WEC in Europe

Belgium

According to the survey of Belgium by DAWN (Discipling A Whole Nation), less than half of the administrative districts have any evangelical witness. Although there is full religious freedom it is still difficult to gain a hearing because evangelical Christians are generally viewed with suspicion and regarded by many as belonging to a sect.

On the whole the church feels weak, inadequate and overwhelmed with the task before her. However, in some areas there is a strong vision for church planting and reaching the unreached, and we can praise God for the slow, steady growth over recent years.

On the surface Belgium appears to be far from God, but its people are not satisfied with materialism and are hungry for something more. In 2001 WEC entered Belgium with the aim of establishing a church-planting team in Flanders, and then starting a work in Wallonia in 2003. Although these are small beginnings we have a big God and we are excited to be involved with what He is doing in building His church.

Could you be part of this work, building for the future? Opportunities exist in practically all areas of ministry. WEC's focus is on church planting, but also seeks to encourage the national church. We are keen to see evangelists, teachers, worshippers, pastors, and encouragers join us. But above all, we are looking for those who are able to work in a team, with a heart for serving God and a deep desire to share the love of Christ.

Contact your nearest WEC branch office for more information.

Bulgaria

Our Vision Statement:
Making Christ fully known to the Turks, Millet and Rom,
enabling them to plant multiplying churches that impact the world.

This is the vision of the Bulgaria field to see a rapid and exponential increase of indigenous churches planting churches among the Turks, Millet and Rom Gypsies.

• Multiplying ethnic Turkish churches in the Turkish regions of Bulgaria.
• Millet believers discipled and envisioned to plant multiplying churches in their own and in unreached mahalles (ghettos), towns and villages-taking the people movement to the very end of their own people and beyond to the ethnic Turks and other people groups.
• Rom believers discipled and envisioned to plant multiplying churches in their own and in unreached mahalles, towns and villages-taking the people movement to the very end of their own people and beyond to other people groups.

As a field, our vision is not limited by political borders. We believe that God has placed Bulgaria at the threshold of the Turkic world. We believe that God's desire is to see the fire of spiritual renewal spread from the Rom, Millet and Bulgarian ethnic people movements to their Turkish neighbours in Bulgaria and out across the borders into the Balkans, Turkey, Central Asia and the world. We are committed to facilitate the spread of this fire.

Would you like to know more about serving with WEC in Bulgaria? Contact your nearest WEC branch office. 

Czech Republic

WEC ministers in the Czech Republic through Betel, our ministry to addicts.

Betel is a WEC ministry principally focussed on reaching men and women around the world trapped in a life of brokenness through long term addictions and homelessness. At the core of Betel’s ministry are Church Planting, Mission, Evangelism and Discipleship.

Since its humble origins in Madrid around 30 years ago Betel has now grown into over 100 cities in 24 different nations of the world. At the core of its ministry is the reaching out to marginalised people  caught up in substance abuse, prostitution and homelessness. Only the good news of Jesus Christ can truly bring about freedom from the destructive lifestyle common in many nationalities and cultures around the world.

In Betel the message of the cross is brought alive through direct love and support. Entrants join our communities free of charge to live and work alongside one another as they learn to live a Christ-centred lifestyle. Residents (known as Betelitos) are trained in a wide range of life-skills through working in one of our various businesses. This not only gives them an opportunity to help fund their own recovery but also to develop key life skills such as punctuality, a good work ethic and working under authority.

If you would like to know more about the work of Betel, visit their website or contact your nearest WEC branch office. 

Estonia

WEC ministers in Estonia through Betel. Betel is a WEC ministry principally focussed on reaching men and women around the world trapped in a life of brokenness through long term addictions and homelessness. At the core of Betel’s ministry are Church Planting, Mission, Evangelism and Discipleship.
 
Since its humble origins in Madrid around 30 years ago Betel has now grown into over 100 cities in 24 different nations of the world. At the core of its ministry is the reaching out to marginalised people caught up in substance abuse, prostitution and homelessness. Only the good news of Jesus Christ can truly bring about freedom from the destructive lifestyle common in many nationalities and cultures around the world.

In Betel the message of the cross is brought alive through direct love and support. Entrants join our communities free of charge to live and work alongside one another as they learn to live a Christ-centred lifestyle. Residents (known as Betelitos) are trained in a wide range of life-skills through working in one of our various businesses.

This not only gives them an opportunity to help fund their own recovery but also to develop key life skills such as punctuality, a good work ethic and working under authority.

If you would like to know more about the work of Betel, visit their website or contact your nearest WEC branch office. 

Finland

WEC Finland co-operates with evangelical churches to mobilise people for cross cultural mission both in Finland and around the world. The WEC Finland website can be found at https://www.wec-finland.org/.

France

WEC's ministry in France is wide-ranging and involves both sending and receiving Christian workers. WEC partners with evangelical churches in France to send workers to minister cross-culturally all over the world, but France is also a country where many do not know what it means to have a living faith in Jesus Christ.

Church planting teams are working amongst indigenous French, Basque and immigrant communities across France.

Visit  https://www.wecfrance.fr/, or contact your nearest WEC branch office for more information.

Germany

Together with local churches we want to prepare and send people into God's worldwide mission. We have many opportunities for both short-term and long term workers. We also want to come alongside churches in Germany to help them in their desire to be involved in missions, and to stimulate prayer networks.

We also have a growing team reaching out to both immigrants and unevangelised Germans in several locations across Germany.

If you would like to know more about WEC in Germany, visit our website or contact your nearest WEC branch office.

Italy

A country  of Arts, Beauty and searching hearts.
The main focus of WEC Italia  is to network with local churches to send out Italian missionaries all over the world..
WEC Italia is open to receive overseas missionaries for church planting among indigenous Italians. Many Italians know about Jesus but don't know him personally. There are almost 6000 towns and villages with no Evangelical witness.
WEC Italia is also involved in a reaching out to immigrants in Turin in cooperation with the local church.
We are networking to reach refugee and migrants who are flooding into Italy and to support the local churches who are beginning to get involved with refugees & migrant work. We are particularly interested in recruiting for such ministry.
 

Moses and Verena in Turin

Moses and Verena have been in Turin with WEC since 1997. Turin, with its 900'000 inhabitants in the northern part of Italy is international and multi ethnic. We work mainly with North Africans but we have the opportunity to reach others nationalities too. How do we reach them? Once a month together with our Italian church we go with our gazebo "Dio è amore" and a book table to the biggest open air market of Europe called "Porta Palazzo" in the city center and give away Christian literature in more than 30 different languages. We have an Arabic speaking meeting in our Italian church and afterwards we offer a cup of tea to have fellowship. The aim is to build friendships and provide help for those who are struggling to adapt to life in Italy. Moses is also a volunteer in the prison where he visits people in their cell and talks with them about Jesus.
We would like to see more missionaries in Italy as we have a lot of unreached among us, many from countries where they have not had the opportunity to hear the Gospel. In Italy we have freedom to share the Good News but we need more workers.

If you would like to know more about WEC in Italy, please contact your nearest WEC branch office or visit our website.
 

The Netherlands

WEC Netherlands exists to reach the unreached with the gospel of Christ and facilitates sending workers by mobilising, equipping and supporting them.

If you would like to know more about WEC NL then visit their website or contact your nearest WEC branch office.

Spain

Spain is a vibrant, modern, industrial democracy many people would consider to have a long Christian tradition and with its own evangelical denominations besides the Roman Catholic Church. So why would Spain be in need of foreign mission workers?

In the first place the influence of traditional forms of faith in Spain has been declining rapidly in recent years with now less than 25% of Spaniards active members of the Roman Catholic church. At the same time, Spain has almost no tradition of protestant/evangelical belief and the evangelical community is a tiny proportion of the population – often given as only 0.4%. In fact, evangelicals have previously been a marginalised and discriminated minority and are still considered a sect by many.

Besides this, those who have responded to the gospel have often tended to be from ‘outsider’ groups such as the gypsy people, drug and alcohol addicts and immigrants. This means that normal mainstream Spaniards have had little opportunity to hear, understand and respond to a presentation of Biblical faith. We believe that everyone in Spain from every social and cultural group needs to understand who Jesus is and the difference a personal relationship with Him makes.

We are an international team focused on evangelism, church planting, children’s ministry, counselling and training. There is also a WEC Betel team focussed on church planting and lives restored from substance abuse.

For more information, visit the WEC Spain website, the Betel website, or contact your nearest WEC branch office. 

Switzerland

Sharing God's love in word and deed with all peoples!

Together with the Swiss evangelical churches we want to motivate, send and support Christians in worldwide outreach for Christ…

• so that the love of God is shared and practically demonstrated in a needy world.
• so that churches will be planted, where folks can get to know, love and serve Jesus Christ.
• so that Christians will be trained to be involved in reaching all peoples for Jesus.

If you’d like to know more about WEC Switzerland, visit their website or contact your nearest WEC branch office.

United Kingdom

WEC UK has a long history of training and sending Christian workers all over the world. WEC UK is committed to:

• Partnering with churches all over the UK
• Encouraging and stimulating prayer for world missions
• Offering opportunities for short-term missions exposure 
• Church planting amongst immigrant communities - Neighbours Worldwide
• Ministering to drug and alcohol addicts through the work of Betel

For more information on WEC UK go to www.wec-uk.org

WAVE

WEC Advance Venture Europe

Our Vision
We want to see a wave of new cross-cultural workers from Europe to sweep over Europe and the world.

Our Mission
Partnering with the European Church and WEC branches in mobilizing, recruiting, training, and sending cross-cultural workers to make Christ known, loved and worshiped by the unreached peoples of the world.