I have some really exciting news! I have been appointed by Pioneers to help reach the unreached peoples of the world!

This means that I have begun a journey to go out to the field. I need to find monthly sponsors, take some classes, go to several trainings, and read several books. I am really excited about it!

The area of interest that I have been looking at is E. Asia. There is much work that needs to be done there and many people who have never heard the Good News. I will keep everyone posted on the journey the Lord is taking me on in this thread. Please keep me in your prayers! Thanks!


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Exiting news indeed! I'm not familiar with Pioneers, can you give us a little background on this missions group?

In Christ,

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Ron Halverson

Here is the Mission Statement for Pioneers:

Pioneers mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church-planting movements in partnership with local churches.

There core values are:

Passion for God
Unreached People Groups
Church-Planting movements
Ethos of Grace
Local Church
Team Focus
Innovation and Flexibility
Participatory Servant Leadership


Each one of those core values are a focus of pioneers, but the most central one is passion for God. They want to send workers who love Jesus and seek Him above all else. They are also highly focused on unreached peoples--people who've never heard the Gospel, especially those who have no gospel witness in their native language (and there is over 6,500 of them left!). The goal is to plant churches that will self-perpetuate amongst the native peoples, which means that the workers will eventually move to another area once their part of the work is accomplished.

Greg,

Can you redo your quote to match the updates I put in. Thanks!