The PHILIPPINE MISSIONS ASSOCIATION (PMA) is a partnership of evangelical mission agencies, local churches, denominational missions commissions, and cross-cultural missions training organizations. PMA was founded in 1983 by Dr. Met Castillo who served as PMA’s General Secretary until 1995. It was established to train, send, and receive missionaries. Its focus later became missions mobilization through uniting missions-minded churches and mission agencies in the Philippines to challenge, equip, and mobilize the Philippine Church to prioritize reaching the unreached peoples of the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In 1993, PMA became the missions commission of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC).

Ptr. Rey Corpuz became National Director in 1995. He served PMA until July of 2003. During this time, the following were the four thrusts in mobilization efforts:
LOCAL CHURCH MOBILIZATION
YOUTH MOBILIZATION
M2M MOBILIZATION
TENTMAKING MISSIONS MOBILIZATION

Under Ptr. Rey’s leadership, PMA continued to grow to a member-ship of over 100 mission agencies and mission commissions of local churches.

Ptr. Bob Lopez became National Director on Aug.30, 2003. With a momentum of 20 years of passionate proclamation of the missions message, PMA has redefined its mission statement to involve Filipino believers worldwide- “PMA exists to mobilize the GLOBAL Filipino Church to evangelize the unreached peoples of the world.“

With a membership of 118 missions agencies, PMA is now focusing on three areas:

PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT to Accelerate Missions Participation.

The PMA is geared towards the formation of partnerships in the areas of Prayer, Church Mobilization, Cross-Cultural Missions Training, Missionary Care, Field Research, and Resource Development. PMA seeks to help establish partnerships among churches, mission agencies, community development organizations and media ministries to develop creative, contextualized and reproducible strategies for reaching countries in the 10/40 Window, other religious blocks, and specific UPGs.

MENTORING STRUCTURES to Advance Mission Paradigms

Mentoring and training of mission teams and members of local church and denominational mission committees will be available through the Mission Trainers Network. Local churches may also receive guidance from mission “coaches” in transforming themselves into Great Commission congregations. Partnerships with seminaries and other training institutions are also being undertaken for the development of missions curriculum suited for the Filipino context, tools for witnessing to different religious blocks, and a regular forum for discussion of issues that concern the missions movement such as missionary attrition and retention, globalization and post-modernity.

ADVOCACY PROGRAMS to Address Mission Priorities

For several years, PMA has been in the forefront Religious Block Advocacy with the M2M (Ministry to Muslims). This means championing the cause of bringing the gospel to Muslims through the formation of UPG partnerships, training of field workers, and building up of resource sharing capacity. We are also looking at establishing advocacy programs for the Buddhist block (Bridges 2 Buddhists), the Hindu peoples (Harvesters 4 Hindus), the Jews (Intercessors 4 Israel) and the Sikhs (Salvation Of Sikhs).

PMA is committed to see the transformation of the national missions movement into a network of regional missions movements in the country where there is local ownership and representation.

Let this webpage be an invitation to all local Filipinos and the global Filipino Diaspora to join together as part of this missions endeavor.