Iwill always remember the first year I traveled overseas as president and CEO of Christianity Today. Wherever we met believers, from the mountains of Papua to the streets of Bengaluru, they greeted CT as a friend. Most could name a recent article they had read. Their common request was that we do more to elevate the stories and ideas from their places in Christ’s global kingdom. 

As we framed the One Kingdom Campaign to shape the future of Christianity Today, we prioritized its Global Initiative. When Billy Graham founded the magazine in 1956, he envisioned 100 correspondents around the world telling the stories of the church. This part of the original vision, we felt, had not yet been fully realized. If we could interconnect followers of Jesus around the planet and serve as a central nervous system, then the global body of Christ could more effectively communicate and coordinate. The Global Initiative would help Christianity Today better represent the breadth and beauty of the whole kingdom of God.