WEC has five colleges located in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong and The Netherlands. These offer full programmes lasting two, three or four years. For those with some Bible training already, there is a World Mission Training Centre in Canada which provides a special one year programme, specifically in missions. Each applicant wishing to join WEC is carefully screened by asking them to answer questions regarding their doctrinal position, medical fitness and general attitude. We expect applicants to have already demonstrated a desire to serve God in their local churches.
Contact is made with the applicant's home church as soon as formal enquiry is made.
Once it is clear that the church's leadership is sympathetic and supportive, we seek to involve them in the whole selection process. Once a person has been accepted as a candidate, they spend four months on a candidates course, being orientated to service with WEC International and preparation for life overseas. Candidates will make a study of the country they are going to and are involved in the life of the sending base, doing practical work and getting to know how WEC operates. During this period candidates are responsible to the Candidates' Director to whom they relate. It is the Candidates' Director who provides the sending church and prospective field with information regarding the canidate's progress.