WEC International is an interdenominational mission agency of evangelical tradition which focuses on evangelism, discipleship and church planting, through music and the arts, serving addicts and vulnerable children, through Christian education, missionary and church leadership training, medical and development work, Bible translation, literacy and media production, in order to help local Christians share the gospel cross-culturally.
[3] Studd spent several years in China and a time in India before going on in his fifties [4] to establish and lead the "Heart of Africa" Mission (HAM).
"[6] Later, recognising some misunderstandings with using the word "crusade", the mission was renamed as Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ (WEC International).
After retirement in 1965, Grubb lived at the WEC US headquarters in Ft. Washington, PA, writing extensively and traveling from there until his death in 1993.
WEC International missionary Leslie Brierley visited Brazil in 1962 to survey that land for its missionary-sending potential.
[18] Teachers from the WEC have been known to work at other Christian schools, and in Indonesia in 1972, their organization was named the World Evangelization Crusade.
"[20] More recently, the purpose of the organization was listed as "To bring the gospel to the remaining unevangelized peoples with the utmost urgency, to demonstrate the compassion of Christ to a needy world, and to inspire, mobilize and train for cross-cultural mission.
Studd in Congo, wrote that the mission made no appeals for funds, took no offerings at meetings, guaranteed missionaries no fixed salaries, and incurred no debt from the beginning.