18 March 2025
Missions have long been one of the areas through which oikophobia has infiltrated the Western church and a heretical Missiology has long been prevalent even in conservative denominations, especially in Europe and North America. The issue is not new by any means, with controversies pertaining to the issue of missions and kinism dating back to the nineteenth century. In Southern Africa, for example, there was even a split in the Reformed Churches in 1873 when Rev. Sarel Venter and his brother, the civil magistrate Koos Venter, opposed a synodal decision to prioritize missions among black African tribes over the education of iliterate Boer children in the church's budget. A handful of congregations in the Republic of the Orange Free State consequently split from the Reformed Church.
These oikophobic tendencies have, of course, only intensified following the Second World War through large-scale social engineering and manipulation driven by a humanistic politics of guilt and pity. This was recently once again amplified by the Presbyterian Church in America's "Mission to North America," which openly posted advice to illegal immigrants on how to evade detainment and deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on its website. This move highlights the PCA's commitment to facilitating the great demographic replacement of white people in America and the West in general. Furthermore, the Mission also recently hosted a blacks-only fellowship dinner at the PCA in Oakland, California. While we certainly don't object to black Christians hosting exclusive events for fellowship, the purpose behind this event, held to commemorate "Black History Month" and celebrate African-Americans as a special "ethnic affinity group," was clearly to fuel anti-white sentiments. The same ministry's mission to the Hispanic "affinity group," for example, characterizes the demographic replacement effectuated by mass immigration as a development "orchestrated by God Himself [to provide] an unprecedented opportunity ... to continue our commitment to the fulfillment of the Great Commission."
In light of the prevalence of such Marxist ideas in Missiology, the work of professor Mark Kreitzer on ethnicity and missions is of paramount importance in terms of reclaiming orthodoxy in this particular field. The Pactum Institute condemns the Presbyterian Church in America's Mission to North America for actively promoting heretical social and missiological doctrines, and we call on them to repent.