Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society
Explaining Our Term Missionary “Society”
Our Vocation And Christian Lifestyle
Modest Clothes, The Sisters' Head Veil, And The Brothers' Beard
Our Specific Ministry As God's
"Sent Ones"!
Our Message To God's People: Pray With Us!
The Candidate The Lord Requires For
His Service
WHO
ARE WE?
Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society is not affiliated with any specific, established Christian religion or denomination; all its members must have been regenerated by the in-working power of the Holy Spirit - a work of God which transcends all religious and denominational lines. We belong to the Restored Holy Universal Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, which is a spiritual reality, not a religious institution of any kind.
Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society is under the sponsorship of Pilgrim Community Ventures.
We are fellow Christians who have simply assembled together to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We cannot belong to any specific denomination or association of Christian churches because these groupings tend to divide Christians in a way that goes beyond Scriptural teachings. We wish to be in active fellowship with all Christians with whom we share a same faith. We seek to live in real Christian unity, which does not come from us, but from the will of God.
We wish to bear no other name but that of "Christian," not because we believe ourselves to be better than other born-again Christians but simple because we wish to obey Revelation 3:8, yet recognizing our spiritual kinship with all Christians. This is why we cannot be attached to no organized nor centralized denomination. Our only rule of faith and practice must be the Holy Scriptures; so is our only spiritual Head, the Lord Jesus Christ. We must renounce all religious creeds and traditions of men which cannot be supported by Scripture, and which cause divisions, but must accept and believe the Scriptural truths and revelations that God, in His grace, has given and revealed to His servants throughout Church History; we can and wish to trace all of our spiritual roots back to the New Testament Age, not just to the Reformation or any other authentic Movement or Revival. Being fully aware of our human limitations, we cannot impose our convictions on anyone, through religious arguments or pressure to prove that we are right, because it would fall into the area of human opinions, and these are of no spiritual value. We must believe and seek to follow the teachings of Christ, of His apostles and prophets (Ephesians 2:20), which are the sole spiritual authority in His Church.
Therefore Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society is not a "church," nor yet another Christian denomination. We seek to respect all true believers everywhere and wish to be seen and known simply as a Society of Missionary workers, called Missionary Deacons, Deaconesses and Auxiliaries, that is, servants of Christ and of His own, within all Christian churches allowing us to fellowship with them.
OUR IDENTIFICATION AS PILGRIM
Our identification as "Pilgrim" comes from the words of the apostle Peter as he refers to Christians in his letter:
"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims." 1 Peter 2:11
As Christians, God calls us to be and identifies us as being strangers and pilgrims in the world - this is our God-assigned position, because we are not of this world, as Jesus so emphatically declared:
"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated
me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but
because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. Remember... the servant is not greater than his
lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept
my saying (teaching), they will keep your's also." John 15:18-20
EXPLAINING
OUR TERM MISSIONARY "SOCIETY"!
We use the term Missionary Society to express the calling and bond we have as missionaries. In Scripture, missionaries were called apostles - the sent-out ones, Jesus Himself being the very first Apostle of the Church! As sent-out ones, as apostles, or if you prefer the more modern term, as missionaries, we have banded into a loose society or team.
In the New Testament, every apostle, as he went out preaching the Word, strengthening and establishing (building up spiritually) the churches, was always part of a team effort; this team was always comprised of women, or sisters, who looked after the daily needs of the brethren: preparing food, doing laundry, mending and running errands, etc..., and also teaching and instructing women, for outside of public and out of door meetings; men, in that era, were forbidden to have any contact with the opposite gender, among the Jews as well as among the heathen; only women could teach and instruct other women and prepare them for baptism. Unfortunately, there is a mentality amongst some Christian groups, which does not recognize and see any place for a women's ministry of the Word in the Church. (conveniently forgetting that Christ is the Head of the Church, not men, and He can and will use anyone He so chooses). Our teaming up together is not a grouping of our ministries or of our local churches; it is a setting apart of believers by the Holy Spirit, joined together by a voluntary offering of each participant. Therefore, it is not a religious institution.
Our Missionary Society cannot, receive any funds or emit any receipts, for it seeks only to be a visible expression of God's spiritual call, and nothing more. Any gifts or donations made to help support our work must be sent to Pilgrim Community Ventures, which has been established for the specific purpose of handling all financial aspects of our work. We do not want to mix the things of Caesar with the spiritual things of the Lord. We cannot mix our governmental responsibilities with our spiritual responsibilities - the two are purposely divided.
OUR
EMBLEM & MOTTO
Christos-Pistis-Diakonos
Servants of Christ by faith!
As ordained Missionaries, we wear an emblem with four figures: a dove, representing the Holy Spirit and His work of sanctification; a two-edged sword, representing the Word of God; a fish, the secret sign by which the early persecuted Christians identified each other to one another; and a red fleur de lys. The fleur de lys was the French Huguenots' emblem, which they had taken from the king who had sent them to colonize New France in exchange for religious freedom; they were among the first Reformation Christians to want to be identified only as Christians; they were severely persecuted everywhere they went and cruelly martyred; our founders are direct descendants of these Huguenots - Christians whose witness was erased from the face of the earth through persecution, assimilation and annihilation. We wear their emblem to remind us that:
ü
Our forefathers' faith was taken from us through
persecution.
ü
Our Huguenot Forefathers are direct descendants of
the fourth and fifth century Holy Universal Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, which
was simply a spiritual reality, was born on Pentecost 33 A.D..
ü
As Christians, we are not the only ones on the face
of the earth.
We
were preceded by other dedicated and committed believers in Church History,
many of whom gave their very lives for Christ.
This is why our fleur de lys is red, to remember and honor all Christian
martyrs in every era, in every earthly Church expressions that has ever
existed. This is also the reason why
our sisters wear a red fleur de lys emblem on their head veil. We wish to remind ourselves that our
spiritual roots go back throughout History, to our spiritual ancestors, to the
Reformers and Church restoration of all Christian confessions and movements, to
the Church during the Dark Ages, to the Church persecuted and martyred during
the reigns of the pagan Roman emperors, and back to the apostolic Church era,
the early Church born on Pentecost.
ü
We wish to witness to our historical as well as our
spiritual link with all of God's earthly people, to remind us that we are but a
part, another link in the race that we must all run for God!
Other
Christians before us passed on to our generation the spiritual truths and
revelations they received from God. We
wish to respect and honor their memory and acknowledge their existence, so
that, should the Lord tarry, we can also pass on to others what He has given to
us.
ü To remind us that Satan can and will destroy us through worldliness and traditions if we are not careful!
We must be God's Church for today, not for the past or the future - a Church after His own heart and will! As French-speaking Christians, it is an encouragement to us to know that our own people in France were also an important part of God's redemption work here on earth - i.e. the Waldensians, the Huguenots etc...; to remind us that we also have a place in God's family as a race. Our people have been ignorant of the fact that God did visit and save some of our ancestors that the Gospel and the Church are not of English or American origins.
OUR
FOUNDERS
Brother Frank Petit was born in Sainte-Foy, Quebec. He came to know the Lord in Montreal in April 1977. He associated himself with a Christian Community of believers, called Christian Colony an Open Door. In January 1986, he was chosen by the Lord to lead this Community, which became officially incorporated as a non-profit corporation under the name of Pilgrim Community Ventures in September 1993, including Pilgrim Community Missionary Society, which was renamed Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society in October 2000. He was chosen and ordained as pastor (teacher and supervisor of new believers) of the Assembly of Christian Disciples in Casselman in September 2001, which was transferred to Moose Creek in 2005 and renamed the Assembly of Christian Disciple of North Stormount. He is presently the pastor of the Spiritual Christian Assembly in North Glengarry at Apple Hill. The Assembly of Christian Disciples in Casselman seeks to be a visible, local expression of the Holy Universal Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ!
Sister Frances (Cormier) Petit, assistant director and wife of Brother François, was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. In her pre-teen years, she had been touched by the life story of Theresa of the Child Jesus, a Carmelite nun, who wanted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but God truth, and entered the monastery for that very purpose. So Sister Frances entered a cloistered Roman Catholic Monastery in 1954, in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, not far from Quebec city. This she did, believing she would find God in her search for Him and His truth. She didn’t! She met the Lord in the People's Church, Toronto, Ontario, in January 1960. She graduated from Bible College in 1965, and worked a short time as a missionary for a French-speaking Baptist Mission in 1967. She moved to Montreal in 1971. In September 1975, co-founded with Sister Suzanne a Missionary Community, called Christian Community an Open Door, who aimed at helping street people, the elderly, single mothers and evangelizing French-speaking people. She was also a co-founder of Pilgrim Community Ventures, and a member of Pilgrim Community Missionary Society, renamed Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society; she is the mother of two adopted sons and the grand-mother of five grand-children. Her testimony is available at Pilgrim Christian Bookstore.
Sister Suzanne Gendron was born in Saint-Rémi de Nappierville, Quebec. She was led to the Lord in Montreal in December 1974 by Sister Frances; together they co-founded a Missionary Community in September 1975, called Christian Community an Open Door. She was also a co-founder of Pilgrim Community Ventures, and a member of Pilgrim Community Missionary Society, renamed Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society. Her testimony is available at Pilgrim Christian Bookstore.
We use the term Brother and Sister, not as a religious title, but simply to recognize our spiritual kinship in Christ; among us there is no importance given to our human identity; there is no division of race, of nationality, of ethnicity. We are all one in Christ as a serving, missionary Community, as Christ's servant-priests.
"Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh... if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things (our former
lives and selves) have passed away (died in Christ, never to be resurrected by
God or man); behold, all things are new (because we have living in us, a new
spiritual life which is eternal)." 2 Corinthians 5:16-17
OUR
VOCATION AND CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLE
His specific vocation to us included Communal living:
"...
those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither said any of them that ought of the things he
possessed was his own, but they had all things in common." Acts 4:32
We follow the example of the first Church at Jerusalem,
and the first disciples with Jesus, where Christians freely and voluntarily
pooled all the resources to help and assist those in need who were coming into
the local Church. Communal living is a
way by which this selfless way of life is expressed, as is the practice of
sharing all things common, which is to be our practical way to express love for
the brethren:
"Hereby
perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought
to lay down our lives for the brethren." 1 John 3:16
As children of God we are to give our lives one for another, this is our Christian duty, it is not simply an option. We give our lives one for another by living together in a Community of workers, called Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society.
As consecrated Christians and fellow servants of Christ we must seek:
1 - Our Sanctification
"This is the will of God... your
sanctification..."
1 Thessalonians 4:3
2 - To Walk in the Spirit
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit... they
that are in the flesh cannot please God... put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make not provision for the flesh..." Romans 8:1, 8; 13:14
"For,
brethren, you have been called unto liberty (freedom from the bondage of
keeping the law in our own strength); only use not liberty for an occasion to
(serve) the flesh (to do what you like), but by love serve one another."
Galatians 5:13
3 - To Preach only Christ:
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake."
2 Corinthians 4:5
4 - To Be the Salt of the Earth:
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the
salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good
for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are
the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do
men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it
giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
heaven." Matthew 5:13-16
5 - To be Witnesses, not just to be Mouth-Christians, but Visible Christian Witnesses!
"...and ye shall be witnesses unto me ...unto the uttermost parts of the earth." Acts 1:8
6 - To Call His people to Christian unity!
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
that shall believe on me through their word; that they may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may also be one in us; that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I
have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one." John
17:20-22
7 - To Call His People to Holiness, to Spiritual Maturity!
"According as he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame in
love." Ephesians 1:4
"...to present you holy and unblamable in his sight... as the elect of God, holy and beloved..." Colossians 1:22; 3:12
"Be ye therefore perfect (holy and mature), as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:48
"Till we come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man (spiritual maturity), unto the measure of the stature and the fullness of Christ." Ephesians 4:13
8 - To pray without ceasing through a prayer ministry
"We give thanks always to God for you all, making mention
of you in our prayers; remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and
labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of
God and our Father." 1 Thessalonians 1:3-4
"...we thank God without ceasing..." I Thessalonians 2:13
"Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." I Thessalonians 5:17-18
MODEST
CLOTHES, THE SISTERS' HEAD VEIL, AND THE BROTHERS' BEARD
As servant-priests of Christ, we wear modest clothes appropriate to each gender. The priests in the Old Testament wore distinctive clothes to honor the Lord God and to witness to their separation unto God. In the New Testament, believers are told to wear modest clothes; women, not to cut their hair and men to cut their hair, as a reminder of how God created us, serving as a witness to God's creation and order, not unisex's blurred confusion.
Likewise, men wear beards to witness to man's original creation and to identify to patriarchal authority. This is to be the outward sign of our priesthood and our separation from the world. God calls us to bear witness to our consecration as priests. His Kingdom is where voluntary obedience reigns, not force; where love for Christ compels, not customs and traditions; where His will and law are observed with one's whole heart, soul and mind, not man-made Church rules. This is God's specific call to us as Christians, for through Redemption, we belong to Christ and are no longer our own - He is the Lord, the one and only King of His Church!
Our sisters wear a head veil, because Scripture says that this is an ordinance of the Church (1 Corinthians 11:2), not merely some by-gone days tradition or cultural custom. They wear a head veil to represent and witness to their acceptance of the Kingdom rule of God in their lives (their being subject to man, man being subject to Christ, and Christ being subject to God), and because of the angels (1 Corinthians 11:10). Why is this done as a witness to the angels? To honour the obedient angels who are submitted to God's rule, who obey Him and serve in His kingship unconditionally; to remind to the disobedient angels of their fall and their eternal destiny. This is why Satan has caused this ordinance to be relegated to a mere custom and tradition (only since the mid 1950's); he doesn't want to be reminded of his disobedience to God, of his being cast out of Heaven, and of his defeat at Calvary. By observing, as priests, the wearing of modest clothes and the sisters' head veil, it is not our intention to judge or condemn anyone. We obey this because God has asked us to do so, as a visible witness to His spiritual government and lordship. God does not call us to impose this on any other Christian, but He asks us to be living examples and witnesses of His lordship and kingship in our daily lives!
OUR
DIVINE MANDATE
Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society has received a specific mandate from the Lord - to spread, during these last days, an undiluted message of His Gospel, and to beget real spiritual, scriptural local churches, as visible expressions of the Holy Universal Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, wherever true Christians and souls in quest of salvation will desire it also. Men (and women also) really love their religious institutions, which so often propagate division, but God does not approve of them. We know that after one or two generations of any spiritual movement brought about by God, it usually becomes spiritually dead, locked up in Church traditions and too often worldly. This is why God has also mandated us to call His children to stop disobeying Him, to unify and identify themselves solely to Him because time is coming to en end. And the devil, like a roaring lion, is seeking to devour all who want to turn to God to serve Him. He wants to keep his captives, captive in a worldly Church as well as the lost in the world, into a living, vibrant restored Church!
Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society's mandate therefore is to go and bring Christ's message for these last days everywhere in Canada, the United States, Africa, and in any other country where God will open a door for us and send our missionaries. We will go anywhere sincere and open-minded people will be ready to obey God's message, God's call to repentance, to service. Since it is the Lord who calls, it is He who will supply the needed workers and finances. God will be calling people of various languages, cultures and countries to His service. Once trained and spiritually qualified, they will go and bring God's message for these last days to: their own people all over the world; to people thirsting for God; to people caught in spiritual blindness; to people looking for the One and Only True God! The last harvest is nearly ready! God will call and send His servants to gather in the harvest! Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society was born of God to take an active part in this last ingathering of souls! Amen!
OUR
OBJECTIVES AND GOALS
As a Missionary Society or team, the Holy Spirit has given our vision, aims and goals to us; we will follow through by His grace and His empowering. And as such, we consider ourselves as simply another arm, another helping ministry bringing its particular, unique share to the whole ministry; we consider ourselves simply another venue of service in the Church, to the glory of God our Father, within the rest of the Body of Christ. We know we can and have learned much from our fellow brethren every-where, and we are open to all that God, in His grace, has shown and given them; but we also desire to proclaim what God has shown and given us. We are opened to share with God's people, everywhere!
God's objectives and goals for us include the following:
z Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. We labour for the Lord seeking to spiritually beget and establish purely Christian churches; it has never been our aim or goal to establish "Pilgrim churches" as a denomination. We seek to beget and establish Christian churches, which will be local in scope, missionary minded and based solely on Scripture, which will be earthly, visible expressions of His Holy Universal Apostolic church.!
z Labor at the spiritual restoration of the Body of Christ by seeking to bring true Christian unity among believers. Church divisions are a manifestation of the flesh (Galatians 5:20) and consequently wrong; they hamper God's complete plan for His own. In saying this, we do not say or imply that there are no true believers in such churches and that they are not doing anything good, nor are we implying that we are better than they are; but we are saying that, even if God in His grace blesses and uses them, this is not His most blessed will for His own! It is not true that it does not matter which name we honor as long as we preach the truth. In His Word, Christ calls us to hold true to His Word, not to a Church division, and not to deny His Name (Revelation 3:8) by holding any other name than Christian. Christ's prayer was that His Church may be one, so that the world might see His love and come to know Him. That is a part of God's call and commission to all His people.
z Seek to help establish the lordship of Christ as a living reality through the recognition and acceptance of the Kingdom of God in our own lives, in the lives of individual believers and in the churches. Visiting many churches in today's Christendom, we were confronted by this lack of knowledge in numerous churches; many have a very vague idea of what this means, having absolutely no down to earth concept of living in the Kingdom of God and under the Kingdom rule of Christ in their lives and in the Church.
z Seek to help people in need, by any means God opens the way for us to do so.
z Pray without ceasing for God's People, the needy and the lost; to work as a support ministry for our fellow workers, through a worldwide prayer net of fellow believers.
OUR SPECIFIC MINISTRY AS GOD'S "SENT
ONES"!
Our specific ministry as God's "sent ones," came to our founding sisters in 1974 from these God-given promises and convictions:
"Behold,
I have set before thee an open door, and no one can shut it..." Revelation 3:8
On September 25th. 1975, the Lord God Himself opened a door of ministry for Sister Frances and Sister Suzanne, and numerous are those who have tried to shut that door over the past twenty-five years. Although small in number, that door which God opened is still opened to whomsoever will. In 2004, three of our missionaries went to Kenya, and two new local churches were begotten and established, one in Nakuru and one in Nairobi. Amen!
In October 1993, the Lord gave us the following Scripture
verses, to second our call and our ministry as His missionaries, as His
"sent ones."
"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor... sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised, ...preach the acceptable year of the
Lord." Luke
4:18-20
God has called and anointed us, as His missionaries, as His "sent ones," to:
- Preach the Gospel of the kingdom of God and of the Lord Jesus-Christ to the poor - to those who have nothing, to those in our society who are rejected, misunderstood, forgotten and abandoned by traditional and non-traditional religions.
- Heal the brokenhearted - those whose lives have been wrecked by divorce, sexual, emotional, psychological or religious abuse - for we have been where these people are.
- Preach deliverance to the captives - bring God's Good News of God's Kingdom living to those who are held captive by dead religious traditions, by traditional and non-traditional churches; in ecclesiastical worldliness; those who are addicted to all kinds of sins, or lifestyles, which God does not approve or wish, for His loved ones.
- Sight to the blind - bring God's light to those who are blinded by false religion - cults and paganism; by a false Christian religion which teaches a salvation by faith plus something else like good works; by a false sense of spiritual security, an incomplete presentation of God's salvation - "once saved, always saved"; as well as by a false man-made presentation and imparted erroneous fear of losing one's "eternal life" if one does not persevere to the end.
- Set at liberty them that are bruised - souls who have been damaged by addiction and abuses of all kinds.
- Preach the acceptable year of the Lord - bring clearly and undiluted the true Gospel of Jesus-Christ to searching and hungry souls in these Last Days preceding the glorious return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus-Christ, the Son of God - to restore His Church to what He wants it to be.
OUR
MESSAGE TO GOD'S PEOPLE: PRAY WITH US!
Since we have been led of the Lord to bring the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, we will soon launch out full-time evangelism. We are also considering and praying about starting a missionary outreach among Acadian people. A mission field is anywhere, near or far where specific peoples, specific nationalities or races have not been reached greatly with the Gospel; French Canadians and Acadians have fall into that category, even though various Christian groups have been implanted in their midst. In the past they were like the Samaria of the Church in Jerusalem in our country. Another twentieth Century area which has also become a Mission field is the Holy Universal Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ (every born again individual on earth) which is spiritually sick and handicapped because of all the divisions and splits which inundate her; that apostolic field has also been given to us of the Lord. We are also ministering the Word through free Bible Correspondence Courses in Canada and in Kenya, East Africa. We would ask you to support us in prayer.
Our work already includes Pilgrim Christian Bible Training School for candidates to our missionary team and whosoever wishes to know the Word of God. We will train any Christian of any language or background who desires to follow God with us. So we also ask you to pray with us on this matter for the Lord's leading.
We also ask you to support us by becoming partners in prayer with us for our mission field, for our contacts and trainees, for us as fellow laborers in the Lord, and for our financial needs. We live by faith, making our needs known to the Lord; we would therefore greatly appreciate it if some of God's people would second us also in this prayer ministry.
If we can give you more information; if we can be of any help whatsoever; if you wish to receive our news letters periodically; if you are ready to extend to us the hand of Christian fellowship; if you would like to be our prayer partners; if God has spoken to you and if you would like to consider entering God's service with our missionary team; do not hesitate to contact us; and it would be a pleasure for us to answer and share with you.
THE
CANDIDATE THE LORD REQUIRES FOR HIS SERVICE
Any true Christian man or woman, eighteen years or over, of any language, race and culture, who wants to devote his\her life to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ, to his people and to those in need.
Any Christian gifted with a pioneer spirit, a spirit of adventure, open-mindedness, teachable, ready and willing to face new frontiers, to enter into a wonderful adventure with God by faith; ready to sacrifice one's self, to be content with the simple necessities of daily life, to serve the One and Only True God - Jesus Christ - without the limitations, nor the identification to a religious group whatsoever; not afraid of hard work, ready to learn the principles and teachings of Holy Scripture, to learn obedience and submission to the will of God, to submit himself to the inner cleansing and pruning work of the Holy Spirit in his life, that is, be willing to enroll in the school of the Holy Spirit; ready to endure scorn, persecution and rejection from society, as well as from various religious groups - any Christian willing to take up the challenge described above by taking up his cross and denying himself to follow the Lord, will make a tremendous missionary candidate - a royal priest of God and Christ.
OUR MINISTERIAL SERVICES
As God's servants for His Church, the Lord has asked us to minister within the Body of Christ in the following manner:
v Ministerial
Conferences:
Ø To explain and call God's people into a full and complete relationship with Jesus Christ as their Lord and king, in a daily, practical life style in their individual and Church lives.
Ø To help local churches in the evangelism efforts by holding conferences to help them understand and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, not merely of receiving initial salvation, and by explaining practical issues in helping certain religious people understand fully the plan of salvation.
Ø To help one or several Christian churches in a given locality to work out practical ways of implementing Christian unity within their city or village, without losing the divine truths they already possess, but by understanding, and welcoming one another, and adjusting to one another, according to God's truth and will, not the will and wishes of the flesh.
Ø To help Christians realize their need of complete sanctification through the inner working work of the Holy Spirit, as they learn to live by faith by activating the life of Christ residing within them through the new birth.
Ø To present various missionary ministries in different countries, and gather prayer support through a worldwide prayer ministry.
v Spiritual Relief Ministry:
Ø To help local churches without any qualified elders with some of our missionaries taking temporary pastoral and preaching duties until God's man is found.
Ø By accepting preaching assignments in different local churches.
v Pilgrim Christian Missionary Bible Training School: a ministry which offers Bible training courses in the following realms:
Ø
Instruct unbelievers in the way of the Lord - Soul
in Quest of Salvation Courses.
Ø Instruct new believers - catechumens - in the basic truths of the Christian life, to help them live for Christ as they are called to do, and to help them establish true Christian homes - Basic Christian Life Courses.
Ø To give spiritual and academic courses in order to equip and train the new local Church leaders: Church elders, deacons and deaconesses - Local Church Leadership Courses.
Ø To give spiritual and academic courses in order to equip and train the new missionary candidates at the Pilgrim Christian Missionary Society Novitiate - Bible Training Courses for Missionary Deacons and Deaconesses.
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