- World Missions Ministries Communications Office
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.— World Missions Ministries (WMM) announces its 2024 Statistical Report detailing an increased ministry presence in six new countries and the planting of 722 new churches.
In 2017, WMM accepted the challenge brought forth in the ARISE 2033 vision to plant 5,000 new churches outside of the United States and establish an IPHC ministry presence in 50 new countries by 2033. Following that vision, WMM implemented six strategies throughout its 13 regional networks: 1. prayer, 2. evangelism or winning the lost, 3. discipling believers, 4. planting churches, 5. targeting the 7,248 unreached or unengaged ethnic groups in the world, and 6. changing a paradigm by challenging nations to become sending as opposed to receiving.
World Missions gives all glory to God for an increase of ministry into 27 countries since 2017 and a total of 5,248 new church plants, exceeding the ARISE 2033 goal for new church plants outside of the United States. With nine more years to go, WMM is praying for continued increase and ministry impact.
"There are still 95 countries within our regional boundaries without an IPHC ministry presence," Executive Director Bishop Talmadge Gardner shared. "These countries are our focused priority."
