The 19th Pioneer Mission Movement (PMM) dedication service was held on November 4, 2020, at Paju International Church, during the 2020 Annual Council of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD). PMM is the mission project for the purpose of church planting in other countries that are less evangelized. This year, for their cross-cultural ministries, three pastors and their family members applied for PMM and promised to dedicate themselves through this special dedication service.
Usually, a PMM dedication service has been held in a big church in order to share the mission spirit with church members and let them support this project with their prayer and finance. However, due to COVID-19, the General Conference leaders were not able to attend NSD Annual Council and even the meeting was held through the Zoom, a video conference platform. Only few leaders staying in Korea were invited to congratulate PMM pastors and their family.
These three PMM families will be sent to Taiwan for church planting in big cities. NSD president Kim SiYoung encouraged them with the message titled “The Channel of Blessings.” NSD PMM coordinator Joo MinHo presided the dedication service and three Pastors’ and their spouses’ names were announced by Pastor Lee JiChoon, ministerial secretary of the Korean Union Conference (KUC). Pastor Hwang ChunKwang, KUC President, gave them welcome remark and NSD ministerial secretary Ron Clouzet offered the dedicatory prayer for those three PMM pastors and their spounses.
The names of three PMM pastors of the 19th batch are as follows: Kim KwangSeong, Kim SeDam, and Cho SeongKyu. As of November 2020, 38 families are currently serving in 31 different countries as PMM missionaries.
News Article by Joo MinHo, NSD Adventist Mission Director