We Partner

In East Africa, Wheaton Bible Church has significant partnerships with high-capacity nationals who have become known to our church family through GO Team mission trips and recurring visits. WBC’s work in Kenya also includes deep partnerships with Parklands Baptist Church in Nairobi and World Relief Kenya: Together, we extend hope and transformation in Jesus’ name among the peoples of the remote “Turkana” region.

Meet Josephine, Our Kenyan Partner

For more than two decades, WBC’s HOPE Kenya initiative has been addressing the holistic needs of children at risk and the nation’s AIDS epidemic. Our visionary partner, Josephine Kiarii, began a feeding program in 2002 for AIDS orphans that led to the founding of the Hope for Life Center in Nakuru.

• With support from our church, Hope for Life (HFL) now provides daily meals and holistic care for 150 orphans and at-risk children, vocational training for teens and young adults, and microfinance networks that empower scores of vulnerable women.
• The Gospel and loving Christian discipleship have lifted and dramatically transformed hundreds of lives through HFL, rippling change throughout their communities.
• In addition to supporting the ongoing operations for Josephine’s holistic work, significant grants from WBC helped fund the construction and expansion of the Hope for Life Center, provide materials for vocational training, and solar panels for onsite water sustainability and agricultural production.

Our Kenyan Partnership Extended to Remote Turkana

In 2010, WBC joined hands with Parklands Baptist Church in Nairobi and World Relief Kenya to deliver emergency food relief to more than 10,000 drought-stricken Kenyans in the remote arid northwestern province of Turkana: They were on the verge of starvation. Relief transitioned to development in cooperation with Turkana pastors and people.

World Relief provided on-site expertise in well-drilling, water conservation, and agricultural development—supported by dedicated missionaries sent from Parklands Baptist to share Christ and strengthen this holistic initiative. Today, hundreds of Turkana men and women are growing life-sustaining crops. Believers have started 10 new churches among previously unreached peoples around new wells and dams!

This cooperative ministry of Turkana people, Kenyan partners, and our congregation has expanded to include medical care, pastoral training, and the development of church networks throughout the region.

Meet Robert Sityo, Our Ugandan Partner

God’s faithfulness is unmistakable in the life and remarkable impact of WBC partner Robert Sityo, founder of “Fountain of Hope Ministries”. Selected as a Billy Graham Scholar by Wheaton College, Robert attended WBC and became endeared to our church family while completing his graduate degree here. Upon returning to his native Uganda in 2016, he continued to develop the expansive ministries of Fountain of Hope, which includes:

• Two dozen church plants
• A K-12 school with 1,300+ students (many of whom have come to know Christ as Savior while receiving a quality education)
• Vocational training for teens and young adults
• Family support via marriage seminars and childbirth preparation courses
• An extension Bible training program “Bukeeka Evangelical School of Theology” (graduates serve more than 200 churches throughout Uganda)
• A medical ministry providing assessments & medications to over 6,000 patients since 2022 (which has seen hundreds of patients make decisions to follow Christ)

Significant grants from WBC have supported Fountain of Hope with:

• Construction assistance for the Jinja church facility
• Food packs for hundreds of starving families during the COVID pandemic and shutdown
• Government-mandated textbooks for all K-12 school students
• Scholarships for hundreds of Bible school students to earn certification required by the Ugandan government to lead and keep open their churches

Wheaton Bible Church supports ten Strategic Indigenous Leaders across North Africa, who serve with three different organizations. While government and social restrictions against Christian faith are heavy in much of North Africa, other areas have more freedom.

• Some of our partners in this region initiate creative social media outreach and produce engaging satellite programs to invite contact and conversation with those interested to learn more about Jesus.
• A movement to Christ of over 2,000 college students and young adults has emerged in one North African nation in recent years—with influence spilling over to neighboring countries.
• Some of these young believers assert, “We are returning to the faith of our forefathers” in lands where Christianity flourished under Church Fathers such as Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine before the Islamic conquests of the 7th century.
• Many believers in this region meet discreetly in house churches.

WBC partners with nine indigenous leaders from three different organizations across the nations of the Middle East—reaching individuals and families of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim tradition.

• WBC’s Christian partners in Lebanon have experienced crisis upon crisis: sectarian division and violence; economic collapse; the influx of 1.5 million Syrian refugees; the devastating 2020 Beirut blast; and recent escalation between Hezbollah militants and Israeli Defense Forces. Our church has upheld them in prayer, with financial aid, and ongoing communication.
• Through our trusted colleagues, tangible assistance has been provided to Syrian refugees in the region (and in neighboring Greece) for over more than a decade.
• In another Middle Eastern nation, our partner opened a shelter for trafficked and vulnerable women.
• GO Teams from our church have visited the same nation to join our indigenous leaders in fostering relationships and sharing Jesus with locals.
• Still other partners are training church leaders who are planting new congregations throughout the Middle East.

In this unique part of the world, our church partners with Strategic Indigenous Leaders from three organizations to make Christ known and empower Christian disciples and churches in multiple languages . Ministries carried out by WBC’s courageous indigenous leaders throughout Eurasia & Central Asia include:

• Radio broadcasts
• Youth camps
• Comfort and aid to the displaced (including both spiritual and material support of those suffering from the war on Ukraine)
• Reaching marginalized ethnic minorities
• Publication and distribution of Christian literature
• Discipleship of university students and young professionals
• Church planting

Missionaries sent by WBC who serve in several European nations have also welcomed and are caring for Ukrainian refugees.

Wheaton Bible Church supports gifted national leaders of four distinct organizations who are serving their own fellow-citizens of South Asia. Through their endeavors:

• The complete Bible has been translated for an unreached people group
• Thousands of children have been educated, and orphanages have been established in three nations
• Refugee populations have received aid
• Impoverished widows are receiving vocational training
• Clean water wells are transforming villages
• University students are coming to Christ and being developed in leadership
• Local church pastors are receiving accredited theological education
• More than 1,400 churches and house fellowships have been established

Our church is newly expanding our engagement in Southeast Asia, alongside decades of partnership with a fruitful indigenous couple. Key foci for our partners’ work in this region include:

• Bible translation and oral Bible storying
• Evangelism and discipleship
• Fostering literacy and education in the native language
• Medical work and community development