By Karl Hargestam, PCG Global Missions Director
February 15, 2026 – International Mission Center, Texas

From the International Mission Center here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where our global ministries converge to serve and support the fellowship, I write with a heart of gratitude and humble service. As we step into 2026, it becomes ever clearer that the Church’s challenge is not a lack of information, but the presence of spiritual noise, countless voices, endless platforms, and unrelenting opinions.Yet apostolic advancement has always rested on clarity, obedience, and Spirit-empowered sending, not on volume. In that spirit of faithful stewardship, PCG Global Missions is introducing the One Chance Podcast as an internal resource crafted primarily for us, our pastors, leaders, missionaries, churches, and the entire PCG family seeking to discern together: Where is the Lord leading, and how do we advance in unity? This podcast is offered in service to you, to help protect our shared identity while fostering the alignment we need in this season.

Serving the Need for Alignment

Our greatest opportunity right now is not more programs, but deeper alignment around timeless truths:

• The Great Commission as our mandate 
• The empowering presence of the Holy Spirit 
• The urgency of our generation’s window of responsibility 
• The call to steward faithfully what has been entrusted to us

The One Chance Podcast will serve as a consistent, trustworthy channel for the PCG family to receive clear updates on global missions work, what is happening, what is emerging, and how we can move forward together. It replaces rumors, fragments, and secondhand accounts with apostolic perspective rooted in Scripture.

A Resource for Mission Intelligence and Momentum

In practical terms, the podcast aims to equip you with timely, credible insights, including:

• New missions opportunities and strategic developments across nations 
• Upcoming deployments, teams, and pathways for engagement 
• Training resources and tools designed to help churches mobilize effectively 
• Stories from the field that build faith and remind us of God’s faithfulness across generations 
• Fresh ideas that support local churches in sending and supporting

By keeping the fellowship informed, we enable the body to respond and move as one. When local leaders and churches have clear mission intelligence, ownership grows naturally, from Jerusalem outward.

The Steady Heartbeat: Pentecostal Urgency Through One Chance

At the core of every episode remains our shared conviction: The world is not waiting for the Church to entertain; it waits for the Church to be faithful. There are people alive today who will hear the Gospel only if we reach them in our lifetime, through our obedience.One Chance serves here as a missiological lens, a way to articulate Acts 1:8 urgency in our generation, firmly anchored in PCG’s Pentecostal heritage. As our 2026 communications guidance affirms, this is not a new direction or external movement; it is PCG expressing its calling with renewed clarity: “A Pentecostal movement that stops at Jerusalem is no longer fully Pentecostal. “We hold this truth with sobriety and humility, always seeking to honor local authority while inviting the whole fellowship into the sending posture that defines us.

Mobilization Rooted in Relationship

This is not about media trends; it is about making missions personal again, close enough that every pastor feels equipped, every church feels ownership, and every believer feels invited to participate. As we roll out refined resources and pathways for churches to engage more deeply in the harvest, the podcast will provide a steady rhythm: announcements of what is launching, expanding, restructuring, or becoming available to support you locally.

An Invitation to Tune In and Join the Work

My prayer is that the One Chance Podcast becomes a trusted, serving space where our movement stays connected, informed, and freshly stirred by what the Spirit is doing across the nations, not merely to observe, but to participate together with urgency, unity, and Spirit-empowered obedience. Episodes will begin soon through PCG’s internal channels, initially focused on supporting leadership alignment before wider release. If you have field stories, questions, or ways we can better serve your context, please reach out, we are here to listen and support.

From the IMC in Bedford, grateful to serve alongside you in this calling,

Karl Hargestam, PCG Global Missions Director
International Mission Center