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Why does CrossGlobal Link

offer a

Bureau of Consultants?

 

 

 

 

 

ML. Hillard

Consultant for Leadership Training Program Development

Expertise: 

 

 

Robert Hodge
Executive Coach/Board Consultant
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Dave Baseler
Consultant for Organizational Naming/Branding
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Dr. David Garrison

Church Planting Movements Consultant

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Dr. Robert Vajko

Church Planting Consultant/Coach

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Tom Correll

Consultant for Church/Agency Collaboration

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Gary Corwin

Consulting Missiologist

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David Dose

Crisis Management Consultant

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Dr. James Galvin

Strategic Change Consultant

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Eldon Porter

Consultant for Global Connections

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Dr. Steve Hoke

Consultant/Coach for Staff and Leader Development

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CrossGlobal Link

Bureau of Consultants

 

 

This bureau has been established to help our members access knowledgeable, reliable and affordable advice and assistance from those proven in their field of expertise. Eleven categories of mission administration, leadership and management are covered by these experts. All are strong believers who desire to be of assistance to those involved in Great Commission ministries. They are highly recommended by CrossGlobal Link.

 

 

 

For over 40 years, ML. has been involved in adult education and equipping teachers, specifically for change management, value transfer, curriculum design, and leading various training programs. Retired from ServiceMaster Inc., a Fortune 500 company, where he was Vice President for People Development internationally, he works with several faith-based organizations in leadership development, management and facilitation coaching. He also serves as a Senior V.P. with the Peter F. Drucker Academy, commuting to China where he lives and instructs in Beijing, and many other key China cities. ML. has been a favorite facilitator at CrossGlobal Link’s sponsored leadership training program, LeaderLink, for 12 years.

 

 

 

Bob coaches leaders and organizations to identify, pursue, and achieve their vision and goals. He helps identify options to discover personal, professional, and organizational dreams and needs, discern alternatives for improvement in behaviors and actions, design the appropriate next steps, and implement a course of action. Most frequent engagements include board development, strategic planning, succession planning, one-on-one coaching at the senior level, and facilitation of collaborative initiatives. Following ten years in banking, Bob served at Taylor University as the Vice President for Planning, Strategic Initiatives and Technology. Trained in systems, his skills evolved into the softer skills to lead new initiatives of people and projects, and has matured to focus on the wisdom of leadership. Bob has served on the TEAM board since the mid-90s.  

 

 

 

 

Dave provides business assistance and coaching in communication, leadership and organization, especially in the disciplines of marketing and branding, primarily to Christian non-profit groups. Dave is a former Vice President of Marketing Services for The ServiceMaster Company, where he introduced and led the corporate identity programs for all ServiceMaster companies, including Terminix, Merry Maids, TruGreen-ChemLawn and American Home Shield. Before joining ServiceMaster, Dave served as Marketing Manager for several divisions of Eaton Corporation, where he was heavily involved in managing the company’s identity program.  He has led several Christian organizations through re-branding and name changes, including CrossGlobal Link.  Dave is currently active on several boards, including Christar and ReachAcross.  

 

A 25-year veteran of global missions, David is recognized around the world as a pioneer in the understanding of Church Planting Movements. For five years David served as the Southern Baptist International Mission Board’s Associate Vice President for Global Strategy assisting the IMB’s 5,000 missionaries ministering in 150 countries. Over the past two decades, he has also directed IMB work in South Asia, in Northern Africa and the Middle East, and in Central and Eastern Europe. His books include: Church Planting Movements, How God Is Redeeming a Lost World, and The Camel Workshop, a Muslim evangelism workbook and DVD. David currently serves as the International Mission Board’s Global Strategist for Evangelical Advance.







Bob served in evangelism, church planting, church development and leadership training for twenty-nine years in France, then seven years at the Adelaide College of Ministries in Australia where he taught missions. He holds a doctorate in missiology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a degree in advanced studies in theology from the Evangelical Faculty of Theology, Vaux-sur-Seine, France. He presently serves as an international church planting consultant conducting seminars as well as personal training in church planting, church health, and church multiplication not only in the United States but also globally. Bob is also a consultant for Natural Church Development, a ministry to help churches around the world develop greater health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom is Missions Pastor at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities. He joined the pastoral staff in January of 1995 after many years of lay leadership at Wooddale Church. Tom’s passion and interest as a missions pastor is with cross-cultural ministries. Organizational leadership roles have included serving board roles with the North American Council of the World Evangelical Alliance, Mission: Moving Mountains, Daystar USA and the National Association of Missions Pastors. He has served as an adjunct professor at Bethel University and is a frequent speaker on the topic of mission leadership in a local church.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary serves as Missiologist with the International Office of Serving in Mission (SIM). He is also Associate Editor and writes a regular column for the Evangelical Missions Quarterly. Gary has served since 1981 in leadership training in Ghana; in various International roles with SIM including Director of Research and Theological Education Coordinator; and since 1994 in broader evangelical mission contexts including serving on several agency boards including Arab World Ministries, where he also served as Missiologist-at-Large for three years. He holds graduate degrees from East Stroudsburg University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Northwestern University and has held several leadership roles with the Evangelical Missiological Society. He is co-author of the popular missions text: Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey (Baker, 2004).

 

 

David, president and founder of the Fort Sherman Academy, is a Department of Defense (DoD)-trained expert in curriculum and training development for specialized captivity and detention survival.  An authority in faith-based hostage survival and anti-terrorism training, David has worked as a consultant to the U.S. government, private industry, and over 90 churches and sending organizations in the past 12 years. David founded Fort Sherman Academy in 2003 as a private training institute, with an emphasis on faith-based security as a specialized area of need.  Since inception, Fort Sherman Academy has trained over 16,000 students from various organizations; short-term church teams, long-term career missionaries, NGO staff and government personnel.  To date, 68 of those alumni have since faced the ultimate test of their training - a kidnapping, home invasion, carjacking or illegal detention by an unfriendly government.  As of today, 67 are alive and free. 

 


Jim is an organizational consultant specializing in strategy and leadership development for faith-based organizations. He has worked with the national boards of many organizations in policy-based governance and strategic direction. Recent clients include the Christian Leadership Alliance, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Willow Creek Association, Prison Fellowship, Pastoral Leadership Institute, Promise Keepers, and Alpha International. Jim holds the Doctor of Education degree in Curriculum and Supervision from Northern Illinois University as well as Bachelor and Masters degrees from Wheaton College.


Eldon was raised in Nigeria where his parents served as missionaries with SIM. Eldon earned his ThM at Dallas Seminary. He and his wife Becky served for 21 years in Bolivia with extensive experience in field base leadership and management roles. He headed up the development of the multi-mission Quechua Radio project and later developed APOYO-Bolivia, a ministry that functions as a support service for Bolivian Christian leaders.  In 2005 Eldon assumed the responsibility of the Deputy International Director for the Americas with SIM. He presently serves part-time with CrossGlobal Link as Consultant for Global Connections and part time with COMIBAM International as Asociado de Relaciones Globales (Consultant for Global Integration). His passion is the facilitating of missions in the global paradigm.  
 

 

Steve is Vice President for people development for Church Resource Ministries and serves on the Staff Development and Care Team. He cares for CRM staff in 27 countries, coaching CRM staff leaders. Steve also teaches on the CrossGlobal Link LeaderLink team, equipping missionaries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. Increasingly Steve comes alongside mission leaders in the US and around the world as a Strategic Life Coach – to help Christian leaders—before, during and after missions, to find “role alignment”— a role where they are actually ministering in the area of their giftedness and passion. His passion is to equip and encourage front-line mission leaders to minister with spiritual authority in the difficult places of the world. He is the co-author with Bill Taylor of the recently released, The Global Mission Handbook: Your Guide to CrossCultural Service (IVPress, 2009).