” Our planting church team said, “Yes we can ask Jesus.” We prayed with the prisoners that the Lord would release them from the prison. On the very next day, the President of Senegal announced the release all the women of this prison! These women continue to meet regularly to worship the Lord and receive teaching.

While these power encounters seem strange to many in the west, in Africa, the worldview is a power-fear relationship with the spiritual world. People live in fear and do things to appease their dead ancestors and dark spirits who they feel have great power. So when the love of Jesus is expressed in power and might, it shakes their world and opens the door to worshipping this powerful God who loves them individually.

Stories from around the world

March 10, 2020 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

“The nation of Equatorial Guinea in West Africa is certainly experiencing new waves in the planting of churches since the country’s independence in 1968. The 72 church planters we trained in September 2018 in the Multiplying Churches and Communities strategy have planted 147 churches in the last 12 months.” – Apollos Jabbo, Global Church Movements leader, West Africa

“In an undisclosed country in Southeast Asia, currently there are an estimated 45,000 local churches, up from 25,000 in 2007.” – John Becker, VP for Global Collaboration, GACX

“By the grace of God, all the churches in Chad are working together in the harvest and are now fasting and praying together for the nation and the growth of God’s kingdom.” – Tamadji Moyalbaye, Global Church Movements leader, Chad

“Last week, more than 60 Cru USA staff and partners attended our first US Global Church Movements staff conference, and we are ready to partner with churches and mission organizations and launch a national church multiplication movement.” – Dave Robinson, national director, US Global Church Movements

“Arobogast Henga, a former fisherman from an island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania has experienced an amazing multiplication of churches with 25 generations in two years.” – Dismas Shekalaghe, Global Church Movements leader, Southern & Eastern Africa

The Cattleman Catches a Vision

February 10, 2020 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Arba Minch, a town in southern Ethiopia known for its many springs, its tropical fruit and a crocodile market, has grown dramatically in recent years — from 40,000 in 1994 to nearly 200,000 today.

A couple of years ago, the growth led to the relocation of 400 families (about 1,000 people) to a new community on the edge of town. As far as anyone knew, no believers dwelt among the 400 families in this village, known as Noc Site.

About that same time, the Kelhiout Church in Arba Minch sent a farmer named Gideon to the Global Church Movements church-planting training.

When Gideon was about 35 years old, he had come to faith in Christ through the witness of a 10-year-old boy. Gideon had been raising cattle but had sunk into a life of drinking and stealing. After turning to Christ, he fully surrendered everything in order to serve the Lord, and was actively sharing his faith.

During the training, he learned about a witnessing method known as “Prayer, Care, Share.” This approach encourages believers to find a “Person of Peace,” that is, somebody who is open enough to meet the believer and can open doors to a community. One prays for the Person of Peace, then finds ways to care for that person and meet their needs, and finally shares the gospel with him or her.

Gideon and his local church agreed that he would reach out to Noc Site, this fledgling village of 1,000 people with no Christian witness. He asked God to lead him to a Person of Peace, then began caring for people and witnessing. One day in town he met Yashir, who lived in Noc Site. As he began to pray for, care for and share with Yashir and his wife, they gave their hearts to the Lord. Yashir quickly shared the gospel with his relatives, and two of them accepted Christ as well.

This small group began regularly meeting to study the Bible. As the new believers learned how to follow Jesus and share their faith with others, the group grew. With the help of Gideon, what started at Yashir’s house two years ago has grown to a church of more than 50 people today. And several of the new believers are learning how to lead their own Bible studies, so the church in Noc Site will soon begin to multiply — fulfilling the dream of a church reaching this 1,000-person community!

Thinking about 2019

December 27, 2019 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Aurea with 2nd generation church planters she is training

Aurea, a 47-year-old woman and mother of 5, learned to plant a church. Kay and I taught Aurea and others in September 2018 in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. Aurea says,

“The training has given me power to start church planting. I started with three persons in my house, but it has rapidly grown to 25 members. There have been difficulties and challenges but God has raised three leaders who will soon start second generation churches. My vision is to see churches planted everywhere in my area.”

Anita, a mother of eight, travelled 80 miles to attend the training. She returned to her home in Cogo and planted a growing church in this former center of the slave trade. Cogo is at the confluence of 3 major rivers that ships could easily reach from the Atlantic ocean.

After returning home, Anita began to share her faith using the Four Spiritual Laws and organized a showing of the Jesus Film with 45 watching and 13 making decisions to follow Christ.

Church building in Cogo, Equatorial Guinea on land donated by a new, 75-year old believer

Anita says,

“Cogo is a difficult area. Many people feel civilized because of the colonial influence, but their lives are empty. The people are into drunkenness and loose living. I came back from the training a changed person and was excited about teaching the word of God. One man who received Christ was 75 years old and controlled by smoking and drinking alcohol. He is growing in his faith and has stopped smoking and drinking. This transformed man gave us the land where we have started constructing a church structure.”

Map of Cogo, Equatorial Guinea — Map of Equatorial Guinea showing Cogo town.

Anita continues,

“Cogo is surrounded by rivers. A woman of 65 years received Christ with me but doesn’t live in Cogo. This woman paddles her canoe 10 miles to come to Cogo for fellowship with believers. She stays three days for church service and discipling then returns to her area to minister.”

This is why Kay and I train church planters to connect with the lost and to plant churches that multiply. This is why we develop training curriculum. This is why we develop digital technology tools to expand the scope and engage more people in the Great Commission.

Thank you for our partnership reaching an increasingly desperate world like the people of Equatorial Guinea with the life-saving message of Jesus.

Kay and I look forward to 2020. We will be training and coaching. We will be following Jesus into new adventures. We praise God for the privilege we had in 2019 to minister in 12 countries flying about 195,000 miles and sleeping in 29 different beds. The adventure continues…