Missions

Helen has been in Kenya 1974, during that time she has been at Evangel Publishing House for 4 years and then at the Field Office for 14 years. Since 1993 she worked under the PAG National Church to pioneer PAG District Bible Training as a department of the National Church and in 2005 this program was turned over to Pentecostal Bible College(PBC) so these courses came to be offered under caption of PBC Distance Bible Training and PBC Lay Leadership Training. At this point over 2600 students had been registered under PAG/DBT program with some studying under the Joint DBT/PBC Untrained Pastors Program. These students took eighteen DBT courses as part of their study requirements. The philosophy of education that drives this program design is the concept of providing a seamless stream of training from grass roots level upwards, a concept that is particularly appropriate for equipping emerging leaders in Africa. At the same time Helen started a similar program of leadership training called Bible Training 2000 for leaders outside of PAG who were requesting this type of training. It must also be noted with great appreciation that Marilyn Bush has been teaching and coordinating the coast division of DBT programs and that Mrs. Lillian Cornelius has coordinated Nairobi divisional office up to July 2006. Again, more than seventy trained leaders, mainly pastors and district overseers, have been involved in teaching and/or facilitating the program over the past ten years. In Helen's capacity as academic dean at PBC for the past three years (adding during one term Acting Principal responsibility) she was privileged to witness PBC affiliation with Pan Africa Christian College (PACC) bearing fruit in having 39 students graduate under PACC/PBC BA completion program. This made our March 2006 graduation a historic occasion. Also for the first time diploma students completing two years with high academic performance were allowed to transfer credits toward degree level studies at PACC. PBC is a post-secondary diploma College with enrolment of over 200 each term. It is a College that seeks to raise academic standards and training levels in keeping with the neeed of the church in Africa today.Also, Helen coordinates the Child Care Plus (CCP) program in Western Kenya that presently has about 110 children (about 67 families) being supported on a monthly basis. A number of these children are total orphans without mother or father. Helen's co-worker, Mrs. Abigael Saisi handles most of the CCP administrative work and has a wonderful ministry to these children giving motherly and spiritual counsel when needed.There are still more challenges ahead as Helen moves back to Nairobi in September 2006 to work under PACC in connection with the launch of a new transformational leadership training initiative. Included in the program will be courses presently offered under the Bible Training 2000 Programs of study as well as others being developed for use in leadership training for a broader constituency of the Body of Christ in Kenya. This is a necessity if the Church is going to meet the challenge of equipping the great numbers of emerging Christian leaders from grass roots level and upwards.

Prasad and Dawn along with their two daughters Hannah and Asha arrived in India in 2005. The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada World Missions Division is committed to four core values of Reaching, Planting, Equipping and Caring. Prasad and Dawn have developed a strategic ministry plan that creatively encompasses all four core values that will extend the Kingdom in southern India.Since arriving in India God has used the Samson's to minister to hundreds of people through open air meetings, church ministry and showing of the Jesus Move. Several have come to Christ and have been baptized. After their arrival they have planted two new churches. As part of their caring ministry they have distributed rice and clothes to the desperately poor people in the villages surrounding Chennai. They have also extended their hands to the unfortunate orphanage children under their care and have plans to build a children's home for them as soon as possible.Please join them as they continue to Reach, Plant, Equip and Care for the people in Chennai.