Aims & Vision

WEC stands for Worldwide Evangelization for Christ. It was founded by C.T. Studd, a famous cricketer of his day. Although he had given his heart and life to Jesus, and received the Holy Spirit into his life, he burned with the desire to bring the gospel message to all unsaved people. For 16 years he worked in China and India, and then in 1913 he went to the heart of Africa, north-eastern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), bringing many to a knowledge of Jesus. Once, when asked about all the hardships he was having to endure, he wrote:

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, no
sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him".

Although we are proud of our roots, the Head of our mission is the Lord Jesus Himself. He enables us to look at the opportunities that God is presenting to us in the modern world. In this way we can rely on the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit at the same time as we use the latest technology to introduce the unsaved to Jesus.

WEC International lives up to its name! We are a fellowship of God's people drawn from many national, ethnic and denominational backgrounds. (Workers from 50 countries are currently associated with us.) We work in 76 countries (as at Feb 2005) around the world, involved in many different tasks.

We have 16 "sending bases" around the world which recruit, screen and send workers. Naturally, we also need workers in these bases, as well as in ministries such as media which are located in sending countries.

At the end of Matthew's gospel, Jesus gives "The Great Commission" to His Church commanding us to "go ... and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you". That, in essence, is what we believe God has called us to do - making a definite attempt to evangelize the remaining unevangelized peoples of the earth before His return.

But our work doesn't stop when a person becomes a Christian. Once people have come to a living faith in Jesus, they need to be grounded in the ways of God, and encouraged to have fellowship with other believers. Part of our work is to establish churches where believers can meet together, and also encourage non-believers to hear and accept for themselves the claims of Jesus. We always encourage local believers to construct their own church buildings and support their own pastors.

There are many ways that this can be achieved. In the last 90 years WEC has planted hundreds of churches in Africa and South America, Asia and Europe. For example the number of churches begun by WEC workers in Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, alone number more than 1400, whilst in Colombia, South America, more than 250 churches with over 60,000 adherents have been established.