Welcome to Overseas Council!

You have arrived at the electronic doorstep of a highly focused ministry. Overseas Council is all about advancing Christian leaders.

We believe the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is doing some of His most amazing redemptive work in our generation. Across the globe, churches are alive with new hope, fresh expectation and a deep confidence that the good news of Jesus Christ transforms lives, families, communities, cities and even nations.

David A. Baer, PhD President and CEO Overseas Council

Overseas Council is training the trainers, mentoring the mentors, teaching the teachers and influencing the influencers who carry Christian faith into every avenue of life with a confidence that God Himself has called them there.

We work with Bible institutes, seminaries and other strategic leadership trainers in more than sixty countries. We are convinced that leadership training is the premier task of Western Christians who are engaged with a global church. It's all we do because we believe in an emerging generation of Christian leaders whose lives demonstrate vision, integrity and competence. It is these men and women who preach and teach the redeeming gospel of Jesus Christ, minister to widows and orphans, seek justice in and through public institutions, lead their nations through the debilitating morass of corruption, and in a thousand other ways take God's truth into the public arena.

As you travel through our website, you'll catch a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in and through Overseas Council in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. You'll discover an organization that is committed to the most rigorous oversight and ethical transparency.

You'll also sense the passion of God's calling to equip His servants around the world to carry out the particular work to which each one is called.

You may also find your heart drawn to Overseas Council's passion. You may decide you want to join this unique ministry, laying your hand to a very particular plow, and advance Christian leaders together with us.

You'll find opportunities to do just that. We are always seeking partners who recognize the leveraging capacity that Overseas Council brings to its charitable giving. We are committed to constant research and evaluation of ministry opportunities and bring to the table a community of discerning minds who are in touch with critical needs around the world: people and projects that are making a difference in the places where leadership training is most needed.

Whether it's opening doors for emerging leaders to study, providing opportunities for proven teachers and intellectual leaders to elevate their game, bringing expert counsel and training into the orbit of hard-pressed leaders around the world, or making it possible for training centers to acquire critical educational resources and capital improvements, Overseas Council is your partner for world-changing ministry.

Check us out. Take your time as you work through these pages. Then contact us with your questions and comments. People who join us as partners tell us they find a responsive community of like-minded gospel people.

I hope we'll hear from you soon.

Meanwhile, welcome to Overseas Council. A whole world lies before you.

Every blessing,

David A. Baer, PhD
President and CEO
Overseas Council