We're a discipling ministry dedicated to raising up the next generation of Christian leaders. CSB Ministries envisions a world where mature Christian leaders transform society for Christ.
Our Founder
Joe Coughlin turned a Sunday School class of sixth-grade boys into a Christian youth work that mobilized young people for Christian service. Today, Joe’s dream has been fulfilled many times over in Christian Service Brigade and Girls Alive.
Joe was born on May 23, 1919 in Hampton, Virginia. Before he was a year old, his father died. The fact that Joe never knew his father profoundly influenced him later. “I felt that not having had a father as a boy somehow became a contributing factor in my own interest in boys,” he once said, “I desperately wanted a dad. When I discovered John 1:12, I found that I did have a Father.”
Our History
In 1937, Joe Coughlin, a college student teaching a Sunday School class of boys in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, started a weekly club program in order to challenge his restless pupils. It wasn't an unusual idea, but Joe wasn't an ordinary Sunday School teacher. He was a young man with a vivid imagination and a burning zeal to serve Christ.
Coughlin dreamed on a grand scale: his Sunday School class of boys could become the nucleus of an army of Christian young men marching for the cause of Christ. The movement grew, molding thousands of boys into mature men of Christ.
And now, with the addition of Girls Alive, the partner girls’ ministry, CSB Ministries stands on the brink of the 21st century, ready to win boys and girls to Christ and build them into men and women of Christ.
Our Mission
CSB Ministries' mission is to win and develop children and youth to be leaders for Christ.
Our Vision
CSB Ministries envisions a world where mature Christian leaders transform society for Christ.
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