In Congo you are always confronted by huge numbers. Looking at the CECCA and all its needs and opportunities, the numbers to be reached, helped, taught and discipled are mind boggling. Media can help multiply the message.

Congo is a youthful country. Well over half of the country's population is aged 15 and under. In the villages, towns and cities one is continually struck by the numbers of children and teenagers.

Youth, however, have been sadly neglected in the spiritual ministry of CECCA (the WEC related church). Efforts have been made to provide schooling, and today thousands of children are enrolled in the CECCA system of primary schools and many hundreds in the 3 functioning high schools. Yet the spiritual ministry to these children is minimal.

People in Congo give the gospel a hearing. Large numbers come to outdoor evangelistic church services. And not only do people listen; they respond. In a meeting of 1000 people 20, 50 or even 100 or more might come forward at the call to repentance. Each year thousands upon thousands indicate that they want to become Christians. 

Sadly there is another side to this encouraging picture.

CECCA is the name of the WEC related church in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are the initials, in French, of the Evangelical Community of Christ in the Heart of Africa. 

The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the largest, most populous countries of sub-saharan Africa. Covered for the most part by dense equatorial and tropical forest it is home to some 52 million people. Rich in natural resources, it has been systematically exploited first by colonial rule then by its own African leaders.