Success in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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…
Tips for Teachers
Darrell Wallace What to do when Muslim students refer to God as Allah. El, Allah, and Theos mean “God” in ancient Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek. How these words are defined affects their meaning, which can be correct or incorrect. The Canaanites worshiped Baal as El. The Israelites, chosen people of God, worshiped Elohim as the God of…
Another Jail break in Afghanistan
We named him Adam. Dr. Abraham took a chance and told his friend he was a Christian. Adam wanted to be a Christian too, but Muslims know about as much about Christianity as Christians know about Islam. So I fast-tracked him through the Intermediate course to pull him away from Satan’s grip. Yesterday, Adam worked…
God Is at Work in the Philippines
Ten months ago, Edwin E. Vicente moved to Tuguegarao City, Luzon Island, hoping to find a job, to start a new WEI Learning Center, and to plant a church. His job didn’t work out, but he found fertile soil for a WEI Learning Center and good prospects for planting a church. Living on subsistence…
Greetings from Papua New Guinea
Arthur Tatara, a WEI teacher in Papua New Guinea, writes, “Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am excited to bring you the latest updates from our World English Institute PNG programs. Thank you for your ongoing commitment to this vital ministry. “This year was a good year for me as I…
Football for Christ at Rhema
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…
Graduation Is a Big Event at RCA
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…
God’s Amazing Work in Nigeria
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…
WEI Co-Sponsors Workshop by Tom Langley
WEI again partnered with Sunset International Bible Institute, Partners in Progress, and Healing Hands International to sponsor the European Vision Workshop. Missionaries and Evangelists from many countries met in Albania to spend three days together. There were two full days of classes, powerful lessons, singing, praying, and reports. Tom Langley Speaks at European Vision Workshop…
A Faithful WEI Teacher Goes Home
Ida Partlow, faithful follower of Jesus, WEI teacher for more than thirty years, short-term missionary in in Tirana, Albania and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, aggressive evangelist by nature, beloved by family, friends, and WEI students around the world, has gone home to be with her Lord whom she has served throughout her adult life. Ida Partlow…
God Never Ceases to Amaze Us
Lee Allen Our awesome God never ceases to amaze us. In 2022, WEI exploded with a record number of 170,851individuals registering on our website. We read and studied the Bible with 66,259 students. In 2021, we had studied with 48,504 students. God blessed us with an increase of 17,755 students. We were so excited! In…
Report From the Philippines
Edwin Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarap City in northeastern Luzon Island reports that he is now teaching twenty-four WEI students and has received permission from parents to baptize two of them. Edwin With Six of His Twenty-Four Students
Paula Taylor’s Testimonial
“Although introducing English students to the gospel is the number one priority of a WEI short-term ministry, there are other incredibly important benefits that result from these efforts. “First, Encouragement from the WEI teachers to the local congregation. Meeting and growing to love brothers and sisters from other countries reminds them that they are part…
Tom Langley Reports from Romania
WEI short-term missions in Romania began in mid-June and continue through mid-February. Eleven teachers traveled to Romania to teach in the cities of Oradea, Arad, and Cluj. Canadian WEI teachers, Eno and Nadine Damo taught for two weeks in Cluj and very much enjoyed their time teaching students and working with Romanian evangelists, Dragos and…
New Birth in Cameroon
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…
WEI in Papua New Guinea
Arthur Tatara had planned to make a mission trip into interior Papua New Guinea in June, but there was so much political unrest there that he had to postpone his trip until peace is restored. In the city of Lae, however, Arthur continues his outreach ministry at a public high school and at Melanesian Bible…
Tips for Teachers
Approximately one-third of the people who enroll in WEI live in Islamic nations. Unfortunately, most drop out before they finish the course. Why? One of the biggest roadblocks to their learning is their Islamic concept of Jesus. They have been taught that Jesus was a prophet of God but not the Son of God. The…
Three New Christians in Ethiopia
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,…
Using Football to Save Souls
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…
Fishers of Men Workshop
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,…
