Mission21

Mission21, initiated in 1997, is the natural descendant of Target 2000. Its focus is on our mission for the first decade of the 21st century. In anticipation of that mission, God has been at work among us, renewing our minds, building our faith, cultivating our gifts, honing our skills and testing our resolve.
Goal & Objectives

Our Goal: To Reach 6 Million
We believe God has helped us to identify our role in reaching our world. We now commit ourselves anew to this faith goal. Each ministry must identify and implement its role in this task by setting, evaluating and revising short and intermediate-term goals. The following objectives will help us reach our goal:

• Praying daily for world evangelization through intercession and spiritual warfare.
• Multiplying believers and churches through revitalization, personal evangelism and church planting.
• Planting strong churches and increase our ministry presence in the urban centers of our world.
• Developing shepherd’s hearts that reflect the compassion of Jesus Christ.
• Mobilizing all members of the IPHC to discover, develop and deploy their spiritual gifts.

We call on all members to identify their role in accomplishing this great task. It is the responsibility of all leaders To Inform the membership of our church regarding the Vision, the Resources and the Opportunities, for ministry. With effective partnerships, God will help us do this.

Rev 3:7-8 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. (NIV)

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The grace of God has enabled us to strengthen those things we did well and to develop new models for ministry. The result has been a five-fold change in our perspectives.

• First, we have become united in purpose — we know what our priorities should be. We may not always agree on the best way to get things done, but there is no disagreement on our overall objectives.
• Second, we have a clear evangelistic focus. That focus is being expressed through evangelism, church planting and missionary activity at unprecedented levels across our church.
• Third, we have a continuity of mission that spans several quadrennia. Methods and strategies may be modified and strengthened, but we continue to move toward our God-given objectives.
• Fourth, we are developing a strong global identity and perspective. One of the most significant documents in our history, The Jerusalem Proclamation, came out of our first World Conference in Jerusalem in 1990. Some of those prophetic words are just now beginning to be fulfilled. A second World Conference was held in 1995, also in Jerusalem and a third World Conference is being planned for 2003, this time in Costa Rica. We also have created a World Fellowship of Pentecostal Holiness Churches to recognize our global community.
• Our training materials are now being written with our global members in mind. The materials are used extensively in many nations around the world and are being translated into several languages to make it even more effective.
• Finally, our paradigm has shifted from a clergy centered ministry to “every member ministry” and the empowerment of lay ministries. This shift has led to a renewed emphasis on spiritual gifts, intercession and spiritual warfare and to a new sense of freedom in our worship styles.

These incredible developments and changes I have mentioned did not take place so we could simply celebrate them as historic events. Hardly! As Shakespeare wrote in his play, The Tempest, “What’s past is prologue.” We have just gone through a period of preparation. To borrow a military metaphor, we’re just graduating from boot camp.

The most ambitious decade of our existence is just ahead of us. We’re standing on the banks of tomorrow— a new decade, a new century and a new millennium lay before us. We have been equipped; we have been given the vision. All that remains is for us to respond and do what we know, by the Spirit of God, needs to be done

This is our decade of miraculous reproduction. This is our true heritage: to become an evangelistically aggressive, church-planting movement. As we move through this doorway of opportunity into our future, let’s do it like the ancient Israelites did it. Let’s put the musicians and song leaders out in front of us, to lead us against the enemy with singing, rejoicing and celebration.

Bishop James Leggett in the “Celebrate the Mission 2001” video