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Mass evangelism
Five-day Gospel campaigns bring a clear proclamation of Jesus beyond church walls. Local congregations help prepare, host and follow up with those who respond.
Campaigns on the Swedish siteThe work on the ground
Gospel proclamation that leads somewhere.
Jesus Christ remains at the center. Campaigns are prepared with local pastors, followed by discipleship, and connected to the long work of healthy local churches.
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Church planting
Joshua Campaign works with Ethiopian leaders to establish congregations where the Gospel has not had a strong presence—building local capacity beyond the event.
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Pioneer mission
Mission aviation and field teams extend access to remote communities, supporting missionaries, medical response and practical connection where roads cannot.
Mission InstituteCampaigns
Wednesday through Sunday. Local pastors prepare the ground, teams proclaim Jesus, and follow-up material connects new believers with churches.
The Swedish ministry site budgets approximately SEK 250,000 for a five-day campaign. Each event is built through partnership rather than parachute ministry.
Planting
Since 2007, the work has grown through a close relationship with pioneer pastor Belay Kekeba. A new Ethiopian denomination was formed with a six-person church-planting core team in 2015.
Pastor Mohammed Seid Ali leads daily work in eastern Ethiopia with vice director Zekarias Kitaba. A pioneer pastor can be supported through the Swedish office at SEK 600 per month for two years.
Mission aviation
The Mission Institute uses helicopter access to move missionaries and medical teams toward remote communities.
Flights also support evacuation, food and medicine supply, vaccination work and service requested by local authorities.
Follow-up
Joshua Campaign reports giving away 5.2 million salvation books through its history.
The measure is not simply a gathered crowd, but people welcomed into local discipleship and congregations.
“The mission is to take the Gospel to the most remote places on earth.”Joshua Campaign vision
The mission today
Led from the field.
For more than fifteen years, Per Åkvist has led Joshua Campaign’s work with Abbi at his side—preaching Jesus, serving local churches and carrying the founding vision into a new generation.
Faith proclaimed before the crowd.
Per leads from the campaign platform, keeping public proclamation connected to prayer, local pastors and long-term follow-up.
25 yearsCelebrated in 2024
5.2 millionSalvation books given away
The Joshua Campaign archive
A rich history.
These older photographs preserve the story behind today’s work: Karl and Per serving together, mass campaigns taking shape, teams forming, and field tools changing as the mission reached farther.
Karl and Per on the platform.
An enduring picture of the handoff between Joshua Campaign’s founding vision and the leadership carrying the mission forward.
One message, across the years.
Karl and Per together at a public campaign announcement—an older image with a continuing story.
Mass campaigns through the years
From daylight fields to evening crusades, the scale changed from place to place while the purpose remained constant: preach Jesus clearly and connect people with local churches.
Tools that changed with the mission
Sound-stage trucks, tents and aviation made open-air campaigns and remote access possible. The equipment evolved over the years; the field purpose stayed the same.
The sound stage on the move
Different generations of mobile trucks carried sound, staging and campaign identity from one field to the next.
Reaching beyond the roads
Helicopter access helped teams connect with remote communities and support practical field needs.
The people and the preparation
Campaigns depended on teams, training and temporary field infrastructure long before the first public meeting began.
Leading Joshua Campaign for more than 15 years
Per Åkvist
Per Åkvist leads Joshua Campaign Ethiopia. Together with his wife Abbi, he has carried responsibility for the work in Ethiopia and the Sweden office since 2007. Before that, Per spent fourteen years planting churches across the former Soviet Union; the Åkvists began serving in Ethiopia in 2005 and then joined Joshua Campaign. Abbi was born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, bringing a deeply personal bridge between the two countries.
“A human right for every person to hear the Gospel at least once in their lifetime.”
Per’s leadership keeps Joshua Campaign close to the local church: campaigns mobilize pastors, new believers are connected for follow-up, and pioneer leaders are equipped for sustained ministry.
Hear Per speak about Joshua Campaign
Founder · Founding vision
Karl Härgestam
Karl Härgestam founded Joshua Campaign International. He left Sweden at 21 with a mandate to take the Gospel to unreached peoples in Africa, and together with Jennifer Härgestam helped establish a movement marked by pioneer evangelism, large-scale outreach, aviation and church planting.
Today Karl serves as Global Missions Director for the Pentecostal Church of God. His enduring message—One Chance for Every Person—connects the founding impulse of Joshua Campaign with a wider global call to ensure no person is overlooked.
Karl’s PCG leadership profilePowered by One Chance
Distinct identity. Shared assignment.
Joshua Campaign keeps its own story, leadership and field identity while standing in clear alignment with the One Chance conviction: every person has a birthright to hear the Gospel at least once. Operation 326 puts that conviction to work by identifying frontier gaps and helping prayer, pioneers and resources move toward them.
The connections shown here are shared mission and public ministry relationships. They do not imply that these distinct ministries are legally controlled by Joshua Campaign.
JC
Joshua Campaign
Proclaims Jesus through campaigns, mobilizes local churches and helps establish lasting Gospel witness in Ethiopia and beyond.
1C
One Chance
Articulates the shared global conviction and invites pioneers, churches and supporters into the assignment.
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OCFEP
One Chance for Every Person provides the public ministry home for frontier research and mobilization. Karl serves as president of its board.
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Operation 326
OCFEP’s frontier initiative researches people groups reported to have no known Christian witness so prayer, pioneers and resources can move toward the gaps.
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Mission One Eleven
A twelve-week train-and-deploy pathway that raises a new generation of missionaries for practical engagement among unreached peoples, with mobilization hosted through OCFEP.
PCG
PCG Global Missions
Provides a wider global church family and mission context—one mission and one movement, serving until the whole world hears.
Local leaders.
Lasting witness.
Lasting witness.
The Joshua Campaign way
Keep the roots. Strengthen the reach.
The identity remains the one established on the Swedish site: mass evangelism, church mobilization and mission networks. The 2026 expression makes the alignment clearer without replacing the relationships and field leadership that have carried the work.
“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own.’” — Joshua 1:11
Campaigns are not the finish line. They serve the local church’s long obedience—disciples formed, leaders raised and congregations planted where the Gospel needs a durable home.
Your part in the assignment
Pray. Go. Give.
Stand with Joshua Campaign as local churches prepare new campaigns, pioneer leaders carry the Gospel forward, and unreached communities receive a clear chance to hear.
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