2026-09-11T13:30:07-05:00 2025-12-31 582115374 MERSEREAU LAZENBY & ROCKAS LLC 3469-B Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd Suwanee GA 30024 990 2025-01-01 582530323 CULTURE LINK INC CULT 7709738809 PO BOX 6623 MARIETTA GA 30065 Ben Larry Ragan President 7709738809 2026-09-11 1 Lois S Lazenby P00295161 7706146800 2026-09-01 2025 Ben Larry Ragan PO BOX 6623 MARIETTA GA 30065 296329 0 X www.culturelinkinc.org X 2010 GA CULTURELink provides practical training and resources to enable churches, mission organizations, and corporations to impact others as they effectively serve in cross-cultural settings. 4 3 2 10 0 0 243046 278104 57326 16634 1051 1591 0 0 301423 296329 0 0 0 0 159960 178504 0 0 7924 187036 126573 346996 305077 -45573 -8748 97384 88810 0 0 97384 88810 X CULTURE LINK provides practical training and resources to enable churches, mission organizations, and corporations to impact others as they effectively serve in cross-cultural settings. 0 0 276335 16634 2025 Program Service Accomplishments 2025 started strong with three Help! We're Going On A Short-Term Trip! seminars: one in Atlanta, GA, one in Tampa, FL, and one closed class with a church partner in Atlanta, GA. In late January, Ryan Hurlburt conducted a workshop on "Designing Short-Term Trips with Your Partners" at the annual Mission Connexion Northwest Conference in Portland, OR. CULTURELink was a conference sponsor once again. The Ragans returned to Saudi Arabia in February for a 10-day prayer retreat, traveling throughout the country to intercede in strategic places. Afterward, Karen traveled to Tajikistan for a prayer conference, in addition to caring for workers. In February, Larry Ragan conducted a workshop at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church's MOVE Conference. He also taught an Intentional Living seminar for a church partner in the Atlanta, GA area. Larry was invited by the Navigators staff at the University of Alabama to lead a spiritual life retreat for over 30 students in March. In late March, Ryan joined the Ragans in Northern Cyprus for the Groundwork West Conference, where 1000 workers gathered to pray for the Muslim world. Many of those in attendance serve in some of the toughest and most-closed-to-Christianity regions of the world. Karen again helped on the admin team and Larry's time was filled with worker care meetings. Ryan was able to meet many of CULTURELink's global partners for the first time. After Groundwork, the Ragans traveled to Morocco to visit their son, Luke, who was in the middle of a master's degree program (he has since concluded his classwork and internship, and is in the job interview process with multiple organizations). In June, Larry was invited to teach and care for 75 workers (including children) in Thailand as part of Global Frontier Mission's (GFM) 25-year anniversary. These missionaries traveled from all over Southeast Asia, sharing stories of God's faithfulness when ministries were thriving, testimonies of His sustaining grace when people were betrayed, and accounts of God's healing when some faced life-threatening sicknesses. Ryan traveled to south Texas with his family in June to meet with Border Perspective's staff and visit their local partners. Border Perspective equips, educates, and mobilizes people through biblical resources and service-learning trips along the U. S. / Mexico border. Over the summer, the Ragans hosted multiple missionary families: one from Pakistan, two from Egypt, one from Saudi Arabia, and another from Indonesia. These visits allow for more informal, yet deeper conversations and worker care. This care varied from fieldsite debriefing and re-entry processing, trauma care, and marriage counseling. In August, Ryan once conducted a training retreat for Lancaster County Christian School in Pennsylvania to prepare their high school seniors for service with our ministry partner in Costa Rica. At the end of August, Larry spent a weekend conducting a debriefing and trauma care retreat for a team of eight workers who had been suddenly kicked out of a country in the Middle East. Working through their shock and pain, together they grieved their hopes and plans that were shattered after years of ministry. Slowly, we are seeing God healing and redirecting them. Over several weeks in September and October, the Ragans spent time in Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. A major highlight for them was serving as the spiritual directors and leaders for an eight-day prayer event throughout Saudi. In October, Ryan returned to Lancaster, PA to equip leaders at a training seminar at Lancaster Evangelical Free Church. In November, Larry and Karen traveled to Southeast Asia for the Groundwork East Conference, where over 500 workers from across the region gathered. Karen once again fulfilled her role on the admin team and Larry met one-on-one for multiple hours providing counseling, encouragement, and life coaching to workers. Just before Thanksgiving, the Hurlburts celebrated the birth of their third son, Ari. From relationships formed and strengthened on the trips mentioned above, Larry has been in regular communication via Zoom with several workers in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia for follow-up care sessions. These servants join the dozens of other workers CULTURELink already mentors around the globe. CULTURELink celebrated its 15th anniversary! In honor of the milestone, a faithful and generous friend of our ministry committed $15,000 to a matching fund. We continue to be thrilled and humbled by the response, as we surpassed that goal. The revised and updated edition of our curriculum, Help! We're Going On A Short-Term Trip!, is complete and will be ready to ship soon! Initial planning has begun to lay out our curriculum in an online learning management system (LMS), along with initial conversations with a videographer to include teaching videos in the LMS modules. Since 2010, the total number of leaders CULTURELink has trained is over 3,400. These servants have gone on to mobilize teams and conduct ministry in 141 nations. CULTURELink continues to provide leadership and resources for a network of other Atlanta-area nonprofits, now known as the Atlanta Missions Collective. Alongside other ministry leaders, the Collective hosts a monthly gathering of staff and mobilizers from a variety of churches and missions organizations. These events are helping ministries better network and more effectively collaborate. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b The Organization does not have any committees with the authority to act on behalf of the governing body. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b A copy of the 990 is given to each of the board members and reviewed at the board meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The Board of Directors review all finances and activities to see if any conflicts of interest areas are found. None are found. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a 1. Use survey from ECFA for using these criterion: Position: CEO, President, Sr. Pastor, Executive Director, or similar of a non-profit organization Geographic Location: Southern United States Ministry Type: Leadership Training Ministry Income: Less than $1.5 Million annually 2. Evaluated results. 3. Input from other organizations. 4. Salary determined. 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