Karl Hargestam / About
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.
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.
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, within a heritage of ministry reaching more than 110 nations that is still being reconciled. Only what can be verified is reported.
One Chance, rooted in his message, “One Chance for Every Person,” and Operation Uttermost form a global ministry and leadership effort spanning about 110 nations.
Karl Hargestam is Global Missions Director of the Pentecostal Church of God (PCG), serving together with Jennifer. He oversees PCG Global Missions, including the Pentecostal Theological Consortium (PTC, ptconline.global), and is developing Operation Uttermost. He oversees PCG Global Missions, including One Chance, rooted in his message, “One Chance for Every Person.” He co-founded Mission One Eleven with Jennifer.
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.
One church in the Philippines has seen more than 3,600 baptisms so far, possibly past 5,600 if the baptisms expected in December happen.
pcg.org →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; the first campaigns in Ethiopia. 5.2 million books given to people responding to the call to follow Jesus, 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-founder and former Executive Director of 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