Local Church-Based Training in Missions

Cam Woolford serves as the founding Director of Servant Leaders International, a global collective of local church leaders that have come together to fulfill the Great Commission through Mentoring, Mobilizing, and Multiplying the ministry and leadership potential of the local church. SLI partners with Anchor Christian University to resource and facilitate local church based training across (currently) eight countries in Latin America, with over 100 students at any one time pursuing Biblical Foundations, Ministry Leadership, and Biblical Counseling courses and certificates.

More significant is the commitment to raise up and walk alongside emerging leaders and leadership teams rather than embedding American missionaries and infrastructure. This includes strategic internships and Ethnos Missions Academy, alongside church planting and team mobilization.

The conversation lasted over an hour. Rather than editing it down and potentially diluting the key aspects of Cam’s journey, we split it into two parts:

Part 1Cam’s background, call to missions, and experience as a missionary church planter in Ecuador and Costa Rica.

Part 2The launch of Servant Leaders International and its mission-driven growth over the last 7 years, including the partnership with Eleven:6 and Anchor Christian U, adding missionary families to the team, and the constant tension of bringing resource and value to the local church globally while deliberately keeping infrastructure lean.

It’s rare that an organization-to-organization partnership carries the level of mission-driven alignment that Eleven:6, Anchor Christian U, and Servant Leaders International share. The Kingdom fruit — the local church strengthened and equipped across Latin America, in particular — is evidence of what God can do through strategic collaboration when we bring what we have and give Him room to work.