About Us
The Wesleyan Workshop team is a diverse group from different countries and continents, united by a shared passion to serve the global Wesleyan Church, providing material for spiritual growth. Our mission is to equip churches, leaders, and laymen with free, Biblically grounded resources that inspire discipleship and support varied areas of ministry.
Wesleyan Workshop began with the vision of making high-quality material, Bible-based material accessible to teachers across the world. Today, our multilingual website serves as a bank of free Bible studies, children's activities, discipleship guides, and more, with more to come. All materials are designed to be practical, easy to use, and adaptable to local contexts.
Our team comes from many different cultural backgrounds—Brazil, America, Colombia, and Sri-Lanka to name a few—and we collaborate to create resources that reflect a global perspective, while still remaining faithful to Biblical truth. We also welcome volunteers who want to contribute by translating, reviewing, or developing new materials, helping us reach more churches around the world.
At Wesleyan Workshop, we believe that providing accessible, quality resources empowers churches to grow spiritually and strengthen their impact in their communities. We invite you to explore our materials, share them with your congregation, and join us in this mission of service and discipleship.
Our Story
This journey started simply, with a teenager who wanted discipleship. When she and the Brazilian missionary at the time started to work through the existing process, they both began to see ways to strengthen the material, update it, expand upon it, and deepen its Scriptural ties. They soon gained a vision for a curriculum that was simple, easy to learn, accessible to use without prior teaching experience, and based wholly in expository studying of Scripture.
After partnering with the Brazilian Wesleyan Church's Department of Education, it took several years of work, re-starts, and collaboration with other writers for this vision to be realized. But by then, the dream had grown. What if this discipleship tool was made available to other countries beyond Brazil? What if it was translated into other languages, usable by any culture, accessible to anyone with internet? And what if that was just the beginning—what if there was a place for anyone in the world to find materials for discipleship, Sunday School, church programs and more, in their own language?
And so, this website became the (beginning of the) answer to those questions. There remains a lot of collaboration, translation, and writing before we fully reach our goal, but we are blessed to have made it this far.
And we are also blessed to see how our group has grown; the Wesleyan Workshop team has expanded from two missionaries with the seed of an idea to a world-wide network, spanning continents from South America to South Asia. While our core team is still small, we are now privileged to work with a much larger community of volunteers, churches, pastors, missionaries, and professional translators, enabling us to continue reaching new languages and countries.
We acquire material in one of three ways: write it ourselves, partner with active churches to translate current material from various cultures, or investigate and select older materials from the Wesleyan Church's past catalogue.
Since this is a non-profit, we primarily rely on volunteers to help us with the linguistic and cultural translations needed to make this material available to new peoples. Each volunteer job lasts only as long as the translation process takes, with no lengthier commitments—unless a volunteer should choose to return for another project.
Our belief is that discipleship is one of, if not the, most vital functions of the Church—but that it is also an underdeveloped area in many churches across the world. Often it requires material for teaching, guidance in how to use the Scriptures effectively, and time to study, things which aren't always readily available. As far as acquiring material goes, one of the biggest barriers is language. While established churches in the English and Spanish speaking worlds might have access to works of Bible scholars from across decades, centuries, and even millennia to support their mission, many other countries have little more than the Bible in their own language.
By translating what we can into as many languages as we can, we hope to offer much needed support in this area, capacitating and uniting our brothers and sisters in Christ from across the world.