CrossWave Global - About Us

CrossWave Global - Carrying His Message Across The Globe

About Us

CrossWave Global is a sub-cluster of relating churches within

Church of the Nations International in the following cities:

Johannesburg, Queenstown, Pretoria and Durban

in South Africa, Fukuyama in Japan, Christchurch in New Zealand and Melbourne in Australia.

Furthermore we work into Zimbabwe through a network

of churches mainly based around the south-

western region of Zimbabwe and partner with a number of like-minded apostolic groupings around Australasia.

Our name is not prescriptive (or exclusive) but descriptive (and inclusive) of our

covenant relationships and the common vision we share.

Our Core Values

The Father-heart and Word of God
The Primacy of Christ's Kingship and the Gospel of the Kingdom
The Personhood and Essential Ministry of the Holy Spirit
The Body of Christ and "unity of the Spirit" (reasoning from the whole to the part)
The Apostolic Wineskin (including simple/organic church)
The Hebrew Mindset and Principle of Fathers and Sons (gender neutral terms)
The Missional DNA of God's People
The Brotherhood and Priesthood of All Believers
The Restoration Plan of God
The Coming of Christ (living as an eschatological people)

Our Steering Team

Although each church community is self-governing, a steering team oversees the apostolic and missional life we share. Below we introduce the members of this servant team.

Grant & Yuki Willems

Grant met Craig in 1998 and an immediate sense of destiny was sparked; by 2000, Grant joined Craig & Lorna in team in the Queenstown church. In 2004 Grant - along with Craig & Lorna - planted the church in Johannesburg, South Africa. One year later, Grant headed for Japan to establish the church in the city of Fukuyama. Grant & Yuki were married in April 2008 and together oversee the Japanese vision and ministry.

Christo & Debby Van Deventer

Christo & Debby have two children: Kaylin (aged 5) and Ethan (aged 3). Christo & Debby met Craig & Lorna in Queenstown in 1999 and a destiny-relationship began. Christo & Debby served on leadership of the

church in Queenstown with Craig & Lorna and

Grant from 2000-2004, led the team there from

2004-2007 and moved to Johannesburg

South Africa to lead the church and national

ministry when Craig & Lorna departed for Australia.

Christo & Debby oversee the African vision and ministry.

Tony & Marilyn Fitzgerald

Tony & Marilyn Fitzgerald are founders and leaders of COTN International, founded in 1978. Craig & Lorna met them in 1994 and by 2001 they began to walk with Tony & Marilyn in a son-father relationship. Tony & Marilyn mentored Craig & Lorna and the team in understanding the apostolic wineskin. CrossWave Global is accountable to COTN through Tony & Marilyn who currently live in Richmond, Virginia in the United States but travel all over the world serving the Body of Christ.

Craig & Lorna Kirkby

Craig & Lorna have two children: Hannah (aged 10) and Jenna (aged 7). Craig & Lorna served with Ron & Ann Robinson in a COTN-related church in Johannesburg from 1993-1999. In 1999 they took over the COTN-related church in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. After transitioning the church into a fellowship of home churches, they - along with Grant - planted the church in Johannesburg South Africa in 2004. Since then they have overseen, with the team, the multiplication of ministry and churches in South Africa, Japan, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and now into Australia.

Craig & Lorna are based in Melbourne, Australia and serve as the apostolic team leaders for CrossWave Global.

Stephen & Anita Herzig

Stephen and Anita have two children: Richenda

(aged 24) and Austin (aged 20). Stephen & Anita

have walked with Tony & Marilyn Fitzgerald for

many years, planting the second COTN church in

Maidstone, England in 1980. Although acquainted through the COTN family for over a decade, the Lord joined Stephen and Craig's heart together in January 2005 at a vital time in both their spiritual journeys.

To date, Stephen & Anita live in Pretoria South

Africa where they base their local and international itinerant ministry.

Rob & Megan Willems

Rob, Grant's brother, met Craig & Lorna in 1998. In 2003, the Lord knit his heart to them and the vision and heart of CrossWave Global, helping to plant the Johannesburg church and serving on the leadership from day one. Rob & Megan were married in August 2007 and then moved to Christchurch New Zealand to begin the work there in February 2008. Rob & Megan oversee the New Zealand vision and ministry.