Noel Woodroffe


Noel Woodroffe is the Senior Elder of Elijah Centre and President of Congress WBN, an international, faith-centered non-profit organization, with an extensive church network. Congress WBN now has churches in more than 120 nations.

Church Planting

Woodroffe started Elijah Centre on December 23, 1990 in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. The church began with a few members and grew into a borderless kingdom community, with a number of satellite sites, referred to as Embassies, across the globe in major cities in both developed and developing countries.
Elijah Centre's primary base is in Trinidad with Woodroffe, as the Senior Elder and Graham Taylor the Associate Pastor. The mandate of Elijah Centre is “Preparing the way, Preparing the people, Restoring all things” and seeks to bring all people into maturity, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Woodroffe, also started NorthGate College in 1999. NorthGate College is located in St. Augustine, in Trinidad and is an expression of the non-profit organization, Congress WBN in the sphere of education. NorthGate College claims that it "seeks to engineer a quality learning environment that goes far beyond an academic experience."
In 2014, the school won an award from US-based Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math initiative Cubes in Space for the Top Design Category. NorthGate College's watchwords are Purpose, Accuracy and Destiny; discover your life's purpose, determine to accomplish it without error, fulfill your destiny. To date there are NorthGate schools in Jamaica, Kenya, Uganda, United States and Zambia.