Our Mission
To represent the Lord Jesus Christ on the island of Penang and beyond and be faithful in making disciples who love God and love their neighbors!
Our Vision
We proclaim Christ, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. Colossians 1:28
History
The vision for PIC was gestated over a five-year period began meeting in November of 2002. We initiated a process to develop a constitution, register with the National Evangelical Church Fellowship and call a pastor.
Born with the assistance and support of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada, PIC began with a solid financial footing and was able to grow with their support. Dalat International School has also been a supportive partner as we recognize that we share a missional connection within the international community in Penang.
The initial desire was to plant an international church that would serve as a people who enhanced the ministry of internationals, reached out to internationals and missionally engaged in ministries that served Kingdom interests in Penang and beyond.
We desired to refresh and equip the saints for the work of ministry and come alongside their visions and dreams for Asia.
The PIC family is learning what it means to “be the church” in Penang as we represent the Lord Jesus in our daily lives. The Church family gathers for corporate worship every Sunday morning. It is our desire to see individuals and families refreshed and equipped to love God and love their neighbors.
Statement of Faith
- We believe that God has revealed Himself to be the true and living God, perfect in love and righteous in all his ways; one in essence, existing eternally in the persons of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is to be worshipped and obeyed as the source and Lord of all life.
- We believe that God has revealed himself through his creation and through the events of redemptive history. This history is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word, who is made known to us by the Holy Spirit in sacred Scripture. He came to reveal God to us and to provide a way for us to know God personally and have eternal life.
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired and trustworthy record of this divine self-disclosure. As the inspired word of God, it is our only rule of faith and practice. It is to be taught and preached so that its truth might be applied to all of life.
- We believe that People were originally created innocent and pure, but that the first of these fell through the sin of disobedience so all people and all creation since have been separated from God and from each other and in need of reconciliation.
- We believe that God has graciously provided salvation through Jesus Christ who died on the cross as the substitutionary atonement for sin, and rose again from the dead to open the way to a new life. All who place their complete life’s trust in Jesus Christ are saved from their fallen condition by God’s grace alone, apart from works or merit.
- We believe that God’s Holy Spirit gives new and eternal spiritual life to all that receive Jesus Christ by faith. The Holy Spirit indwells the believer, providing power and gifting for service and enabling a holy lifestyle.
- We believe the kingdom of God has come to us in the person of Jesus Christ on earth and that He will return to earth to complete the establishment of God’s eternal reign over all creation.
- We believe that the Church, as the Body of Christ, is to represent the reign of God and to act as its agent and instrument in the world today.