World Missions Ministries Announces New Regional Alignment
- World Missions Ministries Communications Office
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – On January 7, 2024, the World Missions Ministries Council unanimously adopted an added thirteenth region to WMM’s regional alignment, restructuring one of the original 12 regions in a strategic effort to increase impact and reach across the nations.
In 2017, WMM was challenged to establish a ministry presence in 150 nations and birth 5,000 new congregations outside the United States. As a response, in 2018, WMM tasked 12 Regional Directors with reaching the lost, planting churches, discipling new believers, and pioneering IPHC ministries into unreached and unengaged nations. Since, as a testament to God’s faithfulness and the labors of Regional Directors and missionaries on the field, WMM has extended into 107 countries, a 14-country increase since 2017.
As WMM continues to expand, the Eurasia and Middle East region will become two regions: the Middle East region, which will continue to be led by Bob Cave, and the Central/Eastern Europe region. With the approval of this new region, Bill Schwartz, a longstanding missionary to Belgium, was appointed by WMM Executive Director Bishop Talmadge Gardner, in consultation with the WMM Council, to become the Central/Eastern Europe Regional Director. The eleven countries where IPHC has a ministry presence in the former Eurasia region, including Belgium, will now be a part of this new, thirteenth region.
Regional Directors Bob Cave and Bill Schwartz are both valued, highly respected leaders with the experience and capability to continue to go forward with the gospel into these regions.
As the prophet Isaiah says in Isaiah 54:2 (The Passion Translation), “Increase is coming, so enlarge your tent and add extensions to your dwelling. Hold nothing back! Make the tent ropes longer and the pegs stronger.”
Over the next ten years leading to 2033, and until the Lord returns, may the IPHC be one church in thousands of locations doing its part to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.
World Missions Ministries Regional Alignment displayed by country.
