Is WEC a registered charity in New Zealand?
Yes. In fact WEC is two registered charities: WEC International (CC33957) and WEC Aotearoa New Zealand (CC27877). You can read up more about Charities in New Zealand at www.charities.govt.nz
Why plant churches?
Because we believe God wants there to be local churches among unreached peoples. A local church is God's community in which people find ultimate fulfilment and spiritual destiny. It's the community through which he reveals himself to the world.
What does it mean to be 'unreached'?
An unreached people group is a group of people culturally united in language and ethnicity where less than two percent are evangelical Christian. It has understanding and/or acceptance barriers (What is a people group?)
What does it take to plant a church?
There are 3 key processes:
1. Share the stories of Jesus
2. Walk alongside those who are seeking him
3. Gather these seekers and new believers into communities of faith.
WEC believes that cross cultural ministry should be catalytic: our presence starts a reaction that leads to local movements of people into faith communities.
Where does WEC plant churches?
WEC has a ministry presence in more than 90 people groups in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Central Asia, the South Pacific and Latin America. Some WEC Centres primarily facilitate the sending of cross-cultural workers from local churches, while others catalyse new churches among unreached people groups.
Does WEC do aid and development?
God has called WEC to evangelise the least-reached as soon as possible, plant local churches and mobilise the church for missions. We believe that evangelistic and mercy ministries are 100% compatible and many of our teams are engaged in aid and development work as they evangelise, mobilise and plant churches.
What does WEC New Zealand do?
WEC New Zealand's mission is "mobilising courageous disciples and churches to join with WEC in reaching the least-reached peoples worldwide."
Does WEC work in teams?
Yes, there is a growing emphasis on teams throughout ministry in WEC. Our teams vary in size from three people upwards. WEC workers can expect to be part of a multicultural and multidenominational team.
What are the requirements to join WEC?
We’re looking for courageous followers of Jesus Christ to join with us in reaching the nations. We recognise that God has made each one of us fearfully and wonderfully, and because of this we are all uniquely shaped for life and ministry.
Criteria for beginning Candidate application process
People who want to join WEC must:
* Have the endorsement of their home church leadership to enter missions candidacy
* Agree with our statement of faith and our ethos / core values
* Have read the whole Bible
* Have evangelism & discipleship experience