Tom and Evelyn Macintosh

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, 

 When we began in 1991 there had never been a church among our people group…ever.  But now with a dedicated young church, 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 twenty year effort but it’s a goal worth reaching and one that we are willing to commit to.