The Christian Outreach Training and Research Institute (COTARI) is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-denominational, Christian organization that provides research and training in the areas of evangelism and missions. Its vision is to find ways to reach peoples of other faiths. It was founded in 2010, because Christian missions have had great difficulty penetrating countries dominated by the gr
eat religions of the world and no effective method appears to be available for reaching peoples of these religions. See www.cotari.org. COTARI has long term projects and short term projects. Long term projects are for interpreting scriptures of other religions through the Bible. The first long term project is "Interpretation of the Qur'an through the Bible." Short term projects include writing missiological books and papers. At present, the focus of research is to apply social psychology to missions and evangelism.
2015 activities include writing 3 theological papers, each requiring $ 5K support. Each papers adds new insight and power to the existing mission workers and evangelists. They are titled "Application of Social Psychology to Missions and Evangelism," "Christian Attitude toward Peoples of Other Religions," and "A New Mission Method for Peoples of Other Religions." Other major part of activities in 2015 is to write a book titled "How to Use the Qur'an to Reach Out to Muslims" and its companion video. The book and the video requires $ 20K support each. The following explanation is provided to explain why our method is a powerful tool in opening hearts of peoples of other religions, in particular, Muslims. Jesus and Paul started with the basis of the Old Testament, the Jews’ highest authority, so the Jews listened to them. Likewise, COTARI believes that the best way to open the hearts of peoples of other religions is to convince them using their own scriptures. Therefore, COTARI initiated a long term project called Interpretation of the Qur’an through the Bible, and started a serious study of the Qur’an with the help of Christian and Islamic scholars. This project supports How to Use the Qur’an to Reach Out to Muslims. COTARI strongly believes that Muslims today do not know or understand the Qur’an. This is well illustrated by the book, "Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus" by Nabeel Quresh (2014). When Muslims really understand the Qur’an, this will improve relations between Muslims and Christians, will discourage violence by radical Muslims, and will provide seeds for Islamic Reformation and also lead Muslims to become Christians.
