Preparing believers for ministry among Muslims.

Did you know that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and that 86 percent do not personally know a Christian who could share the gospel with them? This means that Muslims constitute the largest unreached religious group in the world!

As believers struggle to reach out to Muslims, they often lack understanding of Islam and Islamic culture. Encountering the World of Islam (EWI) is a ministry of Pioneers-USA that is filling this gap. Specifically, EWI is equipping Christian leaders and churches to understand Muslims, communicate the gospel effectively, disciple new believers and establish churches in unreached Muslim communities.

In addition to its classes in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, EWI has web-based distance learning courses and has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Indonesian and Russian. Since 1992, EWI courses have been endorsed by many mission agencies in addition to Pioneers, including Frontiers, Operation Mobilization and YWAM. In the past six years, EWI has equipped over 12,000 people through 300+ courses in at least 13 different countries. (To learn more about the course, please visit EncounteringIslam.org.)

Once trained, course coordinators and instructors can reproduce their own EWI courses. Currently, new courses are planned for Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. But EWI needs new partners to help move this work forward.

Please join us in praying that the Lord would provide for the expansion of this ministry. And as you pray, would you please consider supporting this work financially? Each training event costs $500 per person, which means that one 36-trainee event would cost $18,000.

For more information, please send us an email.