SOWERS International is an interdenominational faith mission, committed primarily to the evangelistic opportunities in countries where people are accessible to open air evangelism. SOWERS believes the local church is God’s agent for evangelism and motivates, trains and encourages churches for open air evangelism and church planting.
All staff are nationals in developing countries who speak the local languages and understand their spiritual and cultural environment.
Our History
The SOWERS Program was developed in the Philippines in 1975 by New Zealand missionaries from Open Air Campaigners (OAC). In 1988 OAC released the Program to a newly formed Sowers International which had its headquarters in New Zealand. The ministry is firmly established internationally.
Our Leadership Structure
An international Governance Board oversees the Mission, representing National Boards. An Executive Team is responsible to the Governance Board for international co-ordination. National Boards supervise the work in each country.
Australian Board
From left: Phil, Paul, Geoff, Neil
Wendell, Ella, Selwyn, Elizabeth
SOWERS International formed a Board in Australia in 1993 to support Australian missionary candidates. Then in 1994 the Board sent Selwyn and Christine Sexton to Africa.
The Australian Board supports the ministry in six African countries. Since 1994 the work of Sowers International in Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and more recently in Uganda and Kenya, has developed and expanded. The Gospel is being preached and hundreds are coming to Christ and joining local churches. Many new churches are being planted.
The full range of the SOWERS Program training can now be done by Nationals in Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya, making these countries fully self-sufficient in the SOWERS Program. SOWERS is reaching into other countries in the region.