See it in action
Two decades of impact, in two minutes.
Twenty years of faith-based diplomacy in the world's hardest places.
A bipartisan delegation of former U.S. Congressmen and a U.S. Special Envoy traveled to South and North Sudan for peace discussions soon after the coup. In 2022, another delegation of 12 former Congressmen — six Republicans and six Democrats — and a U.S. Special Envoy visited Juba, South Sudan, for a follow-up visit.
TRAC5 was part of a private international coalition that helped release 18,000 Afghans left behind after the U.S. departure in 2021.
Two trips in 2019 and 2020 to support a peaceful transition. Work in progress.
For 19 months, TRAC5 quietly engaged three heads of state, working alongside Congressman Robert Aderholt's office and other regional political, religious, and business leaders to assist in Pastor Brunson's release. Andrew graciously wrote a letter of thanks to President Trump.
Working with two U.S. Congressmen and others to release two Christian pastors — Rev. Hassan Abduraheem Kodi Taour and Abdulmonem Abdumawla — imprisoned for life. The pardons came directly from President Omar al-Bashir, made possible by long-standing spiritual and relationship-based diplomacy. The Crisis Response Team partnered with Congressmen Trent Franks and Tom Garrett and the organization Hardwired.
TRAC5's CRT deployed to Sudan, partnering with Hardwired, to release Christian prisoners including Petr Jasek of the Czech Republic, who had been sentenced to 20 years to life. Petr was released largely because of a long-standing record of friendship diplomacy established by TRAC5 and its partners.
TRAC5 was invited to address world leaders at the UN, presenting the Jesus-centric strategy and sharing ideas about how to defeat radicalism.
Days after the terror attacks at the Brussels airport, TRAC5 was asked to address the European Parliament about how best to respond to the growing threat. The team presented ground-breaking ideas and the Jesus-centric strategy to European leaders.
The Crisis Response Team made two trips in response to the Muslim/Christian war. As a direct result of the first trip, two French hostages — Claudia Priest and Father Gustave — were released within 24 hours, and days later C.A.R. Minister of Youth and Sports Armel Sayo was set free. On the second trip, a peace treaty was signed by 10 factions. Quantifiable impact included the release of child-soldiers and sex-slaves held by militia groups, plus 6,000 meals provided to refugees in an internal displacement camp.
TRAC5 dispatched CRT member Dr. Jeff Burns twice, as part of a larger team, to pray with the regime — resulting in the release of Meriam Ibrahim. Meriam had been imprisoned while giving birth in chains, sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her faith.
TRAC5's CRT presented Iranian leadership with an alternate spiritual path, directed personally to the court system. The result: the release of Marzieh Amirizadeh and Maryam Rostampour, imprisoned for 255 days as converts to Christianity and charged with apostasy and blasphemy. If convicted they would have been executed.
TRAC5's CRT deployed to Sudan to pray with Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who then decided to drop the flogging punishment of UN employee Lubna al-Hussein for dressing in pants.
The South Korean government requested the Crisis Response Team's help with 21 Christian missionaries kidnapped by the Taliban. The team initiated its model and was preparing to pray with the captors when ordered to stand down. The project was passed to ICRD under Dr. Doug Johnston, who ultimately succeeded in securing the release of the remaining 21 captives.
The Crisis Response Team was deployed nearly a dozen times to Sudan over 18+ months, praying with President Omar al-Bashir and working directly with the UN Secretary-General and the U.S. Envoy to Sudan. This helped reverse President Bashir's reluctance to deploy UN Peacekeeping Forces, contributing to the mitigation of the genocide, mass rapes, and the displacement of 2.2 million people. In 2017, Sudan's Foreign Minister during the Darfur war, Ali Karti, openly attributed the team with the success of ending the Darfur debacle.
TRAC5's relational diplomacy led to multiple prayer meetings with Sudanese leaders and the president, contributing to a successful peace treaty in a Muslim/Christian civil war that had killed over 2 million people.
Worked with the President and the rebellion funder to end the guerrilla warfare conflict with Pastor Ntumi.
TRAC5 was part of a team facilitating private prayer meetings of competing presidents Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame of Rwanda in Washington, DC, leading to the 2002 ceasefire and the Pretoria Accord establishing a Transitional Government of National Unity.
TRAC5 had two private meetings with the Saddam regime and was instrumental in his decision to allow the return of UN weapons inspectors in an attempt to avoid war.
TRAC5 contributed to a successful and peaceful presidential candidate's transition of power and subsequent positive transformation of the country. "Ghana has had a remarkable recovery under President John Kufuor — democratic, energetic, and economically growing." — Robert Rotberg, Harvard University.
TRAC5 held a prayer meeting with President Musharraf that led to the release of over 20 Christian men imprisoned for "blasphemy" — so they could care for their starving families left behind, unable to work under Sharia law.
TRAC5's CRT engaged in private meetings with the Gaddafi regime starting in 1999, contributing to the long-sought release of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing suspects. 270 men, women, and children — 189 of them American — were murdered on Pan Am flight 103. Gaddafi accepted responsibility and paid compensation to the families. Follow-up efforts over 1.5 years in spiritual diplomacy contributed to breaking down decades of resistance with the West; in 2003, Libya also denounced WMDs and its radical/militant agenda.
TRAC5 established a prayer partnership with President Matthew Kereku, a former communist dictator who later won in a free election. This contributed to a Jesus-centric national transformation and unity process. He became a friend of the West and led a youth peace movement that helped resolve tribal conflict in over 20 villages using a spiritual approach.
TRAC5 was part of the Muslim/Christian team that encouraged the successful Abuja Peace Accords — ending a conflict that had killed 200,000 people.
A TRAC5 team visited the Sahara, breaking bread with President Mohamed Abdelziz. After prayer and a scripture study, the president committed to reinstate the 1991 Ceasefire with Morocco — ending a conflict that had killed tens of thousands.