Church Planters in Manila Rebuild After Fires — and Keep Planting
A fire in Manila in June 2025 destroyed homes and a community ministry hub used by a church planting partner — but also became an occasion for deepened community witness.
A fire in Manila in June 2025 destroyed homes and a community ministry hub used by a church planting partner — but also became an occasion for deepened community witness.
The Communauté Évangélique de l'Uélé in the DR Congo — planted by EFCA missionaries over a century ago — now counts more than a thousand congregations and hundreds of thousands of members.
The Evangelical Free Church of America's global mission arm maintains active teams in Cameroon, the DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania — building churches and developing leaders across the continent.
The Evangelical Free Church of the Philippines has set an ambitious target: 200 new church plants between 2022 and 2026, with training programmes and mapping initiatives already under way.
The Evangelical Covenant Church's Covenant Kids Congo ministry links North American sponsors to children in the DR Congo through a model that integrates education, church, and community development.
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