The Director
One Chance for Every Person
Karl Hargestam serves as Global Missions Director of the Pentecostal Church of God, strengthening national churches and pioneer teams among the unreached.
A formal address
The Global Missions Director
01 — The Mandate
Every person has a birthright to hear the Gospel at least once. Karl Hargestam serves the global movement of the Pentecostal Church of God as its Global Missions Director — a servant of the movement, never its owner. His assignment: to strengthen national churches and pioneer teams in the unfinished work among the unreached, until every tribe, tongue, and nation has had its chance.
02 — The Charter
I.One Mission
That every person hears the Gospel at least once — the birthright of every human being.
II.One Movement
A worldwide fellowship of national churches — decentralized, indigenous, and owned by no one man.
III.One Chance
One life. One hearing. One opportunity to respond — the public call that mobilizes the Church toward the final frontier.
03 — The Movement He Serves
A global fellowship, not a personal platform.
Karl serves the Pentecostal Church of God — a worldwide fellowship whose formal conference family spans 78 nations, touching almost half the world’s nations through a century of planting, training, and shared mission. The research into that footprint continues; only what can be verified is reported.
Growth here is decentralized by conviction: national movements leading their own nations, multiplying churches, training their own workers. OneChance schools are now spreading through PCG churches across the nations — fruit of the movement, belonging to the movement.
pcg.org →
The movement gathered — a Joshua Campaign field
The missionary team — Joshua Campaign
04 — Assignments, Not Empire
What he has been given to do.
Initiatives held in trust for the movement — each one an assignment, none of them a possession.
No. 1
Operation 326
In 2020 the movement began to identify the remaining unreached peoples — 326 groups with no known witness. The research phase is complete; the assignment continues.
Follow the evidence →No. 2
Mission One Eleven
Expeditions, training, and aviation — sending teams into the unreached world, and preparing the next ones to go.
United States →Sweden →No. 3
Joshua Campaign International
Founded 1998. Mass evangelism across Africa — including Ethiopia, where evangelical faith grew from two percent to twenty.
joshuacampaign.com →No. 4
Innovation for the Assignment
Tools for the work: the OCFEP app, Hero Network, and PrayerPocket — and reverse-supply-chain systems that turn commerce into compassion.
ocfep.com →No. 5
CityServe
Co-founder, 2018–2025. The Church united to serve its city — compassion at a scale only the whole Body can carry.
cityservenetwork.com →No. 6
The Assignment — Books & Film
The documentary series and the books that carry the story of the pioneer work to the wider Church.
The series →The books →
In the cockpit — the pilot in pioneer service
05 — History
The road here.
Stated plainly, as a matter of record. These were never sequential stops. PCG has carried through Helimission, Joshua Campaign, the farm, MOE, and CityServe alike, with One Chance for Every Person as the guiding light throughout.
Sweden
Born in Sweden, of Sami heritage on his grandmother’s side — a heritage he still votes to uphold in the Sametinget.
1989–1991
At 21, left Sweden for pioneer evangelism in Africa. Missionary to Tanzania, building logistics support across Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Congo.
1991–1997
Earned his helicopter wings: commercial training, flight instructor in America, then regional director of Helimission Ethiopia, flying the Bell in pioneer service.
1992
Married Jennifer.
1993
Ordained as a minister of the Pentecostal Church of God; mission appointment. PCG has carried every assignment since.
1998
Founded Joshua Campaign International; the first campaigns in Ethiopia. 4.2 million recorded decisions for Christ, and from 2007 an AStar helicopter serving Joshua Campaign Ethiopia, operated by Helimission.
1999–2009
Area supervisor, Pentecostal Church of God. Planted and established churches and denominations in Ethiopia and Kenya.
OCFEP
Founded One Chance for Every Person, serving as its president, the guiding light through every assignment.
2008–2019
Founder and co-owner, Joshua Flower Farms, Ethiopia. Commercial flower exports funding local church planters in the Horn of Africa.
2010
Founded Mission One Eleven; Founder, President and CEO. Expeditions, training, and aviation, flying the BO 105.
2016–2017
Head of Mission, Swedish Pingst. Strategic oversight realigning national mission toward unreached peoples.
2018–2025
Co-founded CityServe, the Church united to serve its city; compassion at a scale only the whole Body can carry.
2020
Operation 326 began: identifying the final frontier of unreached peoples.
Today
Serves as Global Missions Director of the Pentecostal Church of God.
The Global Missions Director
The campaigns — tents, trucks, rotorcraft, and city streets
06 — Field Films
The Assignment: Ethiopia
A thirteen-episode documentary series follows a pioneer team into the Ethiopian bush — adventure, danger, and the miraculous hand of God.
Episode 1
Mission One Eleven takes Ethiopia
Episode 6
We’ve Come in Peace
Episode 7
Miracles. Signs. Wonders.
07 — Doors Opened
Received as a servant.
Across the nations, doors have opened. They are noted here as legacy — never as endorsement.
An official welcome — East Africa
California State Senate — CityServe recognition
At the table — the United States, Ukraine, and CityServe
A statesman is measured by the doors he was trusted to walk through — and what he carried through them.
08 — Office
Correspondence.
2705 Brown Trail, Suite 301Bedford, Texas 76021
(800) 745-1332
info@ocfep.com
09 — Journal
Field notes.
Mission intelligence and dispatches from the work — written from the field, for the Church.
hargestam.online →10 — Partnership
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