Cristi Chivu is the International Coordinator for the Romanian-American Mission. He works in the RAM Romania office in Bucharest, Romania. Cristi was saved under the preaching of Josh McDowell in March 1990 in Bucharest, while a college student. In 1993 God called him in the ministry through illness. At first he served with the Missions Department of the Baptist Union of Romania. In 1994 he met Dr. Robert Jackson who led a mission team to Romania from Buck Run Baptist Church. They remained friends and co-laborers on the mission field ever since. In 1996, at Dr. Jackson’s invitation Cristi moved to the United States to attend Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and coordinate the RAM office work in Frankfort, KY. In 2005 he moved back to Romania where he served for two years as the outreach pastor for the Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Braila. He now serves full time with RAM, leading the mission work on the European side of the ocean.

Cristi holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Electrical Engineering School – Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, a Master’s Degree and a PhD Degree in Evangelism, Missions and Church Planting from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY.

Cristi has participated in and organized multiple mission projects with RAM in Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Austria, and Spain. He oversees the work of the RAM missionaries, preaches, and teaches evangelism, discipleship and missions to missionaries and pastors in Southeastern Romania in a modular on-the-field teaching setting.

Cristi is married since 1993 to his beautiful wife Simona.