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  • Tel: (865) 803-2909
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  • Tom Langley, President of WEI
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Short-term Mission in Abidjan

  • April 4, 2025
  • Africa

On April 4, Tom Langley, Murry Steward and six teachers of his Church of Christ Plants team flew to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on a ten-day short-term mission.  On Saturday, April 5, Tom hosted a reception for WEI Internet students in the area. Tom, Muray (red), & Teachers with Church of Church Plants Tom wrote, “The…

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Kay’s Student Is Now Her Brother

  • March 30, 2025
  • Africa

Kay Banta, longtime WEI teacher in Arkansas, is currently teaching a student in Kenya named Peter. Kay Banta Kay writes, “Peter Otieno was an apostolic preacher in Kenya until he began studying WEI and talking to Paul Ochieng and me. When he began to say he wanted to change, I asked questions and sent extra…

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Growth Explosion in South Sudan

  • January 5, 2025
  • Africa

God is full of surprises.  When Dennis Cady and  Chuck Dennis of Wichita Falls, Texas, first got involved in spreading the good news about Christ in  South Sudan in 2012, they focused their attention on the city of Bor, the capital of Junglei State in central South Sudan.  In a recent report, they said, “We…

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The Church Grows in Nigeria

  • December 21, 2024
  • Africa

The following picture illustrates the ongoing, year-around growth of the Campus Church of Christ in Uruk Otong, Nigeria. Aniefiok Baptizes a Student “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without…

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Watch God Work in Nigeria

  • December 12, 2024
  • Africa

In December 2024, a breath-taking flurry of activity swirled through the campus of Rhema Christian Academy in Uruk Otong, Nigeria. All of the activity was motivated by the Great Commission.  With a stroke of genius, Aniefiok and Etang Akpan and their fellow-workers came up with a plan a year ago to use football (soccer) to…

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Success in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • September 30, 2024
  • Africa

Partnering with the Church of Christ Plants ministry and the Mekanisa Church of Christ in Addis Ababa, we hosted a reception for WEI students October 8th. Eighty WEI Students Showed up for the Reception. We sent invitations to our best WEI students from 2023 and 2024. Eighty WEI online students attended the reception, and over…

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Football for Christ at Rhema

  • July 25, 2024
  • Africa

The most ingenious and effective outreach ministry sponsored by RCA and the Campus Church of Christ is the annual football (soccer) tournament.  Last year, young people (up to thirteen years of age) from thirteen villages around Uruk Otong formed four football teams and competed for the trophy.   All players enrolled in WEI and studied the…

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Graduation Is a Big Event at RCA

  • July 25, 2024
  • Africa

Aniefiok says, “This year’s Rhema Graduation Ceremony was held on Thursday 25th July. The event featured prayers and presentation of gifts to the primary school graduating class, street rally to campaign for new intakes, miming and drama presentation, cultural dance, and the end of school year.” The graduation ceremony at RCA was conducted in the…

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God’s Amazing Work in Nigeria

  • July 11, 2024
  • Africa

About twenty years ago, we ran an article in the WEI newsletter stating that the most exciting work that WEI was involved in was in partnership with Aniefiok Akpan at Rhema Christian Academy in Uruk Otong, Nigeria.  Aniefiok was using WEI materials to teach English and the Bible at RCA, and he was baptizing high school…

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New Birth in Cameroon

  • May 31, 2024
  • Africa

June Anderson has thousands of WEI students in her files, and she keeps claiming more.  She says, “I truly care about my students, and I think they know it.  I tell them that I not only want to teach them English; I also want them to know God and what he wants of us. “My…

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Three New Christians in Ethiopia

  • May 8, 2024
  • Africa

Becky Rose, an enthusiastic Internet teacher at the Metro congregation in Gresham, Oregon, is ecstatic over the baptism of three students in Ethiopia. Becky Rose Becky says, “I started studying with Eyob Tena Beanyam in September of 2023. He started telling his friends about WEI, and they joined in to study (Samson Getachew, Nardos Yilma,…

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Using Football to Save Souls

  • May 1, 2024
  • Africa

With a stroke of genius, Aniefiok used the popularity of football (soccer) to draw young people to Christ.  Last year, he and his staff organized a football tournament on the RCA campus and invited preteens in the area to participate.  Boys and girls from RCA and thirteen surrounding villages formed four teams that competed for…

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Fishers of Men Workshop

  • April 20, 2024
  • Africa

The theme of their Fishers of Men Workshop March 31 was, “Making Disciples Who Make Disciples.”  Aniefiok writes, “Since then, our campus church has recorded 14 baptisms and two restorations.”  “We have adopted three evangelistic tools for our gospel campaign within and outside of the Uruk Otong community.  The tools are (1) Rhema Christian Academy,…

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God Comes to the Rescue

  • April 11, 2024
  • Africa

Fortunately, God had other plans for saving the high school.  Aniefiok wrote, “The fight to keep our high school and sustain our mission work in Uruk Otong has started.  In a recent wire from the Bethlehem church [Aniefiok’s sponsoring church in Watertown, Tennessee], two families, James and Janice Kelley and Lola Crouch, made a huge…

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A Battle for Survival

  • April 5, 2024
  • Africa

Two decades ago, God formed an amazing, productive, and inspiring relationship between WEI and Rhema Christian Academy in Uruk Otong, Nigeria. A brilliant young preacher by the name of Aniefiok Akpan had just purchased land that had belonged to his great grandfather, a tribal chief who wore the title of “His Royal Highness” and who…

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