Pacific Island Ministries (PIM) was incorporated in 1977 as a nonprofit organization in the State of California, to promote education and development in Papua New Guinea. It was established through the leadership of Orneal Kooyers by a group of USA West Coast Christian business people.
PIM's purpose can be stated in a sentence with key words emphasizing its seven aspects: PIM TEACHES and TRAINS for OBEDIENCE to GOD’S WORD that believers SERVE in a HOLISTIC manner to fulfil NEEDS in obedience to CHRIST. In each of these areas PIM tries to make a special contribution. Two texts providing guidance for this approach are Matthew 28:19-20 and Ephesians 4:12-13. They are the Great Commission and Apostle Paul’s directive to "Equip God’s people for the work of Christian service..
PIM's purpose can be stated in a sentence with key words emphasizing its seven aspects: PIM TEACHES and TRAINS for OBEDIENCE to GOD’S WORD that believers SERVE in a HOLISTIC manner to fulfil NEEDS in obedience to CHRIST. In each of these areas PIM tries to make a special contribution. Two texts providing guidance for this approach are Matthew 28:19-20 and Ephesians 4:12-13. They are the Great Commission and Apostle Paul’s directive to "Equip God’s people for the work of Christian service.”
A. TEACHING AND TRAINING. Discipling is teaching. God created man with the drive to become more than he is. PIM tries to foster this motive to help the Christian become what God wants him to be. Numerous short courses, teacher training classes, leadership and management seminars, elementary schools, a Sunday school program involving production and distribution of materials, and on-the-job training attest to this pursuit.
B. OBEDIENCE is the call of Scripture. Jesus says, "He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me..." (John 14:21). PIM aims to help the believer mature by learning to love Christ’s commands. Though the mission is evangelistic and works to this end, its primary concern is that the Christian grow in conformity to Christ so he becomes a productive member of the Body and an asset to the community.
C. PIM's focus is on GOD’S WORD. To obey Scripture one needs to know it. PIM’s courses, elementary schools, Sunday schools, church development program, and devotional activities teach the Bible as the foundation of all knowledge, authority, and conduct.
D. PIM's goal is to SERVE. It aims to aid individuals, churches, the government, and other missions. PIM is not a mission in the usual sense of the term. It is not a church or denomination. It does not baptize, perform ecclesiastical functions, or conduct communion. In all its activities, however, the mission’s object is to train God's people to develop their gifts and talents for service to others. One of the objects of this service is to prepare disciples for local church development who look to the Word of God for direction.
E. The mission is HOLISTIC in method. It aims to respond to all human need, not just spiritual. Man being body, soul, and spirit, we believe sound development comes when his physical, intellectual, and spiritual needs are met.
F. PIM responds to NEED. PIM pioneers at the ends of the earth. It does not have any prescribed method. It aims to determine need and try to respond to that need in the particular locale. PIM’s motto is: "Working WITH the needy in their development." With this hands on approach PIM entertains requests for assistance, analyzes the need, and then responds to it as it is able and appropriate in the specific milieu from a biblical perspective. We believe this is in line with Christ’s statement, “The Son of Man can do nothing except what He sees the Father doing.”
G. PIM works in obedience to CHRIST. He is head of a kingdom in which men recognize authority, responsibility, gifts, and rights of each other. The aim is to develop effective, innovating working teams with each member submitting to Christ's rule and all to each other.
Pacific Island Ministries (PIM) was incorporated in 1977 as a nonprofit organization in the State of California, to promote education and development in Papua New Guinea. It was established through the leadership of Orneal Kooyers by a group of USA West Coast Christian business people.
Orneal's educational background is in science, mathematics, teaching, and school administration which led to a position of a school district superintendent in Northern California before going to New Guinea in 1961. His wife Martha was a teacher for six years in California elementary schools.
Kooyers worked for 16 years translating the New Testament into the language of the Waskuk people in the Sepik basin before forming PIM in 1977. Literacy courses led to the formation of a school called the Ambunti Akademi which taught Melanesian, English, mathematics and morals. Many Akademi students later became staff members of PIM while others realized employment in other areas of PNG, some as teachers, foremen, managers, clerks, bookkeepers, and workers in construction.
PIM (USA) is governed by a sixteen member Board of Directors that meets semiannually. Its Executive Committee meets regularly to conduct business in conformance to the laws of the State of California and the Internal Revenue Service of the USA. It's books are audited by certified auditors by standard accounting practices. It is a charter member of the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability. PIM (PNG), formed in 1978 with headquarters at Ambunti, East Sepik Province, is governed by a Board of Managers of whom six are nationals and two are expatriate.
PIM operates largely in rural northwest PNG, specifically, in the upper Sepik River basin and the Central Range, though it has limited activity in the Waria Valley in the Morobe Province. The mission's headquarters is located on the Sepik River at Ambunti about 45 river miles above Pagwi village on the river and 60 air miles southwest of Wewak.
The Sepik swamps are very much like the Everglades, however water levels fluctuate 25 to 30 feet. Most communities are accessible by water transport. With the isolation, the nature of the environment, and the large expense involved, other groups and the government have not undertaken to be involved in uplifting the livelihood of the people.
Since PIM's policy is to respond to need, it has become involved in many activities with an emphasis in education. PIM pioneered in setting up Christian primary K-3 schools in the rural regions of the Sepik. Currently it sponsors up to 40 schools along with its short courses in leadership, management, ethics, specialized education, and training on the job.
Pacific Island Ministries is a discipling and training mission with special interest in Papua New Guinea where the mission pioneers in remote areas to promote the knowledge of the Scriptures and obedience to its mandates. This is done through the sponsorship of schools, Bible training, adult education courses, the supply of Christian educational materials, community development, health services, the installation of village water systems, the support activities making these possible, the training of nationals for their continued expansion, and presenting North Americans with the mission’s needs to further these purposes. Using its publications among the disadvantaged, PIM also fosters the development of indigenous Christian leadership elsewhere in the world when and where appropriate.
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PIM's purpose can be stated in a sentence with key words emphasizing its seven aspects: PIM TEACHES and TRAINS for OBEDIENCE to GOD’S WORD that believers SERVE in a HOLISTIC manner to fulfil NEEDS in obedience to CHRIST. In each of these areas PIM tries to make a special contribution. Two texts providing guidance for this approach are Matthew 28:19-20 and Ephesians 4:12-13. They are the Great Commission and Apostle Paul’s directive to "Equip God’s people for the work of Christian service.”
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Pacific Island Ministries (PIM) was incorporated in 1977 as a nonprofit organization in the State of California, to promote education and development in Papua New Guinea. It was established through the leadership of Orneal Kooyers by a group of USA West Coast Christian business people.
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