OUR  VISION

To see local churches actively involved in global missions by strategically living out God's missional purpose.

OUR MISSION

To empower the local church to be a dynamic missions congregation by exposing & training its leaders and missionary candidates in multi - cultural and global missions.

Brief Missions Biography

Gerald was called by  the Lord Jesus at the age of 16 to dedicate his life for full time ministry.  He graduated from Western Pentecostal Bible College, Abbotsford, B.C. Canada  in 1986 .   After 4 years of pastoral ministry in BC he took a short term trip to South America which widened his scope of ministry perspective.  In 1989 Gerald moved to Tanzania, East Africa begining his full time missions ministry by teaching theology at the Mwanza Bible College.

In 1992 Gerald headed back to Canada resuming part time pastoral duties in Kelowna, B.C. and was commissioned to begin University Christian Ministry (UCM) while taking courses at  Okanagan University College (OUC).  He met Pat at the at  OUC who was full time completing her BEd.   Pat had just returned from a short term missions trip to the Orient and was compelled by a divine dream to begin a Christian club that year on campus.  By 1993 their joint efforts established the UCM on campus along with the OUC Chaplaincy program.

Pat  was teaching in the children's ministry at Evangel Tabernacle, Kelowna from 1985 - 1992 as well as serving on the board of the Kelowna Christian school.  Her first missions experience was to Macau for two summers teaching English and directing a DVBS program in 1991-92.

In May of 1995 Gerald married Pat who was widowed by her first husband and they headed into a missions adventure with their two children Jacquie & Ryan back to Tanzania to pastor the Dar es Salaam Pentecostal church.  They served 4 years fulfilling duties as both local pastor and regional missionary for several branch churches as well as interim teachers at the Mwanza Bible College. Their missions emphasis was and is training and empowering of national leadership to do the work of the ministry and to ensure that national churches have a missions focus.  Both their children graduated from Rift Valley Academy in Kenya and returned to Canada to resume post graduate studies.

In 1999 the church in Dar es Salaam was successfully nationalized and they took two years of extended furlough for studies at Regent College and ACTS Seminary in BC.  In 2001 they moved  back to Africa, firstly to Zambia as interim teachers at Trans Africa Theological College in Kitwe, then moved to Pretoria, South Africa in 2002 to assume directorship of Missions Exposure & Training (MET).

CORE VALUES

We believe in :

Team partnership in life and ministry which means sharing the preaching and teaching ministry according to gifting as a couple and emphasizing the call of God according to Gal. 3:16. 

Modeling servant leadership in everyday life experience and demonstrating a unity of God's purpose and call in marital and ministry relationships.

Openess and interactive discussions on ministry experiences: power of personal testimony to encourage & develop relationships.

Central role of the word, worship & prayer for ongoing maturity in discipleship: exposure to a variety of missions models to provide a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of missions.

VISION Our current missionary vision is to pass on the mantle of missions to the African church by equipping and empowering African Church leaders to engage in  multi-cultural and global missions contexts.  The African church has a joyful vibrancy and dependence on the Holy Spirit that will greatly strengthen and expand the churches global missions endeavor.  Indeed they they possess the  spiritual potential to precipitate a third great awakening amongst the nations of the world.