Since the late 1970’s Christian Surfers has been reaching out to surfers. Christian Surfers International was born in 1999 when Christian Surfer groups from a number of countries joined together as an international movement.
Our Vision and Goals
To be a Christian presence and witness to the world surfing community. Our goals are to:
1) Evangelise the surfing communities of the world.
2) Serve the local church world wide by providing a bridge between the church and the beach.
3) Network Christian Surfers missions world wide and thus provide a mission niche for surfers.
Our Core Values
EVANGELISM – We are evangelistic in intent and evangelical in flavor, by which we mean majoring on the centrality of Christ, the priority of the gospel, the authority of the bible.
SURFING – We are mobilising surfers to reach surfers using their surfing. We are an authentic surfing movement. We are showing how our surfing is submitted to Christ as a servant not a master.
PARTNERING – All our local missions are partnerships with local churches and we seek to be interchurch in leadership and accountability. We also form partnerships with other ministry groups.
INTEGRATING – We are integrated in the local surfing community and we create a Christian community to minister out of. This requires long term commitment to ministry.
TRANSFORMING – We believe the Kingdom of God changes individual surfers lives and then the surfing cultures they belong to.
SERVING – We have ministry based on relationships of trust earned by service as key to all ministry and leadership. We believe servanthood is a key to leadership.
VOLUNTEERING – We are mobilizing and empowering ordinary volunteers and helping them fulfill their potential with staff assistance. Our mission is a bottom up initiative.
INTERNATIONAL – We are called to the world surfing community and will seek to facilitate surfing outreach to every surfing nation. We are also an international family of missions committed to the common good.
Our Faith
We hold to an evangelical statement of faith. Click here to see our Statement of Faith .
What We Do
A typical Christian Surfers mission uses an outreach “Christian Surfers club†model of mission. These are integrated into their surf communities and led by a team of leaders from supportive local churches. Typical activities include regular meetings and evangelistic surfer-friendly Bible input, surfing contests, camps and day trips, surf coaching, and outreach to secular events. Established surfing nations multiply these local missions around their coastlines to form national movements that can evangelise and disciple surfers of the nation. Learn more about our strategies and what we do here.
Our Organisation
CSI networks national Christian Surfers missions as an international movement. Each affiliated mission agrees to Christian Surfers’ vision, core values and statement of faith. Affiliated missions appoint CSI leadership and agree on core strategies. You can follow this link to find our more about our organisation .
