World Evangelical Fellowship - Vision, Strategy and Values

WEA's Vision

...is that of a dynamic church, united in a vital, common faith, and committed to proclaiming the gospel in terms relevant to our generation.

This is the heart of World Evangelical Fellowship's mission. The Gospel must be heard by every person, a Bible available to every family, a church planted in every village, Godly values inculturated in every society.

The dream is to disciple every nation of the world for Christ.

Essential to this dream are vibrant local churches working together in unity to fulfill the Great Commission. WEA is a church-based, grassroots movement with the primary task of equipping and mobilizing churches and parachurch organizations to disciple the nations for Christ.

The strategic value of World Evangelical Fellowship to the task of world evangelization is the establishment and strengthening of national and regional evangelical alliances in every country and continent so that churches and Christian organizations may work together.

WEA's Strategy

The central objective of the World Evangelical Fellowship is to enable local congregations of believers to disciple their own nations for Christ.

"By discipled nations," explains Dr. Jun Vencer, WEA's most recent International Director, "we mean those where a growing Christian witness exists, and increasing justice for all, diminishing poverty and sharing of human resources is being realized."

The WEA strategy to reach this objective is built on three foundational elements:

First, WEA believes that the local church is God's chosen vehicle for reaching out to the unevangelized world around it and that Spirit-filled local believers involved in the issues of their communities are the most convincing expression of the kingdom of God.

Second, WEA brings the various Christian denominations and other Christian organizations of evangelical tradition to work together in helpful national alliances.

Third, WEA serves as an umbrella for 120 regional and national alliances worldwide. In doing so, one of WEA's primary functions is to empower evangelicals who are in danger of being marginalized in their own countries. Evangelicals in the minority in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa are struggling to gain legitimate status from their governments. They need to know that they are not isolated and that WEA's membership stands with them in their fight. Thus, discrimination against evangelicals becomes not just a national issue, but an international one.

The ACTION PLAN for WEA's strategy is:

A. WEA empowers national fellowships to serve local churches

by LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT -- developing leadership, management and communication skills through training in strategic planning, organization and prayerfully achieving results.

by NATIONAL ENABLEMENT -- creating a structure for united action and integration of mission, church and parachurch activities in a common commitment to reach the world for Christ.

by GLOBAL NETWORKING -- networking local and international human and material resources for true multi-cultural partnership in ministry as the global body of Christ.

B. National Evangelical Fellowships/Alliances mobilize local churches to disciple the nation

by uniting churches, denominations and Christian organizations in a unified program of prayer and preparation for spiritual renewal and harvest.

by planning and coordinating a nationwide campaign of evangelism and discipleship training that reaches every people group and community.

by providing an accountability structure that is responsive to participating churches and organizations and reports with credibility to resource partners.

WEA's core values are:

the necessity of proclaiming a holistic gospel to all nations

the authority of the Scriptures

the uniqueness of Christ

the imperative of global partnership in missions

the centrality of the church in God's redemptive plan.

Perhaps the greatest need in the body of Christ today is a renewal of passion for winning the lost to Christ, along with a new paradigm of unity based on our Lord's holistic concerns for people of Planet Earth. International church life relates to Jesus' expressed concerns that "they might be one as the Father and I are one" and that His followers "disciple the nations."

This dual desire is amplified by Jesus' reminder that the world "will know you are my disciples by the way you show love to each other."

WEA's mission is the outworking of unity based on the revealed truth of Scripture, commitment to the Great Commission, and the Spirit-engendered desire that Christian corporate life be characterized by mutual love, respect and equality of relationship. Such manifestation transcends the usual divisiveness of culture, language, ethnic origin or non-essential theological distinctives.

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VISION, STRATEGY & VALUES

WEA's Vision

WEA's Strategy

The ACTION PLAN for WEA's strategy is:

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