It began with a simple prayer in 2014. Our founder Kevin Russell was reflecting on Jesus’ statement, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field (Matt 9:37-38).” In response, Kevin prayed “Lord, could you use me to train and send workers into the harvest?” This simple prayer started growing into a God-sized vision.

Two years later, in 2016, while praying Kevin drew a big circle around Indianapolis - a 350 mile radius. He discovered that within a day’s drive there were over 20 major cities, and an estimated 65 million people!

Indianapolis is known as the Crossroads of America because the city's central location serves as a hub for highways that connect to multiple cities throughout this region of the country. Kevin envisioned that Indianapolis could be a hub of ministry, a kind of missions base, that could serve to spread the Gospel in this part of the country. Longing to be part of the solution of too few harvest workers, he wrote two phrases that came to mind: “a house of prayer and training center” and “mini-movements in every segment of society.”

Six years later, on July 1, 2022, Kevin officially launched The Crossroads Coalition, a new domestic missions agency based in Fishers, Indiana.