Vision & Mission

Vision

The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) is a fellowship of churches and church organizations that seek to fulfill collaboratively their common calling to the Glory of the One Triune God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

In essence, PCC strives toward a vision of a Pacific region that is characterized by the values of unity, solidarity, justice, peace, dialogue and leadership after the heart and mind of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a spirituality that gives grounding and substance to PCC’s existence and to the work it does.

Mission

Our mission is to:

1. Encourage and promote a spirit of ecumenism among the Churches in the Pacific.
2. Encourage and support member Churches to seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in studying and working towards the full visible unity of the one undivided Church.
3. Help members evaluate their work in mission and to help them co-ordinate, organize and plan together so that wherever possible their personnel, finance and material resources can be more effectively utilized in joint action for mission.
4. Encourage and promote among members a greater awareness of justice, peace, integrity of creation and human development among the people and nations of the Pacific region and the world.
5. Facilitate mutual consultation on issues affecting Church relationship and other issues of common concern among the members.
6. Encourage and promote active participation by members in the wider ecumenical movement.
7. Be a means whereby the Churches of the Pacific can help each other and help Churches and other organizations in other parts of the world in times of natural disaster and special need, or to secure help from the Churches in the other parts of the world in times of similar natural disaster or need.
8. Encourage and promote programs and disseminate information for the preaching and spreading of the Word of God.
9. Undertake such co-operative activities and programs on behalf of members as the Assembly may from time to time approve.
10. Encourage and promote inter-faith dialogue.

Furthermore, the 9th General Assembly held in American Samoa in 2007 urged that PCC should:

• Support member Churches' dialogue with their respective governments.
• Engage in dialogue at the regional level with regional governmental and non-governmental bodies.
• Adopt a media strategy towards achieving this end.
• Actively promote a Pacific spirituality manifested through the Pacific Ecumenical Day of Prayer.
• Actively build the capacity church leaders and provide appropriate external and internal resources for the development of the Churches in the Pacific.
• Actively promote and work towards the attainment of the objective of a common Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry.