Elijah Company, Inc. is a fellowship of experienced missionaries dedicated to the mentorship of missionary candidates for work in non-evangelized nations.

Global partnerships, churches and agencies, years of cumulative experience, a multi-racial, interdenominational board make up the personnel resources of Elijah Company, Inc.

* Our partnerships include churches and agencies working globally.

* Hundreds of years of cumulative mission’s experience is shared between our staff, board members, and partners encapsulating nearly one hundred nations.

* Elijah Company, Inc. board and staff is multiracial, multi-denominational, international, and made up of both men and women.

About the director and his wife

Norman founded Elijah Company, Inc. in 1998 and presently serves as Executive Director. He served with Operation Mobilization for eight years between the years 1980 and 1992 on board the missionary ship M.V. Doulos as Training Director, and later from 1992 until 1994 in Wales, U.K. on a counseling team for missionaries. His experience on the mission field includes organizing Christian programs, conferences, and training seminars for many countries around the world; developing training materials, teaching, and personal mentoring for the 40 nations represented on the Doulos; leading teams in cross-cultural environments, directing international training events, Bible teaching, preaching, providing pastoral care, and developing internationals for missionary service.

He and his wife pioneered and implemented a correspondence course extension school while on board the Doulos. They have also worked with a company called Family Guidance International where they provided cross-cultural training for business executives and their families who were relocating overseas. They are certified Professional Dynametric Program Specialists and help individuals understand personalities in relation to missions.

He has also been involved in speaking in conferences in various countries on subjects such as leadership, missions, sexual purity, marriage, cults, discipleship, and breaking strongholds. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Bible and Pastoral Studies from Columbia International University and a Master’s Degree in Missions from Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions.

Debbie serves as the Training and Intercessory Coordinator with Elijah Company, Inc. and is also the Director of Intercessors Arise.
She served with Operation Mobilization for ten years from 1978 until 1993 on the M.V. Doulos and in Wales on a counseling team for missionaries. Her areas of gifting include counseling, encouragement, evangelism, developing and directing training programs, exhortative training, and intercession. Her experience on the mission field includes coordinating evangelism for people from 40 nations, evangelistic training, directing evangelistic children’s meetings, evangelistic and motivational speaking, counseling missionaries and international women, and cross-cultural training.

She graduated with a Diploma in Bible Theology and a Diploma in Christian Education from Moody Bible Institute, a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Christian Education from Columbia International University, a Master’s Degree in Cross-cultural Christian Education and a Master’s Degree in Missions with a Certificate in Counseling from Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions.

Norm and Debbie’s international experience on-the-field spans over seventy countries from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the South Pacific, the Middle East, and throughout Europe. Their desire is to enhance the global spread of the gospel through equipping missionary candidates for the work of the ministry, particularly through mentoring and training. They would like to see missionaries serving God to their fullest capacity, with greater freedom in their personal lives, better skills to do the job, a deeper understanding of themselves and the character of God, and a fuller heartfelt knowledge of the Word of God. They want to enable God’s workers in the discovering, developing, and applying of their particular gifts in the working of the church and in cross-cultural situations.

Founding of Elijah Company - by Norman J.P. , Executive Director

The church I attended during the first years of my Christian life was so focused on missions that early on I realized that to be a disciple of Christ, one must be involved in what He is doing in the world.  My attendance there was used to lead me to my first mission in Ecuador where I repaired missionary vehicles.  Afterwards, I found myself navigating the coast of South America with the Operation Mobilization ship M.V. DOULOS, doing evangelism, learning to preach and growing as I worked.  It was a faith building, glorious time of challenges, needs and divine encounters.  It was then I met my wife, Debbie, while holding evangelistic meetings. 

When Debbie and I were married in August of 1983, we already knew that we would never be able to do anything besides missions.  Our hearts beat with the challenges and opportunities to push forward the front lines of God’s kingdom on  earth.  So our next assignment took us to South East Asia where we encountered Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and powers of darkness.

Ours was a ministry of equipping. Stepping outside our ship cabin, we had over 220 people from thirty to forty nations to befriend, counsel and train in Christian disciplines and leadership.  In addition to this was a conference ministry, teaching thousands about Christian values, books of the Bible, leadership, cults and evangelism.  This was Utopia for missions addicts like us!

In the early 1990’s our ministry Utopia began to wane, with struggles on the inside and out.  Though intellectually prepared, some troubling issues gave way to confusion and eventual retreat from service.  We entered into what Saint John of the Cross called, “The dark night of the soul."

Our best friends are found in the darkness.  One was my spiritual mentor, Robert Walker.  It was he, a few others, and a book called Mentoring for Mission which led me to understand what God was preparing in us.  At this time we began to see the need to seek out people to pour our lives into for the sake of reaching the world with the Gospel,  using our experience--both victories and defeats--to enhance their preparation for front-line missions work.

After initiating dozens of relationships to achieve this, the Lord led me to Luke 1:17:

   “And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Our desire is to experience the power of God in the missionary sending process.

The  Mission and Vision

In the movie “Castaway,"  a man is marooned on a tiny Pacific Island, not knowing where he is or how to get help.  This is a good depiction of thousands of individuals who have tasted of a missionary call but are without chart, compass or guide to activate that call. 

Mission Statement

Elijah Company, Inc. equips missionaries by identifying, instructing, imparting and impelling Christians on to God’s designated mission field with the faith of Elijah and the character of Jesus. 

-Identify those who are called into missions, what their gifts are, where they should be.
-Instruct on the needs and procedures of missionaries and life as a worker.
-Impart through prayer and sharing that which we ourselves have received.
-Impel by encouragement and accountability.

Core Scripture

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.   Then he said to his disciples,
‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.’
Matthew 9:36-38

We believe that the Holy Spirit’s intention is in line with Jesus’ Spirit-inspired words that the Lord of the harvest would send workers into the harvest fields.  Therefore it is not unreasonable to think that ten’s of thousands of Christians are called to missionary service but not activated in that call.  Missions work is doable, thrilling, rewarding and difficult.  This training will, in fact, give you many of the tools and motivation needed to activate your call.

The Vision

Elijah Company, Inc. was founded to refocus and employ, Biblical patterns and principles of mentorship, and to hasten and enhance the preparation and effectiveness of workers for unreached nations.  We aim to see at least 2,000 cross-cultural workers sent to unreached people groups before 2010.  

For further information write elijah@elijahcompany.org