PGC Foundation equipping the next generation of missionaries
2010 Emphasis
1) Ongoing church planting in unreached areas
2) Leadership training
3) Sustainable livlihood for indigenous believers
4) Expanded coaching of ministries and missionaries
5) Church mobilization and training for missions
6) Compassionate outreach to the poorest of the poor
7) Church planting missionary training
NEW: Discipleship Manual. Instead of revisiting the fundamentals each time I teach on missions I've put together a short discipleship manual entitled, In His Steps, practical disciple making in any context. You can read it in the articles and archives
Introduction video for a mesage Tom gave recently on the Infinitude of God
WHERE WE'VE COME FROM...
AND WHERE WE ARE GOING
The work of Philippine Gospel Commission (PGC) started in 1991 through the efforts of Tom and Evelyn MacIntosh. For two years they served as rural medical missionaries and built strong relationships with unreached ethnic communities and thousands of their patients. After building up this mission for thirteen years they passed leadership over to Filipino missionary leadership in 2004. Our goal through PGC has always been to plant biblically based, self-sustaining churches among specific unreached people groups in Mindanao, Presently we have about 100 underground converts meeting in three separate house churches with two bi-vocational pastors from this people group.
This represents a pretty high level of success regardless of how you break it down. When we began in 1991 there had never been a church among our people group…ever. But now we want to take this effort to the next level of biblical and strategic sustainability. For thirteen years we built PGC into a strong church planting mission for Filipinos. We invested heavily into the lives of our staff and trained them to be committed, professionals that take success in the great commission seriously. After we passed leadership over to our staff we left for a season to the states where we spent nearly five years in Gulfport, Mississippi. During that time the PGC staff remained faithful and continued to build the mission and the underground church despite the unexpected death of my protégé from a brain tumor, death threats and war. Now that we are back we could try to build up PGC more and perpetuate its mission activity among our people group. But we feel it is more biblical, more sustainable and more strategic to instead, with the PGC staff, invest primarily in the lives of the converts from this group with the goal of someday passing the ministry responsibilities for their own people completely over to them. This is easily a fifteen year effort but it’s a goal worth reaching and one that we are willing to commit to.
Mighty to Save
Unreached People Groups in the Philippines
Who We Are
PGC Foundation was started by Tom and Evelyn MacIntosh after seventeen years of cross cultural ministry service in South East Asia. After a five year life season transition they have returned to the Philippines. Their service has included:
1) Medical and Dental service to the rural poor.
2) War refugee relief
3) Founding Kindergartens
4) Founding Preschools
5) Founding Vocational schools
6) Implementing feeding programs
7) Offering adult literacy programs
8) Promoting health and sanitation programs
9) Offering Youth oriented activities
10) Church Planting among unreached people groups
11) Discipleship
12) Missionary Training
New ministries in development now include livlihood training and coop development, Christian family training, and leadership mentoring.
PGC Foundation was founded in part to continue support to ministries started by Tom and Evelyn and to provide a means to pursue new avenues of service in God
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THIS MINISTRY FINANCIALLY, YOUR GIFTS CAN BE SENT TO:
PGC foundation
P.O. Box 6002
Gulfport, MS 39506
OR
you can give online by clicking on the "online giving" button on this page
