Our Mission & Vision

In everything we do, we strive for excellence. Our ministry is only effective because we maintain a Biblical standard with everything that we do. The only way a nation will be changed and will come to know the love of Jesus is if the people of that nation are going into their culture and preaching the Gospel.

Our sole purpose is to train believers and take them to reach the lost. We plant God's culture inside of the world's culture. From there, it blossoms and it grows and it bears great fruit.

Teach. Actions are usually stunted by a lack of knowledge. Without knowing, people aren't going. So we are called to teach. The Bible is the foundation of everything that we do. Maintaining a Biblical standard requires discipline. Discipline is a by-product of discipling. We know in our hearts that properly discipled believers are effective, powerful, and unstoppable.

Train. In everything we do, we strive for excellence. Our ministry is only effective because we maintain a Biblical standard with everything that we do. Training yields excellence. Our training focuses on the essentials for advancing the Kingdom of God. We train churches on a mixture and proper balance of leadership, evangelism, and discipleship curriculums.

Take. The only way a nation will be changed and will come to know the love of Jesus is if the people of that nation are going into their culture and preaching the Gospel. Whole World Ministries cannot reach entire nations by themselves, nor do we want to change the culture of how church is done. Our sole purpose is to train believers and take them to reach the lost. We plant God's culture inside of the world's culture. From there, it blossoms and it grows and it bears great fruit.


100% of your giving is directly sown into extending the Kingdom of God into the Whole World


Give. We know that reaching the unbeliever sometimes starts with something physical. In fact, most, if not all of the people we come across are more aware of their physical needs than their spiritual needs. If we can lessen the physical need, the spiritual need can be addressed that much more effectively. Proverbs 3:27 says, "Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act." Giving of our resources and abilities not only creates the opportunity to witness to the unbeliever, it is something scripture commands us to do, with or without immediate result. Whole World Ministries is committed to giving all that it has to reach the lost and dying world. We believe that we have strategically and purposefully been given certain resources and abilities that are meant to help others. Giving is part of God's heart, so it is a part of ours. Our vision for giving is greatly fulfilled through our ministry to the street boys of Kabale, the villagers in the mountains of Peru, and to the needs of families on the island of Jamaica.

Plant. Whole World Ministries won't reach the whole world overnight. Establishing growing and thriving churches and communities will take time. Each trip we take yields great fruit, but we know that if we plant something while we are on a trip, it has the opportunity to grow within the culture it is planted in. We are dedicated to planting resources and opportunities for training and for discipleship everywhere we go. We have been training over 80 churches in the nation of Jamaica, planting leaders along the way to maintain training all over the island.  All of our projects reflect the principle of taking believers into their culture. We plant God's culture inside of the world's culture. From there, it blossoms and it grows and bears great fruit. 

Grow. Each and every successful church or organization has gone through some growing to get where it is. There are countless processes and procedures that help progress become accomplished. These processes for Whole World Ministries come in the form of well-planned curriculums and hands-on training. We know that without educating the church, growth is unattainable. We strongly believe in using physical materials and spiritual insight in the growing process. Both of these methods are used in stages that may span over the course of a few months to even a few years. At each stage of discipleship, more and more training becomes available for wherever we are teaching it. Obviously, that is entirely dependent on how fast it is learned and applied. However, we know that most of these principles are more "caught" than they are "taught." We cannot simply teach someone to evangelize the gospel, they need to catch it for themselves through experiential learning. That's what growth is to Whole World Ministries. Most importantly, we also believe that measuring growth can become a distraction. Sometimes when you begin to measure progress, you lose sight of what the goal is. The goal is to train up believers so that they can reach the lost and bring them into the kingdom of God. That is the first, last, and only goal.


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