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The History of WCG Foreign Works 

Refer also to History of Local Churches in the USA. Read Collection of Information on Various Church of God Groups. Some of these groups preceded WCG and some merged with it.

This section includes articles from the Good News and other publications. There would be further information in Coworker Letters, Worldwide News, Pastor-General's Report etc.

Region

Comment

Africa  
Asia  
Australia Including Church of God News Australian Edition and History of the Sydney Churches
Britain From what can be gathered, a local Church of God News was not published for this region
Canada From what can be gathered, a local Church of God News may not have been published for this region
Europe  
New Zealand From what can be gathered, a local Church of God News was not published for this region
South & Central America  
South Africa From what can be gathered, a local Church of God News was not published for this region

 

The following is from the booklet Come Help Humanity (1976), p. 29: 

“International Offices

We now have 12 offices on five continents. We list them here in the order of their founding:

London, England – January 1953

Sydney, Australia (now Burleigh Heads) – December 1959

Vancouver, Canada – February 1961

Dusseldorf, West Germany (now Bonn) – April 1962

Manila, Philippines - July 1962

Geneva, Switzerland – October 1963

Johannesburg, South Africa – February 1964

Jerusalem – April 1967

Mexico City, Mexico – October 1967

Auckland, New Zealand – August 1968

Salisbury, Rhodesia – December 1972

Utrecht, Holland – August 1975.”