Jesus commissioned His disciples to go into all the world and make disciples, preaching the Gospel
and baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Partnering with indigenous leaders around the world, CWM is committed to finishing the work, working in locations where there is little or no Christian witness, bringing individuals to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and establishing local congregations where they can grow as disciples. We currently have on-going work in Ghana, Nigeria, and India, and support work in the Philippines and Pakistan.
Our church-planting program is a tried and true approach to effective Christian growth. Each year, men and women with proven gifts and anointing are selected to become pastors of the new congregations and go through a three-month intensive training program, which includes initial work in the villages where the churches will be established. When the ground-work is laid, a team of U.S. and indigenous evangelists hold evangelistic campaigns in each location and hundreds give their hearts to Christ. During the campaigns, we also have a children’s program and offer free medical clinics.
Once the new church is established, CWM provides a bicycle, study Bible and three years salary support for each pastor, by which time, the church is expected to assume the support. We also build a pavilion church in most locations, and sometimes provide sound systems, water wells, and other support services, when needed.
Ghana
Our ministry partner in this West African nation is the Methodist Church Ghana, and our church-planting endeavor is led by Joseph Otsin, a Ghanaian layman with tremendous gifts in evangelism and administration. Since 1993, at least ten new churches have been established each year, and in 2012, having completed work in every diocese, we returned to Kumasi, where we began, to help the diocese reach new populated areas of the city. Pray about joining us on our annual church-planting mission to Ghana. Read more about the upcoming mission.
Nigeria
CWM began its church-planting mission in partnership with the Methodist Church 
Nigeria in 1986. We funded the establishment of the Department of Evangelism and paid the salary of the bishop who led this department for many years. Since then, the department has chosen to take a new direction in evangelism and we now work with the conference’s leading layman, Sir J.K. Udeze, in the on-going church planting process, as well as evangelist, Dr. Mike Oye. More than 300 churches have been established in Nigeria through this program, and we have been privileged to see several of our local church pastors go on to seminary and rise to become bishops and arch-bishops in the church. Pray about joining us on our annual church-planting mission to Nigeria. Read more about the upcoming mission.
India
Ghuna Kumar, founder of Gospel Friends in India, attended Wesley Seminary in Jackson, MS, and met Cecil
Williamson shortly before his return to Indiato begin this work. CWM became his first financial partner, helping to support the 20 orphans and about 20 village evangelists that he worked with at that time. Since then, the work has grown to include over 200 orphans, 300 pastor/evangelists, 700 churches, a Bible college, nursing school, computer school, elementary school, and an annual VBS program with over 6000 children in attendance. More than 40,000 people have been baptized as new Christians since Ghuna started Gospel Friends. We take a team to Indiaat least once every two years to help with the VBS, lead women’s conventions, provide Christian worker training, and assist in medical clinics and local village evangelism. Pray about joining us on our upcoming mission in April/May 2012. Information regarding this mission will be available soon.
