World Gospel Mission

Name

World Gospel Mission

Legal name

World Gospel Mission, INC.

Website

https://wgm.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1900

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Christian Missionary Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Medical Missions & Global Health NGOs (BPAGACAI), Faith-Based Healthcare Ministries (Hospitals, Clinics, Medical Missions) (BPAGAJAH), Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid & Relief Ministries (BPAGAJAF)

Keywords

• Missionary mobilization
• Global missions
• Church planting
• Medical missions
• Missionary training

Headquarters

HQ city

Marion

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

World Gospel Mission recruits, trains, deploys, and supports Christian missionaries across more than 30 countries through short-term (1-2 weeks), mid-term (1-24 months), long-term (2+ years), and internship service commitments. Its ministries include evangelism, church planting, medical care at mission hospitals (e.g., Tenwek and Chogoria in Kenya), education, children and youth work, and community development. The organization is funded by charitable donations from individuals and churches, supplemented by prayer and content resources such as Prayer Lifeline, Prayer Calendar, The Call magazine, and The Approach podcast.

Product overview

World Gospel Mission operates as a missionary mobilization organization offering a portfolio of ministry engagement pathways rather than a unified software platform. The core offerings include: missionary placement programs (short-term, mid-term, long-term service), prayer support resources (Prayer Lifeline newsletter and Prayer Calendar), content publications (The Call magazine and The Approach podcast), and location-specific ministry opportunities. These products are designed to support global Christian missions across multiple regions including Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Central America, and South America.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Approach: A podcast equipping leaders of Gen Z to pray with and for the next generation.
• The Call

Products and services

• Missionary Mobilization Services
• Kenya Medical and Community Ministry Opportunities

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Frontiers: Faith-based missions organization focused on Muslim-world church planting with similar donor-supported missionary deployment in sensitive regions like the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa.
• ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism): Evangelical mission agency combining church planting with medical, educational, and disaster response work — directly comparable to WGM's multi-vertical ministry portfolio and hospital operations.
• Operation Mobilisation (OM): International evangelical mission movement with operations in 110+ countries and a similar short-term-to-long-term mobilization pipeline — directly comparable to WGM's volunteer funnel structure.
• SEND International: Evangelical mission organization sending missionaries to unreached peoples with structured short-, mid-, and long-term pathways — overlaps WGM on mobilization model and target demographics.
• Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF): Faith-based nonprofit providing aviation and logistics support to missions and humanitarian work in remote regions — comparable to WGM in donor-supported operations serving hard-to-reach mission fields.
• Pioneers: U.S.-based church-planting missions agency focusing on unreached people groups across dozens of countries, with comparable donor-supported missionary mobilization infrastructure.
• SIM (Serving In Mission): Interdenominational evangelical mission agency with 4,000+ workers serving in 60+ countries including medical, educational, and church-planting ministries — closely mirrors WGM's diversified ministry portfolio and global deployment model.
• Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ): Large U.S.-headquartered evangelical missions and campus ministry organization mobilizing staff and missionaries globally — comparable to WGM in scope, donor model, and international footprint.
• Christian Missionary Alliance (CMA): Denominational missions movement sending missionaries globally with structured mobilization, similar theological alignment, and a comparable donor-supported operational model to WGM.
• Youth With A Mission (YWAM): Global, interdenominational Christian missionary mobilization organization operating in 100+ countries with short-term, mid-term, and long-term service pathways — directly comparable to WGM's model of recruiting and deploying missionaries worldwide.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubepodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-approach/id1578479468
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/world-gospel-mission

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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