Church of the Nations International (COTN) began as a seed that was planted in the hearts of Tony and Marilyn Fitzgerald, from Tasmania, during a prayer time in Argentina in 1978. That seed housed the God-given passion to win, train and send people to places where the hurting would be healed, the captives freed, and lives restored to live in the destiny God had purposed for them.

Through the planting and establishing of local churches, life-giving ministry hubs, or Resource Hubs, would serve this need around the world and facilitate multiplication within God's kingdom.

Today that dream is very much alive. There are nearly 2,000 churches in some 40 nations around the world, each one carrying the spirit of our heart's cry, "Building a Family of Churches, Reaching the Nations."