Worldlink International Ministries 
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Summary
We empower indigenous Christian missionaries to share God's love in some of the world's most difficult places. Our Indigenous Missionary partners are pursuing many different ways of sharing God's love (all of which lead to sharing the Good News). These locally determined strategies, in response to local needs, have resulted in hundreds of thousands coming to faith in Jesus Christ.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Worldlink International Ministries
PO Box 80202
Valley Forge, PA 19484
Website: worldlinkonline.org
Phone: (610) 630-3775
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 020582095
CEO/President: Jack Nelson
Chairman: Jim Achuff
Board size: 8
Founder: Jack Nelson
Ruling year: 2002
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 06/30
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 2005
Purpose
To see God's Good News shared with every unreached person transforming individuals and communities.
Mission statement
To empower indigenous missionaries to share the tangible love of God and the Good News of Jesus with the world's least-reached people.
Statement of faith
Worldlink International Ministries accepts and proclaims the historic truths of the Christian faith including the following:
God and the human race
We hold that the Lord our God is one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that he fulfills His sovereign purposes-in creation, revelation, redemption, judgment, and the coming of His kingdom-by the calling out from the world a people united to Himself and to each other in love.
We acknowledge that though God made us in His own likeness and image, conferring on us dignity and worth and enabling us to respond to Himself. We now are members of a fallen race; we have sinned and come short of His glory.
We believe that the Father has shown us His holy love in giving Jesus Christ, His only Son, for us, while through our sinfulness and guilt, we were subject to His wrath and condemnation; and has shown His grace by putting sinners right with Himself when they place their trust in His Son.
We confess Jesus Christ as Lord and God; as truly human, born of the virgin Mary; as Servant, sinless, full of grace and truth; as only Mediator and Savior, dying on the cross in our place, representing us to God, redeeming us from the grip, guilt and punishment of sin; as Victor over Satan and all His forces, rising from death with a glorious body, being taken up to be with His Father, one day returning personally in glory and judgment to establish His kingdom.
We believe in the Holy Spirit who convicts the world in regard to sin, righteousness and judgment; who makes the death of Christ effective to sinners, declaring that they must now turn to Christ in repentance and directing their trust towards the Lord Jesus Christ; who through the new birth makes us partake in the life of the risen Christ, and who is present within all believers, illuminating their minds to grasp the truth of Scripture, producing in them His fruit, granting to them His gifts, and empowering them for service in the world.
The Scriptures
We believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures are God-breathed, since their writers spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit; hence are fully trustworthy in all that they affirm; and are our highest authority for faith and life.
The Church and its Mission
We recognize the Church as the body of Christ, held together and growing up in him; both as a total fellowship throughout the world, and as the local congregation in which believers gather.
We acknowledge the commission of Christ to proclaim the Good News to all people, making them disciples, and teaching them to obey Him.
and
We acknowledge the command of Christ to love our neighbors, resulting in service to the church and society, in seeking reconciliation for all with God and their fellows, in proclaiming liberty from every kind of oppression; and in spreading Christ's justice in an unjust world
... until He comes again.
Articles
| 2/27/2026 | Cross International Soars in Financial Efficiency, Equipping the Persecuted Plummets |
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Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Foreign Missions
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 797 of 1420 | 72 of 126 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 733 of 1420 | 68 of 126 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 799 of 1420 | 77 of 126 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 764 of 1421 | 60 of 126 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 5% | 6% | 9% | 7% | 9% | 13% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 5% | 5% | 9% | 7% | 9% | 13% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 98% | 98% | 98% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 5% | 6% | 9% | 8% | 11% | 13% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 2% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 85% | 83% | 83% | 81% | 79% | 77% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 99% | 85% | 100% | 89% | 78% | 100% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 83% | 71% | 83% | 72% | 62% | 77% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 1% | 15% | 0% | 11% | 22% | 0% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 3% | 29% | 0% | 23% | 87% | 7% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 9% | 10% | 8% | 11% | 10% | 10% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.52 | 1.56 | 2.06 | 1.67 | 2.90 | 6.29 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.14 | 1.01 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.02 | 1.08 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.30 | 1.57 | 2.07 | 1.67 | 2.96 | 6.79 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 23.45 | 34.72 | 25.28 | 24.34 | 17.52 | 6.98 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.14 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 5.02 | 7.44 | 5.56 | 6.87 | 3.83 | 1.51 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 4% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 8% | 70% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 51% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 60% | 62% | 46% | 57% | 32% | 5% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Cash | $65,592 | $559,544 | $303,454 | $295,022 | $83,108 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $10,885 | $41,895 | $55,232 | $895 | $29,692 |
| Short-term investments | $934,737 | $130,008 | $373,611 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $1,011,214 | $731,447 | $732,297 | $295,917 | $112,800 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $6,640 | $2,634 | $2,189 | $5,679 | $8,837 |
| Other long-term assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $6,640 | $2,634 | $2,189 | $5,679 | $8,837 |
| Total assets | $1,017,854 | $734,081 | $734,486 | $301,596 | $121,637 |
| Liabilities | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $29,126 | $28,935 | $30,084 | $16,892 | $16,167 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $29,126 | $28,935 | $30,084 | $16,892 | $16,167 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $62,220 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $11,352 | $7,183 | $7,601 | $7,787 | $7,117 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $11,352 | $7,183 | $7,601 | $7,787 | $69,337 |
| Total liabilities | $40,478 | $36,118 | $37,685 | $24,679 | $85,504 |
| Net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Without donor restrictions | $967,376 | $646,963 | $669,551 | $216,195 | $6,033 |
| With donor restrictions | $10,000 | $51,000 | $27,250 | $60,722 | $30,100 |
| Net assets | $977,376 | $697,963 | $696,801 | $276,917 | $36,133 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Total contributions | $1,831,865 | $1,493,122 | $1,383,677 | $1,116,043 | $767,997 |
| Program service revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $31,746 | $23,158 | $1,779 | $70 | $8 |
| Other revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total other revenue | $31,746 | $23,158 | $1,779 | $70 | $8 |
| Total revenue | $1,863,611 | $1,516,280 | $1,385,456 | $1,116,113 | $768,005 |
| Expenses | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Program services | $1,321,056 | $1,251,394 | $993,001 | $689,896 | $589,722 |
| Management and general | $161,389 | $124,719 | $133,299 | $90,114 | $79,268 |
| Fundraising | $101,544 | $138,749 | $100,169 | $95,319 | $96,502 |
| Total expenses | $1,583,989 | $1,514,862 | $1,226,469 | $875,329 | $765,492 |
| Change in net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $279,622 | $1,418 | $158,987 | $240,784 | $2,513 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $279,622 | $1,418 | $158,987 | $240,784 | $2,513 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| John Nelson III | President | $189,798 |
Compensation data as of: 6/30/2025
Response from ministry
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The information below was provided to MinistryWatch by the ministry itself. It was last updated 6/25/2026. To update the information below, please email: [email protected]
History
Jack Nelson, with his wife Nancy, founded Worldlink in 2002 and has faithfully served as the ministry's President since its inception. In 2016, Jack published Reachable, a collection of stories of Worldlink's Indigenous Partners and an in-depth look at why Worldlink supports Indigenous Missionaries.
Program accomplishments
https://www.worldlinkonline.org/2024-impact-report