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Welcome to GWC!
With an estimated 784 million Christians across all denominations, the centre of the global Church is now in Africa. The remarkable growth of the Church, coupled with the continent’s rapidly expanding and youthful population, presents immense gospel opportunity.
While Africa is highly churched, more than 90% of church leaders are untrained. Without Bible-based preaching, the Church lacks Christ-centred theology and has fallen prey to a scourge of false teaching.
George Whitefield College (GWC) has a strategic opportunity to provide solid theological education that can shape the Church in Africa. Established in 1989 as a ministry training college for students of the Church of England in South Africa (CESA) - now Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa (REACH-SA) - the College has, through the Lord’s grace, grown to become a rich ministry training ground for students representing more than 15 different African nationalities. Our founding denomination remains a key sending partner of students, while we have expanded to attract study candidates from all over the world.
Our alumni, schooled in a Bible-focused and challenging learning environment, are widely engaged in ministry across Africa and globally. The College’s campus has seen significant development, with many plans for further expansion.
Please find out more about us and become a part of our story as we equip God’s people for faithful gospel ministry.
If the church is to stand firm in the decades to come, it will require leaders who are not only passionate, but well-trained - men and women who can handle Scripture with knowledge, clarity, and conviction. That has always been at the heart of GWC’s calling. And it remains so today. This, in the face of Bible colleges around the world closing their doors, or being absorbed into broader academic structures - often at the cost of their theological clarity and evangelical conviction. When theological education weakens, the training of faithful preachers weakens. And when that happens, the long-term health of the church is placed at risk. This is why the present moment in time is not simply one of organisational development, but of spiritual significance.
Rev Dr Mark Dickson
