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Paul and Pam Hunter Next Generation Ministries
How it started: Paul and Pam were both raised in ministry oriented homes. Paul’s father was a mission church pastor. They met at Calvary Bible College in Kansas and started mission churches in the Chicago area in the early 70’s. Paul spent 8 years pastoring mission churches similar to his father.
One of Paul’s themes is a fatherly love for young people. He shares their youthful enjoyment of risk and adventure. He taught high school and Bible college classes while he pastored and in 1986 he started Timber Valley Church in Colton, Oregon. Pam home schooled their three children and help pioneer the concept of teaching kids at home in their area in the 1980’s. Paul was raised and ministered in evangelical circles yet struggled with an area of torment in his life (fear). A minister diagnosed his affliction as demonic and he was set free from 10 years of struggle in 10 minutes… and has embraced the ministry of the Holy Spirit and charismatic gifts since. That single event opened a huge door for Paul into the things of the Spirit and he realized the supernatural necessity of living in the Kingdom. Paul resigned his pastorate at Timber Valley to dedicate himself to the next generation in Uganda.
Personal Passion: Paul is a natural exhorter that loves people. Others open up to him when he initiates conversations. Pam shares his vision for young people out of a prophetic and wisdom gifts. They enjoy helping young people find their identity and destiny. Paul likes to ask questions that provoke others to take inventory of their lives. Their ministry is dedicated to the next generation… encouraging, equipping, empowering, and releasing. Paul started the Next Generation Leadership Institute in Uganda; a three year course that provides 10 days of instruction in January to young Ugandans who want to make an eternal impact for the Kingdom of God in the Church and Marketplace. Paul and Pam direct the institute for next generation Ugandans who register for a small fee. The institute is conducted Monday through Friday for two weeks between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM. The faculty leads discussions, gives lectures, and directs activities which encourage, equip, empower, and release the students for their destiny in the Kingdom of God. Each registered student is provided with some basic materials, connections with other next generation student and is provided with a nutritious balanced lunch each day. The third and final year is less of a classroom structure and more of a relational mentoring relationship with Paul and Pam and does not take place during the two week period in January.
Personal Benefit: Paul and Pam are very enthusiastic about connecting young people with God’s purpose and their own heart’s desires. The father’s heart in both of them is released when they help young people find their release. They have also been given the opportunity to influence a nation… not a small endeavor.
Value to others: Motivation in young people begins when they get a glimpse of their life purpose, their giftings, and the opportunities that lie before them. Paul simply helps them make those connections. Releasing Kings has been a synergistic theme. God is preparing a generation of young Ugandans to minister in their marketplace and turn a third world nation into fully developed status – mature in Christ.
Business Potential (upside): Paul and Pam have found a fatherless nation in Uganda. Marriages are often polygamous with absent fathers. The AIDS epidemic has also left many young people without a family. Paul’s message and ministry is a perfect fit. Uganda is a golden opportunity to develop spirit-filled entrepreneurs.
Complexities, failures (downside): Paul and Pam will be away from their family for six months. The transition out of the pastorate leaves them needing to raise their own financial support… and, they don’t fit the category of traditional missions.
Vision for the Kingdom: Paul’s vision to see Uganda turned into a developed nation where the rule and reign of Christ is voluntarily embraced by free people in every area of society (business, government, schools, the arts, communication, and the marketplace). Paul’s goal is to see Ugandan’s leading other African nations out of poverty and into spiritual maturity. He wants to see it all happen through native ministers in the church and the marketplace leading their own people. Here are two great examples? Paul was encouraged by a recent conversation with Calvin Burgess who is undertaking a similar marketplace ministry in Kenya. It started when he saw women selling themselves as prostitutes in exchange for fish (talapia) to support their families. He started a fish farm and hired the prostitutes to run it. Calvin has been able to raise the standard of living for over 60,000 Kenyans above the poverty level in the work he has done in the commercial farming of rice and talapia and cooperative farms. He's now developing water rights and acreage so natives can start their own farms. Impact from Releasing Kings: Paul introduced Dereck Mombera to our web site and books. Dereck has devoured the newsletters and resources and implemented them in his life. Dereck came to Oregon and Paul brought him up to meet us. The message set Derrick free to minister in business. He’s a natural entrepreneur that will help Paul teach a Releasing Kings Conference in January. Paul's natural teaching gift will serve as a trumpet for communicating the Releasing Kings message throughout that part of Africa.
How Can Paul Help You: Paul is an onsite resource in Uganda. He’s a doorway for other Kings to find ministry and investment opportunities. People with experience in agriculture are particularly needed to mentor the next generation. The “New Missions” in the marketplace includes an entrepreneurial ingredient in the gospel that finances ministry.
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