Palm Missionary Ministries

What Palm Missionary Ministries does

Palm Missionary Ministries (PMM) is a privately held, Florida-incorporated 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit founded in 1987 by Art and Barbara Patray and Frank and Marie Mikell to enable and facilitate the development of national ministers working within their own countries. The organization operates as a US-based umbrella and donor stewardship entity for a network of approximately 20 named national missionary couples and individuals across Ecuador, Peru, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, and Venezuela, with documented expansion reach into Pakistan and Egypt. Ministry programs span church planting, pastoral training, theological education, community health education, prison Bible institutes, literacy programs, children's ministries, and the Hidalgo River Ministry serving indigenous peoples of the upper Amazon in Peru. PMM's first affiliate, Palm Ecuador, was established in 1988 after HCJB World Radio downsized its Quito administration; a second affiliate, Kenya PMM, drives its Africa and South Asia expansion. The organization holds IRS 501(c)(3) status (since 1988) and ECFA accreditation (since 2001), giving donors tax-deductible giving options and accountability assurance. Operations are headquartered at a mailing address in Hawthorne, Florida, with a secondary contact address in Conroe, Texas tied to the current president.

PMM's revenue model is entirely donation-driven, with no goods or services sold. Donations are accepted one-time or on a recurring (weekly, monthly, yearly) basis through a PayPal integration on the WordPress-based website (palmministries.com), with preset amounts of $10, $25, $50, and $100 plus custom amounts, and the option for donors to cover the $0.35 per-transaction PayPal fee. Mail-in checks and money orders to the Florida address serve as a secondary offline channel. Donors can designate gifts to specific missionaries or ministries. The organization's donor base is composed of individual supporters and partner churches; named church partners are not disclosed. All revenue mechanics are disclosed publicly as voluntary rather than contractual, and the organization provides no public revenue figures, headcount, or operational metrics.

The organization does not maintain a software product, mobile app, or proprietary technology platform. Its technical stack consists of a WordPress website, PayPal payment processing, and basic email ([email protected]; [email protected]) plus a telephone contact line. Marketing and outreach are conducted through the website's content/blog (including the President's Blog by J. Mark Rollins), word-of-mouth referrals, and church partnership channels. The organization's website serves as both the primary donor acquisition surface and a directory of its field workers, their ministry focus areas, and country assignments.

Name

Palm Missionary Ministries

Legal name

Palm Missionary Ministries, Inc.

Website

https://palmministries.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Palm Missionary Ministries is a Florida-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1987 that enables and financially supports a network of approximately 20 national missionary couples and individuals serving in Ecuador, Peru, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, and Venezuela through donations collected via PayPal and mail.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Mission Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Ministerial Training Institutes (Clergy Formation) (EDAHAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based Healthcare Ministries (Hospitals, Clinics, Medical Missions) (BPAGAJAH), Seminaries (Graduate Theology & Ministry) (EDAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Missionary support services
• Church planting programs
• Theological education services
• Community health education
• Nonprofit ministry funding

Headquarters

HQ city

Hawthorne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Palm Missionary Ministries operates as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization that receives donations from supporters to fund its missionary operations. The organization collects one-time and recurring donations through PayPal and mail-in options. Donors can designate gifts to specific purposes and cover transaction fees.

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Palm Missionary Ministries is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports a network of national ministers and missionary couples working within their own countries in Latin America and Africa. Its core offering consists of church planting, pastoral training, theological education, community health education, prison ministry, literacy programs, and children's ministry delivered by indigenous missionaries and funded through donor contributions.

Product overview

Palm Missionary Ministries is a missionary organization that operates as a network of national ministers rather than a single unified software product. The organization facilitates church planting, pastoral training, theological education, community health education, children's ministry, prison ministry, and literacy programs across multiple countries including Ecuador, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Peru, and Venezuela. The main affiliates include Palm Ecuador (established 1988) and Kenya PMM. Donations are processed through PayPal integration on the website.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Church Planting Primary ministry focused on planting churches and training leaders who can shepherd communities according to God's Word, including support for church plants in Ecuador's highlands and jungle regions and training leaders in cities such as Ambato and Quito.
• Pastoral Training Biblical training, mentoring, and counseling for pastors and church leaders, delivered through PMM-supported missionaries such as David and Anita Luzuriaga.
• Theological Education Empowering evangelical and Baptist churches through theological education, books and literature, leadership development, bioethics, and pastoral and family ministries across Ecuador, Latin America, and the U.S. Hispanic world.
• Community Health Education (CHE) Basic health training programs addressing both spiritual and physical needs, operating in Kenya and Uganda with a holistic ministry approach, including the Farming God's Way agricultural empowerment component.
• Prison Ministry Directing Bible institutes in prisons, including theology classes and training Christian leaders within prison systems, notably through Angel and Marlene Aguirre in Latacunga, Ecuador.
• Literacy Programs Teaching adults and youth to read and write, using classes as a tool for evangelization, led by Estuardo and Mariana Lopez in Ecuador.
• Children's Ministry Working with children through orphanages, adoption, Child Mobilization for Christ (CMC) programs, and children's groups for training and discipleship, primarily through Greyson and Ruth in Malawi.
• Palm Ecuador Affiliate PMM's first international affiliate, established in 1988, consisting of several national ministries and individual missionaries and church planters in Ecuador.
• Kenya PMM

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Acts 29: Global church-planting network of which PMM missionary Claudio Faúndez serves as Andean Region Coordinator. Comparable in focus on church multiplication and leader training across multiple geographies, though Acts 29 is a network rather than a sending organization.
• Christ for the Nations (CFNI): Bible college and missions training institute in Dallas, Texas, where PMM missionaries Freddy and Sandy García received pastoral and counseling training. Comparable in theological-education and missions-preparation mission.

Broad incumbents

• SIM (Serving in Mission): Large interdenominational missionary sending agency active across Africa and Latin America with comparable programs in theological education, community health, and church planting. Directly comparable as a faith-based missionary support/sending structure.
• HCJB Global: Long-established faith-based missionary organization with deep Ecuador roots — the same country where Palm Missionary Ministries established its first affiliate (Palm Ecuador) after HCJB downsized its Quito administration. Directly comparable as a sending/support structure for Latin American evangelical missions.
• Samaritan's Purse: Large evangelical relief and development organization referenced directly in PMM materials (one of PMM's Ecuadorian missionaries serves as National Director of Samaritan's Purse). Comparable as a faith-based nonprofit operating across multiple geographies with diverse programs.
• Christian and Missionary Alliance (CAMA): Denominational missions sending agency with similar church-planting, theological-education, and cross-cultural worker models. PMM's current president and several field missionaries are C&MA alumni, and PMM partners with C&MA-affiliated churches in Ecuador and Africa.

Others

• ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability): Accrediting body of which PMM has been a member since 2001. Not a peer in the operational sense, but a directly comparable ecosystem participant whose standards PMM voluntarily adheres to, and a useful benchmark for nonprofit governance peers.
• Toccoa Falls College: Liberal-arts Christian college in Georgia where PMM's founders, current president, and multiple field missionaries received their theological/missiological training. Operationally an educator rather than a sending organization, but tightly linked to PMM's leadership pipeline.

Direct peers

• Pioneers: Faith-based organization focused on church planting among least-reached peoples, with emphasis on teams serving cross-culturally in multiple regions. Closely comparable to PMM in mission philosophy, field-program breadth, and donor-funded operating model.
• Latin America Mission: Mission organization with long-standing focus on Latin America (including Ecuador and Peru), emphasizing theological education, church planting, and indigenous leader development — closely aligned with PMM's geographic and programmatic footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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