President
Gary Wilkerson
Gary leads World Challenge with a vision for raising up leaders who plant churches, care for the vulnerable, and preach a gospel of grace to a hurting world.
"The gospel isn't a message we defend from a distance — it's a life we give away up close."
— Gary Wilkerson
Biography
A Pastor's Heart for the Orphan and the Widow
Gary Wilkerson is an author, speaker, and the president of World Challenge Inc., the international ministry founded by his father, David Wilkerson. With a deep compassion for the vulnerable, he leads World Challenge in bringing Christ-centered care to orphans and widows in some of the world’s most impoverished, war-torn, persecuted, and unreached regions.
Throughout 50 years of ministry, Gary has traveled extensively, planted churches, served among people living in extreme poverty, and spoken at evangelistic and church leadership conferences in 70 countries. Today, he passionately advocates World Challenge’s vision to see every orphan and widow in crisis experience the love and care of Jesus Christ.
Gary and his wife, Kelly, live in Colorado Springs, where they enjoy spending time with their four children and twelve grandchildren.
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Watch the Latest Sermons from Gary Wilkerson
Zacchaeus' story shows us that the ache for more of God, even if you've faithfully followed him for years, isn't ingratitude. It's one of God's greatest gifts.
Gary Wilkerson introduces the Jesus most believers have never met: the joyful Jesus, whose full, unspeakable joy was placed inside you long ago and can never be taken away.
Gary Wilkerson shows us that the in-and-out Christian life ends when you understand Romans 8:9: you, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit—and that changes everything.