About Us

How we started and how we grew.

OUR HISTORY

In 1967 a group of Christian business leaders met in the suburbs of Philadelphia to pray and discuss how they might help missionaries spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ more effectively. It became clear that lack of modern equipment was a key gap for many missionaries on the field, forcing them to waste time on simple tasks that don't actually bring any real benefit. It was out of this insight that Mission Projects Fellowship, Inc., a 501c3 corporation, was formed.

Frank Clifford, the leader of this original group, was elected president of the MPF Board that same year and served faithfully in that capacity for 25 years until the Lord called him home in 1992. He led MPF in establishing partnering relationships with dozens of evangelical missions’ organizations – a task taken on by Dave Frearson in 1992, followed by George Chantelau in 2005.

MPF’s current president, Sam Hardman, took over this role in 2014. Throughout the last five decades, MPF has funded over $5 million of equipment for missionaries working in more than 100 countries around the world and have partnered with over 90 evangelical Christian mission organizations. Our current board of directors is dedicated to the Lord for the very same task that inspired the original board 58 years ago!

How we work

Mission Projects Fellowship (MPF) is an independent, Christ-centered mission board located in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are a volunteer organization--there are no salaries paid. MPF is a non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We are not connected with any denomination, church, or other mission board.

The Board of Directors is comprised of 6 to 12 Christian men and women of like faith from various Bible-believing churches who prayerfully handle all the details involved with project selection as requested by mission organizations.

The Board of Advisors consists of area pastors, businessmen, and mission organization representatives who give helpful guidance to the directors concerning mission work and data on current missionary field conditions and needs.

Project requests come from the headquarters of a recognized mission board and not from individual missionaries, a requirement that provides accountability for the use of monies. MPF does not purchase equipment but forwards funds to the U.S.-based mission board making the request. MPF provides funds only for the requested equipment, not for missionaries’ daily needs. Before being approved for a project, the doctrinal position of all mission boards submitting an application are carefully reviewed by our board for consistency with MPF’s own doctrinal statement.

What We Believe

MPF holds to the fundamental doctrines of the historic Christian faith.

We believe:

The Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative word of God
There is one God, eternally existent as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
In the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory
That all human beings are sinners and can only be saved from God’s final judgment by grace, through faith in the atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ, by means of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit
In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit within believers to enable them to live righteously and to think and act in accord with God’s character and will
In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those that are saved to eternal life and blessedness and those that are lost to eternal judgment
In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ – all those who comprise the Church, which is His body