Around the world, billions of people — more than 4 in 10 — lack access to the gospel. They don’t have an opportunity to meet a Christian or the ability to go to church. In the world’s most unreached areas, there are extensive challenges creating barriers to hearing the good news of Jesus Christ.
We are so thankful for the depths of God’s grace, and that he has empowered his church to join his mission to relentlessly pursue hearts in every tribe, tongue and nation — to reach the unreached.
We hope as you read the following celebrations you will be encouraged and inspired in this mission that matters forever.
In 2025, we are celebrating 11 newly appointed missionaries (bringing our total of long-term missionaries to 135). These individuals have faithfully answered the call to go, and we are eager to see what God will do through their obedience.
One newly appointed couple is preparing to help start a new mission field in our Turkic-Arabic Area. The Lord led them to this place in a way that only he could, beginning when Levi* was on a sabbatical in the Middle East 11 years ago. He was met with cultural norms that made him uncomfortable. He was exposed to religious practices that forced him to realize he was harboring prejudices against Muslims.
But while there, he also experienced a conviction that profoundly shifted his heart and ignited a desire to respond. God took him on a journey, bringing him to a new place of surrender. Now Levi and his wife are humbly embracing the call to go — to serve in a deeply unreached place. We’re so thankful that God continues to call more people to the harvest.
We are also celebrating that 24 NEXT interns experienced a mentored, cross-cultural internship throughout 11 different sites. Through this experience, they worked alongside long-term missionaries and local church leaders, encountering what cross-cultural ministry can look like. Interns walk away from NEXT with both a deeper understanding of God’s global mission and a deeper relationship with the Lord. So far, 7% of our NEXT interns are appointed or already serving as long-term missionaries.
2025 was a year of wonder, as we have watched God move in amazing ways time and time again. Followers have been multiplied, churches have been planted, leaders have been trained, and partnerships have been strengthened.
As a global Wesleyan Church, the year was off to an incredible start. Nearly 400 Wesleyans from 50 countries gathered together in South Africa for the fifth International Conference of The Wesleyan Church. Together, we worshiped in our heart languages, connected with one another, rallied around reaching the unreached and allowed the Holy Spirit to guide the way forward as a church. The time spent together was significantly meaningful and resulted in deeper unity.
This year, a missionary couple in Cambodia has partnered with World Hope International (WHI) in community health development efforts. They have regularly taken long journeys to a rural part of the country to facilitate sessions centered around health-related topics, bringing awareness to an indigenous people group.
Carl Gilles, Francophone Area director, journeyed to Guinea — one of the 11 French-speaking countries in Africa. The country is approximately 89% Muslim, and in just one day of his visit, he saw more than 65 mosques. There are significant barriers to Christianity there, yet there is a group of passionate Christian believers — ministering in prisons and baptizing new believers in water barrels behind bars. They are shining Christ’s light in a dark place.
Global Partners has been working to send more missionaries to more places, beginning new mission fields in some of the most unreached places. With more than 4 in 10 people around the world lacking access to the good news of Jesus Christ, we feel the urgent need to go where the gospel isn’t.
We are seeing God make this possible beyond what we could ever ask or imagine. With missionaries preparing to go to five new mission fields (and counting), we are filled with joy and confidence that God is moving in ways that will impact eternity.
Missionaries mobilized
- 135 in long-term service (4+ years)
- 24 NEXT participants (mentored cross-cultural internship)
- 10 Global Marketplace Multipliers sent (since 2022)
- 11 newly appointed missionaries in 2025
Partnerships engaged
- 769 of North American Wesleyan churches engaged with Global Partners, including individual member giving
Generosity inspired
- $11,218,646 in contributions
Followers multiplied
- 3,034 baptisms
- 156,822 church attendees (outside of U.S. and Canada)
- 7,407 salvations
Leaders developed
- 22 pastors sponsored (Amplified Leaders)
Churches reproduced
- 3,028 churches outside of U.S. and Canada
- 257 new church plants outside of US and Canada
We’re so thankful for the ways that God is calling his church to engage in his global mission. Thank you to all of the churches, pastors, church leaders, lay leaders and congregants — our Wesleyan sisters and brothers — for playing your active role in the Great Commission. It’s because of your partnership, your obedient response to God’s call, the mission is fueled forward.
May we, as a church, continue to run the race set before us. May we continue to allow the Holy Spirit to guide us where we need to go. Until everyone, everywhere has access to a life with Jesus.
Heather Auker is the communication supervisor for Global Partners.
