The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway is the third-largest Norwegian missionary society, and has involvement in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Additionally, diaconal work, construction and operation of schools, translation of literature, developing writing systems where lacking, training and knowledge of agriculture, water, medical offices, healthcare and other assistance to improve the welfare of the communities are also important.
The areas are Latin America, Southeast Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Israel, Congo, Niger and Eurasia.
The leaders in these fields ranges constitute the Board of the Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway.
The Mission office has special expertise in areas where individual missionaries and churches do not have it, and helps resolve the many different requirements imposed by the authorities.
The funds awarded to Bible schools train pastors and evangelists on the mission field.
The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway provides child labor support work for children who have difficulties and are suffering in areas of great poverty and social distress.
The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway helps collect clothes, toys, footwear, equipment for hospitals and the like, and sends it to where the need is greatest.
Thomas Ball Barratt, founder of the Pentecostal movement in Norway, was also a driving force for mission involvement abroad.
Pentecostals created a Norwegian missionary organization in 1915 under the name Norges Frie Evangeliske Missionsforbund—'Norwegian Free Evangelical Mission Association' (renamed Norges Frie Evangeliske Hedningemission 'Norwegian Free Evangelical Heathen Mission', or NFEH, in 1920).
New work was started in Paraguay and Brazil, and several missionaries were sent to established mission fields in Asia and Africa.
In Europe, the Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway works in Belgium, Spain, Austria, Germany, Romania, Turkey and Albania.
In 1921, members of the Norwegian and Swedish Pentecostal Mission, namely Oddbjørg and Gunnerius Tollefsen, Hanna Veum (later married to Charles Moody) and A.
They met resistance from the established Catholic Church, local chiefs and from some of the prevailing religions in the country.
The Colonial Powers allowed them to start a mission station in Sibatwa, a mountainous area north of Tang Anika Sea.
After a few more failed attempts, the Norwegian missionaries ultimately managed to establish a mission in the region of the Bushi people.
The sick came to the mission station to get help with wound treatment, intestinal worms and malaria infections.
In 1960 at the field conference, they decided that the mission work was to be led by a council of missionaries and leaders of the local church in the country.
The work in the Congo received a name: French: Communauté des Églises libres de Pentecôte en Afrique or CELPA, the Association of Free Pentecostal churches in Africa.
The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway operates in India, Japan, Nepal, China, Pakistan, Burma, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia.
The school building in Kobe was partly destroyed in an earthquake some time ago, but has been partially renovated.
In Pakistan, the Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway cooperated with the Full Gospel Assemblies of Pakistan (FGA), in areas concerning the mission, school education, healthcare and targeted efforts to improve the situation of women and children.
In Bangkok, Anne Christensen conducted missionary work at orphanages which now house forty-two children.
Sherry and Eyvind Møller had Singapore as a base for customer service mainly in Asia.
In 1949, chairman Mao Zedong came to power in China and over five thousand missionaries, from sixty different religious groups, were thrown out of the country.
Today, the Norwegian Pentecostal missionary enthusiasm for China is based mostly on intercession and helping with Bible distribution.
[6] They settled in Sao Jeronimo and established a mission among the Guarani tribe in Paso Cadena.
Missionaries Gro and John Ager Stone, Eva and Rudolf Wilhelm have undertaken long services in Peru.
The Pentecostal Movement (Casas de Oración) in the area consists of eighty churches and comprises 3,300 members.
Together with the cooperation of local Pentecostal churches and the Global Mission Line, a missionary training school building was constructed.