A strategic partnership within the PCA

Peter is the first ordained campus minister to go out under a new affiliation agreement between Mission to the World (MTW) and Reformed University Fellowship (RUF), the mission agency and the campus ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). This partnership represents an understanding of the strategic necessity of campus ministry in supporting covenant children through college, reaching a new generation of college students with the gospel, and planting both populations in the church for a lifetime of ministry.

A strategic partnership with the Mexican Church

Since 1992, the PCA has partnered with the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico (NPCM), and the team worships at one of this denomination’s churches situated just to the north of the UNAM. With a congregation of about 200, Iglesia Presbiteriana Berith (Covenant Presbyterian Church) has a university professor pastor, a professional congregation, and a heart for the students in its midst and down the street. Peter and the team’s job is to pastor university students from all of the Presbyterian churches both at the church and on the campus, while he works to implement RUF’s “fixed theology, flexible methodology” approach.

A trained and ordained man

Reformed University Fellowship believes in sending seminary trained, ordained men to serve students as they face crucial questions of identity, calling and companionship in the bustling marketplace of ideas. As an ordained minister in the PCA, Peter is putting his training and language skills to work in pastoring students during his initial two-year term here in Mexico City. In September of 2007, Peter became a career missionary with MTW, and is now seeking to raise the additional funds needed to continue to serve his call as the UNAM campus minister until the work is firmly established.