We Partner

• WBC partners with “strategic indigenous leaders” (SILs): gifted believers effectively reaching their own fellow-citizens. 

• We support SILs where Christ is least known – in closed contexts difficult for Westerners to enter & have influence. 

• We partner in nations where Christ’s Church is most fledgling, least resourced, and persecuted. 

• WBC currently supports 30 “strategic indigenous leaders” (SILs) in 12 nations. 

From the beginning, Wheaton Bible has been “a sending church”.  Since 2015, however, WBC has increasingly invested in  “strategic indigenous leaders” (SILs) — gifted believers effectively reaching their own fellow-citizens. 

While we continue to send our members as international workers, we recognize there are many contexts difficult for Westerners to enter & gain influence… where Christian ministry is prohibited… where Christ’s Church is most fledgling, persecuted, and least resourced.   

Yet, within these nations are Christ-followers who are insiders to their culture who are already lifting up Christ in their society, effectively communicating the Gospel and multiplying disciples among their own people.  We seek to partner with these “strategic indigenous leaders” (SILs) through prayer, by resourcing workers and their projects, and sometimes serving alongside them via short-term teams.  

Today, we partner in ministry with 28 key indigenous leaders in 12 nations of Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.  We invest in workers of trusted agencies who are expanding the reach of the Gospel and multiplying disciples, churches, & new leaders among their own people.