P M M I S S I O N F O U N D A T I O N, I N C.
PM Mission Foundation, Inc. (PMMF), formerly known as Philippine Mountain Ministries
(PMM) was conceived in 1998 during the first visit of Jack and Jan to the Philippines.
It was born somewhere between Los Angeles, California and Columbus, Ohio the summer
of 2002! Pastor Jorge and Bing Panghulan and Jack and Jan Nash were traveling across
the United States to the International ASI Convention(Adventist Laymen’s Services
and Industries) and were discussing needs in the Philippines.
Jack and Jan had just
learned that many people groups in the islands of the Philippines have never heard
the name of Jesus. On the island of Mindoro there are 150 known people groups who
have never heard His name. One of these groups alone has between 10 – 12,000 people.
These 150 groups could represent thousands and thousands of people! How to reach
them was the question.
It was concluded that the best thing would be for Tagalog
speaking people to move into the mountains and live with one targeted people group
at a time, work with them, help them with their illnesses, train them in healthful
living and eventually train some of them to go further into the mountains to another
targeted group.
Some of these people groups will not accept someone in their village
if they are not wearing G-
PM Mission Foundation, Inc. is
a Filipino non-
PMMF is operated
under the direction of Pastor Jorge and “Bing” Panghulan, President and Treasurer
respectively. An operating board of five members governs the work. PMMF is pleased
to serve as a support ministry to the Seventh-
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Nigh and afar off are souls, not only the youth but those of all ages, who are in
poverty and distress, sunken in sin, and weighed down with a sense of guilt. It is
the work of God's servants to seek for these souls, to pray with them and for them,
and lead them step by step to the Savior.
But those who do not recognize the claims
of God are not the only ones who are in distress and in need of help. In the world
today, where selfishness, greed, and oppression rule, many of the Lord's true children
are in need and affliction. In lowly, miserable places, surrounded with poverty,
disease, and guilt, many are patiently bearing their own burden of suffering, and
trying to comfort the hopeless and sin-
And
while working for the poor, we should give attention also to the rich, whose souls
are equally precious in the sight of God. Christ worked for all who would hear His
word. He sought not only the publican and the outcast, but the rich and cultured
Pharisee, the Jewish nobleman, and the Roman ruler. The wealthy man needs to be labored
for in the love and fear of God. Too often he trusts in his riches and feels not
his danger. The worldly possessions which the Lord has entrusted to men are often
a source of great temptation. Thousands are thus led into sinful indulgences that
confirm them in habits of intemperance and vice. Among the wretched victims of want
and sin are found many who were once in possession of wealth. Men of different vocations
and different stations in life have been overcome by the pollution's of the world,
by the use of strong drink, by indulgence in the lusts of the flesh, and have fallen
under temptation. While these fallen ones excite our pity and demand our help, should
not some attention be given also to those who have not yet descended to these depths,
but who are setting their feet in the same path? There are thousands occupying positions
of honor and usefulness who are indulging habits that mean ruin to soul and body.
Should not the most earnest effort be made to enlighten them?
Ministers of the gospel,
statesmen, authors, men of wealth and talent, men of vast business capacity and power
for usefulness, are in deadly peril because they do not see the necessity of strict
temperance in all things. They need to have their attention called to the principles
of temperance, not in a narrow or arbitrary way, but in the light of God's great
purpose for humanity. Could the principles of true temperance be thus brought before
them, there are very many of the higher classes who would recognize their value and
give them a hearty acceptance.
There is another danger to which the wealthy classes
are especially exposed, and here also is a field for the work of the medical missionary.
Multitudes who are prosperous in the world and who never stoop to the common forms
of vice are yet brought to destruction through the love of riches. Absorbed in their
worldly treasures, they are insensible to the claims of God and the needs of their
fellow men. Instead of regarding their wealth as a talent to be used for the glory
of God and the uplifting of humanity, they look upon it as a means of indulging and
glorifying themselves. They add house to house and land to land, they fill their
homes with luxuries, while want stalks the streets, and all about them are human
beings in misery and crime, in disease and death. Those who thus give their lives
to self-
These men are in need of the gospel. They need to have their
eyes turned from the vanity of material things to behold the preciousness of the
enduring riches. hey need to learn the joy of giving, the blessedness of being co-
Persons of this class are often the most difficult to access, but Christ
will open ways whereby they may be reached. Let the wisest, the most trustful, the
most hopeful, laborers seek for these souls. With the wisdom and tact born of divine
love, with the refinement and courtesy that result alone from the presence of Christ
in the soul, let them work for those who, dazzled by the glitter of earthly riches,
see not the glory of the heavenly treasure. Let the workers study the Bible with
them, pressing sacred truth home to their hearts. Read to them the words of God
