Soon after Edwin E. Vicente was baptized into Christ, the Covid-19 pandemic engulfed the Philippines, and Edwin lost his job. With no source of income, he sold most of his earthly possessions to pay for food and lodging. Instead of complaining, he gathered a group of children in his community and taught them what he…
While Arthur Tatara was studying in the Singapore branch of Sunset International Bible Institute, he became a WEI Internet student. He got so excited about what he learned in the WEI courses, he decided to use them in his ministry in Papua New Guinea. Since then, he has taught WEI Intermediate lessons in public high…
Prabhu Kumar, Director of WEI-India, reports that their third annual Global Online Video Conference was a great success. This Zoom conference lasted five nights (June 21-25) from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Twelve men from Australia, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, and the USA, took turns speaking and listening to one another speak via Zoom….
In recent months, civil war has raged in the State of Manipur at the far northeastern tip of India, and Christians have suffered greatly. Some of the injured need medication. Many are weak from malnutrition, and others have lost their homes by explosions and fires. One of our preachers died after escaping from the conflict….
It is difficult to include everything that happened in Mongolia in an article. It was an amazing ten days. A team of eight Bible teachers led by the Church of Christ Plants ministry returned to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in April to study with our WEI online students. We sent hundreds of invitations to our best online…
Prabhu Kumar, Director of WEI-India, and his wife have recently returned from a three-week trip through northeastern India and neighboring nations. While in the northeastern states of India, Prabhu reactivated some of the thirty-one church-related WEI extension schools that stopped functioning due to lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. In Jakalbandha, Assam in far northeastern India,…
When our Christian brothers and sisters in Afghanistan get up in the morning, they never know if they will still be alive that evening. Their once promising secret congregation of twenty-five has now been scattered. The Rolla, Missouri Church of Christ recently set up an encrypted Zoom worship time slot for them—their only contact with…
Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in San Fernando City, Luzon Island, has inaugurated a new multi-generational outreach ministry in an effort to build up the kingdom of God. In January, Edwin wrote, “I have five new adult students. Hopefully, God willing, they will submit to baptism, but I’m still pushing on…
WEI-India, in partnership with the McDermott Church of Christ in Plano, Texas started the new year off with a bang by sponsoring the International Teachers’ Conference in Vijayawada, India on January 9th. One hundred and two people from India and the USA assembled for seven hours, ate lunch together, and listened to four well-known church…
Now that the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed down, schools in the Philippines are open again, and Edwin’s students at the WEI Learning Center are back in school. Consequently, he is now focusing his attention on young adults and middle-age adults until school is out for the summer. Then high school classes should be full again….
During the past year, Edwin E. Vicente has been stretching himself to the breaking point as Director of the WEI Learning Center in San Fernando City, Philippines and as Minister of the new congregation that he established at the Center. As a relatively new member of the church of Christ, Edwin wisely sought help from…
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