Who Are We?

It all started in September 1995 when Dr Raymond Lombard from Cape Town was moved by the Holy Spirit to initiate a project that would ultimately reach homes, tribes, clans, families and villages throughout Africa with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

On the 5th of September 1995, at 5am in the morning during his prayer time, Raymond experienced a touch of God on his life concerning a special calling into the Mission Field (1 Cor 16:9). This resulted in the formation of Wheels for God’s Word (WGW). Today, this is a mission organisation that is doing work in 42 countries on the African continent.

Since the formation of this organisation, Raymond has globally trained over 32 200 preachers, missionaries and Church leaders across 64 Church denominations. In Africa alone, he trained 24 600 pastors, evangelists and lay preachers. Through this ministry, more than 4 000 bicycles and many motorcycles have also been given to pastors and evangelists, which have helped spread the Gospel 10-12 times faster. These pastors and evangelists have been trained using the Heart of Man charts. Over 21 000 Heart of Man large charts, 80 827 Heart of Man booklets, 24 664 pocket size Heart of Man charts, and thousands of Bibles have been distributed in these countries. Wherever a bicycle was released to a preacher of the gospel, a “Heart of Man” chart and accompanying booklet was distributed as well. In Africa a bicycle is called a ”rural Mercedes”.

As the Director of Wheels for God’s Word, Raymond has been serving the Church in Africa in Missions for 30 years.

This Missions Ministry started in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu (Eastern Congo), in the Ituri rainforest. 1 420 Pygmy village churches were planted over many years. The result was that thousands of new village churches came into existence, and tens of thousands of souls were added to the kingdom of God.