We Love the Nations

"May God be gracious to us and bless us… that His ways may be known on earth, His saving power among all nations."

Psalm 67:1-2

Global Impact

Our missionaries and indigenous partners reach, love, and lift the people of more than 50 nations through an amazing array of platforms!

Here is a sampling of the ways they are planting seeds of hope, cultivating the knowledge of Christ, and seeing significant good fruit.

We invite you to celebrate these outcomes, as God is at work through the abilities, prayers, and resources of His people—accomplishing more than we could imagine!

Stories of Global Impact

Noah & Jill Ellenwood’s Youth Ministry in Montenegro

How do you missionally serve a people whose culture is already so deeply rooted in being the ones who host? For many locals, it initially makes them scratch their heads in confusion. But as Noah and Jill Ellenwood have discovered over the last five years, when you meet a hospitable culture with the radical, self-giving hospitality of the Gospel, something beautiful cracks wide open.
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Platforms of Global Impact

Vulnerable Children

Scripture Translation and Distribution

Education

Evangelism and Church Planting

Technology and Media

Community Development

Sports and Youth

Medicine and Mental Health

Training Pastors and Church Leaders

Vulnerable Children

Over 20 years ago, in the Dominican Republic—our missionaries Vic & Dr. Leslie Trautwein (a pediatrician) launched ONE orphan care center with our support. That single seed took root and is now a forest. Today over 2,500 at-risk children receive care and education through 10 Kids Alive schools and residential campuses. In nearby Central America—Costa Rica was a nation where foster care and adoption did not exist. That is, until 2005, when our missionaries Phil & Jill Aspegren founded Casa Viva and placed their first vulnerable child with a Christian Costa Rican family. Since then, Casa Viva has nested over 1,100 children into local Christian families and churches.

Scripture Translation and Distribution

Taking “to the ends of the earth” literally, Ben & Mandy Pehrson have served in Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific since 2002. They work in the remote interior training Papua New Guineans—leading a team of over 120 (mostly nationals) who are doing holistic Bible translation ministry in 13 language groups. The new Scripture portions are of tremendous value to both spiritual growth and literacy development in their part of the world, where the languages they work in had never been written down.

Education

In South Asia, our 8 years of investment in schools has empowered girls with no other access to education. Our partnership in a Muslim-majority nation has enabled hundreds of girls (and boys) in ten communities to gain literacy, math skills, and Bible education— affirming their dignity and opening doors of opportunity. A MissionsFest grant is helping to construct a school, alongside a church and medical clinic. In other parts of Asia, our specialized global workers are using their expertise in special education and literacy to bring hope, opportunity, and the Gospel.

Evangelism and Church Planting

In 2015, our church dramatically deepened our investment in courageous indigenous leaders in the turbulent Arab-speaking world. We are now partnering with nearly 20 gifted Christian leaders in multiple countries of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In just one Muslim nation, over 1,400 young adults have come to faith in Christ through our partners in the past 8 years!

Technology and Media

We are a church who loves the Word of God. Right now, a couple we support who are gifted software developers are using technology to take God’s Word to parts of Asia where it is presently unavailable! A Scripture engagement app our church funded for these developers already has 6,500 users in a restricted context. A new grant from WBC is building a new smartphone app to bring Scripture and discipleship resources to another unreached people group in Asia. Imagine what God may do among people in this remote region who are accessing Scripture for the first time!

Community Development

In 2011 we provided our African partners food for 10,000 drought-stricken Kenyans on the verge of starvation. Today, hundreds of Turkana people are growing their own food, they have started a school, and churches have sprouted up around wells and dams provided by our congregation and Nairobi partners.

Sports and Youth

In the Dominican Republic, our missionaries Brett & Kelsey Miller, along with coaches of GO Ministries, are discipling over 1,000 at-risk athletes. Our recent grant will launch a basketball and soccer program for girls and boys in an under-resourced community near Santiago. 150 youth are already practicing, and more are eagerly waiting for their program to begin! GO Ministries has already planted a church in this barrio—where drug use and teenage pregnancy are high. Vacant spaces are now soccer fields and basketball courts, where loving Christian coaches are uplifting girls and boys through sports and discipleship.

Medicine and Mental Health

In Chiang Mai, Thailand, our missionaries Jake & Honah Finn serve in key leadership at Cornerstone Christian Foundation, which provides mental health services to 500-600 missionaries every year – as well as to the Thai community. The 15 professional Christian therapists on staff (including Jake) are instrumental in keeping global workers on the field as they offer hope, insight, and resources to help them deal with the personal and cross-cultural challenges they face. Two-thirds of the unreached people in the world live in the 10 nations surrounding this strategically located mental health hub.

Training Pastors and Christian Leaders

In South Asia and in East Africa, trusted indigenous leaders who attended WBC while in graduate school are now equipping leaders in their homeland with quality theological education.  Through Robert Sityo of Fountain of Hope Ministries in Uganda and Dr. Thomas in South Asia—over 275 church planters and pastors have been immersed in Biblical study and practical ministry training.  Both serve communities where Christians are a distinct minority, yet where the church is growing dramatically!  Our generosity has helped equip these pastors—some with an accredited, 3-year theological education and others with a certificate required by new government standards.