World Evangelical Fellowship
Organization

In the 1990's WEF has positioned itself as the preeminent church-based Evangelical organization in the world. It has 111 country and regional members 3 affiliate member organizations, and 92 associate member organizations, with a service constituency approaching 150 million. WEF members, such as the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches and the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA) have spearheaded work in relief and development, church planting, leadership development, evangelism, and human rights within their nations and regions.

The WEF International Council, its highest decision-making body, has representatives from all over the world, primarily from developing countries in the two-thirds world. Dr. Agustin B. Vencer, Jr. is the WEF International Director.

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

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

Third, WEF serves as an umbrella for 111 regional and national alliances worldwide. In doing so, one of WEF'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 WEF'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 WEF's strategy is:

A. WEF 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.

• 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.

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.

Essential to this dream are vibrant local churches working together in unity to fulfill the Great Commission. WEF 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.

International Director, Dr. Jun Vencer, says, "WEF has been described as the dream that would not die. For me, it is a dream worth dying for."

• 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.

London 1846. Christians from ten countries, 800 representatives in all, met for the purpose of launching, in their own words, "a new thing in church history, a definite organization for the expression of unity amongst Christian individuals belonging to different churches."
In 1951, believers from 21 countries officially formed the World Evangelical Fellowship. Today, 150 years after the London gathering, WEF is a dynamic global structure for unity and action that embraces more than 150 million evangelicals in 111 countries. It is a unity based on the historic Christian faith expressed in the evangelical tradition. And it looks to the future with vision to accomplish God's purposes in discipling the nations for Jesus Christ.

(For a fuller treatment of WEF's history see the newly-released book People of the Mandate.)

• Chairman: Mr. David G. Detert, Grabels, France
• Honorary Chairman: Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo, Nairobi Kenya
• Vice Chairman: Rev. Key Yuasa, Brazil
• Treasurer: Mr. John E. Langlois, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• International Director: Rev. Dr. Agustin B. (Jun) Vencer, Jr., Quezon City, Philippines
• Members:
  • Mr. Derek Copley, England *
  • Mr. David Detert, U.S.A. *
  • Mrs. Faith Forster, England
  • Rev. Sione Kami, Tonga**
  • Rev. Kenneth Ragoonath, Trinidad
  • Mrs. Eva Sanderson, Zambia
  • Dr. J. Norberto Saracco, Argentina
  • Herr Karl Schäfer, Germany
  • Rev. Francis Sunderaraj, India
  • Rev. Dr. Tadashi [Joshua] Tsutada, Japan
  • Dr. Isaac Zokoué, Central African Republic
  * elected to the Intl. Council at the 10th General Assembly, May 1997
  **elected to the Intl. Council in September 1998

Every four years, representatives from national and regional members meet in a General Assembly to endorse WEF programs. These programs are then carried out through the office of the International Director and the staff of WEF's ministry units -- commissions and ministry departments -- with assistance from affiliate members.

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