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.

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?)

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.

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.

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.

WEC New Zealand's mission is "mobilising courageous disciples and churches to join with WEC in reaching the least-reached peoples worldwide."

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.

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
* Be emotionally healthy and suited for the ministry they are interested in
* Enjoy a vital and growing relationship with God
For a thorough outline of criteria contact us.

See our statement of faith

WEC stands for 'Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ' and reflects our desire to give the remaining unreached peoples an opportunity to respond to the gospel.

WEC operates from a principle of unanimity in decision making.  That is, we have a confidence that God will speak to His people and we will best understand His will through seeking Him together and waiting and praying until unity of mind is reached.

Where there is a strong sense of God’s direction but the field or team are unable to reach a point of unity, those with reservations are encouraged to acknowledge this and free the majority to move forward.
In a crisis where there is a serious division of opinion, no decision should be made without at least a day of prayer, humbling and fasting. If unity is not attained, then a two-thirds majority decision will be final.

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