CSI is a faith-supported missions organization that was started in August of 1992 by Rodger Oswald and a governing Board of Directors. As CSI was formed, the ministry motto was ". . . reaching your community and the world for Christ through sports"; the ministry is Scripturally undergirded by the cultural mandate declared by Paul in I Corinthians 9 (his willingness to be Jew or Greek), as well as by his example in Acts as he observed cultural distinctives in order to preach the gospel.

CSI has three goals . . .
• To work with churches - to empower them to carry out the God-given tasks of worship, empowered evangelization, and edification of the body of Christ.
• To work with mission agencies - to stimulate and equip the agency in the employment of sports as a means to carry out Great Commission tasks in planting and growing churches.
• To work with sports parachurch ministries - to cooperate and participate in major event evangelism that is productive in helping the local church reach out and grow.

In each of these cases the intention is to create a vision for sports ministry in the local church, equip the church to carry out that vision and to come alongside in order to implement the vision.