Presbyterian Mission International
Read the Winter-Spring, 2008 ministry update from PMI Vice-President David Calhoun.
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Presbyterian Mission International (PMI) is a network of U.S.-based Christians and select gospel ministers who are from outside the U.S. (normally by birth and upbringing, but also perhaps through significant international ministry experience or having an international marriage), but who have completed a degree at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. This PMI network consists of triangular partnerships between these select international Covenant graduates, U.S. Christians and a governing board. One important purpose of these partnerships is to serve and equip each other for Christian living through mutual prayer and encouragement. Another purpose is financially to enable the international graduates to return to their countries of origin and conduct full-time gospel ministry -- or as PMI's vision statement puts it, to labor in Evangelism and Church-planting, Leadership training, Holistic ministries and Connecting churches internationally.
I invite you to browse through the various missionaries' and scholars' pages and learn the details of the works in progress. If you have further questions about PMI or an interest in supporting a particular missionary or scholar, please feel free to contact me or any member of the PMI board.
Dr. Nelson Jennings
PMI President
Presbyterian Mission International
12330 Conway Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63141
Telephone: (314) 434-4044
Fax: (314) 434-4819
Email: pmi@covenantseminary.edu
Winter-Spring, 2008
PMI Ministry Update
David Calhoun, Vice-President
As I get older, I am struck with how fast everything seems to change. The years come and go. Yesterday's headlines are forgotten quickly, as something new captures our attention. But as I write these words at the beginning of this new year of 2008, I am reminded of things that never change -- the lostness of multitudes without Christ, the amazing grace of God, our Lord's "great commission" which commands us to take the Gospel into all the world, and our PMI missionaries who are faithfully and sacrificially doing just that.
PMI began twenty years ago in 1988 when Dr. Robert G. Rayburn founded the mission to provide financial and prayer support to enable a Covenant Seminary student, Khen Tombing, to return to his native Manipur, India, as a full-time missionary to his own people. For five years Khen and his wife, Rith, were the only PMI missionaries, until 1993 when Paul Billy Arnold was accepted by the PMI board to plant a church in Bangalore (India) and Koji and Marcia Esaki went to Japan. These missionaries have through the years been joined by twenty-six others (serving in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and New Zealand). They are engaged in evangelism, church planting, teaching and training, translating Christian books, and a variety of mercy ministries. In addition there are a number of PMI scholars, studying at Covenant Seminary, with financial support from PMI.
PMI is served by a faithful board of pastors, professors, and laymen. Five are faculty members at Covenant, one is missions pastor of a St. Louis church, and two are laymen who have experience in missions. Jean Lehmkuhl, Covenant Seminary Controller, provides valuable assistant as treasurer. PMI president, Dr. Nelson Jennings, who served as a missionary in Japan for thirteen years, recently published God The Real Superpower: Rethinking Our Role in Missions and has been selected as editor of the prestigious journal Missiology: An International Review.
Yours in Christ,
David Calhoun
Vice-President
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Presbyterian Mission International
12330 Conway Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63141
Telephone: (314) 434-4044
Fax: (314) 434-4819
