HISTORY OF WEC INTERNATIONAL
WEC International has always been a pioneer mission – sharing Jesus across cultural barriers where He’s least known.
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“True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.”
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WEC International has always been a pioneer mission – sharing Jesus across cultural barriers where he’s least known.
WEC International takes the good news to the peoples and nations who have yet to hear it: the good news that Christ came to bring forgiveness of sins and peace with God, and to displace hatred with love.
In 1913, Charles Thomas Studd, the England cricketer who had already served Christ in China and India, felt God calling him to pioneer a new mission. Passionate to see Africans worshipping Christ, this 53-year-old man of suspect health set sail for the heart of Africa. During the journey God told CT that his trip would not be just for Africa, but for the whole world.God kept his word. He turned one man’s crazy adventure into a mission and a movement that has since touched millions of lives. Before CT’s death, teams of missionaries had joined WEC to work in Central and West Africa, Amazonia, the Middle East and the Himalayan region.Each decade has brought fresh challenges and new opportunities for the gospel. In the past 20 years WEC has expanded as men and women have sensed God’s call to take the Gospel to the least reached in the 10/40 window.
