Projects and Ministries by Location
Many of the ministries of World Outreach span a number of countries and are listed under International Ministries.
Others are more concentrated within specific regions as shown here:
World
Outreach International
for more information about the Missionaries and Projects of World
Outreach
Kairos is a dynamic World Mission course where you'll discover what God is doing around the world in fulfillment of His global purpose. It is designed to educate and mobilize Christians and local churches into strategic, 21st century, Christian world mission. Through Kairos, you will:
- Discover the missionary thread that stretches
from Genesis to Revelation. An amazing eye opener!
- Glimpse the unfolding drama of world
history from God’s perspective and see the awesome advances
of Christianity around the world!
- Explore what is yet to be done to bring
closure to God’s worldwide redemptive purpose? Explore
the challenging, yet achievable, final frontiers of world Christian
mission!
- Identify your part and place in the most exciting happening on planet earth – the expansion and growth of the Kingdom of God world-wide!
Living
Springs International
- which originated the Kairos course -
is an affiliated ministry of World Outreach.
Explosive church growth is happening in more and more developing nations. To seize these opportunities, World Outreach, through its diverse leadership and ministry training programmes, is making a major contribution to raise up biblically-trained, equipped and mature, church leaders.
2 Timothy 2:2 "and the things you have heard... entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others". This scripture is a type of benchmark for the different World Outreach ministries around the world that are focused on teaching, training and equipping church leaders.
Despite the well-known quote "He or she is a born leader", by far the majority of people are not born leaders. They have to apply themselves to seeking God and learning exemplary leadership skills, based on Bible principles and character. This takes a lot of hard work, personal commitment and is a lifetime pursuit.
Since its early beginnings, one of the main foundational ministry strengths and focuses of World Outreach has been the development of church leaders.
In 1990 when Peter van der Westhuyzen was in Korea, he was deeply touched by the Lord as he prayed. The Lord said "Ask me what you want". Before he could stop to think, Peter replied "Lord, give me 100,000 children". Peter and Bev his wife, and their team are committed to making this vision a reality.
Generation Ministries focuses solely on the needs of children in the developing world. Nearly three out of four conversions (75%) take place in the 4 to 14 age group - it's a vital mission field.
Generation
Ministries
Setting Children Free Forever.
Reaching Children for Christ in restricted countries.
Under the name Rahab International, Patricia Green continues to travel to encourage Rahab ministries internationally.
Patricia Green, Berlin, Germany
Patricia is a well-known speaker on issues of sexual exploitation, trafficking and prostitution of women and children.
Her passion is to create awareness of these issues, and to motivate people to reach out to sexually exploited women and children and offer them new life.
Patricia now resides in Berlin, Germany, and continues to work on behalf of sexually exploited women and children, as a consultant and advocate.
Rahab
International
Patricia Green
in Berlin, Germany.
Humanitarian & Disaster Relief
Feeding The Unfed - A Need That Cannot Be Ignored
Unlike the United Nations or other better-known relief organizations, World Outreach is not necessarily a well-funded or well-equipped humanitarian Mission. Yet our personnel on different continents are regularly involved in helping feed hungry children – because the need is right there before us! World Outreach believes God has strategically placed many of our missionaries for such a time as this.
This ocean of misery in many developing countries is huge. However every act of kindness makes life for many that much more bearable.
- World statistics on the plight of humanity
reveal that more than half of the world’s children go
to bed hungry each night.
- One in every five people in developing
nations is hungry.
- The majority of children in developing
nations exist on less than one meal a day, and even what they
do get to eat is extremely poor in nutritional value.
- 80% of the world’s poorest people live in the 10/40 window region.
In Madagascar, Pierre Wuytack says, “We never know in advance how many people will turn up at the designated food distribution centre, but each needy child receives the same amount as others. On this island nation the World Outreach feeding program is often the only help that poor families receive. Somehow God seems to multiply the food! A real bonus in expressing such love is that families have come to accept Christ as a result of this basic and simple act of kindness.”
In Mozambique the World Outreach milk feeding and health education program has literally saved hundreds of young lives. Because of fears and traditions children are often denied basic available nutritious foods because of superstitious beliefs! For example, there are those that believe that if a child eats the yoke of an egg it will get yellow fever. Our World Outreach education program endeavours to address such myths.
In West Africa, helping meet the most obvious need, ie. supplying basic food for undernourished village children, can be the entry point to eventually be invited to share the Gospel to a whole village. In greater Asia the different World Outreach orphanages and hostels that care for hundreds of children every day not only helps meet a vital need among the young people but also gives favour to share the love of God to neighbours and nearby villages.
World Outreach cannot ignore the effects that such poverty in having upon helpless children and families throughout Africa and Asia. We represent an outstanding King and Kingdom! No better network exists than that of the Body of Christ to reveal the heart of God to the under-privileged.
Concern for the unfed is at the heart of the Gospel. Helping feed the unfed should not be seen as a distraction to declaring the Gospel, rather it is part and parcel of the holistic message that Christians should be recognized for, an integral part of our Christian walk.
World Outreach invites you to partner with us in helping feed the unfed. Whatever you contribute will not only be appreciated – it will be used to make a difference to desperate lives. Please help! Thank you!
Figures
silhouetted against the background. In World Outreach, that is
how we depict our friends who live out their faith in places where
they cannot bring attention to themselves, where traditional missionaries
are not welcomed.
Many of us in the Mission know some of them personally. We do not print their names, or locations, or specific duties. But we pray for them and give money to support them as they quietly serve the people they have been called to love.
Short & Long Term Opportunities in Mission
Stephen & Julie Elliott, Brisbane, Australia
Stephen and Julie live in Brisbane, Australia and work with World Outreach as 'Youth Mission Mobilizers'.
David lives in Singapore and works with World Outreach as a 'Youth Mobilizer'.
NationsGX
World Outreach Internships and
Short-Term Missions Opportunities
Nathan & Sawsan Bassaly, Egypt
Nathan graduated from Cairo University in 1979 as a Veterinary Surgeon and practiced for 7 years. In 1986 he attended Bible school in New Zealand for one year, and has been in full-time ministry with World Outreach since 1988.
Based in Cairo, Egypt, Nathan focuses on evangelism and village ministry, training leaders through distributing the teaching magazine 'Life in Christ', and teaching seminars for church leaders and Sunday School teachers.
Rod
and Lynley are based in Selebi Phikwe, eastern Botswana, the third
largest town in Botswana, where they pastor the 'Oasis Christian
Church'.
Rod is the Regional Director for World Outreach and he and Lynley are responsible for the pastoral care of World Outreach workers in southern Africa...
Maziotela World Outreach Base, Mozambique
On the World Outreach base at Maziotela, northern Mozambique a small cashew factory is under construction, that both directly and indirectly will provide around 300 jobs to the local Makua people – where unemployment is widespread. Cashews grow in abundance in this region, with most going to waste because they cannot be processed.
Miriam Wahr is trained as a Paediatric Nurse, and her main involvement is in training village Health Care Workers in using natural medicines, making ointments, and treating wounds etc. She encourages specific villages to build a Health Care Centre, where the Health Care Workers can treat the local people.
Hendrik & Bets Vermooten, Mozambique
Hendrik & Bets Vermooten live in Pemba Town on the northern Mozambican coast. They have learnt Portuguese, the official language of Mozambique and work to plant cell churches amongst the Mwani, an unreached people group. They are involved in evangelism and leadership identification and training.
Hendrik
and Bets Vermooten
World Outreach Missionaries to Mozambique
Steve & Rebekah Besford, Mozambique
Steve and Rebekah Besford have now moved to Maforga Christian Mission, a farm on the Beira corridor which runs from Maputo on the coast to Mutare on the border with Zimbabwe.
An Orphanage. Primary School, Technical School, Medical Centre, feeding program, and other projects are directed towards the needs of the local people.
Martin & Simone Schumann, Mozambique
Martin and Simone are living in Membe, in Northern Mozambique.
They are working with Myriam Wahr to reach the coastal people of Mozambique.
Theo & Mignonne Schumann, Mozambique
Theo and Mignonne are working to plant house churches among the Mwani people of Northern Mozambique
Mark & Julia Mitchell, Mozambique
Mark and Julia Mitchell are now working in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, with a new NGO called Wings Like Eagles, a helicopter support service for emergency response.
At this stage they are busy with registration of the organisation, which is a very long involved process which hopefully will be completed by September 2008.
They have worked with relief organisations in India, Sudan, Mozambique, Albania and Kosovo. Mark has supported relief programmes as a logistician, and Julia has expertise in emergency nursing, public health education, policy development and administration...
Mark
and Julia Mitchell
World Outreach Missionaries to southern Africa
It is intended to add sections for these personnel as soon as information becomes available.
Stephanie Herron
Emmanual & Martha Mulenga
Liveson & Nothando Ndebele
Carliado Rachide
Theo & Mignonne Schumann
Koti & Rina Smit
TEND International, South Africa
TEND, formerly known as Partners in Development (PID) provides humanitarian support in southern Africa through micro-enterprise training in Tembisa, a township near Johannesburg.
In the wider context TEND focuses on agriculture and water provision.
MC & Lezelle Coetzee, South Africa
Michiel and Lezelle Coetzee live in Parys, South Africa. They have two children Chané (24 February, 1999) and Michael (11 November, 2000).
MC and Lezelle provide physical and spiritual assistance to poor and needy children through feeding houses, foster-care homes and evangelism. They also run a missions awareness program (MAP) specifically for students.
Pierre & Stella Wuytack, Madagascar
Pierre grew up in Belgium and Stella in Canada where they both spoke both French and English. Together they lived in Granby, 50 miles from Montreal, where Pierre pastored a church, and then pioneered a second church in Montreal, in an area of destitution, alcoholism and drug addiction. In the first year, the church grew to over 100, with signs and wonders, healings, with drug addicts set free instantly, marriages restored, and mafia people transformed by the power of God.
In 1978 Pierre and Stella applied to join World Outreach and initially moved to Kenya.
Leaving Kenya, after an interlude in senior management in an international construction equipment company, in 1997 Pierre felt to offer himself without reserve to the service of God. He resigned from his job on December 1st, and in February 1998, was approached by World Outreach to go to Madagascar, an island off the east coast of Africa.
Pierre
and Stella
Wuytack
World Outreach Missionaries to Madagascar
Short & Long Term Opportunities
Stephen & Julie Elliott, Brisbane, Australia
Stephen and Julie live in Brisbane, Australia and work with World Outreach as 'Youth Mission Mobilizers'.
NationsGX
World Outreach Internships and
Short-Term Missions Opportunities
Keith & Christine Kelly, Manchester, UK
For some years Keith and Christine Kelly, with their son Joel, have been carrying out Christian work among young people in the Liverpool and Manchester areas of the UK.
More recently they have been organising friendship groups to help refugees and asylum seekers, visiting primary schools to take assemblies and tell Bible stories, and running many other bridge-building ventures.
Under the name Rahab International, Patricia Green continues to travel to encourage Rahab ministries internationally.
Patricia Green, Berlin, Germany
Patricia is a well-known speaker on issues of sexual exploitation, trafficking and prostitution of women and children.
Her passion is to create awareness of these issues, and to motivate people to reach out to sexually exploited women and children and offer them new life.
Patricia now resides in Berlin, Germany, and continues to work on behalf of sexually exploited women and children, as a consultant and advocate.
Rahab
International
Patricia Green
in Berlin, Germany.
Aashray Childrens' Home, India
'Aashray' is an orphanage in South India with which Helen Livingston is involved. The orphanage cares for 10 girls and also acts as a base for a medical team as it cares for the rural people and presents the Gospel.
Christian Discipleship Centre, Bangladesh
In 1979 Biswanath and Vijaya Chowdhuri founded the Christian Discipleship Centre (CDC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a full time residential, non denominational Christian teaching centre for men and women.
Begun in very challenging and difficult circumstances, CDC is a strategic ministry established to train and equip nationals to provide crucial and urgently needed human resources for the church and the community. Always very practically based, additional subjects included leadership, children’s ministry, primary school teaching, adult literacy, basic health care, and income generation skills.
The only residential institute in the country, CDC trains both husbands and wives together. Of the 621 graduates serving mostly in rural areas all over the country, 196 are women, and over 500 churches have been planted by ex-CDC students, including many medical clinics, schools for poor children, as well as village literacy programmes, and other community services. More than 1,372 have graduated from various short up-skill type courses conducted at CDC.
Today, graduates are involved in church planting and are making a major contribution to church growth in Bangladesh. With the experience of the CDC leadership, its resources and alumni network, CDC is strategically placed for significant growth in the nation.
Christian
Discipleship Centre
Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Tawangmangu Bible School, Central Java
During its almost 40 years of existence, Tawangmangu Bible College has seen more than 3,500 graduates pass through its gates. Between 75 to 80% are active in full-time church ministry today, not only throughout the archipelago of Indonesia but also in Australia and Europe.
Some ex-students are serving in the remote provinces of Irian, Sumatra, and Kalimantan (Borneo) with one now pastoring a church of 6,000 that he planted. Others can be found serving in the densely populated island of Java with over 120 million people.
A number of Tawangmangu graduates have started grade schools connected to their churches, whilst others have begun various social ministries such as drug rehabilitation centres, orphanages, homes for unmarried mothers and for the mentally ill. Most caught the vision to do this whilst studying at Tawangmangu.
Tawangmangu graduates are now involved in running the recently established Mount Hope training centre in the economically depressed province of West Kalimantan. This extension ministry of Tawangmangu is focusing particularly on the indigenous Dayak tribal people groups within which there are over 400 dialects. The goal is to eventually provide opportunities for education at all levels and skill learning programmes whilst at the same time discipling students in the Word of God and conducting church planting programmes in the remote villages from where they came.
Tawangmangu
Bible School
Central Java
Mount Hope Training Centre, West Kalimantan
Mount Hope Training Centre is a Foundation established in 1998 to help the poor amongst the Dayak Tribal Peoples, both practically and spiritually. The focus is to train young people in a comprehensive manner.
The vision for the project includes: A children’s home, kindergarten, primary school, high school, medical clinic, Bible school, hospital and university.
In time Vocational Training will equip villagers with skills useful for the cities such as carpentry, plumbing, brick making and bricklaying, sewing, English and computer.
The first ten buildings are now in place and a further building in progress on a 17 hectare site. An additional 20 hectares of land needs to be purchased for expanding the range of vegetables to meet the consumption needs of the centre, and cash crops that will in time help cover the Ministry’s operating expenses.
Malcolm and Linda are based at the Mount Hope Training Centre (see above), in the town of Balai Karangan in West Kalimantan, Indonesia...
Mount
Hope Training Centre
Balai Karangan,
West Kalimantan
New Hope Ministries, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
John and Yolande were born in France and emigrated to Australia in 1970 with three children. John was employed as a Mechanical Engineering Supervisor.
They went to the mission field in 1990 and worked with a church in Sarawak, Malaysia for over two years, concentrating on planting churches and raising leaders..
Living Waters Village, West Kalimantan
Ronny & Kay Heyboer, and their children Nathaniel and Joel, serve the Lord among the Dayaks in West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
Their main work is church planting, raising up leaders, reaching and teaching children, and giving practical assistance wherever possible...
Ronny & Kay Heyboer, Living Waters Village
Ronny & Kay
Heyboer
World Outreach
Missionaries to
Borneo
Ben & Rachel
Brooks
World Outreach
Missionaries to
Borneo
Shiloh Childrens' Home, Surakarta, Indonesia
Mr and Mrs Sutoto run the Shiloh Children's Home in Surakarta, locally known as Solo.
Solo is an Indonesian city of approximately 500,000 people located in Central Java. It is some 40 miles northeast of Yogyakarta, and 60 miles southeast of Semarang.
About 130 children and 34 staff live at the New Hope Boys' Home in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. The Boys' Home has long had a happy association with World Outreach. The new superintendent of the home is Bong Ryun Noh.
Jane Torrey, Jesus Abbey, Korea
Jane Torrey, now over 80, has spent the last 43 years in Korea.
She works from Jesus Abbey, in the Taebaek Mountains of Kangwondo, South Korea, an international Christian community of over 100 people that receives 10,000 visitors a year.
Jane White, Chechon Childrens' Home, Korea
Jane White founded, and is the Director of the Chechon Children's Home, which is about three hours south-east of Seoul, in South Korea.
The orphanage raises and cares for needy children in South Korea. With a capacity for 90 children from new born to 18 years of age, they accept newborn children from unwed women, as well as assisting the mothers with counselling.
Darren makes annual visits to Vanua Levuthe, one of the isles of Fiji, staying a few months at a time, and spends his time training Pastors and Church leaders, carrying out evangelism, teaching Divinity classes in Primary and Secondary schools, and resourcing isolated rural churches with Hindi bibles & teaching material.
Rahab Ministries was established in Thailand in 1988 by World Outreach missionary Patricia Green as an evangelistic outreach to women and girls working in prostitution in the Patpong Road section of Bangkok.
Rahab Ministries has a number of business streams designed to help women saved out of the sex trade to be become self-supporting.
Rahab
Ministries
Thailand
Rahab
Bazaar
Thailand
Good News Ministries was started in 1978 by World Outreach missionaries from New Zealand, Lorraine Dierck and Valerie Bateup. There are now 12 Thai Christians working in the Good News Ministries Team.
Their mission: To make disciples by winning young people to Christ and helping them to grow in their Christian faith within the Thai church.
Good
News Team
Thailand
Tribal Childrens' Home, Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand
World Outreach has a Tribal Youth Centre for children and young people in the town of Mae Chaem, which is about 2 hours south of Chiang Mai. They are in the process of building new dormitories and a training centre.
Already they have seen students from Mae Chaem return to their home villages and in one village 60 out of 64 families have become Christians after one of their students went back and started witnessing about the changes in his life.
In another village, a group of 7 families came to the Lord through another student and have started their own church there.
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