Our mission statement reads “Pioneers mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church planting movements in partnership with local churches.” I resonate with every word of Pioneers’ mission statement.
Pioneers has eight core values that direct much of the organization’s day-to-day behavior and decision making.
1. passion for God
2. unreached peoples
3. church planting movements
4. ethos of grace
5. the local church
6. team centered
7. innovation and flexibility
8. participatory servant leadership
As I have looked at the core values of different churches and organizations, I have encountered two kinds of core values (aspirational values and actual values). All eight of Pioneers core values are actual. And you may notice that four of our eight core values overlap with key phrases in our mission statement – teams, unreached peoples, church planting movements, local church.
The mission statement, core values, and the quality of the U.S. leadership of Pioneers are the things that drew me to the organization when I came on board three years ago. And they are what keep me with Pioneers today.
Pioneers recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. We work exclusively among unreached peoples (less than 2% evangelical Christian) in six regions of the world (East Asia, Eurasia & Americas, Mid Asia, North Africa & Middle East, Southeast Asia & Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa). We have 1958 workers on 191 church planting teams in 84 countries serving 130 people groups in 65 languages. Our U.S. headquarters is in Orlando, FL, with 62% of our world-wide workers coming from the U.S. There are 7 other mobilization bases around the globe (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Singapore).
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