Timeline Stories

Ken Ainsworth becomes the CDI Administrator, handling Help Desk and web inquiries and administering the CDI Learning Management System.

Works begins on translating the CDI guidebooks into Spanish for Servants4Him to train pastors in Guatemala.

Retired Village Missionaries Rob & Linda Dore take the CDI (loaded on Kindle Fire Tablets) to Malawi to train pastors.

The ambitious work begins to translate CDI closed captioning into other languages – including Spanish, Portuguese and Farsi.

After several months of hard work, the first course in the CDI program is available with closed captioning!

Contenders graduate and Village Missionary David Carr works to assist those with hearing impairments. A generous group of volunteers created English closed captions for all the CDI videos.

Rick & Stephanie Sherman, who completed the CDI program at a Village Missions church, are the first CDI graduates to attend Village Missions Candidate School. A few months later, they were placed on their first field of Lookingglass, Oregon.

After 4 years, the final CDI course is finished, thus completing the program with 6 courses. The final course is Evangelism, Teaching and Preaching.

After 38 years of faithfully serving as a Village Missionary, Ron Sallee steps into leadership to oversee the development of the CDI program.