Mission Statement
To make disciples among all peoples resulting in church-planting movements that launch missions movements for God’s glory.
Training
- ABWE missionaries, working with our partners, operated 103 Bible training programs.
- 13,056 students were trained through those Bible programs.
“We treat 22,000 patients each year. Each person has a one-on-one Gospel presentation—God truly touches hearts and lives through our medical clinic.
For instance, the donation of an ultrasound has allowed us last year to hold 11 babies, whose mothers told us they were considering abortions. Because of donations of simple things like asprin and band-aids, we are able to help heal hurting and injured people and improve their quality of life.
With these great needs come many amazing opportunities to share Christ. As people trust Christ, we also have pastors and churches where we can refer them.
—Lori and Bill Smith, Papua New Guinea, on how their ministry saves lives, heals bodies, and grows the local church.
Evangelism
- ABWE missionaries presented the gospel 72,938 times.
- 1,823 new believers were baptized.
“About a month ago, I received a phone call from a friend in our neighborhood named Dave. Dave and I both enjoy golf and we have similar houses, so we often talked about these kind of things. However, when Dave called this time, he was stressed because his brother, Dennis, had just been told by his doctors that he had cancer. He had been given one to two months to live.
Although Dave was not a Christian, he asked me to call Dennis, whom I had not met, and talk to him about “faith” and “heaven.”
Two days later, I met with Dennis to talk about his relationship to God. I used the eight essential truths from ABWE’s training resource, The Story of Hope (highlighting God, man, sin, death, Christ, cross, faith, and life) to point Dennis to God. Dennis came to faith in Christ that morning.
As it turned out, Dennis did not have one or two months to live. Eleven days later after his profession of faith, Dennis went home to meet the Savior he had recently trusted. The Story of Hope provided a great Biblical message for me to use as I talked with Dennis, and later his brother Dave—who also came to Christ a few days later.
—Jim Cook, ABWE’s director of children’s ministry, on how ABWE training and resources make an eternal impact.
For more stories on ABWE’s Story of Hope and other evangelism tools visit www.goodsoil.com.
Church Planting
- ABWE missionaries with national partners planted 189 churches.
- 4,607 churches have now been planted by ABWE with its national partners.
“As every person who is born in sin, I was not an exception. I led my life according to my own desires. Because of my studies, I moved to my aunt’s home. My aunt had been a believer in Christ for ten years with my uncle and they attended the Eglise Baptiste Biblique of Bé*. It is there that I gave my life to God. When I arrived there, everyone spoke to me about the saving work of Christ. But at the beginning, I didn’t listen.
One day, after having been to the church, my uncle also started to talk with me about Jesus. It was then that everything became clear. I knelt and prayed to God: “Father, I understand that I am a sinner. It is because of me that Christ was crucified. Today, I receive Him as my personal Savior.” Since that day, I have a firm assurance. Even if I die, or if I live, I have eternal life with my Lord.
—Nakie Kossi, is a believer saved through ABWE’s very first church plant in Togo, West Africa.
*The church has several hundred members and is active in church planting throughout Togo. Nakie went on to receive an education through ABWE nurses’ training program, which equips national believers to work in ABWE’s mission hospitals.
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