With Canada receiving over 471,000 new permanent residents in a single year and similar demographic shifts underway across Western Europe, WWES proposes a practical model: the "umbrella church.
WWES argues that Western churches have fundamentally misread the arrival of immigrant congregations. Rather than treating newcomer churches as guests requiring hospitality, he proposes "reverse missiology": recognising these
Moscow Theological Seminary was founded in 1993 on a Western residential model — and promptly struggled with empty dormitories and insufficient enrolment. In 2007 it reintegrated its Soviet-era correspondence programme
Eighty-five per cent of evangelical pastors worldwide have no formal theological education. In Africa, where Christianity has grown from 10 million to over 600 million believers in a century,
WWES draws students from more than fifty countries — Pentecostals, Anglicans, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, and members of indigenous church movements. Its approach to this diversity is what it calls "broad
When prospective students discover that WWES describes itself as "evangelical," questions follow — especially from those who associate the word with North American politics or a narrow fundamentalism. WWES