Compass 28:19 was founded to meet the need to train short-term missions teams with excellence. The heart of Compass, and the heart of the Great Commission, is Discipleship.

Done correctly, short-term missions trips are uniquely powerful tools in discipling people at almost every stage of their spiritual journey.

Compass 28:19 has successfully trained, sent, and led ministry teams on every continent (except Antarctica). Every lesson and module in the course has been extensively field-tested and refined - the course has everything you need, and doesn't weigh you down with things you don't!

John Jackson, Executive Director and co-founder of Compass 28:19 spent decades as a missionary, pastor, soccer coach, and missions professor. He and his wife, Penny, planted four churches in South Africa before they returned to the home office in the US to mentor missionaries all across Africa.

The newly-available virtual tools that have exploded across the globe in recent years have made it possible to make Compass' excellent training available everywhere that there is an internet connection!

We are prayerfully excited about the possibility of leveraging these carefully curated tools to equip many leaders and their teams to fulfill their God-given responsibility of responding to the Great Commission (Matt 28:19).