Our Values and Beliefs
Walking together as we boldly share His Word with unreached peoples around the world.
Passion for God
Pioneers’ passion is to glorify God among the nations through obedience to the Word of God, disciplined prayer, reliance on the Holy Spirit, and worship. Pioneers strives to proclaim biblical truth, evidenced by integrity in lifestyle and relationships.
Unreached Peoples
Pioneers focuses on people groups with the greatest need and least opportunity to hear and understand the gospel.
Church Planting Movements
Pioneers initiates church planting movements through evangelism and discipleship resulting in dynamic, self-propagating churches with a missionary passion.
The Local Church
Pioneers partners with sending churches to mobilise and develop people for effective service. Pioneers Teams endeavour to partner with national churches in their fields of ministry wherever possible.
Team Centred
Pioneers accomplishes its mission through Teams mobilised from around the world. Teams develop and implement appropriate strategies using various gifts and methods while modelling Christian unity. Pioneers is committed to international fellowship; celebrating cultural diversity in the global task.
Innovation and Flexibility
Pioneers uses innovative means to gain access and minister effectively to unreached peoples. Pioneers is flexible and sensitive to the unique calling, vision, and needs of each Member.
Ethos of Grace
Pioneers affirms that God’s grace operates uniquely in the lives of all believers. In all our relationships, we endeavour to cultivate an atmosphere of mutual acceptance and respect which encourages each of us to attain our full potential in Christ.
Participatory Servant-leadership
Pioneers empowers its Members through a decentralised structure that emphasises team-based servant-leadership and an interactive approach to decision making based on trust.
Our Values
What we Believe
Our Statements of Faith
The Scriptures
We believe that the Holy Scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, were originally given by God, divinely inspired, without error, infallible, entirely trustworthy, and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice.
The Trinity
We believe in one God, Creator of all things, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
We believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, sinless life, divine miracles, vicarious and atoning death on the cross, bodily resurrection, ascension and exaltation, mediatorial work, and personal, imminent, and visible return in power and glory.
The Fall
We believe that Adam and Eve, created in the image of God, were tempted by Satan, the god of this world, and fell; that their sin has passed to all people, who as a result are lost, are unable to save themselves from the wrath of God, and need to be saved.
Salvation
We believe that salvation is a gift of God to those who repent and personally believe in Jesus Christ: that it is accomplished by God’s grace through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in God the Holy Spirit who indwells all believers enabling them to live holy lives, and to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ despite opposition from the world, the flesh, and Satan.
The Church
We believe in the spiritual unity of all true believers, the universal Church, the Body of Christ.
Eternity
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life with God, they that are lost unto the resurrection of eternal condemnation separated from God.
The Mission
We believe that Christ commanded the Church to go into all the world and make disciples of all peoples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching those who believe to obey all that Christ commanded.
Our Position on Secondary Issues
Pioneers is an international fellowship comprised of evangelicals drawn from many different churches and backgrounds. Our desire is to work in harmony with our national church partners and Christian colleagues on the basis of essential doctrines as found in our Statement of Faith. These are doctrines on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true followers of Christ.
In matters not addressed by our Statement of Faith, Pioneers acknowledges differing points of view provided they are based on the Bible as supreme authority, and that no interpretation or practice will undermine the work of the gospel or the unity among those with whom we serve. We seek to live, work and relate to one another in a spirit of love and humility, as outlined in Romans 14, 1 Corinthians 13 and other passages.
Read our Statement on Contextualisation