About Us

World Challenge, Inc. was founded by Reverend David Wilkerson in 1971 and served as a corporate umbrella for his worldwide crusades, ministers conferences, book and tract publication, video production, street evangelism, literature distribution, church planting, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and many charitable outreaches to the poor including orphanages, overseas widows’ fund, emergency/disaster relief, healthcare/clinics, community development and feeding centers. Upon his death April 27, 2011, his son Gary Wilkerson assumed leadership for all these outreaches which continue to flourish and expand, as God leads. World Challenge, Inc. has had a mailing list to hundreds of thousands of people who regularly receive copies of David and Gary's sermons and ministry updates. 

Mission Statement

To promote and perpetuate the doctrines of Christianity as a religion through the public proclamation of the teachings of Jesus Christ, and to engage in those activities necessary and expedient thereto, including but not limited to the establishing and conducting of a trans-denominational Christian church.

What We Believe

• The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16).

• There is one true God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19).

• In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His personal, future return to the earth in power and glory to rule for a thousand years (John 1:1; Matthew 1:18; Matthew 28:5-6; Revelation 20:4).

• In the Blessed Hope, the soon return of Christ to receive His bride at His coming (Titus 2:13).

• Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to personal salvation (Titus 3:5).

• In Divine Healing of the human body provided through the redemptive work of Christ on the Cross in answer to believing prayer (1 Peter 2:24).

• The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, is given to believers who ask for it, with all the evidence manifested in the book of Acts (Acts 2:4).

• The Church of Jesus Christ is the universal, spiritual body of believers from every tribe, tongue, kindred and race of peoples, and is indwelt by God through the Holy Spirit and divinely empowered to fulfill the Great Commission on earth (Ephesians 1:20-23; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Colossians 1:18-19; Revelation 5:9).

• In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life (Galatians 5:16-25).

• In the resurrection and final judgment of both the saved and the lost, the first to everlasting life and the second to everlasting damnation (Revelation 20:11-15).

• In the new heavens and the new earth and the holy Jerusalem, the city of God, descending out of heaven and filled with God's glory (Revelation 21:1-2, 10).